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.).…
Thursday TV: New ‘Graceland,’ ‘In the Flesh’
The new series "Graceland" (USA, 10 p.m.) begins its annoyance by naming itself after Elvis' home for no particular reason. The place it names is a super-expensive beach house where…
Wednesday TV: Home Shopping Girls, CMT Awards
It's a good sign that some reality producers also see the humor in some of the worst home shopping networks. One of the worst, DSN, is celebrated in the new show…
Tuesday TV: More Wicked Women, ‘Talent’ Start
On the theory that there are not enough awful women on reality TV yet, here comes "Pretty Wicked Moms" (Lifetime 10 p.m.), a gaggle of bad mothers who give their…
Monday TV: ‘Mistresses’ and Two Moms
The latest British series to be misunderstood by American TV is "Mistresses" (ABC, 10 p.m.), a midseason series pushed off to the summer netherlands. What was an honest and fairly…
Saturday TV: Norman Rockwell vs. Public Enemy
It seems natural that the wholesome Americana of Hallmark movies finally aligns with the magazine cover Americana of Norman Rockwell. It happens in "Norman Rockwell's Shuffelton's Barbershop" (Hallmark Movie Channel,…