Sunday TV: The CMT Awards from Austin
Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown team up to host the 2023 CMT Music Awards (CBS, 8 p.m.), being held in Austin for the first time. Performers include Lainey Wilson, who…
Saturday TV: The 21st Americana Awards
Recorded in September Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, “Austin City Limits Presents the 21st Annual Americana Awards and Honors” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings) features performances from Allison Russell and Brandi…
Friday TV: A Salute to Joni Mitchell on PBS
While Joni Mitchell’s surprise appearance at Newport Folk Festival last summer was captured mostly by fans’ phones, there’s a much better production surrounding her performances at the end of the…
Thursday TV: Rob Lowe and Son’s Sitcom
Rob Lowe and his real-life son John Owen Lowe star new comedy “Unstable” (Netflix, streaming), in which the elder star plays an eccentric, Elon Musk-type tech entrepreneur whose son tries…
Wednesday TV: ‘Riverdale’ Ventures Back
For its final season “Riverdale” (CW, 9 p.m.), the skewed adaptation of the Archie comics actually returns to its original 1950s setting, a weird time jump of which only Jughead…
Wednesday TV: ‘Farmer Wants a Wife’
Think of it as “The Bachelor” in plaid work shirts. “Farmer Wants a Wife” (Fox, 9 p.m.),based on a British format, had come to U.S. TV before on the CW…
Tuesday TV: Smithsonian’s New ‘ArtNation’
The new eight-part series “ArtNation” (Smithsonian, 10 p.m.) collects features from “60 Minutes” and “CBS Sunday Morning” about artists like Bradfield, above, but also actors, dancers and musicians. It’s hosted…
Monday TV: New HBO Series, ‘Rain Dogs’
Something a little unexpected is the British import ”Rain Dogs” (HBO, 10 p.m.), as gritty as the Tom Waits song title it uses, about a down-on her-luck working class mom…
Sunday TV: The Rise and Fall of HQ Trivia
Remember that moment, about five years ago, when everything stopped each day as an appointed time so you could look at your phone and play HQ Trivia? Each day’s series…
Saturday: Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage
Before next weekend’s Oscars, Chris Rock has a thing or two to say about last year’s event, when as host he was notoriously slapped by a nominee who was not…