Friday TV: Netflix’ ‘Narcos’ Breaks Out
Brazilian actor Wagner Moura returns to his role as Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar with the second season of the arresting series “Narcos” (Netflix, streaming), which begins with his dramatic…
Thursday TV: Christina’s New ‘Tracks’
Christina Aguilera makes a guest appearance on the premiere of a show she is producing, “Tracks” (Spike, 10:30 p.m.), a kind of “name that tune” competition in which contestants try…
Wednesday TV: Africa on Closed Circuit
Drones, time-lapse and remote cameras are used to capture the action in “Africa’s Wild Havens” (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.), starting with the animals under a sausage tree alongside Zambia’s Luangwa River,…
Tuesday TV: Death to ‘Pretty Little Liars’
Somebody is supposed to die on tonight’s summer finale of “Pretty Little Liars” (Freeform, 8 p.m.), which comes on the heels of the announcement Monday that the show will end…
Monday TV: ‘Fashion Police’ Stage a Raid
Sunday’s “MTV Video Music Awards” (MTV, 8 p.m.), rerunning tonight, seemed more about fashion than about music, so it’s fitting that the “Fashion Police” (E!, 8 p.m.) reconvenes to discuss…
Also on Sunday: The MTV Video Music Awards
The MTV Video Music Awards (MTV, BET, VH1, 9 p.m.) stopped being important about the time MTV did. Still, they will try to wring out a little bit of excitement…
Saturday TV: Debbie Gibson’s Return
In the new made-for-TV “Summer of Dreams” (Hallmark, 9 p.m.), Debbie Gibson plays a part that’s not too much of a stretch — an 80s pop star whose career is…
Friday TV: Boris Karloff All Day
A full day of Boris Karloff on Turner Classic Movies is understandably heavy on the horror, starting with the 1936 “The Walking Dead” (2:15 p.m.) and continuing with “The Man…
Sunday TV: Romance in Chesapeake
The newest soapy series for Hallmark occurs on the Eastern Shore, where a divorced mother from the city returns to Maryland to help save the family inn from foreclosure, based…
Saturday TV: No Sleep ‘Til ‘Brooklyn’
Saoirse Ronan stars as an Irish immigrant in New York 1950s in John Crowley’s “Brooklyn” (HBO, 8 p.m.), making its premium cable debut. Lily Tomlin, meanwhile, stars in Paul Weitz’…