Thursday TV: Country Awards, ‘Voice’ vs. ‘X Factor’
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, right, return for the fifth time to host The 46th Annual CMA Awards (ABC, 8 p.m.) from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Performers include Jason…
Wednesday TV: Halloween and Simon Too
Ostentatious displays of costumes usually marks Halloween for the daytime shows, always looking to outdo each other and their own previous seasons with crazier outfits. In the wake of the…
Tuesday TV: Ellen Gets Twain Award, Tracking Big Money in Politics
Recorded at the Kennedy Center last week before weather became an issue, “Ellen DeGeneres: The Mark Twain Prize” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) gathered a number of stars and…
Monday TV: Episcopal Iconoclast and ‘Storm of Century’ in Fiction and Fact
The struggles of the first openly gay person elected bishop in Christianity is profiled in a new film on “Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings). “Love Free or…
Sunday TV: ‘American Scream’ and More
It’s a big time of year, as you might imagine, for Chiller, the network that just has scary fare year-round. Tonight, they present their first original documentary, “The American Scream”…
Saturday TV: D.L. Hughley and the Zombies
Instead of the usual standup special, “D.L. Hughley: The Endangered List” (Comedy Central, 11 p.m.), is a filmed special about the endangerment of black people, shot as if it's an…
Friday TV: ‘The Munsters’ Redux
Networks that sour on TV pilots they’ve dumped a lot of money into are usually satisfied with burying them very deeply in vaults, pretending they never green lit them to…
Also On Tonight: The Golddiggers of 2012
What is the nature of greed that it makes the desperate not try to go out and get jobs, but to travel thousands of miles to dig for gold? There…
Thursday TV: Bones and Stars on ‘POV’
Idling on a beach, I sometimes wonder why the rings on a shell are so much like the rings of Saturn. The connectedness of earth to space and especially to…
Also on Tonight: Whole Lotta Halloween
There are so many Halloween episodes this week, you may feel out of candy by the time trick or treat day comes. They also may serve to make you feel…