The second season of “Baskets” is even better than the first season — welcome news for those loyal fans who took time off from a billion other binge-wortthy shows in 2016 to watch Zach Galifianakis play a fortysomething out-of-work clown and Louie Anderson portray his concerned mother. “Baskets”...
SERIES Undercover Boss The chief executive of a chain of specialty coffee stores goes undercover in this new episode. 8 p.m. CBS Fresh Off the Boat Jessica (Constance Wu) wants the family to let go of any and all negativity ahead of Chinese New Year in this new episode of the sitcom. 8 p.m. ABC...
Jessica Biel is making her return to TV — and, no, it isn’t for a “7th Heaven” reboot. USA Network has handed out a series order to “The Sinner,” a new anthology series starring Biel and Bill Pullman (“Independence Day”). The pickup was announced Tuesday during the cable network’s presentation...
Jerry Seinfeld is getting into business with Netflix. The comedian has signed a production deal with the streaming giant that will bring his new comedic projects to Netflix beginning this year. As part of the deal, new episodes of his “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” will begin streaming exclusively...
After a year that claimed many of Hollywood’s brightest and best, it seemed near miraculous that our beloved Betty White — America’s grandmother, if you will — made it through 2016 unscathed. The golden girl of television celebrated her 95th birthday Tuesday, even without the help of a fan’s GoFundMe...
Whatever your political point of view, it seems impossible to dispute that, on the eve of a Donald Trump presidency, the country is intensely divided. But how did we get here? “Divided States of America,” a four-hour “Frontline” special premiering Tuesday, tackles that provocative question by...
Georgia congressman John Lewis, who made headlines Friday for questioning the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s standing as incoming president, will be the subject of a just-announced new documentary scheduled to air on PBS in February. As part of the network’s programming for Black History Month, the...
SERIES NCIS Directed by series costar Rocky Carroll, this new episode sends Gibbs (Mark Harmon) undercover after he sees the brother of a wanted criminal. 8 p.m. CBS The Middle As the end of college approaches, Axl (Charlie McDermott) panics when he realizes he’s late in sending out resumes in...
SERIES The First 100 Days Martha MacCallum anchors this new series premiering tonight and running through Donald Trump’s crucial first 100 days in office. 4 and 11 p.m. Fox News Channel Regular Show The comedy ends its run with three new episodes 6, 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. Toon Kevin Can Wait Kevin...
A night celebrating sisterhood took on more significance Saturday at Elle’s 2017 women in television event. Elle Editor in Chief Robbie Myers set the tone with her opening remarks. In order to get women’s voices fully represented “in places, like, say, Congress,” she said, it would require...
You can’t keep a good villain down, particularly when he was both the head of a fast-food chicken chain and a drug kingpin. Gus Fring, the soft-spoken but vicious criminal who met an explosive end in “Breaking Bad,” is returning to life in AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” the prequel to the landmark drama...
To some, he was the voice of Rodimus Prime on the mid-1980s animated TV show “The Transformers,” or Serpentor on the animated “G.I. Joe.” But for baby boomers, Dick Gautier was best known for his deadpan performance as Hymie the robot in the ’60s spy spoof “Get Smart.” The actor died Friday, according...
The question at hand is whether Bernie Madoff, architect of this country’s largest private Ponzi scheme, is a sociopath. Robert De Niro hedged. “There’s a disconnect somehow in him,” De Niro said during the panel for the upcoming HBO film “The Wizard of Lies” at the Television Critics Assn. press...
With two new shows about stand-up comics coming to premium cable, stand-up comedy may well be the new rock ’n’ roll in 2017. On the heels of the music-centric series “Vinyl,” “Roadies” and “Sex&Drugs& Rock&Roll,” Showtime has the ’70s stand-up of the Sunset Strip in “I’m Dying Up Here” due this...
“Victoria,” debuting Sunday on PBS’ “Masterpiece,” is a perfectly entertaining period piece that has the misfortune of arriving shortly after a similarly themed but dramatically more compelling series, Netflix’s “The Crown.” The seven-part series, which has already been renewed for a second season,...
