Saturday: ‘Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President’
The 2020 documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President” (CNN, 8 p.m.), about his interacitons with the Allman Brothers Band, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, gets a timely replay. The remains…
Friday TV: Wallace and Gromit vs. Technology
Nick Park brings back his charming characters with the second full-length feature “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Netflix, streaming) that finds the stop-motion inventor and his dog adjusting to…
Thursday TV: Colin Firth in ‘Lockerbie’
Colin Firth stars in the five-episode limited series “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth” (Peacock, streaming) about the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 that killed 270…
Wednesday TV: New York Rockin’ Day, Too
They talk about New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, but how about New Year’s Rockin’ Day? The 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (ABC, 8 p.m.) that first ran…
Tuesday TV: Overdoing It on New Year’s Eve
New Year's Eve overflows with special programming, on just about every broadcast network. The old-timer among them is “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” (ABC, 8 and…
Monday TV: A Beauty Queen’s Identity Crisis
Sharon-Rose Khumalo, a winning South African beauty queen, faced an identiy crisis when she discovered she’s intersex. Her story is told in Tunde Skovran’s documentary “Who I Am Not,” making…
Sunday TV: Memorable Grammy Moments
February’s duet of Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman on her “Fast Car.” Lady Gaga’s 2016 David Bowie tribute. The Joe Strummer tribute with Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Dave Grohl…
Saturday TV: Eight College Football Bowl Games
It’s football and that’s about it on TV today. A wealth of college football bowl games start in Boston, where baseball's storied Fenway Park is turned into a football field…
Friday TV: Behind Grammy’s Best Songs
The first of two specials telling the stories behind the Grammy winners for song of the year, the two hour “Grammy Greats: The Stories Behind the Songs” (CBS, 9 p.m.)…
Thursday TV: A Second Season for ‘Squid Game’
The popular series “Squid Game” (Netflix, streaming) returns for a new season, set three years after Song Gi-hun’s winning the treacherous survival competition in the first season. He’s back to…