Also on Sunday: MacLaine Honored, Reality ‘Escape’
Once she was Irma La Douce; soon she’ll be grandmama on “Downton Abbey.’ Shirley MacLaine is feted by Meryl Streep on “The AFI Life Achievement Award 2012” (TV Land, 9…
Saturday TV: Dillahunt Goes Online, Daytime Emmys
Before he became famous for his comic turns on “Raising Hope,” Garret Dillahunt was a strong all-purpose actor who managed the feat of having two roles in “Deadwood,” among other…
Friday TV: A Mistress and Other Newsmagazines
Rielle Hunter, John Edwards’ mistress, is back in the spotlight promoting a new book, titled "What Really Happened," with a slew of interviews, including one tonight with Chris Cuomo on…
Thursday TV: ‘Reincarnation’ Amid Reruns
All Yeshi Norbu wanted was a normal life. Born in Italy and raised in the West he couldn’t quite cut off ties with his past in Tibet, where his father…
BBC’s ‘Inside Men’ Absorbing Fare
It officially becomes summer tonight, at a time when TV is a forlorn landscape of reality programming and reruns. There's a cool, gripping drama starting tonight, though on BBC America…
Also On Wednesday: New ‘Baby Daddy,’ ‘Futurama’
The first of what will be a few sitcoms about the outlandish idea that men takes care of infants, “Baby Daddy” (ABC Family, 8:30 p.m.), is more directly based on…
Tuesday TV: Bristol’s Back on Reality TV
It may not have been fair for Bristol Palin to be thrust into the limelight because of her mother’s political ambition. It was certainly bad timing that she was a…
Monday TV: Mixed Feelings on Dogs, ‘Glass House’
The second unusual documentary from HBO in as many weeks, “One Nation Under Dog” (HBO, 9 p.m.) can’t quite decide what it wants to say about American’s obsession with canines.…
Sunday TV: ‘Falling Skies’ returns, ‘Killing’ Solved
A year ago, it seemed that of the big new Steven Spielberg projects on TV, the big budget broadcast TV dinosaur drama was the big deal, while the lowly alien…
Saturday TV: ‘Blue Lagoon’ Bests ‘Cupcake’
It’s almost a right of passage, albeit a creepy one, that Hollywood thinks it needs to remark “The Blue Lagoon” every generation, so young people can be introduced to the…