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,…
Friday TV: Richard Pryor’s Story, Bridezilla Help
"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…
Thursday TV: Spelling Bee, Clint Doc
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…
Wednesday TV: Tornado Benefit, Cooking
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…