Sunday TV: Couples Therapy, Covid Style
The series was already about pairs with problems; now a new special adds another complication: the pandemic in “Couple’s Therapy: The COVID Special” (Showtime, 8 p.m.) conducted by Dr. Orna…
Remembering Charley Pride, 1934-2020
It was just last month that country music pioneer Charley Pride was honored at the CMA Awards. Saturday, at 86, he was one of the more than 298,000 Americans who…
Saturday TV: The ABCs of the Bee Gees
For as big a pop group as they became — and there was a moment following “Saturday Night Fever” when they were ubiquitous — the Bee Gees have never been…
Friday TV: Streep, Corden in ‘The Prom’
A second new streaming Meryl Streep movie in as many days? You bet. After her turn in Stephen Soderbergh’s “Let them All Talk” on HBO Max Thursday, here’s Streep in…
Thursday TV: Meryl Goes on a Cruise
Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest play college chums reuniting on a cruise in Stephen Soderbergh’s latest film “Let Them All Talk” (HBO Max, streaming). Shot during a two…
Wednesday TV: ‘The Grinch Musical’
“How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” may have worked best in its original 1966 animated form, with Boris Karloff narrating — certainly compared to the live action Jim Carrey version “How…
Tuesday TV: ’40 Years a Prisoner’ on HBO
Seven years before the police bombing of the MOVE house in Philadelphia that killed 11 and destroyed 65 houses, nine MOVE members were arrested and sentenced to a maximum 100…
Monday TV: Loads of Laurel and Hardy
The best news of the month is a December-long Monday night salute to Laurel & Hardy, whose sweet comedy never goes out of style, even when it started out silent,…
Sunday TV: Bryan Cranston in ‘Your Honor’
Bryan Cranston is used to playing an upstanding citizen who feels forced to be unlawful. Playing a New Orleans judge who tries to shield his son from consequences of a…
Saturday TV: ‘SNL’ Returns with Bateman
Jason Bateman returns to host the first new “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) in a month; Morgan Wallen, the country star who was yanked earlier in the season for…