Monday TV: Lauren Bacall’s Centennial
Today would have been the 100th birthday of Lauren Bacall, the film star who died a decade ago. The month-long Monday salute to her on Turner Classic Movies continues with…
Sunday TV: The Levys Host The Emmys
After sweeping the comedy awards in 2020 for “Schitt’s Creek,” “SCTV” mainstay Eugene Levy and his son Dan Levy return to host The 76th Annual Emmy Awards (ABC, 8 p.m.),…
Film Review: ‘Protocol 17’s Bad Medicine
There’s no question that propaganda films can sometimes also be entertaining. Even if the premise is extreme to the point of amusement, there may be good kitsch value in, say,…
Saturday: Purposely Bringing Laughs to CNN
Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black are team captains on the new “Have I Got News for You” (CNN, 9 p.m.), an American version of the long-running UK comedy series.…
Friday TV: Maybe ‘Three Women’ Too Many
Lisa Taddeo briefly shook the literary world a couple years ago with a nonfiction book that meant to say something about American female sexuality through the experiences of just three…
Thursday TV: ‘The Old Man’ Returneth
Two years after the last episode “The Old Man” (FX, 10 p.m.) finally returns for a second season, with Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow, former CIA and FBI men, off…
Wednesday TV: Taylor’s 2024 MTV Video Awards
The night after revealing herself a potential political kingmaker, Taylor Swift may surpass Beyonce’s 25 lifetime solo wins at tonight’s 2024 MTV Video Music Awards (MTV, 9 p.m.) where she…
Tuesday TV: One Whale of a Political Debate
There are only a few political debates that will really go down in history: Lincoln-Douglas in 1858, Nixon-Kennedy in 1960 and maybe tonight’s only scheduled Presidential Debate (ABC, 9 p.m.)…
Monday TV: Last Season of ‘My Brilliant Friend’
Alba Rohrwacher and Irene Maiorino return for the fourth and final season of the Italian coming-of-age saga “My Brilliant Friend” (HBO, 9 p.m.), based on Elena Ferrante’s novels. This season,…
Sunday TV: Connelly on the Wonderland Killings
The crime novelist Michael Connelly may be the best person to recall the multiple murder case from July 1981 Los Angeles given a fanciful name because of its location —…