America’s 1960s upheaval attracted coverage from around the world, and Swedish footage recently found in storage for 30 years, featuring rare or long unseen footage of Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver,…
It’s been more than 50 years since Edward R. Murrow sat down each week for his fluffiest prime time news show, interviewing celebrities from their homes. Now “Person to Person”…
If it got a fraction as much hype from its network as “Smash” did from NBC, you’d know that “The River” (ABC, 9 p.m.) is the second great broadcast offering…
Chicken Little is king on the mean-spirited new series “Doomsday Preppers” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.) in which the super-paranoid prepare for the worst for the sole purpose of viewers to…
It’s surprising nobody’s thought to do it before: Get the clever people behind Broadway shows to do television. “Glee” proved there was an audience for shows with song, and “South…
It’s all about a football game today, even when it’s not. Super Bowl XLVI (NBC, 6 p.m.) officially starts at sundown but the preshows begin at 1 p.m. Though commercials…
In the new TV movie “Secrets of Eden” (Lifetime, 8 and 10 p.m.), John Stamos plays a small town minister in Vermont who never wears the cloth, it seems, and…
Martin Sheen does the genealogy tour this time to kick off the third season of “Who Do You Think You Are?” (NBC, 8 p.m.. In his case, he finds a…
In the great tradition of rock stars resurrecting heroes of the past (Bruce Springsteen and Gary U.S. Bonds, Tom Petty and Del Shannon), Elton John went back to find Leon…
A month full of Black History Month documentaries on “Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m.) with a portrait of Arkansas civil rights activist Daisy Bates – a generally untold story of…