Friday TV: Outer Space or Outskirts of Wyoming
With an evening kicking off with “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (TCM, 8 p.m.), you’d think the location for tonight’s Oscar series on Turner Classic Movies is outer space.…
Thursday TV: ‘Black Power Mixtape,’ Return to ‘Swamp’
America’s 1960s upheaval attracted coverage from around the world, and Swedish footage recently found in storage for 30 years, featuring rare or long unseen footage of Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver,…
Wednesday TV: ‘Person to Person’ Revived
It’s been more than 50 years since Edward R. Murrow sat down each week for his fluffiest prime time news show, interviewing celebrities from their homes. Now “Person to Person”…
Take Me To ‘The River’
If it got a fraction as much hype from its network as “Smash” did from NBC, you’d know that “The River” (ABC, 9 p.m.) is the second great broadcast offering…
Also on Tuesday: ‘Doomsday Preppers,’ ‘NCIS’ 200th
Chicken Little is king on the mean-spirited new series “Doomsday Preppers” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.) in which the super-paranoid prepare for the worst for the sole purpose of viewers to…
Monday TV: ‘Smash’ and NBC’s ‘Super Monday’ Push
It’s surprising nobody’s thought to do it before: Get the clever people behind Broadway shows to do television. “Glee” proved there was an audience for shows with song, and “South…
Sunday TV: Some Kind of Football Thing
It’s all about a football game today, even when it’s not. Super Bowl XLVI (NBC, 6 p.m.) officially starts at sundown but the preshows begin at 1 p.m. Though commercials…
Saturday TV: Eh ‘Eden,’ New ‘How to Rock,’ NFL Honors
In the new TV movie “Secrets of Eden” (Lifetime, 8 and 10 p.m.), John Stamos plays a small town minister in Vermont who never wears the cloth, it seems, and…
Friday TV: Jed Bartlet Genealogy; Feinstein Finds Music
Martin Sheen does the genealogy tour this time to kick off the third season of “Who Do You Think You Are?” (NBC, 8 p.m.. In his case, he finds a…
On Tonight: Elton John, Leon Russell Forge ‘The Union’
In the great tradition of rock stars resurrecting heroes of the past (Bruce Springsteen and Gary U.S. Bonds, Tom Petty and Del Shannon), Elton John went back to find Leon…