Wednesday TV: Quiz Show in Labor Room
It’s bad enough when expectant fathers try to be helpful in the delivery room, only to get yelled at by their wives. What if, instead of shaved ice, somebody came…
Tuesday TV: How Ebola was Mishandled
An investigation of how the ebola outbreak occurred and admission how it was mishandled all around gets a deeper look on a new “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) from…
Heck of a Good Cobain Montage
Much has been written about the troubled childhood of Kurt Cobain, who turned his pain into indelible rock with Nirvana. But nothing has been done with as much style, nor…
Also on Monday: Salute to Dave
He’s done so much for so long to set the tone for late night television, it’s hard to believe they’ll let him go after a 33 year career with only…
Sunday TV: New ‘Penny Dreadful’ Season
The beautifully creepy “Penny Dreadful” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) starts its second season, if anything even more elegantly navigating its stories between young Dr. Frankenstein and his miffed monster, a burgeoning…
Saturday TV: Biggest Sports Day Ever?
It may be the biggest sports day ever, what with two major sports in playoffs, a third in its second month, a fourth still going through the fourth through seventh…
Friday TV: Double the Sharks
It’s not enough to plug in an episode of “Shark Tank” (ABC, 8 p.m.) every time there’s some empty space on the network schedule. Now there’s an official offshoot “Beyond…
Thursday TV: Dealing with McDeady
I suppose it's not a spoiler by now to anyone who still cares about "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC, 8 p.m.) that Derek, McDreamy himself, died in last week's episode. It's a…
Wednesday TV: Rowling’s ‘Casual Vacancy’
Dropped randomly in the middle of the week and given scarcely any publicity, the purchase of a three-episode British miniseries "The Casual Vacancy" (HBO, 8 p.m.) seems somewhat of an…
Tuesday TV: Last Days in Vietnam
It was 40 years ago this week that those last crowded helicopters pulled up from a Saigon roof marking the end of America's long, bloody involvement involvement there. At the…