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…
Friday TV: Citizen Fincher’s Latest, ‘Mank’
The latest film gift via streaming is David Fincher’s “Mank” (Netflix, streaming), a film about Herman J. Mankiewicz’s struggle to create one of the greatest screenplays, “Citizen Kane” (HBO Max,…
Taking a Misguided UFO to ‘Heaven’s Gate’
It’s the golden age of cult docuseries. Following two different series on NXIVM on Starz, and the revival of one on Australia’s The Family on Starz — and what was…
Also Thursday: Stars of Jingle Balls Past
Another casualty as the pandemic roils on is the lack of radio station Christmas concerts. Tonight’s “iHeart Radio Jingle Ball Greatest Moments” (CW, 8 p.m.) features highlights from the past…
Wednesday TV: A Tree is Lit for Nobody
It was the scraggliest tree in memory when the Norway spruce from Oneonta, N.Y., arrived, maybe time or TV lights will enhance it by the time the switch is flipped…
Tuesday TV: When Natalie Became Nate
Once the voice of the Powderpuff Girls’ Buttercup, Natalie Palamides may be best known as the amusingly antisocial Mara in the Progressive Insurance ads. But in her inventive new special,…