This week’s Independent Lens is titled The Bad Kids and looks at students whom the system thinks are lost causes, but that one California school still sees potential in. Spending a year at Black Rock Continuation High School for kids at risk, this documentary looks at the tricky issues that the students, teachers and the school’s principal
Fans of Brain Games and the YouTube series Shots of Awe will be glad to see that host Jason Silva has a new project — the NatGeo series Origins: The Journey of Humankind (Mondays at 9/8c). We sat down with the self-described “wonder junkie” to talk about what his new show’s about, why it’s important,
The Diesel Brothers channel Braveheart on tonight’s season finale — as they rebuild their most iconic build ever, the Mega RamRunner, to give it away. Watch the footage in the clip below as Heavy D rides atop a Segway as if he was commanding his forces into action, as Mel Gibson did on a horse in
Bravo’s newest reality series Sweet Home Oklahoma has arrived — and here’s the eccentric friends who make up the cast. The show revolves around Angie ‘Pumps’ Sullivan, Jennifer Welch and Lee Murphy, who live in the suburban city of Nichols Hills. They are unabashedly liberal in a conservative state and aren’t afraid of challenging the conventions
Tommie Lee wants fewer jailbirds in her life — and reveals on this week’s Love & Hip Hop Atlanta how she’s busy trying to upgrade her squad. Tommie wants to surround herself with positive people after managing to stay out of trouble for a good few months, and she heads for a night out with
John Oliver covered all the high “low” notes of Trump’s past week in office on Last Week Tonight — including his draconian “skinny budget” proposals. The show saw Oliver dissect what was an eyebrow-raising week for the former reality TV star and real estate mogul, who he described as “consistently monstrous”. It included insulting the British Intelligence
This week’s Black Sails episode, XXXVI, was the expected turning point between Flint and Silver as seeded by Mr. Billy Bones. The show opens with a cloaked Woodes Rogers who rides anonymously in the night, as he reveals himself in what appears to be his search for something valuable and enters the room where Billy
This week on Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery, the documentary series examines the house that is thought by some to have been the place where Jesus grew up. In the bible it says that Jesus grew up in ‘a city of Galilee’ called Nazareth. Now Nazareth is a bustling town of over 70,000 people lying in Northern Israel
This week on Wicked Tuna, Capt. Paul Hebert is feeling the heat as the pressure mounts on him to land his first fish of the season. Capt. Hebert might have the smallest boat in the fleet in the form of Wicked Pissah, but his personality more than makes up for it. he also has his fair share of critics
Theresa Caputo gives Scandal star Guillermo Diaz a reading on this week’s Long Island Medium — and also helps a daughter whose mother died of a drug overdose. Theresa, who got her biopsy results back last week, does the reading for Diaz — who fans might also known from films like Half Baked and Stonewall — while