Friday TV: A Profile of Itzhak Perlman on PBS
A new series spotlighting the most influential names in classical music in the 20th and 21st centuries, “Great Musicians of Our Time” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) begins with…
Thursday: Josh Hartnett in a Sea Monster Saga
Josh Hartnett stars in a new six-episode series about a sea monster, “Below” (Netflix, streaming) that also stars Charlie Heaton and Macenzie Davis. From Michelle and Robert King, who gave…
Wednesday TV: Trying to Create Soothsayers
In the comic mystery “Small Prophets” (Apple TV, streaming), Pearce Quigley plays a bearded old man who tries to find whatever happened to his wife who disappeared by creating creatures…
Tuesday TV: Now an ‘NCIS’ in Your Town, Too
“NCIS: New York” (CBS, 9 p.m.), the seventh spinoff of the franchise, makes its premiere in the Big Apple. But it has some familiar faces: L.L. Cool J, who was…
Sunday TV: ‘Tracker’ Finds Its Own Way Back
“Tracker” (CBS, 9:30 p.m.), one of network TV’s most popular series, returns for its fourth season, with a search for a teenage boy’s missing father. Its accompanied by the second…
Saturday TV: Back in Time for the Playoffs
Baseball’s postseason begins with the best-of-five divisional series of White Sox at Cleveland (TBS, truTV, 1 p.m.) and Yankees at Tampa Bay (TBS, truTV, 6:30 p.m.) in the ALDS and…
Tuesday TV: Judge Judy Deliberates Her Career
Before she hangs up the gavel next month after 30 years on the bench (or at least the one we see on TV, it’s time to get to know Judge…
Monday TV: Krause, Davis in New ‘Line of Fire’
Peter Krause and Hope Davis lead the cast of the first new scripted broadcast show of the fall season. “Line of Fire” (NBC, 10 p.m.) sounds a little like “Blue…
Sunday TV: Sharon Horgan Defies ‘Youth’
It’s one of Sharon Horgan’s sly jokes to name her new comedy “Youth” (HBO, 10 p.m.) — particularly for a youth-mad network like HBO — when she created it to…
Saturday TV: Billy Strings on ‘Austin City Limits’
Bluegrass whiz Billy Strings returns to headline his second “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings), playing from his Grammy winning album “Highway Prayers.” College football completely dominates…