On Tonight: Fresh ‘Frozen Planet’
Almost to compensate for a total lack of winter, with spring imminent this week, here comes another one of those fascinating, indispensible nature epics so vivid and crisply shot, it…
Also On Sunday: ‘Walking Dead’ Season Finale, Road to Sweet 16
Fans may have been complaining about the earlier pace of the season on “Walking Dead” (AMC, 9 p.m.). They can’t be complaining any more with the deaths of major characters…
Most Popular Boat Names
If I wasn’t in Florida for the weekend, I wouldn’t have picked up a copy of the Coastal Angler magazine to learn the Top Ten List of Most Popular Boat…
Saturday TV: Leprechauns A-Poppin’
St. Patrick’s Day opens the door for all sort of imaginative treatments on TV – mostly through original new movies on cable. “Chasing Leprechauns” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.) stars Adrian Pasdar…
Rosie’s Show Cancelled at OWN
Rosie O’Donnell’s daily talk show has been canceled on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN after just five months, it was announced Friday. The show, shot in the old Harpo studio in Chicago…
Friday TV: New ‘North Woods Law,’ Return of Two USA Shows
Think of it as “Cops” in the North Country. “North Woods Law” (Animal Planet, 10 p.m.) follows an elite game warden service in Maine. There’s a moose stuck in the…
Shannon Sent Home on ‘Idol’
With the Top 13 down two men, “American idol” turned into a more familiar position Thursday – targeting women. Each of the bottom three vote recipients were women, representing the…
Thursday TV: ‘Missing’ vs. March Madness
While it’s true the networks saved some of their best new shows for midseason, they also kept back some of their worst. “Missing” (ABC, 8 p.m.) plays like a Lifetime…
Gentle Giant Killing on ‘Idol’
Elimination came a day early on “American Idol” this week as the show announced it was cutting finalist Jermaine Jones, who judges kept calling “the gentle giant,’ for not disclosing…
‘Luck’ Ends After Horse Death
Here’s yet another David Milch series on HBO that won’t have an ending. Milch, who was the mastermind behind “Deadwood” and “John from Cincinnati” was pretty excited about his horsetrack…