The inventive British import “Whitechapel” (BBC America, 10 p.m.), which solved modern murders by comparing them to historical cases, returns for a new season tonight. Rupert Penry-Jones and the ever-familiar…
One of the most competitive contestants on “Dancing with the Stars” was also the first to be eliminated this season. Martina Navratilova, who has won 18 Grand Slam singles tennis…
Leave it to “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) to lay out the full extent of Rupert Murdoch’s shocking and widespread wiretapping scandal. The report by Lowell Bergman in…
She may be one of the greatest tennis players ever, but Martina Navratilova isn’t such a great ballroom dancer, it turns out. And after posting the lowest number on last…
Bad enough that “Jersey Shore” is preparing a fifth season. Now there are variations of the show, concentrating on dress shops and beauty parlors of the Garden State. Mostly, it’s…
Among the hundreds of feature stories heralding the return of “Mad Men” to television, many offered suggestions for viewing parties with authentic period costume and drink recipes. Makers of “Mad…
The two week Cherry Blossom Festival was kicking off Sunday night with a concert event. As for the trees, they had peaked a week before. I’m just getting used to…
I’ve done my best to obtain early looks at most of what’s reviewed in this blog, but failed utterly to get on the mailing list for “Mad Men” (AMC, 9…
The advent of the fifth season of “Mad Men” also makes more bittersweet the finale of “Luck” (HBO, 9 p.m.), which, has been building in strength and urgency in the…
The biggest movie in Washington is showing nightly on the continuous, circular wall of the distinctive Hirshhorn Museum, the Doug Aitken installation “SONG 1” that opened Thursday night. There on…