Monday TV: Rockin’ Eve and All That
Seems silly to watch TV to ensure the passage of time — the clock will strike midnight on your wrist as sure as it will on Times Square. But 2019…
Sunday TV: ‘Escape’ End, ‘Deadly Class’
A new adaptation of the graphic novel “Deadly Class” (Syfy, 9 p.m.) gets a full-episode preview. Lana Condor and Benedict Wong star in the series, set in the 1980s at…
Saturday TV: Cotton and Orange Bowls
There’s a handful of college football bowl games today with South Carolina vs. Virginia (ABC, noon) in the Belk Bowl, Florida vs. Michigan (ESPN, noon) in the Peach Bowl, Nevada vs. Arkansas State (CBS Sports, 1…
Friday TV: A Changeable ‘Black Mirror’
It’s a series that has always tested the moral boundaries of its watchers in an age of robotics and artificial intelligence. Now the single episode “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” (Netflix, streaming)…
Thursday TV: Charlie Brown, Axe Throwing
Let’s not sugarcoat it: There’s not a lot happening in the TV world today. Networks have taken the week off. Late night hosts are vacationing. Streaming services aren’t exactly flooding…
Changes at the Kennedy Center Honors
Things are a little different for “The 41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors” (CBS, 8 p.m.), usually the classiest thing on network TV between the holidays. First, the roster of honorees…
Tuesday TV: Orphans for Christmas
It’s common in the UK to have a special episode on Christmas Day, something that’s only slowly being adopted in the U.S. There is, however, the “Call the Midwife Holiday…
Monday: Tituss Burgess Leads the Choir
Silent Night is also known as the year’s worst night for late night TV with all but one of the usual late night shows pre-empted and the one that appears…
Sunday TV: ‘Watership Down’ by Computer
The popular 1972 Richard Adams novel, which was made into a 1978 animated movie, now gets a stiffer CGI version in a four episode series of “Watership Down” (Netflix, streaming),…
Saturday TV: Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’
Wes Anderson’s charming “Isle of Dogs” (HBO, 8 p.m.) makes its debut on premium cable with its exacting tale of Japanese politics and a ploy to rid the island of…