Wednesday TV: Caution About ‘Carmichael’
At first, the new sitcom "The Carmichael Show" (NBC, 9 and 9:30 p.m.) seems appealing -- with laconic comedian Jerrod Carmichael at the center of the show and a cast…
The Man Who Would Be Superman
D.J. Cotrona returns with his cast tonight for the second season of “From Dusk to Dawn: The Series” (El Rey, 9 p.m.), Robert Rodriguez’ remake of his own 1996 cult…
Also on Tuesday: Cops in the 1960s on TNT
Hope the producers of the new "Public Morals" (TNT, 10 p.m.) got to the "Mad Men" auction for 1960s duds for their similarly period era series. Except that the crooked…
Monday TV: Carrying Cameras and Guns
Hollywood action films and video games helped shape Matthew Van Dyke, a sheltered only child from Baltimore who, after graduation from Georgetown, began a series of filmed motorcycle trips as…
New Tonight: ‘Blunt Talk’ on Starz
It’s always funny when someone with such a stentorian voices as Patrick Stewart lends itself to comedy. Tonight he does so as a cable news personality Walter Blunt, who seems…
Also on Saturday: Tig Notaro’s Comedy
Near the end of her deliberately-paced standup special at Boston’s Wilbur Thaeater, “Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted” (HBO, 10 p.m.) does something completely disarming. The comic, a double mastectomy patient,…
Friday TV: Inside London’s National Gallery
Frederick Wiseman is the master of cinema verite -- seemingly turning on a camera and letting it run. But he finds out all kinds of things this way in investigating…
Hilarious Homage to the Documentary
For their final show on “Saturday Night Live, two years ago, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader did a sketch Seth Meyers wrote about a made-up punk rocker named Ian Rubbish.…
Also on Thursday: Downey and Dirty
He wasn’t the first right wing blowhard on the airwaves (that distinction may go to Joe Pyne). But Morton Downey Jr. brought that kind of confrontational bullying to his syndicated…
Wednesday TV: Steampunk n’ Science
The world of reality competitions is getting into some mighty small niches. The latest is “Steampunk’d” (GSN, 10 p.m.), in which adherents of the oddly futuristic Victorian realm compete for…