Wednesday TV: New Season of ‘The Face’
Naomi Campbell is getting meaner and meaner on "The Face" (Oxygen, 10 p.m.), her version of "America's Next Top Model" that is slightly more international in scope. Campbell was fearsome…
Tuesday TV: Carving and Carson
Not about knife wielding killers nor the peanut biologist George Washington Carver, the special "Carvers" (Syfy, 10 p.m.) profiles the work of Andy Bergholtz and Ray Villafane, who claim they…
Monday TV: A Killer ‘Those Who Kill’
In a season when I'm ambivalent about what so many others are unaccountably excited about, from "Hannibal" to "Scandal," there's one new series I'm much more excited about than just…
Sunday TV: Stars Get Statuettes
They sure make a bigger deal of it than it really deserves, but it's still fun to watch The 86th Academy Awards (ABC, 8:30 p.m.) for the universal experience. Ellen…
Saturday TV: Movie Awards, Early
Get your movie awards weekend started the way the stars do: on the beach in Santa Monica, with the Independent Spirit Awards (IFC, 10 p.m.). Patton Oswalt hosts the lower-key,…
Friday TV: Fixing Businesses
It's weird that Friday night -- a day many people spend celebrating the end of the workweek -- has become the night dedicated to starting and running businesses Start up…
Wednesday TV: Bad ‘Mixology,’ New Seasons for ‘Survivor’ and ‘The Americans’
A couple of so-so but harmless network sitcoms have already premiered this week. Now comes a truly hateful one. "Mixology" (ABC, 9:30 p.m.) is a high-concept comedy about 10 people…
Tuesday TV: Steve Zahn and the Vatican
Always good to see Steve Zahn, but more as Davis on "Treme" than in his new role, as Clark Edwards in "Mind Games" (ABC, 10 p.m.), who with his brother…
Monday TV: BET Honors, New ‘Late Night’
Some giants are saluted at the BET Honors 2014 (BET, 9 p.m.) taped earlier this month in D.C. Wayne Brady hosts the gathering where Aretha Franklin and the late Nelson…
Sunday TV: Farewells to Sochi, Downton
Another slightly more exhausted parade of athletes marks the Closing Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics (NBC, 9 p.m.) and what other spectacles? Cossacks horsewhipping Pussy Riot? A salute to Bob…