Monday TV: Celebrity Crime Solvers
Sherlock Holmes is certainly a popular character on which to base a series - he can solve crimes each episode. And Harry Houdini has been subject of a miniseries or…
Sunday TV: Two Music Awards Shows
It’s another night when two different music awards shows of different genres collide. One’s from Los Angeles, the other from Inglewood, Calif; one has a performance from Florida Georgia Line,…
Saturday TV: Rock, Jazz and Obama
There’s no doubt whatever that the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (HBO, 8 p.m.) is is the weakest yet, with Steve Miller, Chicago and Deep Purple. The achievements…
Friday TV: Sports Docs, New Gervais
Two sports documentaries make their debut today. One is “Team Foxcatcher” (Netflix, streaming), director Jon Greenhalgh’s real story behind the 1996 murder of an Olympic wrestling champion David Schultz by…
Thursday TV: Sophia Loren Sits to Talk
On “Live from the TCM Classic Movie Festival: Sophia Loren” (TCM, 8 and 11:30 p.m.) the 81-year-old actress sits down to talk about her career with her son Edoardo Ponti,…
Wednesday TV: A Different Angle to Sports
The rollouts are continuing on the year’s best new network. And like many of its other shows nominally about subjects otherwise well covered by cable — travel, food, music —…
TV Tonight: Let’s Call It Nuclear Tuesday
Today is the 30th anniversary of the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a milestone that ought to create a number of news reports and updates. The most…
Monday TV: Laurie Anderson’s Musings
One might prefer to hear the artist Laurie Anderson expound on the death of her husband Lou Reed. Instead, she moves perhaps to metaphor when she addresses death through demise…
Sunday TV: Dragons and Such
Television’s most anticipated returning show “Game of Thrones” (HBO, 9 p.m.) is back, with its myriad storylines and handsomely executed production vistas, a kingdom battling saga that was moving into…
Saturday TV: A Forecast for ‘Purple Rain’
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) changed its schedule in honor of Prince, who died Thursday at 57, dropping a planned rerun of its Peter Dinklage episode to show a…