Thursday TV: Baseball Finally Starts Again
Play ball! The new baseball season finally begins today with games that include Milwaukee at Yankees (ESPN, 3 p.m.) and Detroit at Dodgers (ESPN, 7 p.m.). The NCAA men’s basketball…
Wednesday TV: ‘The Studio’ Skewers Hollywood
The constant missteps of Hollywood has made it a reliable target for spoofing, most recently on HBO’s “The Franchise.” But rarely has there been a satire so sharp as “The…
Tuesday TV: The Long Road to the Disabilities Act
Before there’s the chance for it to be abolished with an exectutive order, here’s a look at the Lon fight for accessibility that resulted in the 1990 Americans with Disabilities…
Monday TV: Women Rule the Basketball Court
The rise of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian-American basketball prodigy from Southern California, is reflected in the documentary “Home Court,” making its debut on “Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local…
Sunday TV: Henry VIII at It Again in ‘Wolf Hall’
The “Masterpiece” sequel to “Wolf Hall,” with the longer title “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) picks up after the beheading of Anne…
Saturday TV: ‘Bad News Bears’ Before Baseball
Baseball starts later this week, but there’s a double feature tonight on Turner Classic Movies, with “The Bad News Bears” (8 p.m.) and “Angels in the Outfield” (10 p.m.). Mostly,…
Friday TV: ‘Grounded’ Opera from the Met
Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo plays a fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy grounds her and turns her into a drone pilot in Jeanine Tesori’s opera “Grounded,”on “Great Performances at the Met” (PBS,…
Thursday TV: Murder in ‘The Residence’
The death of a senior domestic staff member at the White House turns the nation’s most famous building into a crime scene in the latest Shonda Rhimes series, “The Residence”…
Wednesday TV: Grand Ole Opry Marks 100th
The first performer of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry in November, 1925 was 77-year-old old time fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson. If he were alive today, he’d never be invited for tonight’s…
Tuesday TV: Predawn Opening Day in Japan
Opening day begins before daylight here with Dodgers vs. Cubs (Fox, 6 a.m.) in a two-game series from the Tokyo Dome in Japan that will count as regular season games.…