Monday on TV: Utah Jazz go for 7th win in a row
The Utah Jazz can run their win streak to seven tonight with a win over the Oklahoma City Thunder (7 p.m., ROOT). The Jazz, who host the Thunder tonight, are in the midst of their longest string of...
View ArticleTuesday on TV: 2 Utahns 'Face Off' once again on Syfy competition
The new edition of “Face Off” (10 p.m., Syfy) is an all-star competition — and two of those all-stars are Utahns. Gage Hubbard, who was a runner-up in Season 1, and Logan Long, who was a runner-up in...
View ArticleEx-KUED GM is the new head of BYU Broadcasting
BYU Broadcasting has a new boss — and he’s coming (almost) directly from the University of Utah. Michael A. Dunn, who was the general manager of KUED-Ch. 7 at the U. from 2010-13, has been named the...
View ArticleWednesday on TV: 'The Magicians' returns to cast its spell on Syfy
I did not expect to like Season 1 of “The Magicians.” I hadn’t read the books upon which it is based — a series of best-selling novels by Lev Grossman — and the description sort of sounded like a...
View Article'Madam Secretary's' Tim Daly breaks ankle, knee skiing in Utah
A trip to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival proved dangerous for one of the stars of CBS’ “Madam Secretary.” Tim Daly, who stars as the secretary of state’s husband in the series, tweeted this...
View ArticleCBS pays tribute to Mary Tyler Moore -- and so do I
CBS, which was home to Mary Tyler Moore’s two greatest television triumphs, will honor the actress with an hourlong special on Thursday. “Mary Tyler Moore: Love Is All Around” (8 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2) will...
View ArticleThursday on TV: 'Scandal' is insane (and I blame Trump); 'Riverdale' is great...
“Scandal” (8 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) has always been bat-guano crazy — and tonight’s episode may be the craziest yet. No spoilers here. I don’t want to ruin the experience for you. And you had to wait an...
View ArticleKUER names O'Mara new general manager
KUER FM-90.1 has named a successor to retiring general manager John Green — University of Utah spokeswoman Maria O’Mara will take over management of the station on Feb. 15. O‘Mara is currently the...
View ArticleThis weekend on TV: It's Irrelevant Sunday -- Pro Bowl, NHL All-Stars and...
Coincidentally, three absolutely meaningless and irrelevant events air opposite one another on Sunday: • The NHL All-Star Game (5:30 p.m., NBCSN): Live from Los Angeles • The Pro Bowl (5:50 p.m.,...
View ArticleMonday on TV: It's (probably) the end for 'The Odd Couple'
There are back-to-back episodes of “The Odd Couple” tonight (8 and 8:30 p.m.). In the first Felix tries to get Oscar to go to church to support Dani, who’s singing a solo. And in the second, after a...
View ArticleFox renews 'So You Think You Can Dance'; auditions are in NYC and L.A.
Fox has, somewhat belatedly, renewed “So You Think You Can Dance” for a 14th season — and it won’t be another “Next Generation” iteration with contestants ages 8 to 13. That must have seemed like a...
View ArticleSundance animated short will become a series on the Cartoon Network
We’ve grown accustomed to projects from the Sundance Film Festival showing up on HBO, PBS and Netflix, but one of this year’s short films will be transitioning to the Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network...
View ArticleTuesday on TV: It's a battle among Super Bowl commercials
This year’s edition of “Super Bowl Greatest Commercials 2017” (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): is the People’s Choice Awards of commercials — viewers have voted online for the favorites. It was a competition...
View ArticleTuesday on TV: Are you a sci-fi fan? You should be watching 'The Expanse'
“The Expanse” (11 p.m., Syfy) is the best outer-space, science fiction show on television in many years. Set 200 years in the future, much of the solar system nas been colonized. And tensions could...
View ArticleThursday on TV: 'Superior Donuts' is good; 'Powerless' is bad; 'Training Day'...
Three series premiere tonight — a good comedy, a bad comedy, and an OK action/drama: • “Superior Donuts” (7:30 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2), based on the play by Pulitzer- and Tony-winning writer Tracy Letts,...
View ArticleWednesday on TV: 'So Cosmo' is so incredibly annoying
If you’re not already incredibly sick of fake “reality” shows, “So Cosmo” (9 p.m., E!) ought to cure you of watching this kind of junk. This alleged workplace docu-series is really just a marketing...
View ArticleThursday on TV: CNN takes a serious look at the 'History of Comedy'
“The History of Comedy” is not just one laugh after another. Oh, there are certainly a lot of laughs in CNN’s eight-part documentary series, which debuts tonight at 8 p.m. But it’s really about...
View ArticleThis weekend on TV: It's the 51st Super Bowl and the 10th season of '24'
Television biggest event airs this Sunday — live from Houston, it’s the Atlanta Falcons vs. the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI (4:30 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13). Fox’s pregame programming starts at 9...
View ArticleMonday on TV: Fox's 'APB' is really dumb
In the rather astonishingly stupid new series “APB” (8 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13), a tech billionaire — reacting to the murder of his friend — essentially buys a Chicago police precinct, doles out all sorts of...
View ArticleTuesday on TV: PBS relives horrific 'American Experiemce' of Oklahoma City...
The always impressive “American Experience” (7 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7) looks back at the worst case of domestic terrorism in our nation’s history — the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building...
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