TCA Begins at Home, Virtually, with PBS
One of the smaller casualties of the lingering pandemic crisis in the U.S. is the summer TV press tour in California, where networks wold march into chilly hotel ballrooms to…
Monday TV: Radical Monarchs Fly High
Making its debut on “POV” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), Linda Goldstein Knowlton’s “We are the Radical Monarchs” chronicles the work of a group of young girls of color…
Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some other things I've written lately for other outlets: A survey of 20 new exhibits to see in 2020 at various Smithsonian Museums. A dance review of the…
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…