Ellen Gray's TV picks this week
FOYLE'S WAR. Acorn TV, today, Feb. 9 and 16. The Brit-centric streaming service scored U.S. rights for the eighth and final season of the former PBS favorite, and with a free month's trial (see acorn.tv) you don't necessarily have to pay to see all three episodes.
* FOYLE'S WAR. Acorn TV, today, Feb. 9 and 16.
The Brit-centric streaming service scored U.S. rights for the eighth and final season of the former PBS favorite, and with a free month's trial (see acorn.tv) you don't necessarily have to pay to see all three episodes, which will be released a week at a time. (After that, all eight seasons will be streaming only on Acorn.) Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks star in what's now a post-World War II drama focused on espionage. Today's episode sends Foyle (Kitchen) to Nuremberg.
* BEING MARY JANE. 10 p.m. Tuesday, BET.
Season 2 of one of TV's most addictive soaps picks up pretty much where we left it, with cable news personality Mary Jane Paul (Gabrielle Union) reeling from a very personal rejection. Let's just say you wouldn't want to be her goldfish right now.
* FRESH OFF THE BOAT. 8:30 and 9:31 p.m. Wednesday, 6ABC.
Chef Eddie Huang's memoir of growing up in Orlando, Fla., as a Taiwanese-American lover of hip-hop culture becomes a fresh and funny sitcom - and for this week only, the bread in a "Modern Family" sandwich - in this two-episode premiere. Moves to 8 p.m. Tuesdays next week. Review, Page 21.
* NASHVILLE. 10 p.m. Wednesday, 6ABC.
Can Rayna (Connie Britton) and Deacon (Charles Esten) finally find happiness, post-hiatus? What do you think?
* THE AMERICANS. 10 p.m. Wednesday, FX.
If you saw last week's Season 3 premiere, you do not want to miss what happens next. Or maybe you do. People will be talking Thursday morning.
* ALLEGIANCE. 10 p.m. Thursday, NBC10.
Hope Davis and Scott Cohen star as parents caught between family and two countries in a spy drama whose themes should be familiar to fans of "The Americans."
- Ellen Gray