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2014
Dec
19
 
 
SERIES FINALE: Last night, Stephen Colbert provided a very fitting farewell to his Colbert Report, gathering dozens of favorite guests on stage for a group sing-along before flying off to immortality on Santa’s sleigh. Tonight, Craig Ferguson ends his 10-year reign as the host of The Late Late Show, CBS’s follow-up to Late Show with David Letterman – and does it by featuring, as his final guest, Letterman’s one-time late-night rival, Jay Leno. Doubtlessly, there’s a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Dec
19
 
 
A long-standing TV tradition ends tonight. With David Letterman set to step down next year, long before Christmas 2015, tonight’s annual Christmas show is the last time Darlene Love will be on hand to sing “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home”). It’s also the last time Jay Thomas, who has been on the show most years to toss a football at the giant meatball atop Letterman’s Christmas tree, is likely to share his story of driving around stoned with the Lone Ranger in hi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Dec
19
 
 
Finally, a college football season will settle bar arguments around the country…or will it?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Dec
18
 
 
Starting at 10 a.m. ET, The Colbert Report is noting its final day on the air by an all-day marathon that runs right up to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show at 11 p.m. ET. That’s 11 straight hours of selected episodes from The Colbert Report – episodes which are being presented as a surprise, without any information about which ones are shown, or when. But I’d bet that the opening offering will be Stephen Colbert’s first show from 2005. I’m not certain of that, bu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Dec
18
 
 
There’s no “Bah, humbug!” reaction to this 1938 film. It’s a terrific version of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story, with Reginald Owen as one of the cinema’s all-time best incarnations of Ebenezer Scrooge.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Dec
18
 
 
There are two very compelling reasons to watch tonight’s show in particular. One is that the evening’s guest is Chris Rock. The other is that, at some point on tonight’s show, Jon Stewart is bound to bid a fond farewell to his Comedy Central colleague in arms, Stephen Colbert.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Dec
18
 
 
SERIES FINALE: Stephen Colbert has been going out not with a whimper, or a bang, but however the hell he wants. Interview Smaug the dragon? Sure, why not? Close out his entire decade-long run as a triumphant talk-show conservative caricature by making room for his friend “Grimmy,” a.k.a. The Grim Reaper? Sure. And I hope, on this final show, they play a game of chess…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Dec
18
 
 
While Stephen Colbert presents his final show tonight, Craig Ferguson mounts his penultimate one. His guest: frequent visitor Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Dec
17
 
 
For his fourth holiday TV special, Michael Bublé gets some new digs – Radio City Music Hall – and a guest who, as musical specials go, simply cannot be beat. Yes, it’s Barbra Streisand. Other guests: Ariana Grande, Miss Piggy and, naturally, the Rockettes.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Dec
17
 
 
Part 3 of 3. The 2014: A Space Odyssey continues tonight, but the story, like the voyage, may or may not conclude with the end of tonight’s “final” installment. Not if there’s a sequel…