Day: August 20, 2025

Wyle’s “Pitt” sweeps TCA awards

Twenty years after leaving “ER,” Noah Wylie is back on top of the TV world.
His “The Pitt” (shown here) — an intense medical drama on HBO Max — has swept the Television Critics Association awards, announced today. It won for program of the year plus best drama and best new program; Wylie also won the award for individuals in a drama.
Other winners included “The Studio” on Apple TV+ (comedy), “Adolescence” on Netflix (movie or miniseries) and “Traitors” on Peacock (reality), plus HBO’s Pee-wee Herman documentary and the 50th-anniversary special for “Saturday Night Live.” The individual comedy award went to Bridget Everett in HBO’s “Somebody Somewhere.” Read more…

Best-bets for Aug. 22: tales of love, sports and Sinatra

1) “Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love,” 9 p.m., PBS. Shattered by her father’s death, a Harvard grad student (shown here) visits five epic stories involving her faith. The first three are gorgeously filmed, but are sometimes grim and violent, told in a clumsy, stop-and-start way. The fourth is a passionate story of a sister’s love for a troubled boy who became the towering Malcolm X. Read more…