Thursday: Blotto Anchor vs. Rockin’ Eve
The sight of Anderson Cooper blotto after a couple of shots administered by Andy Cohen will have to symbolize this shambolic year on “CNN’s New Year’s Eve 2021” (CNN, 8…
Wednesday TV: Leftovers Surely Abound
With all the reruns shown between the holidays, viewers are familiar with the concept of leftovers. Here’s a whole show about it: In the culinary competition “Best Leftovers Ever!” (Netflix,…
Tuesday TV: ‘The Little House’ Builder
A new “American Masters” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) examines the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote her first novel at 65 and created the series that gave…
Monday TV: The Life of Vernon Jordan
The life of the businessman, civil rights leader and presidential counselor is recounted in the documentary “Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings). Lin-Manuel Miranda’s aeronaut…
Sunday TV: Masking Up the Dancers Now
“The Masked Singer” was a dumb idea that worked (in the ratings, anyway), so here comes “The Masked Dancer” (Fox, 8 p.m.). But can a panel of celebrities — in…
Saturday TV: New Season in ‘Letterkenny’
The best present on Boxing Day is the ninth season start of “Letterkenny” (Hulu, streaming), the wry and fast-moving Canadian comedy about a group of people in a tiny Ontario…
Friday TV: Shonda Rhimes’ ‘Bridgerton’
Shonda Rimes’ first big project for Netflix is the fancy dress English period drama “Bridgerton” (Netflix, streaming) with Phoebe Dynevor, Regé-Jean Page and Julie Andrews. Hollywood comes to your house…
Wednesday TV: A Craggy Arctic Clooney
George Clooney stars in the new film “The Midnight Sky” (Netflix, streaming), which he also directed and co-produced, playing a grizzled Arctic scientists who tries to stop a group of…
Tuesday TV: Don’t Fight This ‘City Hall’
“City Hall” (PBS, 8 pm., check local listings), the latest of Frederick Wiseman’s vérité documentaries, minus narrators, centers on the governmental workings of Boston, from grand pronouncements of Mayor Marty…
Monday: ‘Rumble’ on ‘Independent Lens’
Reruns abound this week, and one worth catching is the documentary “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” telling the stories of rockers from Link Wray, pictured above, to Jimi…