Sunday TV: Bowls, in Both Super and Puppy
Apparently there's a football game on tonight. Baltimore vs. San Francisco (CBS, 6:25 p.m.) represents Super Bowl XLVII. It's not just the game, though; it's the other fuss, the overdone…
Saturday TV: Lifetime Widow Pic ‘Betty & Coretta’
Black History Month takes a strange turn tonight with the TV movie "Betty & Coretta" (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), about the friendship and alliance between the widows of Martin Luther King…
Farewell to ’30 Rock’
Tough to say goodbye to one of the smartest and most consistent network comedies of the century. "30 Rock " (NBC, 8 p.m.) bids farewell after seven seasons and a…
Also on Thursday: Already Doing Harm
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" has been adapted and ripped off so many times on TV, it's hardly surprising that there's yet another one posing as…
Also on Wednesday: Commercials with Commercials
There's one day a year people really pay attention to commercials, and it's this Sunday. But to stretch out that moment, and to pretend that past years really gave us…
Tuesday TV: Henry Ford and Some New Shows
Henry Ford's history is long and winding enough to have several good stories in it. For Sarah Colt's film on his life for "American Experience" (PBS, 9 p.m., check local…
Monday TV: ‘Dallas’ and Other Texas Concerns
Even more compelling than the season starting "Who Shot J.R.?" resolution, this season's handling of the death of Larry Hagman, the actor who played J.R. in the original and revived…
Sunday TV: SAG Awards, Hallmark Movie
Dick Van Dyke will win a lifetime achievement award and one of the most interesting awards to TV and movies -- for ensemble work -- will mark The 19th Annual…
Saturday TV: More of Judge Goodnight
Luke Perry returns as Old West justice John Goodnight in "Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts" (Hallmark Movie Channel, 8 p.m.), the third incarnation of the series. He plays it lowkey…
Friday TV: Shakespeare defeats Spartacus
Four hundred years after he was the top of his game, there's still no beating Shakespeare. And a new PBS series is the next best thing to an actual production…