Wednesday TV: ‘Top Chef’ Finale in Maui
The eleventh season champion of "Top Chef" (Bravo, 10 p.m.) is crowned in Hawaii and given the $125,000 grand prize. It's between Nina Compton, 34, of Miami, and Nick Elmi,…
Tuesday TV: Don’t Shun PBS’ ‘Shunned’
From the people who gave us the similarly symathetic (and equally slow-moving) "The Amish" last year comes a second documentary that looks at one of their most brutal practices. "The…
‘American Promise’ Finally Comes to TV
Twelve years of shooting, more than 13 years in the making, and a full year after they came to the TV Critics Association winter press tour to promote it, the…
Also On Monday: Swimsuits and Steinberg
The groundhog blew it Sunday. But a sure sign of spring is the unveiling of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. It's a sexist exercise, sure. But the two hour prime time…
Saturday TV: Gabby Douglas and Other Sports
At a time when they could well be bringing back their Amanda Knox film, Lifetime brings something a little more uplifting in "The Gabby Douglas Story" (Lifetime, 8 p.m.). It's…
TV Tonight: Plummer Takes on Barrymore
Christopher Plummer won a Tony portraying another great actor, John Barrymore, in the 1997 one man play "Barrymore" that ran nine months to rave reviews. In the work by William…
Also on Friday: Billy Joel in Russia, 1987
It seems a little late for a film on Billy Joel's 1987 tour of Russia, a time when he was still married to Christie Brinkley and Alexa Ray was just…
Thursday TV: British Invasion, Ann’s Farewell on ‘Parks & Recreation’
I have to say much lauded reunion of the surviving Beatles at the Grammys Sunday wasn't that big a deal. Ringo Starr was purely an ornamental additional drummer to Paul…
Wednesday TV: The Man Who Gave Us Bond
Eventually, when the original James Bond adventures have long ago run out and cable has replayed "Goldfinger" (BBC America, 8 p.m.) to the breaking point, it may be time to…
Tuesday TV: State of the Union and Such
The President's State of the Union Address (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, CSPAN, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, Fox News, 9 p.m.) is the annual civics ritual. But more than that,…