The Victoria’s Secret Underwear Show
“The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” is as much a tradition of the holiday season as “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” that preceded it by a couple of hours. But it’s…
Remembering Patrice O’Neal
Patrice O’Neal, who died Tuesday at 41, the result of a stroke he suffered last month, was an uncompromising comic who challenged audiences and didn’t mind not being the most…
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…
Pentatonix Wins ‘Sing-Off’
Texas based quintet Pentatonix beat an army of colligates from Dartmouth to take the third season of “The Sing Off” Monday night. The group Urban Method came in third. As…
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…
Comcast Fail
It’s been a tough couple of months since my last cable contract lapsed, before I moved. It was eye-opening how much TV I could watch through basic, bare-boned cable, online…
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…