Friday TV: Cinema Down Under
The month-long Friday night focus on Australian cinema on Turner Classic Movies continues with "The Year of Living Dangerously" (TCM, 8 p.m.) with Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt -- not…
Thursday TV: Here Come the Summer Shows
With May sweeps and most of the finales over, network television can get back to the business of inserting shows not quite right for their fall or spring schedules. "Gang…
Wednesday TV: Finale Battle: ‘Idol’ vs. ‘Survivor’
With the show now out of the Top 10, there certainly isn't the national attention over the finalists of "American Idol" (Fox, 8 p.m.) tonight. The two left standing, Meatloaf…
Tuesday TV: Assembling the Dumb for Dating
Coming a night after the season start of "The Bachelorette," the candidates on "I Wanna Marry Harry" (Fox, 9 p.m.) are meant to be dimmer bulbs, easily tricked into thinking…
Monday TV: The Variety Show Returns
It reads like "Saturday Night Live" on Monday prime time, but "The Maya Rudolph Show" (NBC, 10 p.m.) sounds like a throwback to classic TV entertainments, with music and skits,…
Sunday TV: Undead on Billboard Awards
For an awards show that has always had the least surprising results -- the best-selling recordings of the year, listed week-in and week-out, The 2014 Billboard Music Awards (ABC, 8…
Saturday TV: Minnie Driver in Lifetime Movie
Let's just say Minnie Driver doesn't get challenged too much in her current sitcom "About a Boy." She'll get to flex some dramatic muscle, presumably, as the mother trying to…
Friday TV: George Plimpton’s Literary Life
Born into privilege, privately educated, speaking in patrician town, George Plimpton could have been a high society horror. Instead, he was something of a literary gadfly and player in New…
Thursday TV: Finales and a Magician
Finales continue to dominate network schedules, but the big event tonight is the final episode of Sandra Oh, Dr. Cristina Yang on "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC, 9 p.m.) -- all amid…
Tuesday TV: More Slant from Fox
As networks trot out their new shows for the fall this week, a question emerges: Would any of their shows be any funnier if presented at a 22 degree angle.…