Saturday TV: Another Williams to Consider
Perhaps the most cited film after his death this week, Robin Williams' dramatic role in "Dead Poets Society" (Flix, 11:40 p.m.) gets a timely replay, as does his greatest cartoon…
Friday TV: Fake Shark, Robin Tributes
Discovery Channel's Shark Week has demolished any credibility it might have once had by moving to fake documentaries that are just this side of "Sharknado." With the idea that any…
Thursday TV: Three Summer TV Finales
Summer is drawing to an end, at least on TV, where three distinctly different shows hold their season finales. In the eighth season finale for "Last Comic Standing" (NBC, 9…
Wednesday TV: Sean Bean in ‘Legends’
Ned Stark lives again in "Legends" (TNT, 9 p.m.), a new undercover series starring Sean Bean. Famously beheaded in "Game of Thrones." Bean has a gun to his head within…
Tuesday TV: A Slew of New Reality Shows
If the band Kiss put a fraction as much thought into their songs as they have in branding, merchandising and more merchandising, they might have been more worthy of its…
Monday TV: Disapproving ‘Approval Matrix’
The adaptation of New York magazine's reliable and smart back page feature into a TV show is just the kind of thing that would land it in the middlebrow/despicable field.…
Sunday TV: Teen Choice, Shark Week
The 2014 "Teen Choice Awards" (Fox, 8 p.m) has already had more slime than Nickelodeon's Kid Choice Awards. In fact, the spectacular water main break at the UCLA campus caused…
Saturday TV: An Almost Outstanding ‘Outlander’ Adaptation
Fans of the Diana Gabaldon series of romantic books have already taken to the handsome adaptation of "Outlander" (Starz, 9 p.m.). More than 1 million have watched the debut online;…
Bloody Early Medicine on ‘The Knick’
"The Knick" (Cinemax, 10 p.m.) begins with a kind of a test: If you can make it through the first 10 minutes of an early, 1900 C-section with all of…
Also on Friday: Late Night Watergate
Among the specials marking the 40th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Nixon, you might have heard that it took a long while for Watergate as a crime to make…