Sunday TV: Mariah Carey Tries Again
Mariah Carey tries to redeem herself after bungling her performance a year ago on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” (ABC, 8 p.m.). The cumbersomely-named, six hour…
Saturday TV: Hallmark Switches Holidays
Hallmark has premiered 33 original Christmas movies this year, starting as far back as Oct. 27. But they’ve made only one New Year’s one, and it’s on tonight: “Royal New…
Friday TV: Look Into More ‘Black Mirror’
Just before the annual two day New Year’s marathon of classic episodes of “The Twilight Zone” (beginning Saturday on Syfy), here comes a new batch of episodes from its closest…
Thursday TV: Puffing Up the Old P. Diddy
A two-hour promotional documentary on Sean “Diddy” Combs that first appeared on iTunes gets a prime time network debut. “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story” (Fox, 8 p.m.),…
Wednesday TV: How the Dinosaurs Died
The year is ending and “Nova” (PBS, 9 p.m.) is looking at the “Day the Dinosaurs Died” and the seven-mile-wide asteroid that triggered it 66 million years ago. A hero…
Tuesday TV: Kennedy Center Honors
Looks like they’re running out of people to put into the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, 9 p.m.) with inductees including Gloria Estefan, Lionel Richie and LL Cool J, the…
Monday TV: Imported Christmas Specials
England still reveres the holiday and puts out special episodes (rather than reruns and basketball that dominate U.S. TV). Still, we get a couple of their Christmas episodes on the actual…
Sunday TV: Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter
One thing about Frank Capra's perennial “It’s a Wonderful Life” (NBC, 8 p.m.) is that they don’t overdo it with seasonal replay. Its one showcase is tonight and the 1946 classic…
Saturday TV: Tom Waits for Everyone
Possibly because of a sly medley of “Silent Night” with his own “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis,” a 1979 episode of Tom Waits on “Austin City Limits” (PBS,…
Friday TV: Lucille Ball, a Redhead Again
Two colorized versions of the classic sitcom make up this year’s “I Love Lucy Christmas Special” (CBS, 8 p.m.) with the bright new looks at a 1956 Christmas episode paired…