Monday TV: Two More New Shows Start
New shows are still rolling out on broadcast TV schedules this late in summer. On “Somewhere Between” (ABC, 10 p.m.), Paula Patton plays a TV news person whose child is…
Sunday TV: ‘Insecure,’ ‘Ballers,’ Sharks
Issa Rae’s adaptation of a web series to a glossy premium cable comedy might have had some bumps in its first season, but by tonight’s season premiere, “Insecure” (HBO, 10:30…
Saturday TV: Hanging with Julian Assange
Even while profiling Edward Snowden in the first rate documentary “Citizenfour,” director Laura Poitras had been following Julian Assange down his particular wormhole to Wikileaks. There was even crossover between…
Friday TV: New “Ozark’ ‘Descendants 2’
The good will that Jason Bateman and Laura Linney have built up through their careers compels you to give their sudden new series a chance. “Ozark” (Netflix, streaming), despite its…
Thursday TV: Parole for O.J. Simpson?
“Today the day.” Such were the memorable words of a guy on the street in Key West, Fla., 22 years ago. Nobody had to ask what he was talking about:…
Wednesday TV: Caribou, Migration Champs
Let’s hear it for the caribou, who take the longest land migration of all the species on the series “Nature’s Great Race” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings). It involves…
Tuesday TV: Photographing Every Species
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore has a big ambition: to document every species on the planet in a project he calls the Photo Ark. Each is shot, if possible, in…
Monday TV: ‘Presenting Princess Shaw’
Here is an internet story for our time: A woman in New Orleans posts videos singing a cappella for fun in her spare time and goes nowhere. Someone she doesn’t…
Sunday TV: Winter is Here
The anticipation is super-high for the return of “Game of Thrones” (HBO, 9 p.m.) for its seventh season, which can be seen as the first half of its final season.…
Saturday TV: Pretend It’s Christmas
Hallmark takes a bold jump by filling up a sweltering summer week with its huge backlog of Christmas movies and including a new one tonight. Brooke Nevin and Patrick Duffy…