George Clooney, Gladys Knight, U2, Amy Grant and composer Tania León are given The 45th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, 8 p.m.) in a ceremony taped earlier this month in Washington. The president and Vice President and their spouse attend, the biggest applause is may go to Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul, on the mend after an attack and back in public.
Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Eddie Vedder, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires are among the performers on hand to salute the inductees.
On the other end of the country, there is a film-to-concert presentation of “Encanto at The Hollywood Bowl” (Disney+, streaming) involving some of the original voice cast, with Lin-Manual Miranda introducing.
The fifth season of “The Circle” (Netflix, streaming) features all singles — or people pretending to be. Though it seems like they change rules willy nilly to adapt to the action (as they do in the first episode), it still is a largely enjoyable look at navigating online communication.
The new series “The Control Room” (BritBox, streaming) involves an ambulance driver in Glasgow who receives a dire call.
From France comes the comedy romance “Stuck With You” (Netflix, streaming), about a couple of strangers who get stuck in an elevator on New Year’s Eve. Kev Adams and Camille Lellouche star.
The nice side of CBS News is on display in the special “The Gift: Kindness Goes Viral with Steve Hartman” (CBS, 10 p.m.), talking with a professor studying the pass-it-forward phenomenon.