Thursday TV: Schwarzenegger’s Return
Following Sylvester Stallone and Kevin Costner, Arnold Schwarzenegger is the latest 80s box-office star to make his debut in a TV series. His “FUBAR” (Netflix, streaming), in fact, is almost…
Wednesday: Rogen and Byrne’s ‘Platonic’
The future of Hollywood (if the writers strike ends) may be the wholesale shift of movies to streaming series. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne have made a number of agreeable…
Tuesday TV: Max Debuts with Gremlins
Today’s the day the streaming service HBO Max sheds the most creative half of its name to become just Max (inadvertently preserving the legacy of the lesser sister network Cinemax).…
Monday TV: Brother Films, Mother Leaves
Reed Harkness was an amateur filmmaker who found a perfect subject for his work in his little brother Sam. In doing so he also accidentally captured family trauma when their…
Sunday TV: Americans Sing for a King
Historians please note: The best talent that The Coronation Concert (PBS, 3 p.m., check local listings) for King Charles III could get were the judges from “American Idol” — Katy…
Saturday TV: An Early Morning Coronation
Like a comet, British coronations now come around now once a lifetime. Today is that for Charles, who gets kinged in the arcane traditions of the monarchy alongside his second…
Friday TV: Imagining Life in a ‘Silo’
From Graham Yost comes an adaptation of Hugh Howley’s trilogy about a post-apocalyptic future where the last 10,000 people on Earth live in a giant underground “Silo” (Apple TV+, streaming).…
Thursday TV: Pete Davidson’s ‘Bupkis’
Pete Davidson not only riffs off personal details of his life (as when his dad died on 9/11) on his rollicking new series “Bupkis” (Peacock, streaming), he infuses it with…
Wednesday TV: Ed Sheeran’s Documentary
The red-headed pop star opens up about his recent hard times, including his wife's cancer diagnosis, in a new documentary series that otherwise shows his life on tour and writing…
Tuesday TV: Growing Up Mixed Race
W. Kamau Bell talks to San Francisco kids of mixed race about their experiences in his latest documentary “1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed” (HBO, 9 p.m.). Late night TV is…