Saturday TV: Tyson Chews Scenery, Too
A charm offensive from Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight champion and felon, convicted rapist, brawler and ear biter doesn't quite succeed. There's just too much to overcome and we're not…
Friday TV: ‘Raising Hope’ Returns
The fourth season of "Raising Hope" (Fox, 9:30 p.m.) starts,and by now Hope is practically in kindergarten. The cast of Martha Plimpton, Garret Dillahunt, Lucas neff and Cloris Leachman is…
Thursday TV: McGinley on ‘Ground Floor’
The jutting jaw of John C. McGinley, the in-your-face Dr. Cox on "Scrubs" for nearly a decade, returns as the head of another new workplace comedy. In "Ground Floor" (TBS,…
Wednesday TV: Modern Forensics on Old Crime
By the time the 50th anniversary comes around in less than three weeks, we ought to have solved the JFK assassination, the way documentaries are popping out night by night.…
Tuesday TV: TV Promotion on ’20/20′
The deadliest natural disaster in the history of the Phillipines isn't newsworthy enough for ABC News. So instead of a prime time special on the typhoon that is thought to…
Monday TV: Veterans Day Crisis Line
The best way to mark Veterans Day on TV is to take in the gripping work of an overly-busy assistant center in upstate New York in Ellen Goosenberg Kent's documentary…
Sunday TV: Lowe’s ‘Killing Kennedy’
For whatever reason, nobody had asked Rob Lowe to play JFK before, despite his political experience, from "The West Wing" to "Parks and Recreation," and his middle aged good looks.…
Saturday TV: From Moscow, it’s Miss Universe
"SNL" already did a sketch about the "Miss Universe 2013" (NBC, 9 p.m.) coming to you from Crocus City Hall in Moscow. The hosts are Mel B of Spice Girls…
Friday TV: JFK’s Last Hours
By the end of the month, the drive from Love Field to Dealey Plaza to Parkland Hospital will be memorized in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's…
Thursday TV: Another ‘Greatest Event’
"Parks and Recreation" isn't on this week, but its Adam Scott surfaces on cable for his third stab at "The Greatest Event in Television History" (Cartoon Network, midnight) in which…