Saturday TV: Bowl Games Pour Out
Bowl games begin in earnest with Grambling State vs. North Carolina A&T (ABC, noon) in the Celebration Bowl, Troy vs. North Texas (ESPN, 1 p.m.) in the New Orleans Bowl,…
Friday TV: Errol Morris Takes to the Tube
Errol Morris, the one man who left the largest mark on true crime series and cinema, with his artful re-enactments and mesmerizing scores in films going back to “The Thin…
Thursday TV: Olaf, Direct from the Theater
When it appeared last month as the overly long short before the Disney hit “Coco,” it garnered some of the worst “Frozen” backlash. So here it is as it may…
Wednesday TV: Ed Helms Back at the Desk
Things were more clear cut back when he was on “The Daily Show,” when fake news was just another word for satire. But now the term is a political weapon…
Tuesday TV: Apatow Tries Standup Again
As a teen, Judd Apatow really wanted to be a comedian. it was shyness in part that got him sidetracked to producing and directing comedies. But then the stand-up bug…
Monday TV: Descending Into ‘A Gray State’
Erik Nelson’s documentary “A Gray State” (A&E, 10 p.m.) is about an Iraqi veteran in Minnesota who was trying to make his own dystopian film (named “Gray State”) about an…
Sunday: Reviving a High School Musical
An actual high school alumni class in California returns to stage a production of Sondheim's “Into the Woods” 20 years after they first did so in the one-hour special "Encore"…
Saturday: Holiday Romances Won’t Stop
There’s a lot going on these days in the South, from the impending Alabama election to today’s opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Neither will be likely touched upon…
Friday TV: ‘The Crown’ Returns, Regally
Netflix has a lot of money to spend on programming, but they simply lavish it on “The Crown” (Netflix, streaming), the opulent series about the earlier life of Queen Elizabeth…
Thursday TV: ‘Psych: The Movie’ Flashback
Light, goofy detective series seems to have faded on cable in recent years, so it’s a little of holiday treat to revisit one of them in “Psych: The Movie” (USA,…