#Hbo daily schedule series#
#Hbo daily schedule tv#

Swank plays Eileen Fitzgerald, a hotshot investigative reporter who leaves a job at a New York publication called the Vanguard when the veracity of an article she had researched for months is called into question on top of that, complaints about how she treats the staff, “especially women,” have crept into social media.

#Hbo daily schedule tv#

TV not as cinema but as television, an Arctic Circle “Lou Grant.” Gestures are bigger, speeches are speechier, the workplace quirkier. As a network series, it is something broader, more immediate, less subtle. Had it been made as an HBO miniseries, to which the subject would easily lend itself, it would be a different thing entirely, somber and atmospheric and cinematic.

#Hbo daily schedule series#

It was created by Tom McCarthy, who wrote and directed the Oscar-winning “Spotlight,” about the Boston Globe’s reporting on sexual abusers in Catholic clergy it stars Hilary Swank (another Oscar winner) and it borrows its long arc from a series of articles, reported by the Anchorage Daily News in conjunction with ProPublica, about official indifference to missing or murdered Indigenous young women. “Alaska Daily,” premiering Thursday on ABC, has an impressive pedigree. Characters tell you who they are and what they’re thinking straight out. (And even the worst.) The venue will tolerate a good deal of cliche and corniness and obviousness. Broadcast shows offer easy pleasures, and this tends to be true of the middling ones as well as the best. Dramas are nearly always leavened with comedy and characters who are designed to be liked, and who you hope will like each other. You can only go so dark for so long on network TV, where viewers come for comfort and resolution. It’s not that network series are without gravitas, or art, or nuance, or something to say - they sometimes have a lot to say, in a very loud voice - but the rate at which they unfold and the way they relate to their viewers are special to the platform. Not “quality” as betokens high-class, Platinum Age TV, but a certain something you don’t readily find on streaming or premium platforms - something that continues to attract what nowadays are considered large audiences without translating to trending tweets, critical hubbub or (“Abbott Elementary” notwithstanding) year-end awards. There is a quality to broadcast television. And it’s completely enjoyable, made by people who seem to be having a good time, with a diverse cast of characters who take no more than a minute to fully classify and comprehend and are all the more enjoyable for it. I have been catching up with ABC’s recently premiered “The Rookie: Feds,” in which Niecy Nash-Betts stars as a middle-aged high school guidance counselor turned FBI “probie.” (I say “middle-aged,” but that isn’t a description that sticks easily to Nash-Betts.) It’s an over-the-top action cartoon, in which scenes dealing with personal relationships, health challenges and workplace plotting occasionally give way to running around with guns drawn. Hilary Swank in 'Alaska Daily.'(ABC/Darko Sikman)