Thursday TV: ‘NY Med’ Returns, Noon Cup
Amid the excesses and fantasy of the many TV hospital dramas, "NY Med" (ABC, 10 p.m.) comes more out of the documentary tradition, where actual stories can be much more…
Wednesday TV: New ‘Taxi Brooklyn’
One of the more unusual space-fillers this summer is "Taxi Brooklyn" (NBC, 10 p.m.), an adaptation of Luc Bresson's "Taxi" film pairs a cop with a cabbie to fight crime.…
‘Freedom Summer’ Relived Tonight
Just as the Freedom Riders Civil Rights effort in 1961 was followed by the 50th anniversary "Freedom Riders" documentary by Stanley Nelson, so has the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign to…
Also on Tuesday: ‘Tyrant,’ ‘Motor City Masters’
"Tyrant" (FX, 10 p.m.) begins, in many ways, like its central character -- brooding, joyless, tense. Adam Rayner plays a Pasadena pediatrician and family man who is also son of a Middle…
Monday TV: Battle for Marriage Equality
When Proposition 8 unexpectedly passed in California, denying same-sex couples the right to marriage that they had enjoyed for a couple of years, it was not only the basis of…
Sunday TV: Another New Singing Show
Just when things were quieting dow, here comes the latest singing competition. The gimmick behind "Rising Star" (ABC, 10 p.m.) is a kind of app-driven crowd appreciation that results in…
Saturday TV: Funnier Phony Royals
"I Wanna Marry Harry" may have been canceled and yanked off the air already this summer, but it's time for another couple of British phonies to come around and fool…
Friday TV: A Mesmerizing Dancer and Spirit
If tonight's new "American Masters" (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) only showed old black and white clips of the exquisite daner Tanaquil Le Clercq, it would be worth watching.…
Thursday TV: Some Critics’ Choices
Every time the Critics Choice Television Awards (The CW, 8 p.m.) is broadcast, I'm wondering: Who are these people? After all the TV Critics Association have been throwing their own…
Wednesday TV: France’s Early Comic Ace
Rene Clair, France's first great director of comedy, whose work inspired Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, is saluted on Turner Classic Movies tonight with with five of his films. It…