Monday TV: ‘Smash’ and NBC’s ‘Super Monday’ Push
It’s surprising nobody’s thought to do it before: Get the clever people behind Broadway shows to do television. “Glee” proved there was an audience for shows with song, and “South…
What Hath the Super Bowl Wrought?
How’d the Super Bowl get to be a national holiday? It’s another professional sports championship turned national bad snack eating day with an emphasis on commercials and inordinate interest in…
Sunday TV: Some Kind of Football Thing
It’s all about a football game today, even when it’s not. Super Bowl XLVI (NBC, 6 p.m.) officially starts at sundown but the preshows begin at 1 p.m. Though commercials…
Lana Del Rey Returns to ‘SNL’ as Parody
It didn’t take a month for “Saturday Night Live” to take a controversial musical performance and turn her into a parody skit. Saturday, Kristin Wiig donned a similar white dress…
Bloom is Off the Biff Rose
Speaking of poor uses for the internet, I was sitting around with a friend the other night just spouting names of ancient TV actors (Louis Nye! Gene Barry!) when the…
Facebook Sells Me Out
It’s tough for me to feel sympathy for the Winklevoss Twins, but with talk this week of Facebook going public with a $100 billion valuation, it only makes me feel…
Saturday TV: Eh ‘Eden,’ New ‘How to Rock,’ NFL Honors
In the new TV movie “Secrets of Eden” (Lifetime, 8 and 10 p.m.), John Stamos plays a small town minister in Vermont who never wears the cloth, it seems, and…
Friday TV: Jed Bartlet Genealogy; Feinstein Finds Music
Martin Sheen does the genealogy tour this time to kick off the third season of “Who Do You Think You Are?” (NBC, 8 p.m.. In his case, he finds a…
On Tonight: Elton John, Leon Russell Forge ‘The Union’
In the great tradition of rock stars resurrecting heroes of the past (Bruce Springsteen and Gary U.S. Bonds, Tom Petty and Del Shannon), Elton John went back to find Leon…
Also On Thursday: Daisy Bates, Super Bowl Fan Jam
A month full of Black History Month documentaries on “Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m.) with a portrait of Arkansas civil rights activist Daisy Bates – a generally untold story of…