Tuesday TV: History with Alcohol on Its Breath
An amusing bit on the "Funny or Die" website has been parlayed into the newest series on Comedy Central. "Drunk History" (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.) has a series of comedians…
Monday TV: More ‘Gasland,’ More Chilling
Josh Fox's first "Gasland" film set the tone for the fight against fracking for natural gas with its indelible images of contaminated tap water going up in flames. It also…
Sunday TV: More from Young Inspector Morse
Inspector Endeavour Morse returns for a four episodes of prequel capers on "Masterpiece Mystery!" (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), the first about a doctor found dead in a public…
Saturday TV: ‘Brooklyn DA’ Hangs It Up
We're back from vacation, only to find most of TV is on vacation as well. The short summer season of the documentary series "Brooklyn DA" (CBS, 9 p.m.) comes to…
Wednesday TV: Guys Choice Awards, ‘Roughness’
Do guys really need their own awards show? They get one anyway in the 2013 Guys Choice Awards (Spike 9 p.m.), where categories include Most Dangerous Man, Best Lincoln, The Original…
Tuesday TV: Getting ‘Twisted’ After ‘Liars’
ABC Family is throwing out some interesting premises anyway. Pregnant teens, a couple of moms as foster parents and now a kid who killed his aunt as a child now…
Monday TV: The Pussy Riot Story
Russia never really got performance art. Nor did they ever understand punk music. So when the radical young women in an artists' collective called Pussy Riot pulled on their day-glo…
Sunday TV: Tonys, ‘Game of Thrones’ End
Neil Patrick Harris' best role for CBS is not as the ever-smarmy Barney in "How I Met Your Mother" but as apparent host-for-life of Broadway's big awards night. Harris returns…
Saturday TV: Two New Series on Syfy
Syfy isn't showing its B-movie monster movies like "Octoshark" any more on Saturday nights, but they are importing series that appear to be just as bad. "Primeval: New World" (Syfy,…
Friday TV: Noir and Runyon on TCM
Writers of the great film noir classics get the spotlight Fridays this month on Turner Classic Movies. It begins, of course, with Damon Runyon and "The Maltese Falcon" (8 p.m.).…