Other Tuesday TV: The Other Effect of 9/11
The ongoing themes for ten-year 9/11 salutes on TV all this week are sorrow and somber remembrances. Which is what makes tonight’s “Frontline” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) stand…
Monday TV: When ‘Real Housewives’ Get Real
Husbands never had it good on the “Real Housewives” series. They were seen as cads, or dunces, unreliable or plain dull. Even if the guy is famous, such as Kelsey…
Other Monday TV: Three 9/11 Specials, A Kardashian Finale
Sometimes you can’t tell the passage of time until you see how quickly kids have grown in, for example, the decade since 9/11. More than 3,000 children lost a parent…
Sunday TV: It’s Telethon Day; Where’s Jerry?
Jerry’s Kids are left without a father figure this weekend as the 46th annual MDA Labor Day Telethon (WGN, 6 p.m.) plays it short and sweet tonight, wrapping up at…
Also On Sunday: ‘Good Wife’ Primer, ‘Curb’ with Bill Buckner
How do you get new audiences to your well-established, critically acclaimed show? Run a special that explains what’s been happening until now. Presumably, “The Good Wife: A New Beginning” (CBS,…
Wednesday TV: Dietrich Closes ‘Summer of Stars’
It’s the end of August and a real movie icon winds up the month-long Summer of the Stars on Turner Classic Movies. The films of the singular German actress and…
Tuesday TV: Chili Peppers Return, Big Women Flaunt It
There may be a lot of pent up demand to hear the new album from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Los Angeles group that hasn’t put out a new…
Monday TV: Three More from MTV, Further ‘Basketball Wives’
MTV uses its platform of the Video Music Awards (which get worse every year) to launch new shows. So tonight comes three of them. First the network attempts to catch…
Sunday TV: MTV Video Music Awards, ‘Apocalypse’
Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Adele, right, are all slated to perform in another MTV Music Video Awards (MTV, 9 p.m.), an event where women will likely dominate – on stage…
Saturday TV: Hilary Swank, Hillbillies
Good night to stay in and watch a movie while the power lasts. Hilary Swank turns in a tough performance in “Conviction” (HBO, 8 p.m.) about a woman who goes…