Tuesday TV: ‘Navajo Police’ Trains Recruits
The new three-part documentary “Navajo Police: Class 57” (HBO, 9 p.m.) follows 28 recruits in a 28 week program to cover the vast Navajo tribal reservation. The first two episodes…
Capital Radio 10-16-23: Songs of the Eclipse
I guess it’s fitting that a show half dedicated to eclipses would itself be eclipsed by the failure of WiFi. Couldn’t get a signal to broadcast the show live for…
Monday TV: All Hail ‘The American Buffalo’
The largest land mammal on the North American continent was also the most abundant. In the early 1800s, bison numbered nearly 30 million. European settlers cut the herds to near-extinction…
Sunday TV: From Ukraine to ‘Camp Courage’
In the documentary “Camp Courage” (Netflix, streaming)a grandmother and granddaughter who have been made refugees by the war in Ukraine, travel to a summer camp to the Austrian Alps to…
Saturday TV: Pete Davidson Hosts ‘SNL’ Return
The first new “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) in six months brings former cast member Pete Davidson to host for the first time. Musical guest is Ice Spice. And…
Friday TV: ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ the Series
Add Brie Larson to the women who take properties in their own hands in order to have a strong part to play (instead of a Marvel superhero). She is the…
Thursday TV: Kelsey Grammer’s ‘Frasier’ is Back
File under the shows nobody asked for: the unexpected return of “Fraiser” (Paramount+, streaming). Already the longest running TV character, on “Cheers” for nine years, then on his own show…
Wednesday: ‘Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul’
The intent was a tech creation that would wean smokers from cancer-causing cigarettes. What they created was an electronic cigarette so sleek it attracted young people who would have never…
Tuesday TV: New Hockey Season Drops Puck
The new NHL season begins with three back-to-back games: Nashville at Tampa Bay (ESPN, 5:30 p.m.) Chicago at Pittsburgh (ESPN, 8 p.m.) and Seattle at Vegas (ESPN, 10:30 p.m.), were…
Capital Radio 10-9-23: Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The breakout of a new war had us brooding on the nature of the barbaric practice, before we moved to the notion of Columbus Day making way for the more…