Tuesday TV: Questions in a Contraption
Rob Lowe hosts a fussy new quiz show, “Mental Samurai” (Fox, 9 p.m.), in which contestants are pitched the easiest questions in the world while riding on some sort of…
Monday TV: Inventing a Fraud
One of the fastest growing firms in Silicon Valley was something called Theranos, created by a dynamic young entrepreneur named Elizabeth Holmes. Nobody questioned her premise that inserting your finger…
Sunday TV: ‘Billions’ Returns, ‘Tricky Dick’
The sharp series “Billions” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) begins its fourth season with an odd alliance between two who had been nemeses for the past three, Damian Lewis’ Bobby Axelrod and…
Saturday TV: A Drop of Cirque du Soleil
“Imagined by Cirque du Soleil - One Night for One Drop” (CBS, 8 p.m.) brings a little circus to your Saturday night. The annual event is usually held each year…
Friday TV: Aidy Bryant’s ‘Shrill’ Star Turn
“Saturday Night Live” star Aidy Bryant shines in the new series “Shrill” (Hulu, streaming) about a struggling writer at an independent weekly in Portland, Ore. She has to deal with…
Thursday TV: A New ‘Project Runway’
Harvey Weinstein is gone; the show has moved back to its original network from an 11-year stint on Lifetime. But the biggest change for the 17th season of “Project Runway”…
Wednesday TV: Big Screen-Style ‘Frontier’
The troubled thriller “Triple Frontier” (Netflix, streaming) from J.C. Chandor (“A Most Violent Year”), which was picked up by the streaming service after Paramount pulled the plug on a production…
Tuesday TV: Saget Shows More Videos
The first eight years of the family-friendly “America’s Funniest Home Videos” were hosted by Bob Saget of “Full House.” Once off the show, he became a raunchier comedian. But now…
Monday TV: Making of ‘Imagine’ and Punk
Two strong music documentaries are on tonight. The British-made “John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky” (A&E, 9 p.m.) is about the making of the “Imagine” album, whose title track…
A Stirring Salute to the Queen of Soul
Any time is a good time for a salute to Aretha Franklin music. But the Queen of Soul did it so well herself, it’s hard to pay tribute and come…