Wednesday TV: Hockey’s 4 Nations Face Off
In lieu of an all-star game this year, the NHL is dividing its best players into teams with their fellow countrymen. The seven-game series in what they’re calling the 4…
Tuesday TV: ‘The Witcher’ Animated Film
“The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep” (Netflix, streaming) is an animated feature based on the live action series “the Witcher” and concentrating on the hero Gerald of Rivia. Doug Cockle…
Monday TV: Returning to Her Border Town
After her younger brother died, filmmaker Robie Flores went back to Eagle Pass, the Texas border town where she grew up, to reflect on how it affected her and what’s…
Sunday TV: Apparently, Some Football Game
If it sounds like a rerun it’s only because Super Bowl LIX features the same match-up as two years ago, Kansas City vs. Philadelphia (Fox, 6:30 p.m.), this time in…
Saturday TV: Sturgill Simpson and his Alter-Ego
The country singer Sturgill Simpson performs his latest album, “Passage du Desir,” which he released under the name Johnny Blue Skies, on a new “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m.,…
Friday TV: Here’s the Luther Vandross Story
The nearly 40 year career of the silky smooth R&B star Luther Vandross, from early appearances on “Sesame Street” to his work with David Bowie and Bette Midler to his…
Thursday TV: ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’
Kaitlyn Dever is very good as a young Aussie woman who fibs about her own health in order to launch her own online business of alternate wellness in the creatively-cut…
Wednesday TV: Amy Schumer, ‘Kinda Pregnant’
In the new comedy “Kinda Pregnant” (Netflix, streaming), Amy Schumer plays a woman who is jealous of her friend being pregnant and pretends to be pregnant herself. Which doesn’t work…
Tuesday TV: ‘Great Migrations’ Goes West
The second episode of the four part “Great Migrations: A People on the Move” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) looks at the second wave of migration Westward by African-Americans…
Monday TV: NBC’s New ‘The Hunting Party’
To “Tracker” and “Found,” we can add “The Hunting Party” (NBC, 10 p.m.) to the growing number of broadcast network dramas about looking for people, indicating that the culture itself…