Thursday TV: ‘Bachelor Winter Games’ End
It was a stupid way to divert people who got snow-blind by all the skiing and skating, but “The Bachelor Winter Games” (ABC, 8 p.m.) has been sort of entertaining,…
Wednesday TV: Students Demand Action
A town hall event that may be worthy of the countdown clock they’ve been using for it, is “Stand Up: The Students of Stonemason Douglas Demand Action” (CNN, 9 p.m.)…
Tuesday TV: Monsters From All Over
It’s the 200th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s first and most popular book, “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus.” The wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley was only 20 at the time.…
Monday TV: The History of Black Colleges
The history of America’s HBUs are told in Stanley Nelson’s documentary “Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings). The…
Sunday TV: Joel McHale, Talking Again
Joel McHale began his career doing “The Soup” for a dozen years. He’s back to the format, sort of, in the online “The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale” (Netflix,…
Saturday TV: New Space Cartoon.
TBS' move to becoming an unusual comedy outpost continues with the elaborate sci-fi cartoon "Last Space" (TBS, 10 p.m.) about a prisoner on a space ship that gets involved in…
Friday TV: Deconstructing Rap Lyricism
Black History Month brings Sacha Jenkins’ “Word is Bond” (Showtime, 10 p.m.), a thoughtful exploration of hip hop, with a special emphasis on the mechanics the language and the artistry…
Thursday TV: ‘Splendor in the Grass’
Not only did William Inge win an Oscar for his screenplay of “Splendor in the Grass” (TCM, 8 p.m.), he also appears as a Protestant clergyman in Elia Kazan’s 1961…
Wednesday TV: New Chris Rock Special
Chris Rock chooses Valentine’s Day for his first standup comedy special in a decade, “Tamborine” (Netflix, streaming). The timing is in part so he can talk about his own failures…
Tuesday TV: Wall Street Bombs Again
Wall Street has had its ups and downs in recent weeks, but not so down as Sept. 16, 1920, when hundreds of pounds of dynamite on a horse-drawn cart exploded…