Tuesday TV: She’s Got a Friend
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…
Monday TV: Crumbling Detroit, New ‘Bachelorette’
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…
Liberace’s Darkness ‘Behind the Candelabra’
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…
Also On Sunday: ‘Arrested’ Restart; ‘Smash’ End
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…
Saturday TV: BBQ Cookout Countdown
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…
Friday TV: The Host Steps Up
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.…
Thursday TV: Here Comes Canadian Shows
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…
Wednesday TV: ‘MasterChef’ Returns
Cooking competitions all have basically the same ingredients. What sets one apart from the other? For "Master Chef" (Fox, 8 p.m.), the amateur competition that returns for a fourth season,…
Tuesday TV: When the Army Punk’d Nazis
An untold tale of World War II come to light with a film on the team whose mission was to fake out Germany. "The Ghost Army" (PBS, 8 p.m., check…
Monday TV: Mel Brooks Profile, ‘Big C’ End
You don't really do a biography of Mel Brooks; you turn on the camera and try to hang on. At 86, he's still full of stories and energy as he…