The Remarkable ‘Olive Kitteridge’
Frances McDormand is an inveterate reader. So when a friend handed her a copy of Elizabeth Strout's "Olive Kitteridge" about six years ago, she devoured it. "Loved it," she said.…
Also on Sunday: Walking a Wire in Chicago
Sometimes TV can be as basic as a football game, a long-distance police chase or a guy walking on a wire. When Nik Wallenda walked across the Niagara Falls for…
Saturday TV: Finding the Disappeared
"The Disappeared," a new documentary on "Fault Lines" (Al Jazeera America, 7 p.m.) examines the alarming rise of kidnappings in Mexico, with more than 22,000 people since the government's war…
Friday TV: Tingling Holloween Horror
It is All Hallow's Eve, so in between responding to your door, there is a lot of scary stuff on TV. And there's horror all day on Turner Classic Movies…
Thursday TV: New ‘McCarthys’ Not So Bad
The last network sitcom to premiere in the fall TV season, “The McCarthys” (CBS, 9:30 p.m., ) isn’t so bad. It shows how much a skilled cast can carry a comedy and…
Wednesday TV: Dylan Thomas’ Demise
The centenary of his birth this weeks is marked by the excess that lead to his death of the poet Dylan Thomas in one of the best TV movies of…
Tuesday TV: The Rise of ISIS
A new "Frontline" (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) looks at the rise of ISIS, a steady rise that went mostly ignored according to the report by Martin Smith that…
Monday TV: Soul Brother Number One
While producing the recent bio pic "Get On Up," Mick Jagger thought to also help produce -- and contribute -- to an Alex Gibney-directed documentary on James Brown, "Mr. Dynamite:…
Sunday TV: ‘Boardwalk’s End
It's been a wonderful series. "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO, 9 p.m.) fleshed out the bootlegging business that made Atlantic City bustle in Prohibition Days through the character of Nucky Thompson, Steve…
Friday TV: ‘Constantine,’ Bennett, Gaga
The TV landscape has never been littered with so many comic book heroes, but my favorite of the bunch just might be “Constantine” (NBC, 10 p.m..), adapted from a DC comic…