Friday: Hedy Lamarr’s Secret Science Life
Hedy Lamarr fled Austria and her arms dealing husband to become a big Hollywood star. She tired of being the most beautiful woman on the screen and turned to invention,…
Thursday: Finales for ‘Gotham,’ Six Others
Another seven shows have season finales — happy ones though, since they’re all coming back next season. After tonight, there’s just one more season of “Gotham” (Fox, 8 p.m.), so…
Wednesday TV: Finales and Royal Fuss
It’s all about season finales and the ramp-up to the royal wedding tonight. For its last episode, “Designated Survivor” (ABC, 10 p.m.) could have devised a neat ending to its…
Tuesday TV: Say Goodbye to ‘New Girl’
“New Girl” (Fox, 9 p.m.) ends its super short seventh and final season with a one hour series finale in which Zooey Deschanel and Jake Johnson’s characters Jess and Nick…
Monday TV: Last Glimpse of ‘Lucifer’
It’s that time of year when networks make decisions of what shows stay and which ones go. And all of a sudden, what would have been merely the third season…
Upholding Family Legacy in ‘Little Women’
The BBC shifts to American literature (and a largely American cast) for its version of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” on “Masterpiece” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings). While the…
Also Sunday: Royal Wedding TV Movie
It takes a streaming star (Parisa Fitz-Henley of “Jessica Jones” and “Luke Cage”) to play a cable star (Meghan Markle of “Suits”) in the first made-for-TV movie about this week’s…
Cumberbatch’s ‘Melrose’ Tour de Force
When a character so fully dissipated in drink and drug, thrashing about the screen, throwing things and muttering darkly about how unbearable life is, it helps when the difficult personality…
Also on Saturday: Eurovision Song Final
If you’re not sung-out by the hours of weekly competition on “The Voice” or “American Idol” (ABC, 8 p.m.), here’s the longest running international song competition. The Eurovision Song Contest…
Friday TV: Kevin Smith, Clear
An hour before his heart attack in February, Kevin Smith taped his comedy special, “Kevin Smith: Silent But Deadly” (Showtime, 9 p.m.). Luckily it didn’t kill. Mark and Jay Duplass…