So, it’s not a particularly busy Monday for new TV contact, hence our top pick is one of the stranger combos we’ve seen in a while. JASON’S PICK:TMZ Investigates 9/11: The Fifth Plane [Fox, 9p]Yes, this is TMZ the gossip website whose TV show consists … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/20/2023
When a 96-year-old directorial legend has a new TV show with a cast including pretty much everyone you know, it will lead our round-up every time. There’s also an enticing British black comedy, while the 10th Wayans becomes the 7th comedian to audition to become … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/06/2023
It’s a musical Monday as ABC is coming correct with a profile of the history of women in hip-hop and NBC just rolls on with its reality competition tentpole what with the four superstar judges and the chairs that turn around. However, our top pick … Continue reading What To Watch: 10/18/2021
In past years, after the flurry of the first week of Fall programming, there would be a significant spillover of debuts for the subsequent weeks. However, as appointment television starts to fade and/or become part of the generational gap, this week’s relatively dry, at least … Continue reading What To Watch: 09/27/2021
While in the age of Peak TV, the Fall network line-up has lost a bit of its lustre. And honestly, the Monday launch is pretty basic with an array of procedural tentpoles and forgettable sitcoms around three new shows–one is a spinoff, but the other … Continue reading What To Watch: 09/20/2021
A perhaps too on-kilter show featuring Martin Freeman returns, a Scandinavian series about hockey but also about more than hockey wraps it up for the year, and PBS keeps digging for truth with the latest featured doc, this one about racism within the world of … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/22/2021
It’s the most Notorious night of TV, perhaps ever, as we have bios for both The Notorious B.I.G. and The Notorious R.P.G. on the agenda. Meanwhile, an exciting new sci-fi show about federal agents examining a mysterious crash site. BRAD’S PICK:Debris [NBC, 10p]This new series … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/01/2021
We’ve got heroes, antiheroes, and whatever the hell you want to call that guy who gives out roses. JASON’S PICK: Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier [Smithsonian, 8p] If there’s one industry where integration happened at an impressive pace from the 1960s, it was … Continue reading What To Watch: 02/24/2020
If you’re still not down after all your indulgence in Throne-y goodness (or smugly explaining why you’re not into dragon-and-sandal-based fantasy programming), it’s a day with a lot of superhero choices, but also a rare Monday Netflix show debut (is today the day for streaming … Continue reading What To Watch: 04/15/2019
We had sworn off basketball, but then spurred on by the excitement of our own March Madness (in whose finals you can vote today) and the fact Duke, North Carolina, and Kentucky are all long gone, we’re back for the Finals. There’s also time-traveling superheroes … Continue reading What To Watch: 04/08/2019
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