Wednesday TV: Charisma, McDreamy Go Cable
A couple of actors start new reality careers on cable today with new shows. "Surviving Evil" (Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.) is a true crime story about surviving attackers hosted by…
Tuesday TV: Best Special on ‘The March’
It's the eve of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the "I Have a Dream" speech of Martin Luther King, though you might think the anniversary is…
Monday TV: ‘5 Broken Cameras’ on PBS
Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat never intended to become a documentarian when he bought his first camera to chronicle the young life of his youngest son Gibreel. But as he documened…
Sunday TV: MTV Awards’ Pop Takeover
Kanye West, Katy Perry, Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus, Bruno Mars, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Drake and Justin Timberlake are all scheduled to perform live on the pop takeover known as…
Saturday TV: Three Original Movies
Second only to the Amish, polygamous Mormon offshoots are the most represented tiny subculture on TV. In the new TV movie "Escape from Polygamy" (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) Mary McCormack, right,…
Friday TV: The Amazing Williams Sisters
Before they were born, Venus and Serena Williams' dad had a 78-page plan on how they'd each become No. 1 in tennis. The two sisters from Compton followed through and…
Thursday TV: From ‘Sharknado’ to ‘Ghost Shark’
When they used to play on Saturday nights, Syfy's gleeful slate of cheap B-movies from "Frankenfish," "Sharktopus" and "Shark Swarm," they were largely ignored. But when the ticklingly schlocky "Sharknado"…
Wednesday TV: Goofy ‘Modern Dads’
"Modern Dads" (A&E, 10:30 p.m.) certainly isn't the first reality show to be fascinated by the fact that some fathers stay home to care for kids while the wife goes…
Tuesday TV: ‘The Life of Muhammad’
The end of August doesn't seem like the best spot to dump all three episodes in the three-part history "The Life of Muhammad" (PBS, 8 p.m.). The BBC-made survey of…
Monday TV: Takeovers by Computers, Law
Even before his fall network comedy debuts, Seth Green appears in a new miniseries, a science fiction film called "Delete" (Reelz, 8 p.m.), set in a world where computers have…