Tuesday TV: ‘Do Something’ Awards, ‘Face Off’ Returns
The “Do Something Awards” (VH1, 9 p.m.) began as a way to salute ordinary young people doing extraordinary things in helping others. Celebrities helped out, but it was largely about…
MTV Tries Another British Adaptation, ‘The Inbetweeners’
MTV hasn’t had any better luck adapting British hit series than network television has. Their version of “Skins” sank like a stone. Now here comes their version of another raunchy…
Also on Monday: Finales for First Season Series ‘Bunheads,’ ‘Glass House’
Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “Bunheads” (ABC Family, 9 p.m.) reaches a finale tonight of its summer episodes around the time the dancers are readying their performance of “The Nutcracker.” Fans will be…
Also on Sunday: A Jonas is Married, NFL Exhibition
The Jonas Brothers have reached that new level of their career, bypassing the boy band for various reality projects. With Joe on “The Next,” Kevin opens his young marriage to…
Saturday TV: ‘Doctor Who Timey-Wimey’
It’s very difficult to determine exactly when the next “Doctor Who” episode will premiere; in England, they have been advertising one for August, but have kept mum on exactly when,…
Friday TV: ‘Inocente,’ Returns of ‘Boss,’ ‘Strike Back’
To cap the week in which thousands of young people can begin to apply for deportation reprives, an unusual documentary on MTV takes a look at a young Latina artist…
Thursday TV: Elvis and Some New Singers
It’s the 35th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley and the only station to notice on television is Turner Classic Movies, with an all day salute to the King,…
Tuesday TV: Ross Enters, Women Leave
One of the more elaborate reality experiments is conducted on the self-explanatory show “The Week the Women Went” (Lifetime, 10 p.m.), in which the women folk of Yemassee, S.C., go…
Military Propaganda via Reality Show
Most reality shows are just dumb but “Stars Earn Stripes” (NBC, 8 p.m.) is almost maliciously bad, built on deceptive premises blown up to a jingoistic, action film level with…
Also on Monday: ‘Closer’ Ends, ‘Major Crimes’ Begin
After seven seasons, more than 100 episodes and Emmy and Golden Awards for the star Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer” (TNT, 9 p.m.) calls it quits. And while her character Brenda…