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…
Friday TV: From Rat Busters to Rat Pack
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? “Rat Busters NYC” (Animal Planet, 10 p.m.) is a new series about a pair of middle-aged exterminators in Gotham,…
Thursday TV: End of ‘Expedition,’ Louie Goes an Hour
There’s almost no question who will win the first season of “Expedition Impossible” (ABC, 9 p.m.), the Mark Burnett reality series so closely based on “The Amazing Race” except that…
Wednesday TV: New shows from Keno Twins, Gail Simmons
The Keno twins, Leigh and Leslie, who came to fame on “Antiques Roadshow,” are now the featured stars in a new network show with largely the same premise. The main…
Tuesday TV: ‘Drug Kingpin Hippos’ and Other Pests
Colombia’s Pablo Escobar was an outsized criminal drug lord, with a personal fortune estimated at $25 billion and responsible for the deaths of thousands, including hits on 600 Colombian police.…
Monday TV: Suddenly, ‘American Ninja’ Finale
It’s been running all season as one of the most physically demanding reality competitions on TV. But it’s been on the G4 network., where it’s been averaging only about 300,000…