Sunday TV: ‘Throne,’ ‘Veep’ and More
This is the kind of Sunday you wait for; the week when so many favorite shows return and a couple of promising new ones start. It's the kind of Sunday…
Saturday TV: Final Four, Final ‘Rake’
March is over but the Madness makes it to today's Final Four: Connecticut vs. Florida (TBS, 6 p.m.) and Kentucky vs. Wisconsin (TBS, 8:30 p.m.). Odd that they are not…
Friday TV: Bruce’s Infomercial for ‘High Hopes,’ Series End for ‘Raising Hope’
Make no mistake, the Bruce Springsteen-produced half hour documentary about his new album, "Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes" (HBO, 9:30 p.m.) is intended to get more attention to his latest release.…
Wednesday TV: Hollywood Collectable Dude
The Reelz channel's march from movies to all manner of reality shows finds a compromise in "Treasure King" (Reelz, 10 p.m.), in which Richie Marcello, a collector who works in…
Tuesday TV: Mocking Nat Geo on April Fool’s Day
Maybe you turn into the nature programming on National Geographic Channel just so you can make fun of it. That's what the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 do. Since…
Monday TV: Finding Hope in Fading Towns
If basketball is king in rural Indiana, then the winless team is the goat. Such is the case for Medora, a tiny town in southern Indiana with a population of…
Sunday TV: Another Season of ‘Selfridge’
I figured a drama about a department store magnate might be worth one episode of "Masterpiece Classic" (PBC, 9 p.m.,check locallistings), two tops. Instead the BBC made a whole season…
Saturday TV: Wahlberg Awaits the Slime
Mark Wahlbeg is the unexpected host of the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.). It can't be from his cation movies, maybe its the reality show "Wahlburgers" that as…
Friday TV: Patina Miller Sings on PBS
"Live from Lincoln Center" (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) kicks off its 39th season with a performance by Broadway star Patina Miller, who told reporters at the winter press…
Thursday TV: Mean Dad for Laughs
There is a false notion that if a family comedy is based on a witers' actual experience, then it must be funnier as well. That's he idea for "The Goldbergs,"…