Friday TV: Reconstructing Dylan Songs
This fall's flurry about songs Bob Dylan composed 47 years ago in upstate New York has resulted not only in a five-CD package of 138 recovered recordings, but a mysterious…
Thursday TV: Is College Worth It?
With student loan debt reaching $1 trillion and nearly $239 billion given in loans last year alone, the documentary "Ivory Tower" (CNN, 9 and 11 p.m.) asks once more whether…
Wednesday TV: Landing on Comet Story
Rosetta may have gone silent, but the specials about the spacecraft that managed to land on a comet last week gets a special, "To Catch a Comet" (PBS, 10 p.m.,…
Tuesday TV: Nikita Visits the U.S.A.
After all the excesses of the Cold War, it may have seemed surprising that Dwight Eisenhower invited Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in 1959. The sincere gesture to diplomacy…
Monday TV: Sorry ‘State of Affairs’
I'm no "Scandal" fan, but it seems like "West Wing" compared to "State of Affairs" (NBC, 10 p.m.) the latest in the strong-woman in Washington trend that began with "Homeland"…
Sunday TV: The Last of Worricker
David Hare's "Worricker" series comes to a close with the third and least effective episode, "Salting the Battlefield," on "Masterpiece Contemporary" (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings). It follows up…
Saturday TV: A Gripping ‘Missing’
Starz' original programming began in genre tales awash in the sex and violence premium cable allows with "Spartacus" and "White Sails." It began to become more rich in recent seasons…
Friday TV: Another Awards Show
Too early for awards season? You bet it is. But here's The Hollywood Film Awards (CBS, 8 p.m.), on TV for the first time to fulfill the never ending desire…
Thursday TV: Echosmith’s Moment
Something new on VH1: Music! Sam Smith, Bleachers, Aloe Blacc and Echosmith all perform on "You Oughta Know - Live in Concert" (VH1, 9 p.m.), though most people know at…
Wednesday TV: Behind the Clay Army
Today, people might ride with blow-up dolls to get into HOV lanes. A similar ploy, times 8,000, was the plan of Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of a united China,…