Lesli Linka Glatter is very concerned about cookies. On this fall day on the set of “Homeland,” as drowsy crew members nurse cups of takeout coffee, the director is rehearsing with McKenna Keane, who plays Franny, the 4-year-old daughter of Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) on the series, which returns...
When news broke earlier this year that Lifetime would be remaking tear-jerker “Beaches,” the 1988 film that starred Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends, one of the first concerns among die-hard fans was what would become of the classic song “Wind Beneath My Wings” sung by Midler?...
SERIES Life's a Trip Patrick Warburton and his son, Talon, experience the cowboy life on a 31,000-acre cattle ranch in the premiere of this new unscripted series. 12:30 p.m. Travel Queen Boss Vanessa Simmons offers financing and advice to young female entrepreneurs who come to her for help in...
Having already been a Twitter meme (and aired in its entirety overseas), "The Young Pope" arrives in all its raiment and finery Sunday on HBO. Created, directed and mostly written by Paolo Sorrentino, whose 2013 film "The Great Beauty" gobbled up awards here and elsewhere, the 10-episode series...
SUNDAY Another blink-and-you-missed-it season of “Sherlock” concludes on “Masterpiece.” With Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. 7 p.m. KOCE An oceanographer and others work to protect and preserve undersea habitats in the new special “Sea of Hope — America’s Underwater Treasures.” 7 p.m....
How do you return to series television after playing the role of a lifetime? If you’re Bryan Cranston, through a side door … and with as little fanfare as possible. The actor, who won four Primetime Emmy awards for his portrayal of Walter White, America’s notorious science teacher turned meth...
Awards show acceptance speeches can sometimes be dull or uninspired; they can be emotional and impassioned; they can even provoke a tweet from the president-elect. But very few — in fact, just one — become the launching pad for a TV series on Amazon Prime. That’s where Bryan Cranston comes in. ...
SERIES MacGyver While transporting a war criminal in Kazakhstan, the helicopter MacGyver and Jack (Lucas Till, George Eads) are in crashes and their prisoner escapes with Jack’s gun. MacGyver tries to save the day using only the helicopter’s rotor blade and a water bottle. Sandrine Holt also...
As the end draws near for NBC’s “Grimm,” its current — and final — season has unfolded with all sorts of questions lingering in viewers’ minds. In an exclusive clip from Friday's episode, members of the besieged crew of Portland crime fighters who protect innocents from Wesen creatures finally...
President Obama’s farewell speech, and Donald Trump’s first official press conference since becoming president elect, took place less than 14 hours apart. But in that brief period between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, 70 years’ worth of presidential decorum dating to the first televised...
If FX’s “People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” demonstrated that a decades-old landmark L.A. trial can feel current with its commentary on race and gender, then the network’s newest anthology series, “Feud: Bette and Joan,” is likely to ignite new conversations about ageism in Hollywood....
Maybe it should be called “American Renewal Story.” FX announced Thursday that it was adding two more seasons to “American Horror Story.” The news came at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena. The pickup of the anthology series from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck is in addition to...
The spotlight falls on black culture on Thursday with the ABC special “Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America.” The star-studded two-hour special, recorded last fall, includes appearances by among others, Oprah Winfrey, Samuel L. Jackson, Dave Chappelle and Tom...
If you were a child, young adult or parent in the early ’00s, you were probably aware of the lushly bound, gleefully grim book series written by the improbably named Lemony Snicket, “A Series of Unfortunate Events.” Suffused with a winking, enchantingly bookish absurdity but shaded by the nightmarish...
A couple of years after "Harry Potter" got its hooks into the world, another series of books, ostensibly for children, came calling. "A Series of Unfortunate Events," written by Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket, and appearing from 1999 to 2006, tells the story of the Baudelaire...
If President-elect Donald Trump’s Twitter fingers got activated by Meryl Streep, they might need splints following Wednesday’s episode of “black-ish.” The upper-middle-class African American family at the center of ABC’s highly acclaimed comedy reacts to Trump’s election in the newest installment,...
