It’s quite a day for Peak TV shows featuring longago Oscar winners in programs with geographic locations from the Western U.S. Well, there’s two new shows from the people at Paramount–one new, one returning, one streaming, one scheduled, one with Sly Stallone, one with Kevin … Continue reading What To Watch: 11/13/2022
If you love British procedurals or zombies or vampires or dragons, have we got a Sunday night of new and returning programming for you. JASON’S PICK:The Magpie Murders [PBS, 9p]All hail the editors of the world. In this new British detective series, the acclaimed Lesley … Continue reading What To Watch: 10/16/2022
It’s that day when statues are handed out for being the greatest pretenders, when we remember some of the people who died in the last year (and inevitably forget to remember at least one all-time great), and when voices battle red-lit fanfares to get the … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/27/2022
It’s been a little over 15 years since The Sopranos found yet a new way to be groundbreaking–this time by upending the very concept of how to break up seasons and years. After waiting two years to launch its sixth season, they place another nearly-a-year … Continue reading What To Watch: 02/20/2022
Old favorites returnng and old favorites that never really went away is the theme of this Sunday. And how is Gabriel still alive?!?! KATHERINE’S PICK:Buried [Showtime, 9p]In 1989 Eileen Franklin-Lipsker claimed to have witnessed the murder of her friend Susan Nason, at the hands of her father, George … Continue reading What To Watch: 10/10/2021
We’ve got a rarity in these modern TV days as we here at Screen Scholars are offering four staff recommendations and all of them are appointment television on broadcast TV. OK, well, we don’t really care if you DVR them, but we do think you … Continue reading What To Watch: 09/05/2021
It’s a big day for those who love zomb… we mean walker stories. Years in the waiting, Jerry Dean Morgan gets his close up as we learn more about TV’s greatest antivillain in a VSE of The Walking Dead. Speaking of long-awaited, we also get … Continue reading What To Watch: 04/04/2021
The sprawling series that brought a bunch of people one degree closer to Kevin Bacon returns, and since Ben Affleck is the co-creator you can guess the city in its title. Beyond that, we’ve got the usual cast of Sunday night characters from animation that … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/28/2021
Tonight we are reminded what respect meant to the Queen of Soul as she tried to break from the chain of fools while still feeling like a natural woman even while going riding on the freeway of love, wind against her back. One of the … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/21/2021
It’s a day of trophies both tangible and in the form of admission to sports’ most exciting tournament. It’s squeaky-voiced teen and Jason’s least favorite award night, The Grammys. A few hours earlier 68 colleges’ names will be paired with numbers from 1 through 16 … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/14/2021
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