Friday TV: ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Awakens
After adapting two earlier Tchaikovsky ballets, "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake," British choreographer Matthew Bourne takes on a third, "Sleeping Beauty," in a version taped at England's Bristol Hippodrome and…
Thursday TV: New ‘Black Box,’ ‘Bad Teacher’
The wildly uneven new drama "Black Box" (ABC, 10 p.m.) is about a neurologist who is herself bipolar with her own manic episodes. Kelly Reilly plays the willowy doctor who…
Wednesday TV: Monkeys and Surviving
Normally I'm not a fan of the kind of nature movie that anthropomorphizes species in the wild, giving them names, imagining family tales, squabbles and epic struggles. But the photography…
Tuesday TV: An Urgent Earth Day Report
The best way to mark Earth Day probably is to leave the set off altogether. But since that's not your choice, may I suggest a concise and eye-opening history of…
Monday TV: Sweet Soul of Muscle Shoals
Filmmaker Greg "Freddy" Camalier makes the case that it is the location, alongside the Tennessee River in Northwest Alabama that provided the magic to make the perfect setting for a…
Sunday TV: In This ‘Salem,’ Witches Are Real
The Chicago "super station" tries its hand at original programming with "Salem" (WGN, 10 p.m.), an overheated return to witch hunting days with the caveat that the witches this time…
Saturday TV: Billy Crystal’s Life on Stage
Photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com Billy Crystal's first taste of being a comedian was making his parents laugh. There's nothing unique about that. But, as he reminds us in his one…
Friday TV: ‘The Writers’ Room’ Returns
Have they already run out of good TV shows to talk about on "The Writers' Room" (Sundance, 9 p.m.)? After a first season that began with "Breaking Bad" and went…
Thursday TV: Finales for ‘Scandal,’ Three Others
Season finales seem to come earlier and earlier, thanks to the tendency of shows to run straight through with fewer reruns and summmer shows beginning earlier in the summer. Four…
Wednesday TV: Getting to Know the Mule Deer
A new "Nature" (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) checks back in on Jim Hutto the naturalist who raised a bunch of wild turkeys in one popular episode. This time…