Wednesday TV: Christmas Specials from the UK
For Christmas, American broadcasters give viewers reruns and sports. But the Brits continue to make very special episodes for holiday premieres. The two-hour “‘Call the Midwife’ Holiday Special” (PBS, 8…
Tuesday TV: A Last Christmas Eve Special
Coming in right under the wire is the last Yuletide special this season: “Christmas with Andrea Bocelli and Friends: A Grammy Holiday Special” (CBS, 8 p.m.). Jennifer Hudson, Due Lipa,…
Monday TV: ‘Christmas at Graceland’ Again
Reruns abound two days before Christmas. One of note is “Christmas at Graceland” (NBC, 8 p.m.), a special that first aired last year. Hosted by granddaughter Riley Keough in Memphis,…
Sunday TV: The 47th Kennedy Center Honors
The unusual group honored for the 2024 Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, 8 p.m.) include Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval, Francis Ford Coppola, The Grateful Dead and, for the first time, a…
Saturday TV: Martin Short Returns to ‘SNL’
Onetime cast member Martin Short hosts the last “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) of the year; his third time to host. Hozier is musical guest for the second time.…
Friday TV: Kerry Washington Goes to War
Kerry Washington stars in a new film about the first Women’s Army Corps unit of color during World War II, “The Six Triple Eight” (Netflix, streaming). Ebony Obsidian, Milan Jackson…
Thursday: Stephanie Hsu, Zosia Mamet in ‘Laid’
Stephanie Hsu of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” plays a woman who finds that many of her exes are dying, so ventures off to warn the other exes in the…
Tuesday TV: ‘iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2024’
Ryan Seacrest and Elvis Duran host the “iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2024” (ABC, 8 p.m.) featuring performances from the season’s arena concerts that include Katy Perry, pictured above, as well as…
Tuesday TV: Inside Jerry Lewis’ Nazi Film
“From Darkness Into Light” (TCM, 8 p.m.) is the new documentary by Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler, about Jerry Lewis’ never-released 1972 film “The Day the Clown Cried,” famously set…
Monday TV: Seeing World While They Can
When Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier learned that three of their four children would eventually go blind because of a rare condition, the Montreal family took a worldwide trip to…