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…
Friday TV: Highwire Over Niagara
Walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls has been banned for 175 years. But because the economy is so bad up there, they decided to let one of the Flying Wallendas…
Also on Thursday: The Early Days of AIDS in San Francisco
The epidemic of deaths among gay men in the early 80s was a frightening, unexplained scourge on the burgeoning community of San Francisco, where more than 1,000 people were dying…
Back to Southfork: ‘Dallas’ Returns
Television has had its share of remade shows, retooled for a new generation in a process given the computer-age moniker “reboot.” Some, like “90120” and “Hawaii Five-0,” have done better…