Monday TV: ‘Tough Love’ on Public TV
Of the quarter million children removed from their families last year and put in foster care, the reason for 79 percent of the cases was not abuse, but neglect. A…
Sunday TV: Sharks Attack TV Schedules
They've moved Shark Week up a few weeks to put it more squarely into shark scare season. And sure enough, there's been a half dozen incidents off the coast of the…
Saturday TV: Bikes and Booms
Their nation's help was crucial in winning the American Revolution and today, on the 239th birthday of the U.S., it begins their big namesake bike race. Perfect timing for the…
Friday TV: Into July, Darkly
The Friday salute to film noir continues into July on Turner Classic Movies all day with “Johnny Belinda” (6 a.m.), “Key Largo” (8 a.m.), “The Lady from Shanghai” (10 a.m.),…
Thursday TV: More Network Food Contests
Have enough cooking shows yet? "Food Fighters" (NBC, 8 p.m.) returns for a second season with a regular person, in this case a Florida reporter, going head to head against…
Wednesday TV: Halle Return
A second season somehow starts for Halle Berry and "Extant" (CBS, 10 p.m.), the bar for success seemingly much lower in the summer than the rest of the year. "Extant," if…
Tuesday TV: When Animals Revolt
The premise for many shows in the summer are the kinds of things that would have made for good single episodes of "The Twilight Zone" -- A town under a…
Monday TV: Housing Boomtown on ‘POV’
The consequences of being an oil boom town, where plentiful jobs have outstripped the means to support the new workers. In "The Overnighters," a Sundance Award-winning documentary by Jesse Moss…
Showrunner on ‘Nurse Jackie’s End
“Nurse Jackie” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) is one of those shows that tended to be taken for granted, underrated, but will be sorely missed once the final episode of the seventh…
Also on Sunday: More Robots in ‘Humans’
Not to be confused with the how from earlier this week about humans named “Mr. Robot,” the new “Humans” (AMC, 9 p.m.) is about robots. Not sexbots (which are the…