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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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,"…
One of the great influential cable series of this century was "Monk," which blended a caper with a kind of light-heartedness not often seen since screwball films. From that same…
The author and historian Simon Schama has made his mark as one of TV's most animated and erudite hosts with his past histories of art, England and America. He seems…