Thursday TV: ‘Bad’ Turns 25, Parade is 86
The big Thanksgiving helping tonight comes in the form of Spike Lee’s documentary on the making of the follow up to the biggest album in history. “Michael Jackson: BAD 25”…
Wednesday TV: Charlie Brown, Cat in Hat and Jim Rome
There's no stopping the holiday onslaught now. But at least one of the holidays being celebrated is actually turkey day, with the perennial "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (ABC, 8 p.m.), earning…
Tuesday TV: The Oafish Billionaire and the Poor Kids of Iowa
If “American Masters” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) were named instead “American Bastards,” it might be more fitting that there’s a two hour profile of David Geffen, one of…
Monday TV: ‘Dust Bowl’ End, HALO Awards
The other shoe falls on the two night epic retelling of "The Dust Bowl" (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings), but not before a plague of grasshoppers, a Woody Guthrie…
The Sound of the Dust Bowl
There were spools of dramatic period newsreel film to fill Ken Burns four-hour, two night documentary on "The Dust Bowl," which begins tonight on PBS. All of it, it seems,…
Also on Sunday: American Music Awards, Oprah’s Favorite Things
Seems like an odd time of the year for awards show, but perhaps in an effort to stand out from the pack, here’s the American Music Awards (ABC, 8 p.m.),…
Saturday TV: Coldplay Concert, Yule Films
“Coldplay Live 2012” (Epix, 8 p.m.) features the band on tour for its Mylo Xyloto tour, playing its hits and such. The film is directed by Paul Dugdale, who did…
Friday TV: Whitney Salute, ‘Top Model’ Finale
The special network programming that winds up November sweeps may seem more suited for Memorial Day than impending Thanksgiving. Networks are putting their money on prime time specials on dead…
Thursday TV: Stones Look Back, Jersey Shore Telethon
The Rolling Stones are marking their 50th year with a handful of concerts and the release today of a new documentary on HBO that they tightly controlled themselves. For “Crossfire…
Wednesday TV: Eddie Murphy Feted, ‘Whitney’ Back
In part because his career started on TV, in skits on “Saturday Night Live,” stars gather to honor him again for a career that’s mostly been in movies on “Eddie…