Wednesday TV: ‘The Bear’ Returns for Season 4
It’s won Emmys as a comedy, though “The Bear” (Hulu, streaming) has been more compelling as a Windy City restaurant drama. Its success has already drawn top notch guests, which…
Tuesday TV: ‘Ironheart’ Gets Her Own Series
Dominique Thorne reprises her role from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” to lead the new Marvel series “Ironheart” (Disney+, 9 p.m.) about an inventor who returns home to Chicago and meets…
Capital Radio 6-23-25: Sweltering Summertime
We began with a salute to Lou Christie, who died last week at 82. Then it was an onslaught of summer, which itself came a day early this year and…
Monday TV: Amazon Workers Unionize on ‘POV’
The 2020 effort to unionize an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island was made into a documentary by Brett Story and Stephen Maing, “Union,” that gets its TV debut on the…
Sunday TV: Third Season for ‘The Gilded Age’
With recession clouds looming “The Guilded Age” (HBO, 9 p.m.) returns for its third season, with more fantastic costuming and settings, stilted acting, and second-rate “Downton Abbey” plotting. Still, it’s…
Saturday TV: Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards
Grammy-winner Tyla hosts the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2025 (Nickelodeon, MTV2, CMT, 8 p.m.), live from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Dalif., awarding favorites in music, television, film and sports…
Friday TV: Janis Ian on ‘American Masters’
Janis Ian wrote her signature “Society’s Child” at 14, had a hit with it a couple of years later, and returned to the charts with another enduring anthem with “At…
Thursday TV: One Soggy ‘Waterfront’ on Netflix
Kevin Williamson of “Dawson’s Creek” fame returns to coastal North Carolina for his latest soap, “The Waterfront” (Netflix, streaming), about a morally suspect family controlling a fictional island of Havenport…
Wednesday: AFI Salute to Francis Ford Coppola
The “Godfather” director is feted in the “AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to Francis Ford Coppola” (TNT, 10 p.m.), taped last April in Hollywood in the 50th anniversary of…
Tuesday TV: ‘Surviving Ohio State’ Documentary
Male victims of the sports medicine physician and serial sex abuser Dr. Richard Strauss, employed by the Ohio State University from 1978 to 1998 tell of their trauma in the…