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2020
Dec
25
 
 
This special new Christmas episode of The Graham Norton Show features George Clooney and Viola Davis, who are appearing via a safe distance and being piped in safely electronically. But so are their respective new movies: Clooney in The Midnight Sky and Davis in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, both of which premiered within the past week on Netflix.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
25
 
 
On this day in 1981, Chuck Woolery made his final appearance as host of The Wheel of Fortune...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
24
 
 
On this day in 1966, New York television station WPIX introduced its beloved broadcast tradition, 'The Yule Log...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
24
 
 
NBC traditionally shows this 1946 Frank Capra film on Christmas Eve now, exercising its semi-exclusive access to the heartstrings-tugging movie by televising it on the most appropriate possible moment, the night before Christmas. What happens to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life is worth watching at any time, but on this night more than most –  especially after this year, when neighborly and financial concerns, and how we treat and help and respect one anothe
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
24
 
 
And here’s another, much more improbable Christmas TV tradition: This 1983 movie version of Jean Shepherd’s nostalgic character comedy about being a boy in the 1940s, obsessed with the dream of getting a particular BB gun for Christmas. Peter Billingsley stars as young Ralphie, with Darren McGavin stealing the movie (with help from his leg lamp) as his gruff father. TBS begins showing A Christmas Story at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve, and shows it continuously for the next 24 ho
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
23
 
 
The '70s sitcom All in the Family is often dismissed today as "that show about the bigot"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
23
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: This new science fiction film, starring George Clooney, is about a man who embarks on an arduous trek across the Arctic in order to reach a communications station and warn astronauts in outer space not to return to Earth, because the planet has become a horribly inhospitable environment in their absence. Well, The Midnight Spy is classified as sci-fi – but does anybody know how to direct-dial the international space station, just in case?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
23
 
 
On this day in 1951, DuMont presented the first coast-to-coast broadcast of a National Football League championship game...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
22
 
 
On this day in 1975, Archie Bunker's "little girl" Gloria gave birth to a son, Joseph Michael Stivic, on CBS's All in the Family...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
22
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Frederick Wiseman is 90 years old now, and still making documentary films. His latest, premiering tonight on PBS, is City Hall, which spends more than four hours of screen time, culled from much more raw footage than that, showing how the city of Boston does the business of running its municipality. Wiseman’s unusual filmmaking approach has been the same since his famous first work, 1967’s Titicut Follies, which looked in depth at another Mas