SERIES Superstore Ravi Patel (“Grandfathered”) guest stars as a vice president from the chain’s corporate office in a new episode of the workplace sitcom. 8 p.m. NBC The Great American Baking Show The final two bakers face off in three separate challenges, then the winner is crowned in the competition...
SERIES Undercover Boss The chief executive of a home-cleaning service gets his hands dirty in this new episode. 8 p.m. CBS Lethal Weapon “The Cosby Show’s” Malcolm-Jamal Warner guest stars on a new episode of the cop drama. 8 p.m. Fox Nature The new episode “Snowbound: Animals of Winter” looks...
Fox News settled a sexual harassment complaint by a former employee in September against its biggest prime time-star, Bill O’Reilly, and the division’s co-president, Jack Abernethy. Former Fox News personality Juliet Huddy claimed in a letter from her lawyers sent last August that her opportunities...
“Twin Peaks” fans who’ve been waiting more than 25 years to find out what happened to Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) will have to wait just a bit longer because answers were in short supply Monday at the Television Critics Assn. Filmmaker David Lynch made a surprise appearance at the...
If there’s one political-themed TV show that could rival the twists and drama of the most recent presidential election, a likely candidate would be ABC’s “Scandal.” But executive producer Shonda Rhimes doesn’t equate the two beyond that — no matter how many times it’s pressed. “Scandal” ended...
Some 18 months ago, James Corden was a relative unknown introducing himself and his late-night entry, “The Late Late Show,” at the Television Critics Assn. press tour. Returning Monday morning to the same location with what he said was the same question in mind (“Why are we in Pasadena?”), Corden...
The cast and creators of “The Good Fight,” the much-anticipated spinoff of “The Good Wife,” appeared Monday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena. But, like at the Golden Globes Sunday night (and more or less every day since Nov. 8), all anyone could talk about was Donald Trump. ...
SERIES New Girl “Transformers’ ” Megan Fox continues her recurring role on a new episode of the Zooey Deschanel sitcom. 8 p.m. Fox Nazi Mega Weapons The new episode “The Eagle’s Nest” recalls Adolf Hitler’s heavily fortified retreat in the Bavarian Alps. 8 p.m. KOCE American Housewife “Popular’s”...
Meryl Streep’s impassioned Golden Globes speech Sunday night has become a lightning rod for conservatives who claim it’s yet another example of how far Hollywood is out of touch with the average American experience. “Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press,” Streep said upon accepting the Cecil B....
NBC’s telecast of the “74th Annual Golden Globe Awards” scored 20 million viewers on Sunday, a positive sign for the awards show business that has seen ratings slip in recent years. The 8% increase in viewership for the ceremony emceed by “Tonight” host Jimmy Fallon came after a year when most...
Golden Globes 2017 updates: What 'La La Land's' sweep means for the Oscar race; Meryl Streep's big speech and other memorable moments Jan. 9, 2017, 2:32 p.m. The Golden Globes have wrapped with "La La Land" breaking records and "Moonlight" winning for drama. But the night was filled with so much...
The 74th Golden Globe Awards show on NBC Sunday night was its old self, and not quite its old self. Better behaved than it has been — professional nice guy and “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon replaced professional bad boy Ricky Gervais as host — the show was still offbeat and noisy enough to...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. maintained its tradition of saluting new and original programming, giving multiple honors to several freshman series at the 74th Golden Globes on Sunday night. Netflix’s “The Crown” scored awards for TV series, drama, and actress in a TV series, drama, for star Claire...
SERIES The New Celebrity Apprentice Chef Rocco DiSpirito, Internet personality Justine Ezarik, and entertainment lawyer Patrick Knapp Schwarzenegger — host Arnold Schwarzenegger’s nephew — serve as guest advisors in this new episode. 8 p.m. NBC Supergirl A repeat episode of the action drama kicks...
