Monthly Archives: November 2011

From a black Friday comes a darker Saturday, where the floodgates of bad movies slightly about Christmas begin to invade TV. “Debie Macomber’s Trading Christmas” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.) seems to be cast from some other familiar Halmark Christmas movie, with jabber-talking Tom Cavanagh and Gil Bellows as brothers, Faith Ford as a widowed second grade [...]

Either the market is ripe for a whole lot of new animated holiday specials, they are somehow easier to produce, or both. For whatever reasons, the Chistmas season, which begins in earnest today, is filled with new animated specials, including two on CBS. “The Elf on a Shelf: An Elf’s Story” (CBS, 8:30 p.m. p.m.), [...]

It’s just the kind of dilemma that would befall Charlie Brown, he of the anemic Christmas tree, the rock in the trick or treat bag, the unrequited love for a little red haired girl. The problem is this: Having two holiday specials on TV – but playing opposite one another. Tonight a brand new “Happiness [...]

Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, James Taylor, Alison Krauss, the Band Perry, darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, right, and Lauren Alaina pay tribute to country music in a concert introduced by President Obama and staged in the East Room. The latest edition of “In Performance at the White House” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) was filmed [...]

Get to see two sides of Ron Perlman, right, tonight. You can catch him as the increasingly embattled patriarch in “Sons of Anarchy” (AMC, 10 p.m.) as that drama reaches its season’s climax. But you can see him all night elsewhere, on Turner Movie Classics with Robert Osborne, as a movie connoisseur, announcing his film picks [...]