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…
Streep Wanted In On ‘Big Little Lies’
After an afternoon of mostly dour documentaries of fraud, and a bracing limited series about nuclear meltdown After days of rain, cool weather and clouds, the sun came out at…
Recreating the Fosse / Verdon Magic
The classiest thing presented so far at the TV Critics Association winter press tour is an eight-episode limited series on the relationship of choreographer and director Bob Fosse and his…