Also on Sunday: Fox Celebrates Silver Anniversary
With all the other major networks at least twice their age, “Fox’s 25th Anniversary Special” (Fox, 8 p.m.) is a way to celebrate a quarter century since its first prime…
Saturday TV: ‘Franchise’ Peek, ‘Tree of Life’
It seemed at first a random choice to have the newly named Miami Marlins be the focus of the new insider reality series “The Franchise: A Season with the Miami Marlins” (Showtime,…
The Faucets and Fatalities of ‘Mad Men’
Gee, I was all ready to be one of those nit-picky people who zero in on one detail of a “Mad Men” episode – a song, a phrase, a scrap…
Friday TV: Two New Titles on CMT, ‘Fringe’ Far, Far in the Future
Two new reality series on the former country music channel gives insight into women we haven’t necessarily been clamoring to follow. “Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country” (CMT, 9 p.m.)…
Colton Cut from ‘Idol’
Colton Dixon, with the spiky 80s hair and the Christian rock roots, was the latest singer voted off “American Idol” Thursday, in a week when they claimed more than 53…
Thursday TV: Electric Cars and ‘Kathy’
There were few corporate turns as shocking as General Motors’ course in 2006, which after introducing an electric car, the EV1, that environmentalist minded consumers loved, they recalled as many…
Remembering Dick Clark
Like Ryan Seacrest, who began the “American Idol” telecast Wednesday saluting his New Year’s Rockin’ Eve boss, Dick Clark, who died at 82 Wednesday, was a conduit to pop culture.…
Wednesday TV: Ships Sink, ‘Revenge’ Resurfaces
Months after the capsizing of the Costa Concordia and a full century after the Titanic, a new “Nova” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) attempts to explain why ships sink.…
Judges Flex Power, Eliminating Three
Those thrown off “The Voice” and “Dancing with the Stars” this week got to the end of their run thanks to low votes from fans and final decisions from judges.…
Scanning the British Tube
You may have the mistaken impression that British TV is all “Downton Abbey” and “The Office” – the kind of consistency in excellence we could only hope to replicate in…