Ken Burns' Baseball

Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010

No Ordinary Family8/7c ABC Dysfunctional families will try anything to become close again: Sunday dinners; TV hour; or even therapy. For the Powells, it's a simple matter of harnessing their respective superpowers. Of course, for Jim (Michael Chiklis), Stephanie (Julie Benz) and their two teenage kids, it takes a plane crash in the Amazon for these abilities to kick in, and in tonight's sci-fi drama series premiere, police sketch-artist Jim tests the limits of his immense strength, while his scientist wife measures her amazing speed. — Joe Friedrich Read on for previews of Inside the Actors Studio, Glee, Baseball: The Tenth Inning, Stargate Universe, Running Wilde and The Good Wife.

Tue, Sep 28, 2010

Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010

Ken Burns Adds to Baseball History with The Tenth Inning

The star of Ken Burns' The Tenth Inning — besides baseball itself — is Barry Bonds. "He had to be," Burns says. While Babe Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer and Hank Aaron on a diet no one ever questioned, Bonds is suspected to have set baseball's all-time home-run record on steroids. So Bonds looms large throughout the four hours of Burns' follow-up to his Emmy-winning 1994 documentary series Baseball. Burns and partner Lynn Novick — whose credits include the masterful The Civil War and Jazz — expansively cover the last 16 years of the sport, including...

Mon, Sep 27, 2010

Ken Burns Adds to Baseball History with The Tenth Inning