Sunday TV: Blind Date Dancing
The new “Flirty Dancing” (Fox, 8 p.m.) is pretty much a dating show in dancing shoes: Two strangers learn a dance and perform it together before they can speak. Based…
Saturday: ‘Austin City Limits’ Hall of Fame
Buddy Guy, Shawn Colvin and Lyle Lovett are inducted into the Hall of Fame of the “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings) in a ceremony taped in…
Friday TV: All About Duran Duran
Simon Le Bon visits his old choirmaster and Nick Rhodes shows some of the 10,000 fashion items the band has catalogued and collected over the years in the new documentary…
Thursday TV: Memorable Concert Moments
A compendium of the “iHeart Radio Music Festival Greatest Moments” (CW, 8 p.m.) features performances from Prince with Mary J. Blige from 2012, as well as Miley Cyrus and Billy Idol,…
Wednesday: ‘Call the Midwife’ Christmas
In the UK, Christmas isn’t a dumping ground for reruns and basketball the way it is here. There, they actually craft special Christmas episodes as a gift to their fans.…
Tuesday TV: Mulaney Tries the Kids Gambit
Comedian John Mulaney takes a serious stab at children’s entertainer in his special “John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch” (Netflix, streaming). In it, he chats with kids as well…
Monday TV: ‘His Dark Materials’ Finale
The Magisterium closes in on the first season finale of “His Dark Materials” (HBO, 9 p.m.), the network’s biggest Monday night series since “Chernobyl.” Dafne Keen’s Lyra is reunited with…
Sunday TV: ‘Mr. Robot’ Comes to an End
The dark and inventive series “Mr. Robot” (USA, 9 p.m.), which introduced the world to future Oscar winner Rami Malek, ends its run after four seasons with a two hour…
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…