Also Saturday: Louie C.K. on ‘SNL’ Finale
Having turned in a memorable episode last time he was there, Louis C.K. returns to host "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) on the occasion of its 40th season finale.…
Friday TV: Ballet Slowed Way Down
Ric Burns' history of the American Ballet Theater is at times a corporate-approved biography, at other times an explanation of the necessity of dance itself. Mostly, it's a lot of…
Thursday TV: Weird ‘Wayward Pines’
Playing a secret service agent in search of a couple of missing colleagues (one with whom he was having an affair) Matt Dillon finds himself in a bucolic, odd mountain…
Wednesday TV: Growing a Backbone
Ah, vertebrates! Let's hear it for them/us. Premier natural history broadcaster Sir David Attenborough traces the history of Earth's creatures with backbones that began in the sea and continued on…
Tuesday TV: ‘American Idol’ Finale Begins
Once it was a cultural event, but nowadays, the finale for "American Idol" (Fox, 8 p.m.) has finalists whose names I couldn't even tell you until I looked it up:…
Monday TV: The Cannibal Cop Who Wasn’t
It was a couple of years ago when the tabloids were full of headlines about a Cannibal Cop, so much so that you might have believed there was such a…
Sunday TV: Finales, or Nearing the Ends
We're in the home stretch of big show finales. And especially now that we know the fate of most existing shows, whether they've been canceled or will be continued, there…
Saturday TV: Nixon in Stockholm
The Lifetime movie is getting an upgrade. Not that the plot has changed much. Tonight's "Stockholm, Pennsylvania" (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) concerns a girl kidnapped at 4 who is finally freed…
Friday TV: Fonda, Tomlin Team Again
Thirty five years after "9 to 5," Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin join forces in the online comedy "Grace and Frankie" (Netflix, streaming) about a pair of women whose husbands…
Thursday TV: Another ‘Dead End’
Alaska is a crossroads of reality shows, and the new “Dead End Express” (National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.) follows rugged deliverymen in that state, where Roger Phillips rides a snow machine, Rob Kinkade…