Hot takes: 'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' returns for a seventh searing season
John Oliver hosts "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver"
The Green Mile, on AMC
Tom Hanks stars as a death-row prison guard who develops a relationship with a simple-minded inmate with incredible powers in this drama. After a series of seemingly miraculous incidents involving the inmate, the guards wonder if he's actually guilty.
MacGyver, on CBS
Lucas Till stars as Angus MacGyver, the Swiss Army Knife-toting U.S. operative whose creativity never seems to run out, in the Season 4 premiere of this drama. This season introduces Russ (Henry Ian Cusick), a wealthy master manipulator.
Q: Is Capt. Jack ever coming back to "Doctor Who"?
There are certainly no plans to bring back Capt. Jack. But if we were to move into the realm of speculation (and if you can't do it for "Doctor Who," when can you?) things look somewhat promising.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine, on NBC
NYPD Det. Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) is back for a seventh season of this hit comedy. This season, Jake and the recently demoted Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) team up after an assassination attempt sends the city, and the Nine-Nine, spiraling into chaos.
Q: The theme song for "Hotel Hell" seems to ring a bell. Was it written just for the series?
"Hotel Hell," the umpteenth reality show based around celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay fixing other people's problems, gets a lot of guff for its "weird" and "cheesy" theme song. One TV writer pointed out that "it seems like every word that ends with an -el or -ell sound was used in the lyrics of this song," and another simply called it the "worst theme song ever."
Summer House, on Bravo
Don’t miss the Season 4 premiere of this spinoff reality series that dishes out drama in wine glasses filled to the brim and over-crowded hot tubs as the house’s inhabitants go from hooking-up to breaking-up faster than you can say Corona Light.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow, on CW
Heroes and villains work together to tackle dangerous threats in this multi-superhero series. The team encounters famous historical figures and magical creatures while navigating the perilous space-time continuum in this comic book-inspired series.
Q: Do you know when the next series of "The Blacklist" will be airing? Also do you think this will be the last season? It's kind of lost its edge for me.
"The Blacklist" returns from its winter hiatus in March, but what happens after that, we don't know.
There's been no word yet on a renewal for what would be the show's eighth season. We don't even know for sure how long the current season will be.
The Neighborhood, on CBS
Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield return in a new episode of this sitcom where a Midwestern family attempts to fit in to an African-American community in Los Angeles. Tichina Arnold and Beth Behrs star as their significantly more welcoming wives.
