Wednesday TV: Nashville Pays Tribute to Dolly
Eight weeks after her death at 80, here’s a live, two-hour salute from Nashville, “CMA Presents I Will Always Love You: A Celebration of Dolly Parton” (ABC, 9 p.m.) featuring…
Tuesday TV: When Mom Appears to Be a ‘Phony’
Connie Britton and Sam Nivola star in a new series “Phony” (Hulu, streaming), in which a teen thinks his mom is an imposter after he has a car accident. The…
Monday TV: Football, NBA Finals, ALCS Game 6
The NBA's new season doesn't start until Tuesday, but sports are still spilling out to weekdays. Monday Night Football has Washington at San Francisco (ABC, ESPN, 8:15 p.m.). Baseball has…
Sunday TV: New Mysteries Return to PBS
A new set of mysteries begins on public television, with season five of “Professor T” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) with a death arousing suspicions about the new relationship…
Saturday TV: Christmas Starts in Mid-October
Let it be known that the Christmas movie onslaught has begun two weeks before Halloween. One of them is “Silver Bells at Christmas” (Great American Family, 8 p.m.) with Laura…
Friday TV: Norm Macdonald, Clip by Clip
Judd Apatow chronicles a singular career by showing just about every video he made in the documentary “Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald” (Netflix, streaming). Macdonald’s late night gig may…
Thursday: Keri Russell Returns as ‘The Diplomat’
“The Diplomat” (Netflix, streaming), the overheated political drama that pauses for talk about relationships amid intense discussions about nuclear annihilation, returns. Keri Russell and current vice president Rufus Sewell discuss…
Wednesday TV: Hawke, ‘The Lowdown’ Return
Tommy Lee Jones and Betty Gilpin join the cast of “The Lowdown” (FX, 9 p.m.), the Ethan Hawke series in which he plays an investigative journalist who digs deep into…
Tuesday TV: How the Electorate Has Changed
A new “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listing) explores how voters may have changed their views since the 2020 election. Similarly, it’s “Countdown to Election Night” (CNN, 8 p.m.)…
Monday TV: Freeing Leonard Peltier
A new generation of activists fights to “Free Leonard Peltier” (Netflix, streaming), the American Indian Movement leader who spent decades in prison for a conviction many disputed. Convicted of murdering…