The CW announced Sunday morning that it had renewed seven of its current series for the 2017-2018 season. On the list of those getting the good news were superhero shows “Arrow,” “The Flash,” “Supergirl” and “D.C’s Legends of Tomorrow,” the dramedies “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and “Jane the Virgin,”...
“The Walking Dead,” “Westworld” and “This Is Us” are among the highlights in the lineup for PaleyFest 2017, a festival celebrating current and veteran TV favorites that will take place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on March 17-26. Sessions will feature stars, producers and members of the creative...
For Gayle King, being Oprah Winfrey’s best friend has its privileges — and some obligations. One of them was alerting Winfrey, an avid reader, to what was happening on television. “They used to call me ‘Gayle King, Eyewitness News’ because I’d call and say, ‘Oprah, turn on the TV, O.J. is on the...
SERIES Sleepy Hollow The supernatural drama encores its fourth-season premiere; with Tom Mison. 8 p.m. Fox The Guardians This new docu-series follows an all-volunteer group of animal-welfare advocates who go above and beyond to protect all creatures great and small. 10 p.m. Animal Planet SPECIALS...
When they pulled into the driveway of the Beverly Hills compound that day in February 2014, filmmakers Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens could only communicate their dumbstruck awe through raised eyebrows. There were twinkly lights on trees. Pink-painted coffee pots hung from branches. Ice skates...
Among the many losses that come with the end of the Obama administration, the comedy duo of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will also retire one of the most popular sketches from their series “Key & Peele.” Airing for five seasons on Comedy Central, the show took on all manner of pop culture,...
With the inauguration just two weeks away, President-elect Donald Trump has a lot on his plate. But that didn’t stop the future commander in chief from taking a moment Friday morning to offer his thoughts on the ratings for “The New Celebrity Apprentice.” “Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger...
SUNDAY Meryl Streep will add to her collection of hardware when she receives the 2017 Cecil B. DeMille Award at “The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards.” Jimmy Fallon hosts. 5 p.m. NBC Vengeance is hers: Julia Roberts stars in the 2015 remake of the Argentinian thriller “Secret in Their Eyes.” With...
SERIES Blaze and the Monster Machines “The Big Bang Theory’s” Melissa Rauch supplies the voice of a kangaroo in a new episode of this animated series aimed at preschoolers. 11:30 a.m. Nickelodeon MacGyver MacGyver and Jack (Lucas Till, George Eads) are reunited with former flames (guest stars...
If “The Good Place” was a frozen yogurt shop, there’d be some eager customers outside its door right now. The NBC comedy, which follows newly deceased Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) as she tries to justify her slot in the heavenly Good Place despite living a life that should have yielded a more...
Ready or not, the awards shows are coming, and the 74th Golden Globe Awards ceremony will kick off the 2017 awards season on Sunday night. You have questions, and we have answers. WHAT TIME DOES THE SHOW START? AND ON WHAT CHANNEL? The ceremony, taking place at its usual locale, the Beverly Hilton...
“Game of Thrones” consistently ranks as one of TV’s most pirated shows. If “Emerald City,” premiering Friday on NBC, is any indication, it’s also become one of the most widely imitated. Though it is billed as a dark new take on “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” which has inspired scores of adaptations...
Norman Lear sits with a script in his left hand and a yellow pencil in the other. Every so often, he gently scribbles notes on the margins. But mostly, he listens — searching for the lines that prompt a burst of laughter or bring power to the lump-in-the-throat moments. It’s a common sight on the...
SERIES The Big Bang Theory Sheldon and Amy (Jim Parsons, Mayim Bialik) recall their trip to Texas over the holidays in this new episode; Laurie Metcalf and Pamela Adlon guest star. 8 p.m. CBS Superstore This workplace sitcom starring America Ferrera and Ben Feldman is back with new episodes. 8...
Even if Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds hadn’t died within a day of each other last week, “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds” would have been a lovely, bittersweet portrait of a complicated yet unusually devoted mother-daughter relationship. But given the tragic one-two...
