MONDAY, JUNE 23
Hard Times at Douglass High -- 9/8c on HBO
HBO’s compelling 12-week documentary film series is making it tough to gripe about the network’s dearth of shows (thanks partly to the writers strike, which pushed back Entourage, et al.). Tonight’s doc, from acclaimed filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond (An American Family), dissects President Bush’s controversial No Child Left Behind Act and the effect--or lack thereof--it has had at Baltimore’s inner-city Frederick Douglass High School, where the directors were given full access for an entire school year.
