"Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic" (Showtime, 9 p.m.) filmmaker Marina Zenovich considers the influential, successful and wildly funny comedian who was undone by a streak of self-destruction and immolation. Big…
The brainiest competition on ESPN begins its telecast, with a lot of kids asking about pronunciation, place of origin and use in a sentence. The 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee…
Blake Shelton, who happens to be cleaning up on "The Voice" just as he did on the AMAs, is now bent on cleaning up tornado damage in his native Oklahoma…
Carole King, the woman who enlivened the Brill Building, recorded an album that set the tone for a generation, judging from her performance recently at the Rock and Roll Hall…
What was once the fastest growing city of the country is now the fastest shrinking. Many American cities are having a crisis in manufacturing and jobs, but nowhere quite like…
The gaudy, surprising bio-pic "Behind the Candelabra" (HBO, 9 p.m.) is worth watching for a number of reasons. There's the audacious but sort of perfect casting of Michael Douglas as…
Those with the subscription streaming service will be indulging in some or all of the 15 new episodes of "Arrested Development" (Netflix, starting today), back again after a seven year…
The one network nod to Memorial Day Weekend is the "Ultimate BBQ Cookout Countdown" (ABC, 9 p.m.), in which stars of the daytime show "The Chew" go to different corners of…
She's been the recent host of "Live from Lincoln Center" (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), so Audra McDonald closes the season with her own concert of largely Broadway works.…
May Sweeps ended yesterday. Networks have gone to plugging schedules with reruns, Canadian imports and shows they lost faith in since they ordered an initial run of episodes. That's the…