Thursday TV: Live ’30 Rock’ and NFL Draft
May sweeps start tonight, while we’re still in April. At the least it means there will be no network reruns for now; at the most, it will open the doors…
Wednesday TV: Queen Music on ‘Idol,’ Madonna on ‘ABDC’
The first big acting job in a while for Erik Aude, who was in “Dude Where’s My Car” comes in recreating his own travel nightmare in “Locked Up Abroad” (National…
Tuesday TV: New ‘Complex’; Streisand, Houston Saluted
Young people scamper off to Hollywood to make it big? It’s the familiar premise to a new series imported from Canada, “The L.A. Complex” (The CW, 9 p.m.) starting tonight.…
Monday TV: Motown Night on ‘Dancing,’ ‘Drag Race’ Finale
It’s Motown week on “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC, 8 p.m.), which means that there will at least be pretty good music. And one contestant ought to have a leg…
On Tonight: Hail to the ‘Veep’
“Veep” (HBO, 10 p.m.) is a raucous, profane, adrenaline rush of a political sendup, set in the second most powerful office of the land, where every political action seems overshadowed…
Also on Sunday: Fox Celebrates Silver Anniversary
With all the other major networks at least twice their age, “Fox’s 25th Anniversary Special” (Fox, 8 p.m.) is a way to celebrate a quarter century since its first prime…
Saturday TV: ‘Franchise’ Peek, ‘Tree of Life’
It seemed at first a random choice to have the newly named Miami Marlins be the focus of the new insider reality series “The Franchise: A Season with the Miami Marlins” (Showtime,…
Friday TV: Two New Titles on CMT, ‘Fringe’ Far, Far in the Future
Two new reality series on the former country music channel gives insight into women we haven’t necessarily been clamoring to follow. “Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country” (CMT, 9 p.m.)…
Thursday TV: Electric Cars and ‘Kathy’
There were few corporate turns as shocking as General Motors’ course in 2006, which after introducing an electric car, the EV1, that environmentalist minded consumers loved, they recalled as many…
Wednesday TV: Ships Sink, ‘Revenge’ Resurfaces
Months after the capsizing of the Costa Concordia and a full century after the Titanic, a new “Nova” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) attempts to explain why ships sink.…