Tuesday TV: Reliving the Panic Broadcast
Faking out audiences is something that broadcasters do routinely these days. But 75 years ago, when that was less widespread, thousands were taken in by Orson Welles' Halloween Eve 1938…
Monday TV: Baldwin Begs: Funding Films
Movies may still be one of the strongest U.S. exports, but that doesn't mean they're any easier to make. In fact, a lot of the hard work comes in raising…
Sunday TV: ‘Blackout’ a Disaster All Right
Beware a TV movie not given a description of fiction or documentary; whose style is pegged as "Blair Witch Project." That usually means: amateurish actors, no production values, shot with…
Also on Sunday: ‘Civil War 360’
Historians are coming around to the view that the Civil War that continues to deeply affect the United States wasn't one with just two stories, North and South, but three.…
Horror and Horrible Halloween Flicks
The last Saturday before Halloween brings the expected harvest of horror films. Among them are a couple of originals. "Zombie Night" (Syfy, 9 p.m.), despite a cast that includes Shirley…
Friday TV: Dull ‘Dracula’ After ‘Grimm’
Jonathan Rhys Meyers has gone from playing Elvis to playing Henry VII and now, a very short "Dracula" (NBC, 10 p.m.). For whatever reason, he's back as a turn of…
Thursday TV: MTV Goes ‘Scrubbing In’
For those who think "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC, 9 p.m.) has gotten a little dull in its 10 seasons, the reality series "Scrubbing In" (MTV, 10 p.m.) jumps in, with a…
Wednesday TV: The World Series Begins
Two well-matched, longtime clubs meet at Fenway Park to begin the 109th World Series of St. Louis at Boston (Fox, 8 p.m.). Mary J. Blige sings the National Anthem and…
Gates’ New African-American History Series
It's a relief that Henry Louis Gates Jr. has for now given up his genealogy show and returned to the African-American history that first inspired him. His new six-part "The African…
Also On Tuesday: Annoying Talent Agents
Reality series about quirky families that are actually only just annoying only encourages them. Nonetheless, here's another example, "Mother of All Talent" (TV Guide Network, 8 p.m.) about a mother-daughter…