Saturday TV: Small Shoes to Fill
"Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage spent several years helping turn an expansive, pre-suicide interview with the French actor Hervé Villechaize by journalist Sacha Gervasi into a screenplay, which makes…
Friday TV: More ‘Making a Murderer’
The sheer success of the series that helped kickstart a true crime TV blitz three years ago, demanded a second season of “Making a Murderer” (Netflix, streaming), if not the appeals…
Thursday TV: You Get a Rock
It’s not often that a whole new religion is presented in a half hour special - let alone a family cartoon — but that’s what “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie…
Wednesday TV: Leaf Peeping, Live!
I’m a sucker for live nature events and the latest one, after “Big Blue Live” and “Wild Alaska Wild” Is “Autumnwatch-New England” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings), celebrating good,…
Tuesday TV: ‘Roseanne’ Without Roseanne
When Roseanne Barr's racist tweet got her fired from her own sitcom, there was some thought of keeping the rest of the writers and cast to try doing the show…
Monday TV: Two Emotional Documentaries
A couple of emotionally involving documentaries premiere tonight. In Rudy Valdez’ “The Sentence” (HBO, 8 p.m.), he chronicles the 15-year-sentence given his sister Cindy Shank for being a girlfriend of…
Sunday TV: HBO Goes ‘Camping’
I’m not understanding the critical scorn heaped on “Camping” (HBO, 10 p.m.), an amusing little comedy about a group of couples who celebrate a 45th anniversary with an ill-fated outdoor…
Saturday TV: Another Kennedy in Space
Documentarian Rory Kennedy has a personal stake in her feature-length space film “Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow” (Discovery, Science, 9 p.m.) celebrating 60 years of the agency; it…
Friday TV: ‘The Romanoffs’ Take Off
Once a moribund empty spot, streaming services have made Fridays a big day in TV fare. Most anticipated today is “The Romanoffs” (Amazon, streaming), the first work from Matthew Weiner…
Thursday TV: New ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’
Chef and journalist Samin Norsat hosts a new food travel series “Salt Fat Acid Heat” (Netflix, streaming) that concentrates each episode on one of those aspects in food, based on…