- Tune In Tonight: Shows end for now, at least
- March 27, 2013
- The alien antics conclude on the season finale of “The Neighbors” (7:30 p.m., ABC). Having recently attended a Broadway show, the gang takes the next logical step for ultimate tourists: a trip to Atlantic City. Frivolity comes to an abrupt end when they receive a call from their home planet.
- Tune In Tonight: Take a hop down the bunny trail
- March 26, 2013
- The CW, a network geared to viewers barely out of kindergarten at the turn of the century, reaches back more than 40 years to broadcast “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” (7 p.m.). This animated special, produced by Rankin-Bass (“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”), features the voices of Danny Kaye, Casey Kasem and Vincent Price.
- Tune In Tonight: Go mad with full day of basketball
- March 21, 2013
- An annual tradition on CBS for decades, the 2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament (11 a.m.), or “March Madness,” begins today in earnest. In addition to CBS, games will also be airing throughout the day on TBS, TNT and Tru TV.
- Tune In Tonight: Science channel explains wormholes and ‘God particle’
- March 20, 2013
- Last week saw the announcement of a new pope and the discovery of what scientists call “the God particle.” These two events have nothing to do with each other, except that, together, they sound like plot developments in a pulpy Dan Brown conspiracy thriller.
- Tune In Tonight: Diving show ‘Splash’ just another flop
- March 19, 2013
- The old phrase, “Imitation is the sincerest form of television,” has never seemed so timely. Coined by radio star Fred Allen, it perfectly sums up the essence of “Splash” (7 p.m., ABC), a brand-new series that seems anything but.
- Tune In Tonight: Two new series aim to thrill viewers
- March 18, 2013
- Ready for a “Psycho” prequel? The new series “Bates Motel” (9 p.m., A&E) aims to explain the devolution of Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) from teenager to serial killer. As in most psychological queries, we begin with the mother.
- Tune In Tonight: Reality show titles lacking in originality
- March 17, 2013
- With the wealth of the English language at their disposal, the geniuses in charge of putting titles on reality shows appear to have a limited vocabulary. As I have recently observed, the word “war” has been associated with “Whale Wars,” ‘‘Rhino Wars,” ‘‘Storage Wars” and “Cupcake Wars.” ‘‘Wives” and “housewives” have been similarly abused. As has “swap.”
- Tune In Tonight: Lies and ads key in new ‘rom-com’
- March 16, 2013
- Is the truth packaged as a lie still the truth, or merely advertising? This is the heady theme of the made-for-cable romantic comedy “Tom, Dick & Harriet” (8 p.m. Saturday, Hallmark). Borrowing themes from “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “The Front,” the film stars Steven Weber.
- Tune In Tonight: Dick Cheney is largely unchanged
- March 15, 2013
- Showtime wades into the documentary field in a big way with “The World According to Dick Cheney” (8 p.m.) directed by R.J. Cutler.
- Tune In Tonight: ‘The Office’ takes sad, surprise turn
- March 14, 2013
- Most long-running series treat their final seasons as a kind of victory lap. They run toward the inevitable, often concluding at the altar. Even NBC’s quirky “30 Rock” ended there. For the last several months — or last few years, even — “The Office” (8 p.m., NBC) has been spinning its narrative wheels. It was difficult to predict where the show might end up because, with the exception of a series of romances that went nowhere, it, too, was going nowhere.
- Tune In Tonight: ‘Neighbors’ musical episode defies logic and humor
- March 13, 2013
- The musical episode: a sign of confidence or the kiss of death? It’s not like “The Neighbors” (7:30 p.m., ABC) wasn’t already a tad over-the-top. A tale of two New Yorkers, Marty and Debbie Weaver (Lenny Venito and Jami Gertz), who are stranded in a sterile New Jersey subdivision populated by aliens trying to pass themselves off as hyper-”normal” Americans. The visitors have even adapted names from the sports pages — Larry Bird (Simon Templeman) and Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Toks Olagundoye).
- Tune In Tonight: ‘Kings Point’ a moving look at retired life
- March 11, 2013
- We’re all going to get old. Unless we don’t. That’s a hard fact we live with every day. The Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary “Kings Point” (8 p.m., HBO) takes a bittersweet look at the residents of a Delray Beach, Fla., retirement home.
- Tune In Tonight: Brooke Shields enlists in ‘Army Wives’
- March 10, 2013
- More than 30 years in the public eye, Brooke Shields joins the cast of the cable drama “Army Wives” (8 p.m. Sunday, Lifetime) as the popular series enters its seventh season. Over the years, she’s transformed from the precocious child model and actress (“Pretty Baby”) to television star (“Suddenly Susan”), while maintaining a good deal of public affection.
- Tune In Tonight: ‘Flying Monkeys’ soars
- March 9, 2013
- All hail cheap knockoffs! While others celebrate the release of Disney’s new and expensive big-screen variation on “The Wizard of Oz,” let us praise “Flying Monkeys” (8 p.m. Saturday, Syfy).
- Tune In Tonight: ‘Frock Stars’ well-tailored to audience
- March 7, 2013
- “L.A. Frock Stars” (7 p.m., Smithsonian) is a pretty dumb title for an enjoyable show. A far better title, “The Way We Wore,” is the name of the upscale vintage boutique featured here, run by Doris Raymond. She’s a smart, tireless and discerning judge of the futures market for things of the past.
