Sunday TV: ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ Back, ‘Steel Magnolia’ Gets A Remake
It was surprising to see how much the reboot decades later of “Upstairs Downstars” was so thoroughly overshadowed by another English import that pretty much was based on the same…
Saturday TV: Radiohead in Austin
“Austin City Limits”(PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) begins its 38th (!) season with a full hour from Radiohead, taped at the show’s new home, the Moody Theater, featuring new…
Friday TV: ‘Sound Tracks,’ Wild Card Play
“Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) takes its mission seriously. As a result, the music newsmagazine swings quickly to individual stories about artits on different…
Thursday TV: Good ‘POV,’ ’30 Rock’
Without tonight’s film on “POV” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings), we may have never learned about the amazing story out of the Phillipines about the death of two young…
Wednesday TV: ‘Supernatural’ Return, The Presidential Debates
It’s one of the great dramas to unfold on TV and the only thing that has the possibility of shaking up something as important as the presidential election. Barack Obama…
Tuesday TV: ‘Travel Like a President’
The stakes in Wednesday’s debates are high. The winner gets to see how to “Travel Like a President” (Travel, 8 p.m.). Well, I guess one of them already knows how…
Monday TV: iHeart Music, ‘Half the Sky’
Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Green Day, Usher, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Pink, Jason ALdean Brad Paisley, Bon Jovi, Mary J. Blige and Linkin Park all performed in Las Vegas’ two day "iHeart…
Sunday TV: Handful of Great Series Start
The first official week of the TV season is capped by a day when more good TV series start than any other day of the year. First, of course, is…
Also On Saturday: ‘Homeland,’ ‘Shore’ Marathons
To prepare for Sunday’s second season premiere, the Emmy-winning first season of “Homeland” (Showtime, noon) is rerun in a 12 hour marathon. Subscribe and see what all that Emmy fuss…
Friday TV: ‘Made in Jersey’ Alongside ‘Fringe’
With the cynical intent to cash in on that now fading Viacom product “Jersey Shore” the latest CBS legal procedural puts the slightest bump in the hair of Janet Montgomery,…