Tuesday TV: Reality Battle with Paint Cans
Graffiti art has come a long way over the decades, from urban vandalism to gallery-worthy expression and city sanctioned murals. Now it even has a reality show. "Street Art Throwdown" (Oxygen, 9…
Monday TV: ‘Folye’ Returns Online
He reigned for years on public television, and though PBS seems more packed than usual with British drama, the only way to see the final three episodes of 1940s intelligence…
Sunday TV: Deflated Already
The excesses of Super Bowl XLIX (NBC, 6:30 p.m.) go well beyond the game between New England and Seattle in Glendale, Ariz. The pre game hubbub starts at noon. Idena…
Saturday TV: Mel Brooks Alone
At 88, he's amassed an awful lot of stories to tell, so in his special "Mel Brooks Live at the Geffen" (HBO, 9 p.m.) from the Geffen Playhouse in Los…
Friday TV: Shakespeare and Super Bowls
One of the best series yet of explicating and celebrating the work of the Bard, "Shakespeare Uncovered" (PBS, 9 and 10 p.m., check local listings) returns for a second season,…
It Will Pay to Find ‘Fortitude’
Every fledging network needs that one show to give people a reason to find it, and for Pivot it's the new drama "Fortitude" (Pivot, 10 p.m.), an original and visually…
Also on Thursday: An End to ‘Parenthood’
Predictably, they're packing a lot into the series finale of Jason Katims' "Parenthood" (NBC, 10 p.m.). Somebody dies (and Craig T. Nelson's grandpa character hasn't been doing that well); Lauren…
Wednesday TV: ‘The Americans’ Return
I'm warming to the 1980s spy yarn "The Americans" (FX, 10 p.m.), partly in contrast to next week's very similar network series "Alliegience." There is still the question of why…
Tuesday TV: All About Edison
Would you even have a television without Thomas Edison? Well, maybe. But he's the guy who invented sound recording, the incandescent bulb, and kinescopes that led to early film, so…
Nick Kristof’s ‘A Path Appears’ Appears
For all of the great intent of "Half the Sky," the last big effort for public television by Nicholas Kristof, based on the work by he and his wife Sheryl…