- Tune In Tonight: Supernatural stuff and other delusions
- March 6, 2013
- Can possessions be possessed? Just last week, news stories spread about a segment on Pat Robertson’s “The 700 Club,” as he advised a young woman to pray over her recent thrift store purchases “to rebuke any spirits that happened to have attached themselves to those clothes.”
- Tune In Tonight: Reality TV full of D-list personalities
- March 5, 2013
- Coolio’s girlfriend trades places with the spouse of singer Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray) for a week on “Celebrity Wife Swap” (7 p.m., ABC). It’s come to this: Coolio’s girlfriend.
- Tune In Tonight: ‘Shrinks’ hurt more than they help
- March 4, 2013
- The doctors’ creed, “first, do no harm,” should apply to their reputations as well. The new Bravo series “LA Shrinks” (9 p.m.) puts three glossy, photogenic therapists on the couch as they discuss their career and relationship woes with their own analysts.
- Tune In Tonight: ‘Vikings’ mingles facts and myths
- March 3, 2013
- Mingling the magical and factual on an epic scale, History Channel’s “Vikings” at times resembles a pared-down, less baffling version of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
- Tune In Tonight: Series shows high school’s turnaround
- March 2, 2013
- The six-part documentary series “Blackboard Wars” (9 p.m. Saturday, OWN) follows a new superintendent, principal and faculty as they try to turn around the worst performing high school in New Orleans.
- Tune In Tonight: Note to NBC—air reruns!
- March 1, 2013
- “Gold Rush” (7 p.m., Discovery) ends its third season with the three teams finding (spoiler alert!) gold. The end of moose season does not end quite so successfully on “Yukon Men” (8 p.m., Discovery). But the moose might be OK with that. The antics on “Bering Sea Gold” (9 p.m., Discovery) include a joke gone awry and the need for a new dredger.
- Tune In Tonight: ‘Parade’ ends memorably
- February 28, 2013
- The war heats up as “Parade’s End” (8 p.m., HBO, part five of five) concludes. This extraordinary hour features harrowing trench battle scenes and depictions of the bravery, confusion and fear of men mired in mud and subject to unceasing bombardment. It’s quite remarkable.
- Tune In Tonight: Nashville talent visits ‘Nashville’
- February 27, 2013
- A surprise party draws an A-list crowd on “Nashville” (9 p.m., ABC), including music stars Dan Auerbach (the Black Keys), Vince Gill, Pam Tillis, Kip Moore and Kate York.
- Tune In Tonight: New cop drama ‘Golden Boy’ cliched in some parts, but worth a shot
- February 26, 2013
- “Golden Boy” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) becomes the latest television drama set in the New York Police Department. After airing tonight and March 5 in the “Vegas” slot, it will move to Fridays on March 8, right before “Blue Bloods,” taking the place of “CSI: NY.” Too bad we can’t collect a pension from just watching all of these NYC cop shows.
- Tune In Tonight: Viewers cool to new series
- February 25, 2013
- Is this the winter of our discontent? If you’re running a network and launching new shows, you might think so.
- Tune In Tonight: MacFarlane takes turn at Oscars
- February 24, 2013
- It’s official. Seth MacFarlane is now big enough to compete against himself. Fans have a choice between watching him host the Oscars (7:30 p.m. Sunday, ABC) or watching repeats of his creations “The Cleveland Show,” ‘‘Family Guy” and “American Dad” on Fox. It’s a little like when the Emmys ask fans of “Homeland” to choose between watching the show, or watching it win awards. The major difference being that “Homeland” is actually worth watching.
- Tune In Tonight: Riverses run dry
- February 23, 2013
- “Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?” (8 p.m. Saturday, WE) enters its third season with Melissa mulling the possible end to her relationship with a wealthy pornographer and Joan beginning a budding friendship with an unattached lesbian. For all of its obvious “outrageousness,” this show breaks little new ground in the fading-celebrity reality genre. There’s about 10 minutes of “drama” in this hourlong ordeal.
- Tune In Tonight: ‘Adventure Time’ sweet and strange
- February 18, 2013
- Aggressively bizarre, yet undeniably sweet, “Adventure Time” (6:30 p.m., Cartoon Network) mixes the kind of hallucinogenic shape-shifting found in “stoner” cartoons with an innocent “My Little Pony” sensibility. It also features strange self-contained fairy tales, or in the case of tonight’s “Adventure,” stories within stories, retold and re-edited by their narrator as they continue.
- Church hosting performance to commemorate Black History Month
- February 17, 2013
- St. Luke AME Church, 900 New York St., hosts a musical every February but it isn’t the typical singing, acting and dancing expected of such a show. This musical is a collaboration of performances by musical groups from the Lawrence and Kansas City area meant to commemorate Black History Month.
- Tune In Tonight: A double dose of Beyonce
- February 16, 2013
- As noted Friday, HBO and Showtime offer rival documentaries about music superstars. “Beyonce: Life Is But a Dream” (8 p.m. Saturday, HBO) mixes interviews with the pop star with performance footage past and present. Much like “History of the Eagles” (7 p.m. Saturday, Showtime), it features “intimate” insights larded with glittering generalities and undercut by the slick atmospherics of public relations.
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