Monday TV: Nuclear Poisoning of St. Louis
The deserts of New Mexico are most associated with the first nuclear bombs, but the uranium for them was processed in St. Louis — and 47,000 tons of nuclear waste…
Sunday TV: Headachy ‘Here and Now’
Alan Ball’s best series to date, “Six Feet Under,”presented the intricacies of a complicated family that also ran a funeral power. He followed that with the extreme vampire drama “True…
Saturday TV: The Life of Eric Clapton
As big a rock star that he became, Eric Clapton remained a reserved personality. So a lot of what is revealed in the terrific bio film “Eric Clapton: Life in…
Friday TV: Olympics Opening Ceremony
Bob Costas is gone, Matt Lauer long gone, but Katie Couric is back on her old network to co-host the XXIII Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony (NBC, 8 p.m.) from…
Thursday TV: Winter Games Start Early
The Opening Ceremony isn’t until Friday, but there are already a slew of Olympic events happening from Pyeongchang with Figure Skating (NBC, 8 p.m.) in prime time for three and a…
Wednesday TV: ‘Celebrity Big Brother’
The Olympics still don’t open for a couple of days, but counter-programming is already here. And when NBC goes high, ABC (with next week's "Bachelor Winter Games") and CBS go…
Tuesday TV: The Earlier ‘Gilded Age’
The one percent were doing pretty well 120 years ago in the United States as well. According to the sobering look back “The Gilded Age” on “American Experience” (PBS, 9…
Monday TV: The Life of Winnie Mandela
The wife of Nelson Mandela kept the battle against apartheid going in South Africa all those decades when he was jailed. Winnie Mandela had a history of activism when she…
Sunday TV: A Frozen Super Bowl LII
So much to hate about Super Bowl LII (first of all that set of Roman numerals: Haven’t we had enough LIIs this season). It’s one off-putting team against an odious…
Saturday TV: ‘The Simone Biles Story’
Timed in part to tie into the impending Olympics, Jeanté Godlock portrays the young gymnast in the made for TV bio pic “The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar” (Lifetime 8…