Sunday TV: Revisionist ‘Sons of Liberty’
Sometimes the sticklers for history can ruin a good film, but since the three night miniseries "Sons of Liberty" (History, 9 p.m.) is on the History channel, one might expect…
Saturday TV: Black Sails Billow Back Up
The pirate saga "Black Sails" (Starz, 9 p.m.), one of the most popular shows on that network, returns for its second season tonight bigger than ever, adding additional ships to…
Friday TV: A Magician’s Magician
Ricky Jay is not only a great magician, he's a great historian of that corner of entertainment and he's also an actor you've seen in a number of things, from…
Wednesday TV: Restaurant Competition
Turns out I ate at one of the 16 restaurants battling it out on the new reality competition "Best New Restaurant" (Bravo, 10 p.m.) the other day. And I can…
Tuesday TV: State of the Union and More
The annual State of the Union (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, CNN, CSPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, BET, BBC America, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business, 9 p.m.) is our annual ritual of…
An MLK Holiday Start for Larry Wilmore
It seems a little too perfect that "The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" (Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m.), once named "The Minority Report" by the former "senior black correspondent" at "The…
Also on Monday: Military Whistleblowing
It's not easy to blow the whistle on a military platoon. That's what a 21-year-old Specialist Adam Winfield, an infantryman in Afghanistan learned when he tried, with the help of…
Sunday TV: New Drama ‘Grantchester’
"Masterpiece" is cashing in its success with lavish English drama by doubling down, following its latest episode of "Downton Abbey" on "Masterpiece Classic" (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) with…
Saturday TV: Idealized ‘Whitney’ Movie
Just as album covers are glamorous, idealized version of the star inside, so is the puzzling posthumous biopic "Whitney" (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) that depicts her stardom and relationship with R&B…
Friday TV: 12 Different Monkeys
The 1995 Bruce Willis film from Terry Gilliam is remade as a new series in "12 Monkeys" (Syfy, 9 p.m.) in which Aaron Stanford stars as a sick man from…