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"I realize that 'hire qualified women!' is the sort of outraged demand that's often met with a sigh. No one disagrees and yet gender inequality in high-paying positions extends to all professions." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If you say the year "1968" to anyone who lived through it, it will automatically prompt a sequence of memory flashes: Martin Luther King, protests, riots, the Chicago Democratic National Convention, the election of Richard M. Nixon, and of course, the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy after he won the California Democratic primary and seemed all but anointed as the next president of the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Soup of the day is actually a full meal and then some. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kevin James offers grammar tips (kidding) with his Netflix stand-up special, "Kevin James: Never Don't Give Up." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"The Handmaid's Tale" is not easy to watch. And it's certainly not fun to watch either. It is unrelentingly oppressive and dark, even more so in its second season, whose first two episodes premiere Wednesday, April 25, on Hulu. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The catch of the day is "Riverdale," which is always fun, but tonight's episode is special and musical: The show is about Archie (KJ Apa) and the other students at Riverdale High preparing to mount a production of the Broadway musical version of Stephen King's "Carrie." The setup is that Jughead (Cole Sprouse) is documenting the rehearsals and preparation on film, so you get the usual dramatic interaction between the students, as well as 11 songs from the musical. Don't worry - your favorite familiar moments from the show are still there, including finding excuses for Apa to be shirtless. This time, he's trying to memorize his lines while doing push-ups. He goes one-handed whenever he has to turn a page. The show airs on the CW at 8 p.m. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Don't blame Harry Styles if the hour-long special "Harry Styles at the BBC" doesn't begin to do him justice. Airing on BBC America on Friday, April 20, the show has enough Styles to satisfy the One Direction singer's legions of fans, but there are plenty of times you want to say, "Shut up and let him sing." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The image is permanently emblazoned on our culture: The white jumpsuit, high-collared, caped, bejeweled and fringed, the ink-black hair flopping over his sweat-dotted forehead, oversize sideburns, the trademark lip curl and, of course, the voice. Elvis was the King of Rock 'n' Roll and remains so for many today. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Lost in Space" is a barely adequate space drama with an unfortunate title. Why? Because some viewers would expect at least more links to the classic 1965 show of the same name than merely borrowing the basic setup and leaving the campy fun of the original on the shelf. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The CW goes Hogwarts-wild with the 90-minute special "Harry Potter: A History of Magic" at 8 p.m. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The catch of the day is the HBO documentary on "Andre the Giant," the professional wrestler and actor who died in 1993. The film looks at his life and career and airs at 10 p.m. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Netflix offers the first season of "Amo," a dramatic series from Brillante Mendoza focusing on the intense drug war in the Philippines waged by President Rodrigo Duterte. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We all want job satisfaction, right? To go home at night, put our feet up and feel we've accomplished something at work that day? So is it really wrong for a young woman to take pleasure in her job, even if her job is killing random strangers for a price? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The great Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 a year ago this month. But while she's gone, her influence on other singers remains and, of course, her recordings are timeless. Among her most devoted acolytes is Bay Area singer Amanda King, who celebrates Fitzgerald's early years in concert on Thursday, April 5, in Orinda. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Only connect." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The third episode of "Innocent" is available for streaming on Sundance Now, the AMC premium platform. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Fary Is the New Black" is the title of a stand-up special available on Netflix today starring the French comic Fary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It makes sense that Tracy Morgan's new TBS comedy is about a comeback, but unlike Morgan's long road back from the 2014 traffic accident that killed one of his best friends, the comeback at the center of "The Last O.G." is played mostly for laughs. The comedy premieres on Tuesday, April 3. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Martin Luther King Jr. was about to leave his home in Atlanta for a quick trip to Memphis, where sanitation workers had gone on strike. King's children were used to his short visits home between constant travels throughout the country to preach civil rights and nonviolence. This time, the kids crowded around their dad, urging him not to go. He told them it was just a quick trip. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The catch of the day is the final season launch of "The Americans" on FX at 10 p.m. I'm missing it already. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The catch of the day is the 10th-season premiere of "Roseanne" at 8 p.m. on ABC, with two back-to-back episodes. Yes, the Conners are back, including both Beckys, Roseanne Barr, Laurie Metcalf, John Goodman and Sara Gilbert. Even Johnny Galecki will show up for one episode. The show feels even more fitting in 2018, or maybe we just missed the hell out of it, which we did. It's funny, and it's topical, but most of all, it feels like a real American family. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's always wonderful to see and hear a veteran singer. We sit and listen for traces of what we remember from their glory days and delight in how they still seem to enjoy delivering a song. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

