Tuesday TV: Familiar Looking ‘Queens’
“Queens” (ABC, 10 p.m.), a new series about a 90s girl group who decide to reunite actually has a couple of one-named stars from the 90s in the cast —…
Monday TV: ‘Wakefield’ on Showtime
From Australia comes the limited series “Wakefield” (Showtime, 9 p.m.), a psychological drama about doings at a psychiatric hospital in New South Wales and a nurse (Rudi Dharmalingam) who suddenly…
Sunday TV: ‘Succession’ Season Three
It’s one of the best shows on TV, yet the third season of “Succession” (HBO, 9 p.m.) shows us that things haven’t changed one bit in the Roy family saga,…
Saturday TV: Heather Locklear Returns
Heather Locklear stars as the co-author of the best-seller “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) in the film of the same name, about the writer whose life is…
Friday TV: Here’s ‘The Velvet Underground’
Todd Haynes, whose previous rock movies include.”Velvet Goldmine” and “I’m Not There,” now makes his first documentary on the seminal New York band “The Velvet Underground” (Apple TV+, streaming). Drawing…
Thursday TV: Beckinsale in ‘Guilty Party’
Kate Beckinsale plays a discredited journalist who concentrates on an imprisoned young mother (Jules Latimer) who she is convinced is innocent in the new series “Guilty Party” (Paramount+, streaming), a…
‘Dopesick’ Chronicles the Opioid Disaster
The shocking story of how the opioid crisis -- the cause of 96,000 deaths in the past 12 months alone -- was started (and encouraged) by a single family looking…
Also Wednesday: Cover Bands Compete
The proliferation of cover bands in clubs has not gone unnoticed by reality show. So here’s the new “Clash of the Cover Bands” (E!, 9:30 p.m.) in which bands pretending…
Tuesday TV: ‘Chucky’ Gets His Own Series
After eight films since 1988, “Chucky” (Syfy, USA, 10 p.m.) is star of his own series this Halloween, with Brad Dourif reprising his film role as the voice of the…
Monday TV: ‘Independent Lens’ Returns
The documentary series “Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) begins its new season with “Cured,” chronicling the effort to remove homosexuality from being considered a mental disorder. “We’re…