Also on Sunday: The Zombies’ Return
The last time we saw Rick and company, they were shut up in a train car at a supposed safe-haven called Terminus, whose true purpose was only too obvious. In…
Saturday TV: Rushing and Racing
Ron Howard's racing movie "Rush" (HBO, 8 p.m.), about the 1976 rivalry between Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl, makes its debut…
Friday TV: Fresh Sitcom Face ‘Cristela’
While much of the new sitcom seems utterly conventional, the key to the new "Cristela" (ABC, 8:30 p.m.) is its star, comic Cristela Alonzo, portraying a law grad living at…
Thursday TV: Wild Child Investigator
It's interesting to see Animal Planet's parameters change as they strive for new programming. Having done shows on non-animals ("Monsters Inside Me" is about viruses), things that house creatures ("Tanked"),…
‘American Horror Story’s Freak Show
Old carnival freak shows are the natural stuff of horror so it was only a matter of time before “American Freak Show” (FX, 10 p.m.), which previously visited haunted houses, asylums…
Also on Wednesday: Nick Jonas Gets Tough
The new drama "Kingdom" (DirecTV, 9 p.m.) is the hard nosed saga of a mixed martial arts fighter training his younger son into the business. That the younger son is…
Tuesday TV: Another New Superhero
From a spinoff of "Arrow" comes yet another superhero in a TV landscape that's become filled with them. "The Flash" (The CW, 8 p.m.) adapts the comic book about the…
Monday TV: 100 Year Old Cartoons
It’s a big night for classic animation from the earliest days, starting with a compilation of "The Cartoons of Winsor McCay” (8 p.m.), from 1911’s “Little Nemo” to the century-old…
Sunday TV: Here’s Mulaney
The one fall show I knew I could count on was "Mulaney" (Fox, 9:30 p.m.), just from what I knew of John Mulaney himself, a very funny young comic, who…
Saturday TV: ‘Remorse’ from Starz
Building on the audience it created with "Power," Starz brings a new series about a basketball player on the rise who brings his family along to his new heights. LeBron…