Category: TV News & Recommendations

What To Watch Tonight? With excitement (and not a little trepidation), we will be sitting down to watch RENT on Fox, the latest Live musical broadcast to come to network TV.  We love this show so much, we’re hoping Fox doesn’t fuck it up. If musicals aren’t for you, you have Supergirl, True Detective, Outlander, Counterpart, and Crashing . What are you watching?

Not on our list tonight but perhaps of interest, the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be airing on TBS all night. The SAGs will be hosted by Megan Mullally,  and Alan Alda will receive a Life Achievement Award.

8pm Hour:

1st Choice:  RENT.  Live. “The Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is a re-imagining of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” Set in New York City’s gritty East Village, it tells the story of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams during a time of great social and political turmoil.” Fox

2nd Choice:  Supergirl. “Kara joins Nia on a trip to Nia’s hometown to visit her family during the town’s annual Harvest Festival. While home, Nia’s mother encourages her daughter to embrace her destiny. Meanwhile, Alex deals with a street drug that is turning people violent and giving them temporary superpowers.” The CW

3rd Choice:  Outlander. “Season finale. Jamie, Claire and Young Ian’s attempt to rescue Roger from his Mohawk captors goes awry when a ghost from Claire’s past lays waste to their plan. Meanwhile, Brianna worries Claire, Jamie and Roger might not return.” Starz

9pm Hour:

1st Choice:   RENT.  Continues on Fox.

2nd Choice:  True Detective. “Hays and West see a possible connection between the local church and the Purcell crimes. As the detectives search for one suspect and round up another for interrogation, Woodard is targeted by a vigilante group.” HBO

3rd Choice:  Valley of the Boom. “Episode 5 -Segfault.  A close look at “the culture of speculation, innovation and debauchery that led to the rapid inflation and burst of the 1990s tech bubble. The series features interviews with many of the people depicted in the dramatized portions of the production in addition to other Internet personalities such as Mark Cuban and Arianna Huffington.” Nat Geo

10pm Hour:

1st Choice:  RENT.  Continues on Fox.

2nd Choice:  Crashing. “Pete feels like his time away from New York has taken him out of the scene, so he accepts an offer to perform at a Jewish show, where Elon Gold and Modi question his impulsive behavior with a woman he met earlier that day.” HBO

3rd Choice:  Valley of the Boom. Episode 6 -fatal error.  “Jim Barksdale continues the antitrust case, and Pixelon’s tech fails.” Nat Geo