Wednesday TV: Grim ‘The Last Panthers’
An audacious series of jewel heists in the 1990s by ex-Yugoslavs from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia earned a gang of thieves the nickname the Pink Panthers. Interpol named them after…
Tuesday TV: Violent New ‘Game of Silence’
An adaptation of a Turkish series called “Suskunlar,” the new series “Game of Silence” (NBC, 10 p.m.) is about a group of childhood pals who had been sent to juvenile…
‘Jackie Robinson’ Doc, Right on Time
Ken Burns, the patron saint of public television, has already made more than 20 hours of essential American sports history with his 1994 epic “Baseball” and its four hour addendum…
Also on Monday: ‘The Detour,’ ‘Hunters’
There’s already been one bad variation on “National Lampoon’s Vacation” in the past year. Now there ’s a whole comedy series, “The Detour” (TBS, ) on a family road trip…
Sunday TV: ‘Girlfriend Experience,’ Awards
Stephen Soderbergh has caught onto the rhythms of quality serialized TV. He already directs every shot of the underrated “The Knick.” Now he’s back producing a series that is a…
Anderson Cooper and His Famous Mom
One of the most interesting things about Anderson Cooper is not that he’s gay or began his TV career hosting reality competitions like “The Mole,” but his lineage. He’s the…
Also on Saturday: ‘Outlander’ in France
If you can only watch one romantic time-traveling saga, it should be “Outlander” (Starz, 9 p.m.), which starts its second season with Jime and Claire arriving in France where they…
Friday TV: New Season of ‘Catastrophe’
A second season starts for “Catastrophe” (Amazon, streaming), the well-regarded comedy about an American ad man (Rob Delaney) and an Irish teacher (Sharon Horgan) whose one night stand led to…
Thursday TV: End of ‘Idol’ As We Know It
You’ll want to watch the finale “American Idol” (Fox, 8 p.m.), not for the nail-biting over who will win — La’Porsha vs Trent is no Kelly vs. Justin — but…
Wednesday TV: Attenborough, At It Again
Foremost naturalist Sir David Attenborough turns 90 next month, but nothing slows him down. His latest series “David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies” (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.), about the evolution of…