Category Archives: What’s On TV

Tuesday TV: Seeking a Sister Gone Missing

The four-part true crime documentary series “Burden of Proof” (HBO, 9 p.m.) follows Stephen Pandos’ efforts over seven years to find out what happened to a sister that went missing in 1987 at age 15. The parents, who told people she had run away, increasingly look like suspicious.  A couple of sports documentaries begin tonight. […]

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Monday TV: Not Mars, But Not Stars Either

This sounds stupid but is possibly watchable: A dozen celebrities pretend they’re astronauts landing on Mars, where they receive assignments from William Shatner, safe at home on Mission Control. The cast of “Stars on Mars” (Fox, 8 p.m.) includes that one girl from “Modern Family,” that dude from “Superbad, that funny lady from a bunch […]

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Sunday TV: Sordid Side of Pop Stardom

From the people who gave you “Euphoria,” here’s a stylish series promising to be every bit as squalid and over-the-top. The difference with “The Idol” (HBO, 10 p.m.) is that it concerns the pop music world. Lily-Rose Depp stars; The Weeknd, Dan Levy and Hank Azaria also star.   The new eight-episode drama “The Lazarus […]

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Saturday TV: The Stanley Cup Finals Begin

The Stanley Cup Finals begin with Florida at Vegas (TBS, TNT, truTV, 8 p.m.) with Game 1. Still not on broadcast TV, but at least on three cable networks.  Surviving members T-Boz and Chilli reminisce when they were in the hit making trio TLC as they prepare for a summer tour in the new documentary […]

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Friday TV: The Story of Little Richard

Good golly Miss Molly, there’s finally a documentary on the flamboyant architect of rock ’n’ roll, who for these purposes is instead called “Little Richard: The King and Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll” (PBS, 9 p.m.,), on a biographical documentary making its debut on “American Masters” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings). The early days […]

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Thursday TV: The NBA Finals Begin at Last

The NBA Finals begin with Miami at Denver (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) in a prime time Game 1.  From Denmark comes the romantic drama “A Beautiful Life” (Netflix, streaming), starring the singer Christopher, who also composed new music for the series, as a fisherman who is discovered by a music manager and her daughter, a producer.  […]

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Wednesday TV: Ted Lasso Maybe Says Bye

The third season finale of “Ted Lasso” (Apple TV+, streaming) today may well also be the series finale, it has been hinted. If so, tears will be shed, and lessons will certainly be learned. Kennedy McMann returns as the time-honored teenage detective in the premiere of the fourth and final season of “Nancy Drew” (The […]

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Tuesday TV: Uvalde, Texas One Year Later

A year after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 21, “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) looks at the trauma in the community, its healing, the failed police response and the continuing fight over assault rifles.  Maybe TV’s best current sketch comedy show “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” (Netflix, […]

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Monday TV: Reality Winner’s Interrogation

Reality winners may be common on TV, but this Reality Winner is the 25-year-old former Air Force intelligence specialist who leaked a report showing Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The action led to a five year prison term. Sydney Sweeney, of “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus” fame, takes the title role in […]

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Sunday TV: The Big ‘Succession’ Finale

One of the great current series, “Succession” (HBO, 9 p.m.) ends tonight in a highly anticipated 90-minute series finale that will once and for all answer the question posed in the show’s first episode: Who exactly will takeover the huge media company following the big man who built it? They’ve flirted with every possibility over […]

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