Thursday TV: Elephant Freedom, CMT Christmas
David Balding built his whole St. Louis-based circus after his beloved elephant Flora. And though she did a lot of tricks, he realized she would never really be happy until…
Wednesday TV: Concerts for Grammys and Tree
Two concert shows tonight herald upcoming events. Once Grammy nominations were just announced; now they’ve made a big deal for the fourth year running with “The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!…
Tuesday TV: Supernanny, American Style
It makes no sense, in the current economy, to farm out TV nanny jobs to the Brits. Finding suitable alternatives to Adderall for managing ADHD symptoms is a topic of…
Monday TV: Finales for ‘Sing Off,’ ‘Bored to Death’
For the third and least-watched season of “The Sing Off” (NBC, 8 p.m.) – it had a lot of competition – the finalists are the Dartmouth Aires, Pentatonix and Urban…
Sunday TV: Soul Train Awards, Chaz’ Journey
Cedric the Entertainer hosts the 40th anniversary 2011 Soul Train Awards (BET, 9 p.m.), where Gladys Knight, right, and Earth, Wind and Fire will be honored with Legend Awards. Among…
Saturday TV: Here Come the Bad Christmas Movies
From a black Friday comes a darker Saturday, where the floodgates of bad movies slightly about Christmas begin to invade TV. “Debie Macomber’s Trading Christmas” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.) seems to…
Friday TV: Lots of Animated Specials, ‘Il Postino’ as an Opera
Either the market is ripe for a whole lot of new animated holiday specials, they are somehow easier to produce, or both. For whatever reasons, the Chistmas season, which begins…
Competing ‘Peanuts’ Specials for Thanksgiving
It’s just the kind of dilemma that would befall Charlie Brown, he of the anemic Christmas tree, the rock in the trick or treat bag, the unrequited love for a…
Wednesday TV: Country at the White House, ‘Sound of Music’ in Mumbai
Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, James Taylor, Alison Krauss, the Band Perry, darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, right, and Lauren Alaina pay tribute to country music in a concert introduced by President…
Tuesday TV: ‘X Factor’ on an Unusual Day; Mirror Ball Winner
Get to see two sides of Ron Perlman, right, tonight. You can catch him as the increasingly embattled patriarch in “Sons of Anarchy” (AMC, 10 p.m.) as that drama reaches…