SERIES Blue Collar Millionaires This reality series about working-class entrepreneurs returns for another season. 7, 7:30, 10 and 10:30 p.m. CNBC Nightcap “Ant-Man’s” Paul Rudd and talk-show host Wendy Williams guest star as themselves in this new episode of this sitcom. 8 p.m. Pop My 600-Lb....
On Dec. 23, as fellow airline passengers began tweeting that Carrie Fisher, suffering a health crisis on a flight from London to Los Angeles, appeared unresponsive when paramedics took her from a plane, many people quickly blamed 2016. It was a year that had already claimed a number of beloved...
The last time “The Celebrity Apprentice” aired on NBC in 2015, it was an aging reality show a decade past its peak in ratings and cultural relevance. Host Donald Trump was mocked for claiming it was the No. 1 show on television. (It wasn’t even close.) Oh, what a difference two years can make....
SERIES Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Viola Davis and Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman and Casey Affleck, and Matthew McConaughey and Jeff Bridges are among the celebrities pairing off to discuss their craft in the return of this awards-season series. 7 p.m. KOCE NCIS Reeves (Duane Henry) goes undercover...
A British art critic, Marxist intellectual and prodigious author whose pioneering 1972 book and the BBC series it spawned, “Ways of Seeing,” ushered in a political perspective to art criticism has died. John Berger was 90. Simon McBurney, a British actor and a friend of Berger's, told the Associated...
As has been the New Year's custom since 1890, the Tournament of Roses Parade made its slow, steady, not especially stately progress through Pasadena on Monday. (There is a never-on-Sunday rule that moved the parade to Jan. 2 this year.) Like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, it is a local tradition...
After four seasons of escalating melodrama, “Nashville” is preparing for a key change. Picked up by CMT last year after its cancellation by ABC, the series set in country music’s capital begins its fifth season Thursday night. And along with a new network has come a fresh creative team promising...
SERIES The New Celebrity Apprentice Arnold Schwarzenegger takes over as host of this reality competition. This season’s contenders include Carson Kressley, “SNL’s” Jon Lovitz, Boy George, Laila Ali and former WNBA star Lisa Leslie. 8 p.m. NBC The Bachelor Tech salesman Nick Viall from “The Bachelorette”...
The day after Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve nightmare in Times Square, the blame game began to explain why she could not — or would not — sing during her appearance on the nationally televised “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.” After leading off the six-minute performance...
Irreverent family sitcoms are part of the DNA at Fox, a network that established itself with “Married ... With Children” and has been airing “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy” since roughly the end of the Pleistocene Epoch. The latest entry in this not-so-hallowed tradition is “The Mick,” a fish-out-of-water...
Life has been busy for the stars of "Sherlock" since the series premiered in 2010, with Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss applying new London style and contemporary quirks to Arthur Conan Doyle's famous consulting detective. Its fourth season — there have been breaks — begins Sunday on PBS' "Masterpiece:...
SERIES Live From Lincoln Center A special New Year’s Eve edition of this performing-arts series features the New York Philharmonic paying tribute to the Broadway duo Rodgers & Hammerstein. 8 and 9 p.m. KOCE SPECIALS New Year’s Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin For the 10th year, Anderson...
UNDERRATED ‘The OA’ on Netflix: A propulsively structured story from “Another Earth” creator Brit Marling, this series arrived like some kind of surprise stocking stuffer for those looking to ride out a post-holiday hangover and/or coverage of current events. While binge-able, mystery-driven shows...
Whether you considered it a three-ring circus or a welcome change of course, more than anything, 2016 will be remembered as the year that American politics made a sharp turn into the reality-television spectacle it always threatened to be. And it was all underlined by the election of a reality...
SUNDAY Have baton, will travel: The L.A. Phil’s Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic for “From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2017” on “Great Performances.” Julie Andrews returns as host. 7:30 p.m. KOCE A hotshot hostage negotiator (Luke Roberts) tries to get ’em back alive in...
In the wake of the tragic deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher this week, HBO announced Friday morning that it has pushed up the debut of the mother-daughter documentary “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds” to Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT). HBO describes the film, which...
