Category Archives: What’s On TV

I guess good series are where you find them and in the case of “Chosen” (Crackle.com) it happens to be online. I’m just jumping into this show as its second season starts today — with all of its episodes available on line should you want to binge the first day. Chad Michael Murray, above, joins [...]

The two top selling Christmas albums this season are from the products of two different reality shows. But only one of them is really known for singing. Both have specials opposite one another tonight. The first “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson, whose new Christmas collection “Wrapped in Red” has produced the  hit single “Underneath the [...]

Seems a little chilly to be walking around in underwear. But the “Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” (CBS, 10 p.m.) is back for its annual tease, with Taylor Swift, Neon Jungle, A Great Big World and Fall Out Boy performing and models talking about what they’re doing as if it’s important. But really, they’re walking around [...]

One benefit of having Frank Rich work for HBO instead of the New York Times is that he presumably helped pave the way for a pretty strong film about the work of Stephen Sondheim. “Six by Sondheim” (HBO, 9 p.m.) navigates the story of the leading Broadway composer and lyricist by weaving interviews from the [...]

Ashanti plays a mean department store consultant and it’s up to Ashley Williams to bring back Santa, who is fired, and all the Christmas spirit, as well as landing the guy in the new cable Yuletide movie “Christmas in the City” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.). It plays opposite “Santa Switch” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.), in which Ethan [...]

Oscar nominations are still made at the crack of dawn in 10 minutes, but they turn Grammy nominations into their own prime time music specials. The sixth annual event tonight promises performances by Drake, pictured above, Robin Thicke, Lorde, Earth Wind and Fire, Miguel, Keith Urban and Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis all from the Nokia [...]

Some executives high concept holiday plan might actually work out. Nobody’s been crying for a remake of the Julie Andrews original, or for seeing “American Idol” country queen in the lead role, but here she is for one time only on a special called “The Sound of Music Live!” (NBC, 8 p.m.), which stretches on [...]

With a more flattering title than her last comedy foray (“Fat Actress”), Kirstie Alley returns to cable also playing an actress of substance, who is shocked to find the child she gave up for adoption standing at her stage door one night in “Kirstie” (TV Land, 10 p.m.). That the 28 year old schlub who [...]

As Big Cat Week rolls along on Nat Geo Wild, they bring in a celebrity to look over the animals. Noted animal lover Betty White is brought into three Southern California zoos to coo over the lions, tigers and cheetahs. “Betty White Goes Wild” (Nat Geo Wild, 9 p.m.) doesn’t compare that well to other [...]