Television

From 2002 to 2009, actor Tony Shalhoub starred on the USA Network series "Monk," playing Adrian Monk, a crime-solving detective with obsessive compulsive disorder. Now, after almost 15 years, Shalhoub and most of his original castmates are back in a new movie streaming on Peacock. It's called "Mr. Monk's Last Case." Our TV critic David Bianculli has this review.

Season 5 of the FX series kicks off with a brawl at a junior high school board meeting. When an unimposing Minnesota housewife is arrested, a string of special thrills and unexpected alliances follow.

Emma Stone and show co-creators Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder star in a satire about a team of would-be TV producers as they try to make a TV series about the "off the grid" homes they're building.

A new Australian comedy series called "Colin From Accounts" is about a 40-something man and a late-20s woman who were brought together by a dog. The series begins streaming on Paramount+ tomorrow, and our critic at large, John Powers, says that its warmth, good humor and essential benevolence might make it the perfect antidote to what's going on in the world.

Reiner and Brooks have been friends since high school — and their intimacy shows in Albert Brooks: Defending My Life. The only flaw of this terrific documentary is that it's not twice as long.

"All The Light We Cannot See," the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr, has been adapted into a new four-part miniseries premiering today on Netflix. The story takes place in the years before and during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II and features Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie as its most recognizable stars. But our TV critic David Bianculli says that the lesser-known younger actors are equally worthy of attention.

The Gold is an enjoyable new series based on a real-life gold heist of 1983, in which thieves broke into a warehouse and made off with three tons of gold bars.

The Morning Show enriches itself in its latest season by adding Jon Hamm to the cast and boring more deeply into a few major issues, including institutional racism and blackmail by computer hackers.

LaKeith Stanfield plays a young man who achieves his dreams and goals — only to have them descend into nightmares. While the ending of this Apple TV+ series underwlems, the acting keeps you watching.

Midnight Diner" is a Japanese TV series about a diner located on a quiet side street in one of Tokyo's busiest districts. Although the show has been running on Netflix for several years, our critic-at-large, John Powers, keeps rewatching old episodes. He says the show creates a mood that keeps calling the viewer back.