Friday TV: Welcoming ‘The Two Popes’
I’m getting spoiled by the sudden availability on streaming services of Oscar worthy big screen movies. The latest is “The Two Popes” (Netflix, streaming) starring Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict…
Thursday TV: A Darker ‘Christmas Carol’
The perennial Charles Dickens tale gets a very dark reading in the new, feature-length “FX’s A Christmas Carol” (FX, 7:30 p.m.). Guy Pearce of “Momento” stars as a younger-than-usual version…
Wednesday TV: Bunkers and Impeachment
The Emmy-winning “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” (ABC 8 p.m.) is back with another pair of re-enactments of the Norman Lear comedies “All in the Family” and “Good…
Tuesday: Dogs in Action and at Hairdresser
The wilder corners in the world of competitive dog grooming is covered in the documentary “Well Groomed” (HBO, 9 p.m.). Then, more conventionally-coiffed canines who stood out in 2019 get…
Monday: The Other Side of ‘Laurel Canyon’
For those who wondered about the lack of women and solo artists in Jakob Dylan’s still agreeable “Echo in the Canyon” will get the fuller story in the new Alison…
Sunday TV: Jonas Brothers Are No EWF
Once, it was the shining broadcast programming light between Christmas and New Year’s. But “The 42nd Kennedy Center Honors” (CBS, 8 p.m.) has been moved up and out of that…
Saturday TV: Christmas Movie Avalanche
Of the many, many Christmas movies on tonight, Ashanti plays a woman who befriends a homeless jazz singer (Stan Shaw) and helps him find his daughter (Sanhani Nichole) in time…
Friday TV: Ryan Reynolds Action Series
Ryan Reynolds stars in Michael Bay’s new action series “6 Underground” (Netflix, streaming) about the new kind of hero: ones who have faked their own deaths and have nothing to…
Thursday: ‘Great American Baking Show’
“The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition” (ABC, 9 p.m.) begins its short run with Baby Spice Emma Bunton hosting the U.S. version alongside Paul Hollywood, Anthony “Spice” Adams” and…
Wednesday: Boy Connects to Beethoven
Director Irene Taylor Brodsky chronicled her deaf parents’ journey in the 2007 “Hear and Now,” returns with another personal project, tracking her own son who began going deaf at a…