Saturday TV: Magoo’s Dickens Special Returns
It made a huge impression on me as a kid: TV’s first animated Christmas special, with a clever approach to the Charles Dickens story that would soon become so overplayed…
Friday TV: ‘Christmas in Washington’ with PSY
The Year of Gangham Style ends with its You Tube proponent PSY performing before the First Family and many others at the annual "Christmas in Washington" (TNT, 8 p.m.) concert…
Thursday TV: Snooki’s Goodbye, ‘X Factor’ Finale, Story of Nim
Nature has already destroyed Seaside Heights and now "Jersey Shore" (MTV, 10 p.m.) is being cast off after six seasons. What once seemed fun because they were so weird and…
Wednesday TV: Tiny Cheerleaders and Beauty Queens
The new “Cheer Perfection” (TLC, 10 p.m.) focuses on a top cheerleading squad in Arkansas and like “Dance Moms,” is built around a tough taskmaster, Alisha Dunlap, who keeps the…
Tuesday TV: ‘Voice’ Finale, All About Iranian-Americans
A win by Nicholas David would make the finale of “The Voice” (NBC, 8 p.m.) a remarkable thing. He’s the only one with a voice all his own, adding soul…
Monday TV: Last ‘Gossip Girl,’ First ‘1600 Penn’
It’s been a couple of years since they’ve been in high school, and all but the most fervent followers have long since lost interest but “Gossip Girl” (The CW, 8…
Sunday TV: Finales for ‘Homeland,’ ‘Dexter,’ ‘Survivor’ and Bachelorhood
The one show this season that's seems to have captured the zeitgeist as well as any is “Homeland” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) which attempted the difficult task of forging a path…
Saturday TV: Jonah Hill Choices, $tones
It’s Jonah Hill night on premium cable as both “21 Jump Street” (Starz, 9 p.m.), the remake of the old series, with Channing Tatum; and “The Sitter” (Cinemax, 10 p.m.),…
Friday TV: ‘Winter in Portlandia’ Special, The Beatles’ ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ Unearthed
One of my favorite comedies is the funny and wryly observed “Portlandia” in which Fred Armisen of “Saturday Night Live” gets to be creative and funny in a way that…
Thursday TV: New Soprano, Lotsa ‘Les Miz’
Lyric soprano Ailyn Perez, left, winner of this year’s Richard Tucker Award for young opera singers, is the focus of tonight’s “Live from Lincoln Center” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local…