New Tonight: ‘Black Sails’ on Starz
After Jack Sparrow to Captains Phillips and Hook, pirates seem among us again, eough to warrant a limited series about the adventure. "The Black Sails" (Starz, 9 p.m.) is an…
Also On Saturday: Christina Ricci with Axe
Christina Ricci returns to her Wednesday Addams past in recreating the title character of "Lizzie Borden Took an Ax" (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), another take on the notorious 1892 case in…
Friday TV: Saving a City Symphony
Survival of symphony orchestras isn't a new thing. In 1940, city leaders in Louisville, Ky., organized to save their civic orchestra. It led to Carnegie Hall and international acclaim, as…
Thursday TV: Kinnear’s New ‘Rake’
Developing a lovable antihero is a little harder than it looks. And in the search for something to take the place of "House," here's "Rake" (Fox, 9 p.m.), starring Greg…
Move Over ‘Girls,’ Here’s ‘Broad City’
As distinctive and funny as HBO's "Girls" is; as emblematic it is of a modern young woman in Brooklyn, they seem like entitled trust fund queens compared to the struggling…
Also on Wednesday: ‘Fashion Fund,’ ‘Wahlburgers’
There would seem to be no reason to have yet another designer competition, but "The Fashion Fund" (Oxygen, 10 p.m.) chronicles a competition that already exists. The Council of Fashion…
Tuesday TV: Stalking Wild Salinger
It was the mystery of the writer, combined with the power of his best known book "The Catcher in the Rye," that made J.D. Salinger an object of fascination. Every…
TV Tonight: Start of ‘Klondike’ Miniseries
Nobody expected the network behind the reality series "Gold Rush" and "Bering Sea Gold" to turn out a pretty good scripted miniseries on the Canadian Gold Rush. But "Klondike" (Discovery,…
Also On Monday: ‘Blood Brother,’ Return of the Powerpuff Girls
Looking for authenticity, Rocky Bratt left Pittsburgh for India with no plan, but found himself helping and getting close to kids at an orphanage for children with AIDS and HIV.…
New HBO Comedy, ‘Looking’ OK
Because it's fairly young, chatty, urban and bitchy, the new "Looking" (HBO, 10:30 p.m.) seems a naural fit with the network's "Girls." But the new series from Andrew Haigh and…