How would you react if your child disappeared? No one can truly know unless it happens to them, but we think we know by the way actors react in hundreds of TV shows and films about missing children. A missing child is one of the most effective plot devices in literature, because even the most ham-fisted novel or TV show can get us to identify with the parent of a lost child. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The catch of the day is the first part of the two-part documentary "The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling," a funny and moving documentary by Judd Apatow about his late friend and mentor. The first part airs on HBO at 8 p.m., with part two airing Tuesday, March 27. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The late Garry Shandling was an enigma. His death two years ago at 66 only deepened the mystery of who he was beneath the brilliant and complicated humor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Bear Grylls: Face the Wild" premieres today on Facebook Watch. The survival expert will surprise 10 of his most ardent fans with an invitation to join him "facing the wild." Go to www.facebook.com/watch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

So far this year, we've had a docuseries on the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a new docuseries on "The Kennedys," a limited series on the assassination of Gianni Versace and on Sunday, March 25, the premiere of "Trust," a dramtic series whose first season dramatizes the 1973 kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The second season of the comedy show "The Standups" is available on Netflix today. The show celebrates stand-up comics filmed live at the Globe Theatre in Los Angeles. The six comics in the second season are Rachel Feinstein, Kyle Kinane, Joe List, Brent Morin, Aparna Nancherla and Gina Yashere. I caught Nancherla on HBO's "2 Dope Queens" and was seriously impressed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rebecca Miller, a gifted filmmaker, has trained her focus on a subject close to home: her dad, the late playwright Arthur Miller. Her film, "Arthur Miller, Writer," airs on HBO at 8 p.m. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Remember being told that it's always good to have something to fall back on if your career choice hits the skids? Barry Berkman never thought about that until the hit man stumbles into an acting class in Los Angeles taught by Henry Winkler in the very funny HBO comedy "Barry," starring Bill Hader. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a very slow moving prequel to "Superman," called "Krypton," premiering on the SyFy Channel on Wednesday, March 21. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Greg Berlanti's movie about a teenager's coming out is nothing if not sincere. More to the point, it's not very much except sincere. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Happy Ides everyone! Try a Caesar salad at lunch! You can get it to go or toga. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There are gritty police procedurals, and there are the "pretty" variety, for lack of a better word that doesn't conveniently rhyme. "The Wire" was gritty. "Murder, She Wrote" was pretty. So is "Instinct," a procedural premiering on CBS on Sunday, March 18, starring Alan Cumming as a former CIA operative lured back to law enforcement by the New York Police Department. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

New episodes of "The Looming Tower" and "The Path" are available today on Hulu. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Critics complain more about cliches than the viewing public, and there's a reason for that beyond the obvious one that a critic's job is occasionally to complain. Critics don't like cliches because they believe the scriptwriter has borrowed an old idea rather than thinking up something on his or her own. The public doesn't complain about cliches because they are familiar: No matter what else may be happening in a film or TV show, cliches offer a kind of grounding. They can be a comfort to viewers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The catch of the day is the broadcast premiere of the documentary "Jane," at 8 p.m. on the National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild Channels, commercial-free. Brett Morgen's film, augmented by a score by Philip Glass, focuses on Jane Goodall, beginning with her first experiences in Tanzania in the 1960s. Her future husband, Hugo van Lawick, shot film of those early visits and the film was only recently discovered in a storage unit. Van Lawick's film is interwoven with present-day filmed interviews with the world-renowned primatologist and anthropologist. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sometimes ABC looks at series creation as if it's assembling Mr. Potato Head, especially when whipping up one of its dramatic potboilers like "Revenge," "Conviction" and the latest, "Deception," premiering Sunday, March 11. These shows may vary in quality - "Revenge" was sweet until it got tiresome - but they are assembled from the same box of time-tested pieces. And "Deception" feels not only time-tested, but timeworn. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mindy Kaling has not left the building. In fact, she's barely had time for a short walk in the fresh air between the end of "The Mindy Project" and the launch of "Champions," a pretty irresistible comedy she created with Charlie Grandy, premiering on NBC on Thursday, March 8. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The complete first season of "Hard Sun" is available on Hulu today. It's a "pre-apocalyptic" drama from Neil Cross, creator of "Luther." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Netflix offers the first season of "Borderliner" for streaming today. It's a drama about a police detective who covers up a murder to protect his family. Also available on Netflix, the stand-up special "Gad Elmaleh: American Dream." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There's a new yardstick in town, a significant change in the way we measure how insufferably self-indulgent and scripted to within an inch of its three-hour life a TV awards show can be. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]