Couch Patrol: Cops Vs. Cops Mr. Dean Robbins August 28, 2013 Columns Luther Tuesday-Friday, 10 p.m. (BBC America) Luther features Idris Elba as the hulking London detective John Luther, whose crime-solving intensity sometimes leads to questionable tactics. Season three...
Couch Patrol: Meet Wife Number Four Mr. Dean Robbins August 21, 2013 Columns Escape From Polygamy Saturday, 8 p.m. (Lifetime) You’d expect a tv movie called Escape From Polygamy to be a predictable docudrama. It’s true that the title gives away the ending, but this Lifetime pr...
Couch Patrol: The Abominable Kirstie Alley Mr. Dean Robbins August 14, 2013 Columns Baby Sellers Saturday, 8 p.m. (Lifetime) Baby Sellers goes inside the criminal operations that provide infants for the adoption market. The tv movie is efficiently written and directed to evoke maximu...
Couch Patrol: Larry David’s Ultimate Humiliation Mr. Dean Robbins August 7, 2013 Columns Clear History Saturday, 9 p.m. (HBO) All of us Curb Your Enthusiasm fans were suspicious when writer-star Larry David suspended the series to work on an HBO movie. But we needn’t have worried. Clear H...
Couch Patrol: Comedians At Play Mr. Dean Robbins July 31, 2013 Columns Web Therapy Tuesday, 11 p.m. (Showtime) Web Therapy is a series where comedians amuse each other and, more often than not, the viewers. Lisa Kudrow plans a dumb, vain, manipulative therapist named Fio...
Couch Patrol: Zombies Vs. Dinosaurs In Outer Space Mr. Dean Robbins July 24, 2013 Columns Axe Cop Saturday, 11 p.m. (Fox) Fox premieres Animation Domination High-Def, a block of late-night cartoons featuring Axe Cop and High School USA! It’s the product of the network’s new digital animati...
Couch Patrol: Dancing Fools Mr. Dean Robbins July 17, 2013 Columns Breaking Pointe Monday, 9 p.m. (CW) The CW, home of teen soaps like Gossip Girl, goes in a different direction with Breaking Pointe. Beginning its second season, the docuseries peeks behind the scenes...
Couch Patrol: ‘The Newsroom’ Just Got Good Mr. Dean Robbins July 10, 2013 Columns 1 The Newsroom Sunday, 10 p.m. (HBO) I hated the first season of The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s attempt to create a smart, fast-talking show about cable news. Sorkin’s journalism setting didn’t feel authe...
Couch Patrol: My Son, My Psychopath Mr. Dean Robbins July 3, 2013 Columns Dexter Sunday, 9 p.m. (Showtime) In episode two of Dexter’s nail-biting final season, our psychopathic hero (Michael C. Hall) makes a troubling discovery about his past. A renowned expert on psychopat...
Couch Patrol: Sex, Drugs & Sympathy Mr. Dean Robbins June 26, 2013 Columns Anna Nicole Saturday, 8 p.m. (Lifetime) The tv movie Anna Nicole imputes a soul to the late Anna Nicole Smith, the model and gold digger who flaunted her self-destruction in the media. Anyone who reme...
