Friday TV: Some New Stabs at Comedy
When it comes to spoofing talk shows, the job seems being done by Zach Galifianakis in his online “Between Two Palms,” which just recently has been inching onto Comedy Central…
Thursday TV: ‘Saving Hope,’ Hopeless Dating
Not to be confused with the comedy “Raising Hope,” the new “Saving Hope” (NBC, 9 p.m.) is a hospital yarn infused with a beyond the dead angle, like the cancleled…
Wednesday TV: CMT Awards, Six Returning Series
Toby Keith co-hosts the 2012 CMT Music Awards (CMT, 8 p.m.) with Kristen Bell, of all people. Performers include Kenny Chesney, Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Little big Town, Willie Nelson,…
Tuesday TV: ‘Love in the Wild’ Among Returning Shows
As dull as “The Bachelorette” continues to be – especially this season – it still retains a smidgen of action compared to the excruciatingly slow new entries into the prime…
Monday TV: Two from Gordon Ramsay
It was never clear what exactly the differences were supposed to be between “Hell’s Kitchen” (Fox, 8 p.m.) and “Master Chef” (Fox, 9 p.m.). Yes, professional chefs were in the…
Sunday TV: New Western, Finale of ‘Thrones’
The Western is alive and well, judging from ratings of last week’s “Hatfields & McCoys,” which beat most everything on TV. Seems just the right time, then, to introduce “Longmire”…
Saturday TV: Fixing Lives, Many Alices
Iyanla Vanzant -- the author, talk show host, inspirational speaker and no relation to Little Steven -- has a new show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network in which she counsels…
Friday TV: ‘Whale Wars’ Returns, Magic Ends
The guys from “Whale Wars” (Animal Planet, 9 p.m.) return for a new season, energized. The problem is, so are the Japanese whaling fleet they’ve been following. Weather doesn't cooperate…
Thursday TV: Ballet Dancers, Mountain Men
From a network whose other new reality show this week, “The Catalina,” was so tawdry that E! wouldn’t have touched it, tries to class things up with “Breaking Pointe” (The…
Wednesday TV: Dogs and Hockey on Network TV
You know things are going to be thin on network TV this summer when one of the first new shows is a straight up knockoff of “The Dog Whisperer.” “Dogs…