Day: July 21, 2022

On a steamy summer, nature and “Crawdads” soothe

As cities steam and suburbs stew, it’s refreshing to step deep into nature.
e can do that this overheated summer on PBS (especially Baratunde Thurston’s Appalachian journey, at 9 p.m. July 26) … on BBC America (with gorgeous nature marathons on Saturdays) … and now in movie theaters.
That’s the spot for “Where the Crawdads Sing” (shown heere), which opened this past weekend to decent business. It lets us step into the wide-eyed life of someone consumed by natural beauty.
“Crawdads” was made for a modest budget ($24 million) and was expected to make only about $10 million in its first weekend (July 15-17) in the U.S. and Canada. Instead, it got $17 million. Read more…

Best-bets for July 23: Athletes soar, Forte returns

1) World Athletic Championships finals, 9-11 p.m., NBC (also, 2-3 p.m. ET). This massive track-and-field event (shown here) assembled more than 1,900 athlete (including 42 who had won individual Olympic gold medals) from 192 countries. It’s mostly been on the USA Network and Peacock, but jumps to NBC on weekends. Now we lead up to Sunday’s finish. Read more…