Top TV picks for May 2: 'The Loud House,' 'Houdini & Doyle,' 'Claude Lanzmann'

May 1, 2016 at 7:00PM
HOUDINI & DOYLE: L-R: Stephen Mangan as Arthur Conan Doyle, Rebecca Liddiard as Adelaide Stratton and Michael Weston as Harry Houdini. © 2016 FOX Broadcasting Co. Cr: Joseph Scanlon / FOX.
Stephen Mangan (Arthur Conan Doyle), Rebecca Liddiard (Adelaide Stratton) and Michael Weston (Harry Houdini) in “Houdini & Doyle.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Let's get Loud

Chris Savino mines the thrills and tribulations of growing up with 10 sisters in "The Loud House," a promising new animated series that moves at a rapid clip without ever feeling rushed. The girls run the gamut from tomboy to preppy, ensuring that young viewers will form some sort of connection, even if they're not a young male who has had to spend an exorbitant amount of time waiting to use the bathroom.

4 p.m. Nick

Do you believe in magic?

Our fascination with a certain Founding Father and an undying thirst for crime dramas will inevitably lead to the series "Hamilton, Private Detective." Until that fateful day, there's "Houdini & Doyle," a rather pedestrian procedural that gets a slight boost from the novelty of magician Harry Houdini and writer Arthur Conan Doyle as the mismatched investigators. "X-Files" fans, disappointed by the latest reboot, will enjoy the pair bickering over the existence of an afterlife, although any sexual sparks are — at least so far — nonexistent.

8 p.m. KMSP, Ch. 9

Holocaust chronicler

"Shoah," the landmark documentary about the Holocaust, is difficult to revisit, because of the subject matter and the 10-hour running time. But you'll be tempted to invest the time after watching "Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of Shoah," the Oscar-nominated short that pays tribute to the director who risked his mental health — and physical life — to investigate perhaps the darkest chapter of 20th-century history.

8 p.m. HBO

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