Saturday TV: John Rowland Goes Country
Jesse Metcalfe, who played John Tucker as well as John Rowland, the lawnmower guy romancing Eva Longoria on "Desperate Housewives," turns country artist in the TV movie "A Country Wedding"…
Friday TV: Great Music, plus Rodman
Her music has always had a rich timelessness, but seems particularly attuned today. So it's a great time for Liz Garbus' documentary "What Happened, Miss Simone?" (Netflix, streaming) about the…
Thursday TV: Fox Goes ‘Boom!’
A quiz show with a dumb name "Boom!" (Fox, 8 p.m.) doesn't just give prizes, it penalizes people with wrong answers in the manner of ejector seats like MTV's old…
Wednesday TV: New ‘Mr. Robot’ in Town
There may be a similarity between basic cable dramas, but the new "Mr. Robot" (USA, 10 p.m.) stands out. It's much darker and cinematic and not about a robot. At…
Tuesday TV: Sending Up the Past
"Another Period" (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.), Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome's lavishly costumed and decorated period piece depicting a high-living household of dim bulbs in Newport, R.I., at the turn…
Monday TV: Scourge of Gun Violence
The feeling of dread whenever another mass shooting occurs is compounded by the fact that it's just another in a long line of slaughter with no end because people refuse…
‘True Detective’s Dark City of Angels
Because the second season of “True Detective” (HBO, 9 p.m.) shares nothing with its epic first season — neither the story, nor the stars, nor even locale — most will…
HBO’s ‘The Brink’ is a Bomb
It isn’t all hits and Emmys for HBO. Sometimes they come up with the occasional series that’s a turkey as other networks regularly do. Not very often, but it happens…
Also on Sunday: PBS’ New ‘Poldark’
Though it starts as if it is an extension of AMC's "Turn: Washington's Spies," the handsome new entry on "Masterpiece" (PBS, 9 p.m.) is "Poldark." The remake of the 70s…
Saturday TV: Ferrell, Wiig in Lifetime Movie
You have to believe that Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig decided to do a Lifetime movie as kind of show biz investigation or art project. The promos suggest they play…