Tuesday TV: Could ‘Glee’ Kill Robin Gibb?
The poor guy is in a coma, all it could take is one small thing to send him beyond this life. Like "Glee" (Fox, 8 p.m.) doing a salute to…
Monday TV: ‘Top Gear’ in High Gear
Following a two hour version of "Top Gear" (BBC America, 9 p.m.), in which the team travels to the former Empire holding, India, the show's Richard Hammond, goes off to…
Lena Dunham and the New ‘It’ ‘Girls’
It’s easy to think of Lena Dunham’s new series “Girls” (HBO, 10:30 p.m.) as a kind of anti-“Sex and the City,” a reality check for young women who imagined fashion…
Also on Sunday: New Cops, ‘Drood’
They’re playing up the fact that Robert De Niro produces the new rookie cop series “NYC 22” (CBS, 10 p.m.). But the more telling credit goes to its writer and…
Second Letter from London
The old and new are crashing in on eachother in London these days. It’s the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth and all the squalid, dank details of the Victorian…
Saturday TV: Titanic Goes Down Once More
The 100th anniversary of the most famous shipping disaster means that both the blockbuster made 15 years ago has been refitted into 3D and shipped back to theaters. On TV,…
Zach Braff Takes the Stage
Having finally shaken off his popular character “Scrubs” and lost whatever indie movie cred he scored with the solid “Garden State,” Zach Braff seems to be at sea a bit…
Friday TV: Lionel Goes Country; ‘Casablanca’s 70th
This may have been a big event 30 years ago. And yet it may be again. “ACM Presents Lionel Richie and Friends in Concert” (CBS, 9 p.m.) features the 80s…
Jessica Sanchez Gets A Save
If the essentially powerless judges on "American Idol" were going to use their single save on any one remaining contestant, it was logical they used it on Jessica Sanchez. The…
Thursday TV: Sweet Sounds of Haiti
Through all its travails, its poverty, its natural disasters, one thing has kept the country going through the years: its music. Filmmaker Whitney Dow looks at the survival of a…