For more than three decades, fans of KTLA’s top-rated coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade have relied on the dynamic duo of hosts Stephanie Edwards and Bob Eubanks to describe the beauteous procession while bringing in the new year. This year’s broadcast will mark another fresh start — the...
Before Tarsem Singh was handed the keys to NBC’s “Emerald City,” the director had a few stipulations. While the network had planned only to enlist the optical auteur of films such as “The Cell” and “The Fall” to direct the pilot of their long-gestating “Wizard of Oz” adaptation, Tarsem had bigger...
SERIES Humans This critically acclaimed adaptation of a Swedish sci-fi drama encores its first season in a daylong marathon. William Hurt stars. 9 a.m. AMC Live PD This docu-series that goes on ride-alongs with police officers all over the country recaps its top 10 moments. 9 p.m. A&E Doomsday:...
From the coverage of the big ball dropping above an overcrowded Times Square to the N.Y.E.L.A. celebration scheduled for Grand Park downtown, there are plenty of festive means to see off 2016. But for all your end-of-year plans that may not involve forced toasts and funny hats, television has you...
As co-creator, executive producer and star, Issa Rae is the face and the soul of HBO’s “Insecure.” She’s also the name. “It’s my only regret,” she says of calling her character Issa. “I didn’t think ‘Oh, this character’s really putting herself out there, and it’s also my name.’” With a Golden Globe...
SERIES Superstore It’s Black Friday, but the staff has come down with food poisoning in this repeat episode of the workplace sitcom. 8 p.m. NBC DC’s Legends of Tomorrow The team travels to Nazi-occupied Paris during WWII in this repeat. 8 p.m. KTLA Project Runway Designers from the reality competition’s...
SERIES Homeland Showtime offers a marathon of this Emmy-winning espionage drama, with an entire season airing each day through Sunday ahead of the show’s Season 6 premiere on Jan. 15. Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin star. 10 a.m. Showtime Undercover Boss New York & Company chief executive Greg...
SERIES American Masters Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen, whose works include St. Louis’ Gateway Arch and the TWA Flight Center at New York’s Kennedy Airport, is profiled by his son, cinematographer Eric Saarinen, in the season finale. 8 p.m. KOCE This Is Us See how it all began when...
The sheer scale of the migration crisis in Europe, the largest since World War II, can make it easy for many of us, particularly in the United States, to view the issue as a distant abstraction. It often takes an individual tragedy, particularly one conveyed through potent imagery — like the photo...
Pop superstar George Michael, who passed away Sunday at the age of 53, was known and beloved for his hit records and phenomenal live performances. But in 2008, he also proved game to be part of an endearingly quirky ABC series called “Eli Stone.” Created by Greg Berlanti (“Brothers & Sisters,”...
The A&E network has announced that it is pulling a reality show about the Ku Klux Klan, which was set to air next month, after executives discovered that outside producers for the series paid members of the group for their participation. The network said that “Escaping the KKK,” a series about...
Director Guillermo del Toro certainly knows his monsters. He’s choreographed battles between kaijus and giant robots; guided the heavy fist of Hellboy; filmed vampires, ghosts, even mythical fauns. But the creator’s next monstrous muse is something a little more common, the troll. In the world...
For many, the holiday season is deeply rooted in tradition, whether that means eating the same cookies, hanging the same decorations or even feeling a bit glum in the face of festive exuberance. For others, that tradition could be sitting down to watch the Christmas specials they grew up with. ...
Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays Sasha Williams on AMC’s "The Walking Dead," is joining Starfleet as Lt. Cmdr. Rainsford on the upcoming CBS All Access series "Star Trek: Discovery." Rainsford had been touted by the project’s original show runner, Bryan Fuller, as the central character of the show,...
When they received news of their Golden Globe nominations, actors, writers and filmmakers expressed surprise, delight and gratefulness. But in this politically charged year, where issues such as racism and sexism were front and center during the presidential election, many nominees talked about...