Tuesday TV: Rockin’ Eve and Such
The longest of the evening’s countdown shows also has the most cumbersome title: “Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020” (ABC, 8 p.m.), which features performances…
Monday TV: Family Films Its Escape
When the Taliban started coming after cafe owner Hassan Fazili in Afghanistan — for serving men and women in his shop — he grabbed his wife and two daughters to…
Sunday TV: Blind Date Dancing
The new “Flirty Dancing” (Fox, 8 p.m.) is pretty much a dating show in dancing shoes: Two strangers learn a dance and perform it together before they can speak. Based…
Saturday: ‘Austin City Limits’ Hall of Fame
Buddy Guy, Shawn Colvin and Lyle Lovett are inducted into the Hall of Fame of the “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings) in a ceremony taped in…
Remembering Sleepy LaBeef, 1935-2019
Sleepy LaBeef, the rockabilly figure who played and toured for more than 60 years, died the day after Christmas. He was 84 and had played his last concert in September.…
Friday TV: All About Duran Duran
Simon Le Bon visits his old choirmaster and Nick Rhodes shows some of the 10,000 fashion items the band has catalogued and collected over the years in the new documentary…
Thursday TV: Memorable Concert Moments
A compendium of the “iHeart Radio Music Festival Greatest Moments” (CW, 8 p.m.) features performances from Prince with Mary J. Blige from 2012, as well as Miley Cyrus and Billy Idol,…
Wednesday: ‘Call the Midwife’ Christmas
In the UK, Christmas isn’t a dumping ground for reruns and basketball the way it is here. There, they actually craft special Christmas episodes as a gift to their fans.…
Tuesday TV: Mulaney Tries the Kids Gambit
Comedian John Mulaney takes a serious stab at children’s entertainer in his special “John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch” (Netflix, streaming). In it, he chats with kids as well…
Monday TV: ‘His Dark Materials’ Finale
The Magisterium closes in on the first season finale of “His Dark Materials” (HBO, 9 p.m.), the network’s biggest Monday night series since “Chernobyl.” Dafne Keen’s Lyra is reunited with…