Capital Radio 6-8-26: Foxes and Friends
There’s been a fox hanging around the block lately, and delighting us city folk, so I thought of some songs that had to do with foxes (some of them nominally)…
Monday TV: Wrong-Com ‘Alice and Steve’
Jemaine Clement of “Flight of the Conchords” fame returns to series comedy in the new “Alice and Steve” (Hulu, streaming), in which he and Nicola Walker play the title characters,…
Sunday TV: Pink Hosts the 79th Tony Awards
Why is Pink hosting the the 79th Tony Awards (CBS, 8 p.m.)? Maybe because her daughter is interested in a stage career. At any rate, Pink will lead an opening…
Saturday TV: Spring Animals Get Busy
Sounds like a whole lot of animal sex on the new four-part series “Wild Spring” (BBC America, 7:30 p.m.) which celebrates natures greatest mating time. It’s Mirra Andreeva and Poland’s…
Friday TV: Another Trip to ‘Cape Fear’
A menacing film starring Robert Mitchum in 1962, and then Robert De Niro in 1991 is now a limited series with Javier Bardem taking the lead in a new “Cape…
Thursday TV: One Murder Brings Two Shows
The murder of a young mother on London’s Wimbledon Commons warrants two different works tonight. “The Murder of Rachel Nickell” (Netflix, streaming) recounts the detail of the case, in which…
Wednesday TV: ‘Michael Jackson: The Verdict’
Think of it as the part left out of the recent theatrical biography — a three-part documentary “Michael Jackson: The Verdict” (Netflix, streaming), about his 2005 child molestation trial that…
Tuesday TV: Mindy Kaling’s ‘Not Suitable’
The newest comedy from Mindy Kaling, “Not Suitable for Work” (Hulu, streaming) concerns the activities among a handful of Manhattan professionals in their 20s living in and around Murray Hill. …
Capital Radio 6-1-26: Marilyn’s Centenary
The 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth is certainly cause for celebration. What other figure made as big a cultural impact in the last century? She wasn’t known as a…
Monday TV: A Cult for the Good-Looking
Those who have been awaiting the next cult documentary, here’s the three-part “Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult” (HBO, 9 p.m.), about a socially active Studio 54 habituate Frederick…