Thursday TV: Sportspeople of the Year
“Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year” (NBC Sports, 9 p.m.) is an unwieldily title to bestow on someone, and in this year’s case, it’s even inaccurate. Instead, it should be…
Wednesday TV: Fighting Climate Change
When the current president said he’d pull out of international climate accords because he was elected to represent Pittsburgh not Paris, the Mayor of Iron City, among other people, begged…
Tuesday TV: Everybody’s Gone Surfin’
When a group of teens from broken homes all lived together on the north shore of Oahu, they surfed all day to the extent they became the rising group of…
Rufus Wainwright Looks Back
Rufus Wainwright is an accomplished enough figure in music, having just opened his second opera, that he needn’t resort to nostalgia. Lucky for his longtime fans that he is, marking…
Monday TV: More Songs of the Season
Reba McEntire hosts the ninth “CMA Country Christmas” (ABC, 8 p.m.) which features Tony Bennett with Diana Krall, Dan and Shay, Brett Eldridge, Amy Grant, Dustin Lynch, Martina McBride, Old…
Sunday TV: Honoring Quincy Jones’ 85th
In Quincy Jones’ long career in entertainment, he’s worked with Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra before he produced the biggest hits of Leslie Gore and the best…
Saturday TV: More Christmas Movies
Megan Hilty stars in the latest made-for-TV holiday romance, “Santa’s Boots” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), opposite Noah Mills. She plays a kind of elf, which is pretty much the same plot…
Friday TV: Gripping Border Drama ‘Icebox’
In Daniel Sawka’s super-timely “Icebox” (HBO, 8 p.m.), Anthony Gonzalez portrays a 12-year-old Honduran boy forced to seek asylum in the U.S., only to be apprehended by the Border Patrol…
Thursday TV: Americana on Tap
You’ll be hard pressed to find a better music lineup than the one on the 2018 Americanafest (CMT, 9 p.m.) a Nashville event that finally makes it to television with…
Wednesday TV: Remembering a President
If you’re off work today due to the National Day of Mourning, it’s only fair that you tune in the Memorial Service for President George H.W. Bush (NBC, CNN, MSNBC,…