Sunday TV: Roman Numerals Are Gone
The most hyped concussion-making event of the day, Super Bowl 50 (CBS, 6:30 p.m.) occurs in San Diego where somewhere inside all the excess and the overpriced ads it will…
Saturday TV: Death of a Photojournalist
The photojournalist who was kidnapped on Thanksgiving Day 2012 and went missing for two years before his execution video by ISIS is the subject of the documentary "Jim: The James…
Friday TV: All About ‘Off The Wall’
It was “Thriller” that created the phenomenon, but it was Michael Jackson’s previous album, “Off the Wall” that might have been the biggest career breakthrough, bursting from adolescence to adulthood…
Thursday TV: ‘Project Runway: Junior’ Finale
A winner is named on "Project Runway: Junior" (Lifetime, 9 p.m.), and it's between Maya, 14, of Maumee, Ohio; Peytie, 15, of Carlsbad, Calif.,; Samantha, 16, of Queens, N.Y.; and…
Wednesday TV: Dreyfuss as ‘Madoff’
It’s tempting to think of Bernard Madoff as a grown up Duddy Kravitz, the scheming young man Richard Dreyfuss played in one of his first movies 42 years ago. Here,…
‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ – Juicy
The trajectory for Ryan Murphy productions are usually this: begin stylish, exciting and promising and then go south. Sometimes it takes a while, as it did with "Glee," sometimes it…
Also on Tuesday: Death of a President
Four months after taking office in 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot twice by a delusional assassin named Charles Guiteau in a D.C. train station. For the next 79…
Monday TV: All About the Iowans
The biggest day in Presidential Politics, after months of ruminating, polls and blather is The 2016 Iowa Caucuses (CNN, CSPAN, Fox News, 8 p.m.) which would be exciting if it…
Sunday TV: A Live Version of ‘Grease’
The notion of a live musical moves to another network now with the production of "Grease Live!" (Fox, 7 p.m.) that throws together parts of the stage and film production…
Saturday TV: SAG Awards Time
Once, Carol Burnett was queen of Saturday night with her variety show. Tonight, she receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TBS, TNT, 8…