Thursday TV: ‘Killing It,’ ‘Upshaws’ Return
The Craig Robinson comedy “Killing It” (Peacock, streaming) returns for a second season with the show’s secret weapon, sidekick Claudia O’Doherty. Also back for a second season is the animated…
Wednesday TV: Netflix’ ‘The Chosen One’
A 12-year-old Californian living in Mexico starts developing divine abilities in the new six-episode fantasy “The Chosen One” (Netflix, streaming). Based on the graphic novel “American Jesus,” the coming-of-age series…
Tuesday TV: Inside Elvis’ ’68 TV Special
At the time, it was just called “Elvis.” But the 1968 music special has since became known as the Elvis Comeback Special for the spark it gave to the career…
Capital Radio 8-14: Remembering Robbie
What turned out to be practically a memoriam edition of Capital Radio began with salutes to David LaFlamme of It’s a Beautiful Day, who died Aug. 6 at 82, and…
Monday TV: Men Tell All on ‘Bachelorette’
Charity faces Xavier ,who was cut after a pre-Fantasy Suite dinner after he admitting he cheated on his last longterm girlfriend multiple times, on tonight’s Men Tell All episode of…
Sunday TV: Those Terrible ‘Telemarketers’
A couple of guys who spent time in a New Jersey telemarketing call center, who surreptitiously started shooting videos came up with an eye-opening whistle-blowing three-part documentary series “Telemarketers” (HBO,…
Film Review: ‘The Seeds of Vendana Shiva’
It’s hard not to immediately warm to the Indian activist Vandana Shiva, who traded in her studies of biotechnology into a one-woman campaign against industrial farming, genetically moderated organisms, and…
Saturday TV: Finding ‘Hip Hop Treasures’
The curators of the Universal Hip Hop Museum — a group that includes LL Cool J, Ice T and Yo-Yo, are on the lookout for “Hip Hop Treasures” (A&E, 10…
Friday TV: Gal Gadot in ‘Heart of Stone’
Gal Godot, who has been flitting between “Wonder Woman” roles and “Fast and Furious” appearances, stars in the new action film “Heart of Stone” (Netflix, streaming), portraying elite agent Rachel…
Thursday: Retelling the OxyContin Story
Matthew Broderick plays the villain Richard Sackler in yet another dramatization of the opioid crisis. “Painkiller” (Netflix, streaming) is a six-episode limited series based on the book of the same…