Sunday TV: Honoring Quincy Jones’ 85th
In Quincy Jones’ long career in entertainment, he’s worked with Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra before he produced the biggest hits of Leslie Gore and the best…
Saturday TV: More Christmas Movies
Megan Hilty stars in the latest made-for-TV holiday romance, “Santa’s Boots” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), opposite Noah Mills. She plays a kind of elf, which is pretty much the same plot…
Friday TV: Gripping Border Drama ‘Icebox’
In Daniel Sawka’s super-timely “Icebox” (HBO, 8 p.m.), Anthony Gonzalez portrays a 12-year-old Honduran boy forced to seek asylum in the U.S., only to be apprehended by the Border Patrol…
Thursday TV: Americana on Tap
You’ll be hard pressed to find a better music lineup than the one on the 2018 Americanafest (CMT, 9 p.m.) a Nashville event that finally makes it to television with…
Wednesday TV: Remembering a President
If you’re off work today due to the National Day of Mourning, it’s only fair that you tune in the Memorial Service for President George H.W. Bush (NBC, CNN, MSNBC,…
Tuesday TV: Megan Fox, Archeologist
Not since Melania Trump rocked the Indiana Jones look at the pyramids has there been such a glamorous person adopting the archeologist’s pose. But on the new four-part “Legends of…
Monday TV: ‘Say Her Name: Sandra Bland’
She was an outspoken activist who was going places. Until a Texas officer stopped her for not signaling. She was pulled over, put in jail and thee days later found…
Sunday TV: A Different Martin Story
The Sunday night George R.R. Martin series tonight is not the awaited last season of “Game of Thrones” but an adaptation of his first novella from 1980, which was previously…
Saturday TV: Conference Championships
Conference Championship Weekend means a couple of big games on prime time broadcast TV: Clemson vs. Pittsburgh (ABC, 8 p.m.) in the ACC Championship and Northwestern vs. Ohio State (Fox,…
Friday TV: Christmas Prince Season
Even Netflix is making so many Christmas movies, they’re starting to spawn sequels. “A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding” (Netflix, streaming), is a sequel to last year’s “A Christmas Prince”…