Tuesday TV: Kennedy Center Honors
Looks like they’re running out of people to put into the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, 9 p.m.) with inductees including Gloria Estefan, Lionel Richie and LL Cool J, the…
Monday TV: Imported Christmas Specials
England still reveres the holiday and puts out special episodes (rather than reruns and basketball that dominate U.S. TV). Still, we get a couple of their Christmas episodes on the actual…
Sunday TV: Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter
One thing about Frank Capra's perennial “It’s a Wonderful Life” (NBC, 8 p.m.) is that they don’t overdo it with seasonal replay. Its one showcase is tonight and the 1946 classic…
Saturday TV: Tom Waits for Everyone
Possibly because of a sly medley of “Silent Night” with his own “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis,” a 1979 episode of Tom Waits on “Austin City Limits” (PBS,…
Friday TV: Lucille Ball, a Redhead Again
Two colorized versions of the classic sitcom make up this year’s “I Love Lucy Christmas Special” (CBS, 8 p.m.) with the bright new looks at a 1956 Christmas episode paired…
Thursday TV: ‘Peaky Blinders’ Returns
The fourth season of “Peaky Blinders” (Netflix, streaming), the gangster drama set in post-World War I in Birmingham, England, debuts, with a cast that includes Adrien Brody, Cillian Murphy, Tom…
Wednesday: No ‘Survivor’ Finale Immunity
The distinction of heroes, hustlers and healers became pretty indistinct right away, but this season of “Survivor” (CBS, 8 p.m.) turned out pretty strong, mostly through the sheer will of…
Tuesday TV: A Fancy Quinceañera
The fancy coming-of-age party for Latina girls gets a four-part look in the documentary series “15: A Quinceañera Story” (HBO, 7 p.m.), concentrating on women with particularly difficult paths to…
Monday TV: A Third Life for Jon Snow
Kit Harington’s smoldering gaze returns to HBO not as the resurrected Jon Snow, but as a distant relative of the actor, Robert Catesby, a rebellious Catholic looking to overthrow the…
Sunday TV: ‘A Christmas Story Live!’
As beloved as it is an annual nostalgic holiday film, the 1983 “A Christmas Story” is less known as a musical. But it did get a Tony nomination for its…