Saturday TV: Won’t You Be His Neighbor?
Last year’s top grossing documentary didn’t get an Oscar nomination, but it gets a double showcase tonight — both on premium cable and on public television from which he sprang,…
Friday TV: The Agony of Middle School
The comic writers Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle fully commit to reproducing all the icky and unsure moments of middle school in their engaging comedy series “Pen15” (Hulu, streaming), a…
Thursday TV: Singing the Song of Parkland
After the shooting at Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 students and staff members, drama teacher Melody Herzfeld still had to put on a musical.…
Wednesday TV: ‘Criminal Minds’ Finale
“Criminal Minds” (CBS, 10 p.m.) closes its penultimate season tonight with the marriage of Joe Mantegna’s Rossi to Gail O’Grady’s Krystal. But there are also a series of fatal shootings…
Tuesday TV: POTUS Does SOTU
The specter of Nancy Pelosi looking over the shoulder of Donald Trump as he gives his shutdown-delayed Sate of the Union Address (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox…
Monday TV: The Dark Shadow of Blackface
It would seem a bit inappropriate to start Black History Month with an emphasis on collecting racist black memorabilia from the past. But news dominated by the Virginia governor who…
Super Sunday TV: Roman Numerology
Roman numerals have their biggest day of the year with not only the hype surrounding Super Bowl LIII (CBS, 6:30 p.m.) between a couple of teams with little national love,…
Saturday TV: Super Bowl Gospel
The 20th Annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration (BET, 8 and 9 p.m.) will feature such gospel stars as Kirk Franklin, the Winans, Koryn Hawthorne nd Tasha Cobbs Leonard. But the…
Friday TV: Horror in the Art World
A horror film is set in the art world in Dan Gilroy’s film “Velvet Buzzsaw” (Netflix, streaming), starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a Los Angeles art critic and Rene Russo as…
Thursday TV: Deion Sanders’ Double Duty
What might have been common in high school - playing two sports - is very rare in the professional world. But Deion Sanders succeeded in two different sports more than…