Wednesday TV: NBC Gets ‘Bent’
The new “Bent” (NBC, 9 and 9:30 p.m.) is not based on the 1979 play on persecution during Nazi Germany (that would be “Hogan’s Heroes”). Instead, it’s a harmless show…
Tuesday TV: Finales for ‘The River,’ ‘Switched at Birth,’ ‘Southland’
Don’t know why audiences haven’t taken to “The River” (ABC, 9 p.m.). I found it to be a pretty compelling little thriller, with commentary on modern television, about a wife…
In Premiere, Dancing Trumps Stars
“Dancing with the Stars” seems more and more old fashioned every time it comes on. A ballroom competition! Before an audience required to dress up! Featuring “stars” so obscure, a…
Monday TV: ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ Minus Stars
“Dancing with the Stars” (ABC, 8 p.m.) is trying something different this season – hardly any stars! Season 14 will have people they will identify as celebrities such as Gladys…
About That ‘Walking Dead’ Season Finale
If producers had seemed stingy parsing out zombies on “The Walking Dead” this season, the floodgates opened in the season finale, as what they called a herd of walkers overran…
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…