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…
Tuesday TV: Al Qaeda in Yemen, Jeans in the East
Leave it to brave journalists to infiltrate the Al Qaeda compounds in Yemen. The Guardian’s Ghaith Abdul-Ahad does so, and with a camera crew for “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m, check…
‘Hemingway & Gelhorn’ vs. ‘Hatfields & McCoys’
Among its other uses, Memorial Day is a time to mark summer’s start, when people spend less time with their TV shows, networks take off their best shows, fill time…