New Year’s Eve All Over the Place
Four full hours before that mirrored ball considers any movement, three networks pop their champagne corks with premature New Year’s Even coverage — four if you count PBS. Get inspired…
Wednesday TV: Mozart Back in the Jungle
Critics sneered when “Mozart in the Jungle” (Amazon, streaming) got a couple of Golden Globe nominations last month. But it was the sort of thing the Hollywood Foreign Press would…
Tuesday TV: Kennedy Center Honors
The class event of a dreary week of TV is the annual Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, 9 p.m.) taped in D.C. earlier this month. It brings Aretha Franklin singing honoree…
Monday TV: Strung Out in Cape Cod
"Christmas morning every morning, who doesn't want that?" says one of the sad young people in the chilling new documentary "Heroin: Cape Cod, USA" (HBO, 9 p.m.) where seemingly well…
Sunday TV: The Last Ballet
The last Sunday night of the year is also arguably the worst Sunday night of the year for TV. Scarcely any new scripted episodes of anything are on. Most shows…
Saturday TV: Eric Roberts Stalks Again
While his sister has gone on to become one of the most bankable Hollywood stars and daughter has become one of the bigger teen stars, having just finished her first…
Playlist 12-25-15
Began and ended the Christmas night show with Nutcracker variations. Tried to exclude all carols and Santa references as possible, but still wanted to consider the day. "The Worst Christmas…
Friday TV: Christmas Specials via UK
Gotta hand it to the Brits, who not only care (and remember) which song is No. 1 at Christmas each year (This year, it’s either Justin Bieber or the Lewisham…
Thursday TV: Magoo, You’ve Done It Again
Much has been made this season of the 50th anniversary of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (ABC, 9 p.m.), which gets presumably its final showing tonight, alongside the wan special saluting…
Wednesday TV: Frank and Bing’s Yule
There's nothing like the old Yuletide music specials to stoke nostalgia at Christmastime. One runs tonight, with "Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank" (8 p.m.), a 1953 special with Bing…