Thursday TV: First First Woman President
Still able to laugh at politics? Turner Classic Movies offers a slew of political comedies, starting with the 1964 “Kisses for My President” (8 p.m.), with Fred MacMurray and Polly Bergen,…
Wednesday TV: New ‘Stan Against Evil’
The interaction of comedy and horror can be tricky, ending up with something too timid (Abbot & Costello meet any given monster) or way too gory (“Ash vs. the Evil…
Tuesday TV: John Daly Saga, ‘Atlanta’ End
Golfer John Daly came out of nowhere to win the 1991 PGA Championship with a terrible mullet. But he tumbled from his riches soon after amid gambling, booze and women.…
Monday TV: New ‘People of Earth’
Wyatt Cenac’s stint at “The Daily Show” seems now to have been quite brief, though it ended up being several years. He’s back in a project that suits him, the…
Sunday TV: Leonardo Saves the Planet
Childhood might be a little weird if you have a Hieronymus Bosch painting over the crib. But Leonardo DiCaprio says the print of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” sent him…
Saturday TV: Iggy Pop and Gilly Too
Iggy Pop, subject of a new Jim Jarmusch documentary on the Stooges, is also featured on a new “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings), backed by members…
Friday TV: Bill Murray Salute, ‘Girls Revolt’
David Letterman, Jane Curtin, Jimmy Kimmel, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Paul Shffer, Brian Doyle Murray, Roy Blount Jr., Sigourney Weaver and Emma Stone show up to help honor the actor and comedian…
Thursday TV: ‘Great Outdoors,’ ‘Genius’
CBS has already been pushing the Millennials vs. Gen. X thing a little hard this season on “Survivor,” laying the stereotypes pretty heavily on the arbitrary demographic groupings. Now it…
Wednesday TV: Last Season of ‘Rectify’
Since it began, “Rectify” (Sundance, 10 p.m.) has been one of the best shows on television, quietly forging a path in telling the story of a man released from solitary…
Tuesday TV: The World Series Begins
The distance between the two cities is just 345 miles and one Great Lake. But the more telling showdown in the World Series is the amount of years it’s been…