Friday TV: Sandy Cheeks Gets Her Moment
Forever the squirrelly SpongeBob SquarePants sidekick, Sandy Cheeks finally gets her own spotlight in “Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie” (Netflix, streaming), done in a sleek CGI manner unlike…
Thursday TV: ‘A Good Girls Guide to Murder’
Emma Meyers of “Wednesday” both looks like a teenager and has a glum curiosity that makes her character Pip Fitz-Amobi a convincing one in Poppy Cogan’s six-episode adaptation of the…
Wednesday TV: Everest’s ‘Mountain Queen’
Lhakpa Sherpa was already the first Nepali woman to summit and survive a climb of Mount Everest. Now a single mother working as a cleaner at a Whole Foods in…
Tuesday TV: The Right Rises Up in Germany
A new report on “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) looks at the rise of far right extremists on anti-immigrant rhetoric in Germany. “Germany’s Enemy Within” is directed by…
Monday TV: Michael Chang’s Immigrant Roots
Michael Chang, who became the youngest man in history to win a singles major in tennis, winning the 1989 French Open at 17, tells how he was shaped by his…
Sunday TV: K-Pop Invades Prime Time
Still trying to figure out what K-Pop is all about? The first K-pop broadcast in the U.S. in prime time, KCON 2024 (CW, 8 p.m.), will feature a pre-recorded set…
Saturday TV: Let the Olympic Games Begin
Olympics begin in earnest with competitions in dozens of events, from swimming and fencing to skateboarding and surfing to table tennis and shooting. It happens on a variety of networks,…
Friday TV: Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Lady Gaga will team with Celine Dion to sing Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose” as part of the gala Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony (NBC, 1:30 p.m.). More than 10,000…
Thursday TV: Black Death on ‘The Decameron’
The new limited series “The Decameron” (Netflix, streaming) is set in 1348 when the “wine-soaked sex romp” in Italian countryside has suddenly been hit by the Black Death. Based on…
Wednesday TV: Reconsidering Charlie Hustle
At a time when there are betting parlors in most major league ballparks it may be time to reconsider the legacy of baseball’s all-time hit leader, currently shut out of…