Friday TV: How ‘Spring Broke’
Florida’s spring break began innocently with collegiate swim competitions in the 60s and just grew, fueled in recent decades by debauched live broadcasts by MTV and an invasion of sponsors seeking…
Thursday TV: Dropping ‘The Catch’
What has ShondaLand done to Mirielle Enos? Once a singular, brooding presence in “The Killing” and “Big Love” before that, she’s been burnished and gone to smiling school, her hair…
Wednesday TV: A Batman of a Different Era
Superheroes seem to be at the saturation point, perhaps because of the impending “Batman vs. Superman” at the theaters. Or maybe they’ve always been around. Either way, tonight there are…
Tuesday TV: Familiar Fare in ‘Heartbeat’
Melissa George stars as a fast-living, fantastically accomplished heart surgeon who must also handle motherhood and a romantic life as well as put up with her live-in ex husband. They’ve…
Monday TV: More ‘Dancing,’ But Few Stars
With “American Idol” winding up after this season, maybe it’s time for “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC, 8 p.m.) to do the same. The 22nd (!) season begins tonight with…
Sunday TV: The Passion with Pop Songs
It’s no surprise that Palm Sunday brings with it some Easter stories, but the kind of thing presented tonight on “Passion” (Fox, 8 p.m.) is a little different. It’s an…
Saturday TV: All Hoops All Day
Basketball takes over the tube on the first weekend of the NCAA Men’s Tournament, with a primetime network showcase for Connecticut vs. Kansas (CBS, 7:45 p.m.) opposite NBA action of…
Friday TV: Pee-Wee Returns to TV
Nearly 30 years since his last film, Paul Reubens most popular character is back with the new “Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday” (Netflix, streaming) in which the ageless character stars with Tara…
Thursday TV: ‘The Real World’ Changes Up
Can you believe “The Real World” (MTV, 10 p.m.) is still around, starting its 31st season? Having run out of cities, they’re back yet again in Las Vegas but they’ve…
Wednesday TV: Familiar Franchise Variant
Gary Sinise returns to procedurals with the spin-off “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders” (CBS, 10 p.m.) about an FBI division that seems to over step bounds and national boundaries in getting…