Monday TV: ‘Idol’ Returns With a Twang
When “American Idol” (ABC, 8 p.m.) returns for its 24th (!) season tonight, it will have already tilted to country from pop, with a judges panel dominated by country stars.…
Sunday TV: Patrick Dempsey Turns Hitman
Patrick Dempsey, the erstwhile “McDreamy,” stars in the new drama “Memory of a Killer” (Fox, 10 p.m.), about a man with a double life — upstate family man and big…
Saturday TV: Attenborough’s New ‘Kingdom’
David Attenborough hosts another new nature documentary series, "Kingdom” (BBC America, 8 p.m.) focusing on four African animal families: leopards, hyenas, lions and wild dogs — in a remote river…
Friday TV: Alex Honnold Climbs a Skyscraper
Alex Honnold, the climber best known for his free solo climb of Yosemite’s El Capitan, the basis of the 2018 documentary “Free Solo,” returns to climb a 101-floor skyscraper in…
Thursday TV: ‘Finding Her Edge’ on Netflix
With the Winter Olympics approaching, Netflix is going all in on ice dancing. Before a new documentary series begins Feb. 1, here’s a fictional drama, “Finding Her Edge” (Netflix, streaming),…
Wednesday TV: The Elizabeth Smart Story
The 2002 abduction and disappearance of 14-year-old girl from her bedroom in Salt Lake City fascinated the nation for months as local police dismissed suspects and the absence grew longer.…
Tuesday TV: A New, Interactive ‘Star Search’
Although the original show boasted Beyoncé, Dave Chappelle, Christinea Aguilera, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears as contestants during its 1983 to 1995 run, though you can’t say it made their…
Monday: College Football Championship Final
It all comes down to this: College football’s national championship game has Indiana at Miami (ESPN, 7:30 p.m.). Elsewhere, the NBA celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a full…
Sunday TV: HBO’s ‘Knight of Seven Kingdoms’
Set 100 years before “Game of Thrones,” the latest spin-off “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” (HBO, 10 p.m.) takes a lighter tone as it follows Ser Duncan the Tall,…
Saturday TV: Mary Jo Buttafuoco’s Story
There may be a whole generation or two who don’t know the lurid saga of Joey Buttafuoco, whose 17-year-old mistress Amy Fisher, dubbed the “Long Island Lolita” in the tabloids,…