Wednesday TV: The Juneteenth Barbie
A year after the huge phenomenon based on the mid-20th century doll, here is finally a film about playthings of color. “Black Barbie: A Documentary” (Netflix, streaming) spotlights a trio…
Tuesday TV: Rivisionist Look at Disco
Equally celebrated and reviled in its time, disco music is enjoying a new assessment these days, as in the new three-part documentary series “Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution” (PBS, 9…
Monday TV: Nicole Kidman’s AFI Tribute
The actress and sometime producer gets the spotlight tonight in The 49th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Nicole Kidman (TNT, 10 p.m.) with figures from Hugh Jackman, Meryl…
Tuesday: Dredging Up Ashley Madison Again
The dating site that encouraged affairs and the panic that occurred once their files were hacked was covered once before, on a Hulu series, “The Ashley Madison Affair.” A new…
Tuesday TV: Jimmy Fallon Celebrates 10 Years
They said it wouldn’t last. Or at least I did, when the new host of the longest-running late night show was going to be the kid from “Saturday Night Live.”…
Monday TV: ‘Harry Wild’ is Back for More
Jane Seymour returns as retired literature professor Harriet Wild, who helps her police detective son on a variety of cases in season three of “Harry Wild” (BBC America, 9 and…
Sunday TV: Singing for their TIME 100 Honor
Dua Lipa and Fantasia Barrino are among this year’s “TIME 100: The World’s Most Influential People” (ABC, 10 p.m.) but there was a catch for them: They also have to…
Saturday TV: 2024 Eurovision Song Finale
I was lucky to be in Europe the past two years when people watched the competition as if it were the Super Bowl. Now comes this year’s finale of the…
Friday TV: Here’s the New ‘Doctor Who’
Ncuti Gatwa makes his bow as the fifteenth “Doctor Who” (Disney+, 7 p.m.) in a new season that also features Millie Gibson as his assistant. Two episodes are available today. …
Thursday TV: Amusing Irish Mystery ‘Bodkin’
Podcasters tackling crime with a touch of humor? The amusing new “Bodkin” (Netflix, streaming) moves the action from “Only Murders int he Building” to rural Ireland. With a clueless American…