Monday TV: Making Nobodies Famous
Making nobodies into stars is what reality TV has been about. Tonight, it gets more specific, in the new show "Famous in 12" (The CW, 8 p.m.) in which five…
Monday TV: A Hard Day’s Half Century
The 50th anniversary of the British Invasion is marked by Turner Classic Movies with a restored version of the Beatles' classic "A Hard Day's Night" (8 p.m.), the film that…
Sunday TV: Building a New PC
It's impossible to fill the hole left by the season's end of "Mad Men," but "Halt and Catch Fire" (AMC, 10 p.m.) is a pretty strong entry, depicting the efforts…
Also on Saturday: Celebs Impersonate Singers
ABC goes all in for a Saturday night reality show summer, with the return of the lowly "Bet on Your Baby" (ABC, 8 p.m.), because they're more fun than turtle races; and…
Friday TV: Inside John Malkovich’s Blackbeard
I guess if John Malkovich is going to play Blackbeard, it's going to be on his terms. That means white whiskers not black and a goatee more than a beard.…
Thursday TV: ‘Undateable’ Not Unwatchable
New from Bill Lawrence of "Cougar Town" and "Scrubs" fame is "Undateable" (NBC, 9 and 9:30 p.m.), about guys who don't have a clue to act around women. True to…
Wednesday TV: Don Rickles Gets Roasted
Comedy royalty combines to help roast another in "One Night Only: An All Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles" (Spike, 9 p.m.), with appearances by David Letterman, Jon Stewart, Jerry…
Tuesday TV: No Cure for Hospital Drama
You may think cop shows are formulaic. Well, the newest network hospital show, "The Night Shift" (NBC, 10 p.m.), has all of that genres cliches and more, from the flying…
Monday TV: ‘Bomb Girls’ and Bachelorettes
The Canadian series about women in the factory helping the war effort, "Bomb Girls," which never had much of a high profile in the states, is at least showing the…
On Tonight: ‘The Normal Heart’
HBO clears its Sunday night deck of acclaimed shows to present another prestige product -- an Emmy sure thing from the network that made "And The Band Played On" to…