Saturday: Purposely Bringing Laughs to CNN
Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black are team captains on the new “Have I Got News for You” (CNN, 9 p.m.), an American version of the long-running UK comedy series.…
Friday TV: Maybe ‘Three Women’ Too Many
Lisa Taddeo briefly shook the literary world a couple years ago with a nonfiction book that meant to say something about American female sexuality through the experiences of just three…
Thursday TV: ‘The Old Man’ Returneth
Two years after the last episode “The Old Man” (FX, 10 p.m.) finally returns for a second season, with Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow, former CIA and FBI men, off…
Wednesday TV: Taylor’s 2024 MTV Video Awards
The night after revealing herself a potential political kingmaker, Taylor Swift may surpass Beyonce’s 25 lifetime solo wins at tonight’s 2024 MTV Video Music Awards (MTV, 9 p.m.) where she…
Tuesday TV: One Whale of a Political Debate
There are only a few political debates that will really go down in history: Lincoln-Douglas in 1858, Nixon-Kennedy in 1960 and maybe tonight’s only scheduled Presidential Debate (ABC, 9 p.m.)…
Monday TV: Last Season of ‘My Brilliant Friend’
Alba Rohrwacher and Irene Maiorino return for the fourth and final season of the Italian coming-of-age saga “My Brilliant Friend” (HBO, 9 p.m.), based on Elena Ferrante’s novels. This season,…
Sunday TV: Connelly on the Wonderland Killings
The crime novelist Michael Connelly may be the best person to recall the multiple murder case from July 1981 Los Angeles given a fanciful name because of its location —…
Saturday TV: David Chase’s Road to ‘Sopranos’
David Chase talks about his early life in New Jersey and how it helped him craft “The Sopranos” in the two-part documentary “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos” (HBO,…
Friday TV: New Netflix Thriller ‘Rebel Ridge’
A man trying to bail out his cousin in a small town runs into the corrupt sheriff in the action drama “Rebel Ridge” (Netflix, streaming), starring Aaron Pierre, pictured above,…
Thursday TV: Kidman in ‘The Perfect Couple’
Nicole Kidman is back again in very familiar surroundings — as a high society woman in a glossy limited series about a murder. With its Nantucket setting and large cast,…