Wednesday TV: ‘Death of The Pastor’s Wife’
The death of 30-year-old Mica Miller in 2024 in the North Carolina woods was ruled a suicide, but a new series points to years of abuse since the former teenage…
Tuesday TV: Prize-Winning Poet Mary Oliver
One of America’s most popular poets is celebrated with a striking new film by Sasha Waters on “American Masters” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), “Mary Oliver: Saved by the…
Capital Radio 8-24-26: Dave Marsh’s Greatest 40
The exhaust is just now dissipating from the noisy, wasteful and unnecessary Freedom 250 Grand Prix rattling the museums on the National Mall. So we begin Capital Radio with several…
Monday TV: ‘How to Build a Library’ on PBS
Plans by a couple of Nairobi women to turn a neglected, colonial-era and formerly Whites only library in Kenya into a cultural center hits some snags, as seen in a…
Sunday TV: Speeding on the National Mall
Dirty! Noisy! Expensive (and paid by you)! Completely unnecessary and likely damaging to nearby monuments and museum pieces, the so-called Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington D.C. (Fox, 1 p.m.)…
Capital Radio 8-17-26: On the Beach
Beach Week came with sunny skies and a whole lot of heat (80 degrees at midnight?). But it also came with 30 songs of beach, surf and sand from Annette…
Saturday: Taylor Sheridan’s Horse Competition
When you turn out as many TV hits as Taylor Sheridan, who was behind “Yellowstone” and its many spinoffs, they let you indulge in your other interests. Hence a two-hour…
Friday TV: ‘Conan O’Brien Must Go’ to India
One of the most welcome and entertaining travel guides, “Conan O’Brien Must Go” (HBO, 9 p.m.) returns for its third season with a trip to India. In Mumbai, he tries…
Thursday TV: New Documentary on Djokovic
The tennis legend from Serbia is profiled in the new documentary “Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter” (Prime Video, streaming). From Japan comes the romantic series “S&X” (Netflix, streaming), about…
Wednesday TV: Listening to the Lion
Four years in the making, the limited series “Lion” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.) is a nature documentary from director Jon Favreau that follows the life of an East African lion…