Ryan Adams Surfaces in Jesse Malin Show
What was already a pretty nifty small club gig - with New York rocker Jesse Malin and his band headlining a show also featuring Chuck Prophet at Hollywood’s Hotel Cafe…
Saturday: Eddie Murphy Returns to ‘SNL’
The biggest episode of “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) in years comes tonight when one of the show’s biggest cast members returns to host for the first time. Eddie…
Female Superheroes on TCA Day One
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — She spent 12 seasons in a show about comic book-crazy nerds, so maybe it’s no surprise that the first project for Kaley Cuoco after “The Big…
Saturday TV: Swashbuckling All Day
A dozen Errol Flynn movies seems right for a late summer Saturday. It starts today on Turner Classic Movies with “Footsteps in the Dark” (6 a.m.), “Northern Pursuit” (8 a.m.),…
Thursday TV: Sackhoff’s Back in Space
Sci-fi favorite Katee Sackhoff returns as an astronaut leading a team looking for the source of a mysterious alien artifact that is found on Earth in “Another Life” (Netflix, streaming),…
Wednesday TV: Reanimated Lear Sitcoms
I’m more excited than I should be for “Live in Font of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’” (ABC, 8 p.m.), in which classic…
Jason Isbell Saves Nashville
For a place that calls itself Music City, Nashville can be pretty lacking. The town’s central musical gathering place, Broadway is a compendium of increasingly generic day-drinking bars with incongruous…
Hulu’s Own Press Tour Fyre Festival
Greeting a group of weary reporters nearing the end of the more than two week TV Critics Association winter press tour, Hulu senior vice president of originals Craig Erwich tied…
‘Catch-22’ Brings Clooney Back to TCA
There was an extra reminder at a well-attended session of the TV Critics Association winter press tour that pictures were not allowed, since the ever-photogenic George Clooney was entering for…
Several Documentaries on Tap for HBO
Documentary films seemed to take a greater portion of HBO’s high-profile programming. There were panels for two impending films, Alex Gibney’s look into the implosion of the Silicon Valley startup…