Saturday TV: Jeff Ross Roasts Cops
Jeff Ross is already acknowledged as a master of roasts, having chalked up Rob Lowe earlier in the week. But he also sees roast-style humor as healing in a way,…
Don’t Miss Tig Notaro’s ‘One Mississippi’
Cancer, stomach ailments and a mother’s death may not seem like the basis of comedy but Tig Notaro has been mining exquisite deadpan humor from her own circumstances the past…
Also on Friday: New ‘Quarry’ on Cinemax
The latest brutal rurally-set drama from Cinemax concentrates on a Vietnam veteran in 1972 who is rebuked by society and hired by a local mob boss. Logan Marshall-Green plays the…
Pamela Adlon’s Great New ‘Better Things’
For the second time in three days (after Tuesday’s premiere of “Atlanta”), FX premieres another new comedy that will further change the game on TV. There have been any number…
Also on Thursday: NFL Season Kicks Off
They get so excited about the NFL season staring that they’re calling the Super Bowl 50 replay of Carolina at Denver (NBC, 8:30 p.m.) “Sunday Night Football.” The kickoff preshow at…
Wednesday TV: A Forum, Not a Debate
It’s not exactly the first debate, but Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump speak back to back at the same site — the U.S.S. Intrepid — addressing veterans issues in something…
Donald Glover Turns a Corner with ‘Atlanta’
Comedy has led the charge for creativity in TV the last couple of years, and it will advance even farther this far starting with tonight’s premiere of “Atlanta” (FX, 10…
Also on Tuesday: ‘Queen Sugar,’ ‘Start Up’
For all of the dreams Oprah Winfrey has had for her OWN network, its biggest success has been Tyler Perry soap operas like “The Haves and the Have Nots” (OWN,…
Sunday TV: Preserving ‘Star Trek’ Props
The 50th anniversary of “Star Trek” brings some urgency to a couple of restoration efforts to two of its props in the special “Building Star Trek” (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.). One…
Saturday TV: Here Comes College Football
College football invades prime time with Southern California vs. Alabama (ABC, 8 p.m.). There are also a lot of other games, listed below. And if not a game, there’s a…