Tuesday on TV: The CW makes like Fox News Channel — ‘iZombie’ is all about...
The CW invades the Fox News Channel’s turf tonight with an episode of “iZombie” (8 p.m., CW/Ch. 30). Zombies Liv (Rose McIver) and Blaine (David Anders) consume the brains of a conspiracy theorist —...
View ArticleWednesday on TV: Big things are happening as ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ ends Season 1
If you’ve been keeping up with “Handmaid’s Tale,” the 10th and final episode of Season 1 is now streaming on Hulu. If you haven’t been keeping up with it, well, all 10 episodes are streaming on Hulu....
View ArticleThursday on TV: AFI honors Diane Keaton, which is great. Woody Allen is...
The American Film Institute honors Diane Keaton with its lifetime achievement award (8 p.m., TNT). The event, taped last week, features a lot of big stars. Folks like Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Al...
View ArticleThis weekend on TV: Watch the ‘British Baking Show’ while it’s still ‘Great’
“The Great British Baking Show” returns to PBS (Friday, 8 and 9 p.m., Ch. 7) in its original form. This is the most recent season, which aired last fall in the U.K. and features judges Mary Berry and...
View ArticleNBC should air Megyn Kelly’s interview with Alex Jones — but only if it’s...
Alex Jones is a documented liar whose conspiracy theories have long since crossed the line from ridiculous to dangerous. But not only does he have millions of listeners, he also has the ear of Donald...
View ArticleTCA Awards nominations announced — now I have to decide how to vote
The Television Critics Association has announced the nominees for this year’s TCA Awards, which will be presented on Aug. 5. And here they are: INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA • Sterling K. Brown,...
View ArticleMonday on TV: You better watch the ‘Better Call Saul’ season finale
In the Season 3 finale of “Better Call Saul” (11 p.m., AMC) Kim takes some time off after her accident; Jimmy tries to make amends for some of the things he’s done; Nacho takes a big chance with his...
View ArticleTuesday on TV: Even the title of ‘The Bold Type’ is annoying
Joanna Coles has helped subject TV viewers to not one but two bad TV series this year. First was E!’s alleged “reality” show “So Cosmo,” which followed a group of amazingly unsympathetic egomaniacs...
View ArticleWednesday on TV: Senior citizens are wildly entertaining in ‘Little Big...
If you can make a show featuring cute young performers, why not make a show featuring cute older performers? That’s the thinking behind “Little Big Shots: Forever Young” (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5). Instead...
View ArticleThursday on TV: Live from New York, it’s the NBA Draft! (Which probably...
Live from New York, it’s the NBA Draft (5 p.m., ESPN and NBATV). Pending trades, the Utah Jazz have the 24th, 30th, 42nd and 55th picks. So … odds are that there won’t be a whole lot of excitement for...
View ArticleThis weekend on TV: ‘Prime Suspct’ is back on PBS as a prequel
Utah crimes are front-and-center on network TV this weekend — a murder on NBC and a hostage situation that ended with a fatality on ABC. • “Dateline NBC” (Friday, 9 p.m., Ch. 5) recounts the case of...
View ArticleMonday on TV: PBS’ ‘P.O.V’ spotlights Syrian refugees in 2 films
“P.O.V.” (8 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7) returns with a pair of films. In “Dalya’s Other Country,” a woman and her mother flee Syria for Los Angeles. And in the short film “4.1 Miles,” a Greek coast guard captain...
View ArticleTV review: ‘The Mist’ is sort of scary; ‘Boy Band’ is unnecessary; and new...
Tonight, TNT premieres a creepy drama; ABC gives us a new singing competition; and ABC revives “The Gong Show” with a creepy host. • “The Mist” is a Stephen King novella, first published in 1980. It...
View ArticleTuesday on TV: You’ll be fascinated by ‘The Story of China,’ And this is the...
“The Story of China” (7 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7) is a fascinating six-part series seems not long enough, given that it explores 4,000 years of Chinese history. Host/historian Michael Wood leads viewers on a...
View ArticleWednesday on TV: ‘Big Brother’ is back, and there’s nobody from Utah in the...
The 19th season of “Big Brother” (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2) begins tonight with a two-hour episode. For those of you not familiar with the show, it features a bunch of strangers living in a house built on a...
View ArticleThursday on TV: Dumb and dumber — ‘Zoo’ and ‘Battle of the Network Stars’...
Season 3 of “Zoo” (9 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2) picks up a decade after the end of Season 2. The animals have been cured, but there’s a new threat from “ hybrids” — lab-manufactured creatures bent on destroying...
View ArticleThis weekend on TV: Can Real Salt Lake beat their ex-coach again?
It’s not easy to suggest that a Real Salt Lake game is of particular interest these days, what with the team settling toward the bottom of the Major League Soccer standings. But there is a bit of...
View ArticleMonday on TV: There’s NBA-ish basketball this week in the summer league
If you’re feeling basketball withdrawal, there’s some sort-of NBA action this week — the NBA summer league, which begins tonight when the Utah Jazz team takes on the San Antonio Spurs (7 p.m., Ch. 14...
View ArticleTuesday on TV: Everyone from Bush to Clinton to Trump to Obama reads ‘The...
Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi’s “The Words That Built America” (8 p.m., HBO) is both very simple and very complicated. It’s just people reading the Declaration of Independence, the United States...
View ArticleWednesday on TV: ‘Snowfall’ might be good, but after watching 5 episodes I’m...
“Snowfall” (11 p.m., FX) is an extremely complicated show with a very simple premise — that the crack epidemic turned South Central Los Angeles into a war zone almost overnight. And that it was...
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