Also On Monday: The Welcome Return of ‘Louie’
It's been a heck of a long time since the last season of "Louie" (FX, 10 p.m.), a comedy so good and unusual that we missed it all the more.…
Sunday TV: Night of the Deadly Mountain
Joby Ogwyn would have been attempting his jump off of Mount Everest today in a big Discovery Channel stunt and special, except for a huge avalanche just over two weeks…
Saturday TV: Dinner and a Derby
CSPAN's biggest night of the year, and certainly its most entertaining, is the annual White House Correspondents Dinner (CSPAN, 6 p.m., CNN, 8 p.m.; MSNBC, 9 p.m.), which this year…
Friday TV: ‘Shark Tank’ Takes Stock
One of the bright spots at the network, "Shark Tank" (ABC, 9 p.m.) takes a bigger chunk of the night with not only its regular new episode of pitches, but…
Thursday TV: Another New Music Award
Blake Shelton, Drake, Pharrell, Pitbull, Arcade Fire, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Luke Bryan, Shakira Kendrick Lamar and Thirty Seconds to Mars all perform on the first "iHeart Radio Music Awards"…
Tuesday TV: Funny New ‘Playing House’
For those who think the beginning and end of funny female comedy teams begin and end with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, let me introduce you to Jessica St. Clair…
Monday TV: The Ann Richards Story
Ann Richards was just a state treasurer when she made the speech of her life, a raucous, indelible keynote at the 1988 Democratic convention in which she memorably declared George…
Saturday TV: All About the Benjamins, Autism
One in 68 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder, a 30 percent jump from two years ago, when it was one in 88, the Center for Disease Control reported…
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…