Friday TV: Janis Ian on ‘American Masters’
Janis Ian wrote her signature “Society’s Child” at 14, had a hit with it a couple of years later, and returned to the charts with another enduring anthem with “At…
Thursday TV: One Soggy ‘Waterfront’ on Netflix
Kevin Williamson of “Dawson’s Creek” fame returns to coastal North Carolina for his latest soap, “The Waterfront” (Netflix, streaming), about a morally suspect family controlling a fictional island of Havenport…
Wednesday: AFI Salute to Francis Ford Coppola
The “Godfather” director is feted in the “AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to Francis Ford Coppola” (TNT, 10 p.m.), taped last April in Hollywood in the 50th anniversary of…
Tuesday TV: ‘Surviving Ohio State’ Documentary
Male victims of the sports medicine physician and serial sex abuser Dr. Richard Strauss, employed by the Ohio State University from 1978 to 1998 tell of their trauma in the…
Monday TV: The Story of Sally Ride on Nat Geo
Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel in space, is celebrated in Christina Costantini’s documentary “Sally” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.), which features new details about her relationship with Tam…
Sunday TV: New British Series ‘Patience’ on PBS
The latest British detective series “Patience” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) stars Ella Maisy Purvis as a young autistic women who spots clues others do not at a Yor…
Saturday TV: Red Square Has Nothing on Us
The costly pageantry and military overkill usually only seen in authoritarian countries (and an event that we’re told has nothing to do with the president’s birthday) rolls down the National…
Friday TV: Sydney Sweeney in ‘Echo Valley’
Sydney Sweeney stars in a new mystery thriller “Echo Valley” (AppleTV+, streaming), showing up covered with blood and her mother must figure out what happened. That Julianne Moore stars as…
Thursday TV: Using Improv for Police Work
Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed play a troupe of improv actors who are recruited by the police for a sting operation in the British action comedy “Deep…
Wednesday: Revisiting the OceanGate Disaster
Nobody expected the Titanic to claim more victims more than a century after it first sank, but five people died in a submersible in 2003 to get a peek. “Titan:…