TELEMOVIE PREMIERE: In 1985, PBS imported a fabulous Candian CBC miniseries version of the Lucy Maud Montgomery story, starring Megan Follows in the title role, and Richard Farnsworth and Colleen Dewhurst as the crusty siblings who reluctantly take in the bubbly young orphan girl. More than 30 years later, another delightful new version comes along, also on PBS – a taste, at least, dramatizing just the start of young Anne’s story – that’s perfectly positioned as a Thanksg

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SOUTH PARK CHRISTMAS MARATHON By David Bianculli

And now for something completely different. If it’s full-family holiday entertainment you want, look elsewhere. But if, after Thanksgiving dinner, you’re eager to get on to the next big televised holiday fixation, and you’re decidedly irreverent and not easily shocked, then this South Park mini-marathon may be for you. It gathers all the episodes featuring the most improbable animated characters in the history of Christmas TV holiday specials: a talking piece of excrement calle

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THANKSGIVING IS BRIGHTER WITH THE NEW ADAPTATION OF 'ANNE OF GREEN GABLES' By David Hinckley

The new telemovie adaptation of the beloved novel, further solidifies Thanksgiving’s reputation as one of TV’s last remaining safe places...

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A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING By David Bianculli

After the two best Peanuts holiday specials, for Christmas and Halloween, there’s a steep dropoff in satisfaction among the remaining animated programs featuring Charlie Brown and the gang. But on what may as well be considered Thanksgiving Eve, let’s give thanks, at least, for a holiday special that even the youngest gathered among us can enjoy on this occasion.

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MACY'S 90TH THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE By David Bianculli

The parade isn’t until tomorrow, of course, but tonight’s Macy’s parade special sets the stage, if not the table, by giving both a preview of tomorrow’s festivities and a history lesson of Macy’s past parades – a tradition that goes back 90 years now, all the way to one year before the advent of the talking motion picture. And even then, the first parade balloons had a cinematic link: to the animated Felix the Cat.

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE THANKSGIVING SPECIAL 2016 By David Bianculli

I’m not sure what’s going to be included in this new prime-time, two-hour SNL compilation Thanksgiving special. But if it doesn’t include the classic mid-1970s appearance of Paul Simon, dressed up in a turkey costume to sing “Still Crazy After All These Years,” I’m going to call fowl.

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SOUTH PARK By David Bianculli

Repeated for the holidays, in its entirety and just in time: the South Park “Black Friday” trilogy. Don’t leave home without it – especially on the day after Thanksgiving.

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SOUNDBREAKING: STORIES FROM THE CUTTING EDGE OF RECORDED MUSIC By David Bianculli

Part 8. Among other elements on this show, tonight’s installment in this series about the evolution of recorded music looks at, and listens to, two popular performers with markedly different vocal styles: Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower. Check local listings.

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FINDING THE SMALLEST POINTS OF LIGHT ON ONE OF HISTORY'S DARKEST DAYS By David Hinckley

A new PBS special on the sinking of the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor finds a tiny ray of sunshine in a terrible story...

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’WESTWORLD’ EVOLVES FROM PULPY SCI-FI THRILLER INTO SHOW ABOUT BIG IDEAS By Alex Strachan

No one could spin a yarn quite like Michael Crichton, so it was probably inevitable that the 1973 movie thriller Westworld would be spun off for the small screen one day...

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