More clever than you might expect it to be – certainly, it was more clever than I expected it to be – this 2014 comedy is scheduled nicely as a family movie to enjoy on Thanksgiving night. The kids will like it, and so will their parents and grandparents.

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Nov

SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL: SEATTLE SEAHAWKS VS. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS By David Bianculli

This is the third game in today’s NFL triple-header, and it’s the one most eagerly awaited. Both the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers are 7-4, and these teams are meeting for the first time since last year’s NFC Championship. Seattle won that game, after a very tough fight, so this game is personal.

2014

Nov

COMEDY CENTRAL’S ALL-STAR NON-DENOMINATIONAL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL By David Bianculli

Stephen Colbert, Larry Wilmore and the stars of Key & Peele are on hand for this new special, which is produced by Funny or Die. Nothing like a Christmas special on Thanksgiving night to make the transition from one holiday to the next – and it’s a transition this Comedy Central special is likely to make fun of, before anyone else has to.

2014

Nov

1980: 'BOSOM BUDDIES' DEBUTS ON ABC By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1980, ABC introduced the sitcom Bosom Buddies, which served as the first significant role for actor Tom Hanks...

2014

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1956: 'THE PRICE IS RIGHT' DEBUTS ON NBC By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1956, NBC debuted the game show, The Price is Right...

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THE MAKING OF PETER PAN LIVE! By David Bianculli

Allison Williams as Peter Pan, and Christopher Walken as Captain Hook, are shown going through their rehearsal paces in this follow-up to last year’s The Sound of Music Live! NBC blockbuster. Maybe, though, you’ll want to keep the little ones away from this behind-the-scenes special. If they explain the kids’ flying as being attributable to wires, and not pixie dust, then I don’t want to know. And neither will they.

2014

Nov

PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES By David Bianculli

This time of year, this is exactly the kind of TV offering viewers are likely to gobble up. It’s a 1987 comedy about all sorts of mishaps during a trip trying to get home in time for Thanksgiving – and serves up plenty of laughs, courtesy of stars Steve Martin and John Candy.

2014

Nov

GONE WITH THE WIND By David Bianculli

At one point in the mid-Seventies, NBC presented 1939’s Gone with the Wind as a two-night movie special, and set ratings records for a while. Now this epic Civil War drama just slides onto cable, relatively unheralded – but it’s always worth watching. Though, on AMC, you have to fight your way through an awful lot of commercial interruptions.

2014

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE THANKSGIVING By David Bianculli

Paul Simon dressed in a turkey suit? It’s such a funny image, I remember it from 1976, when Simon poked fun at his own reputation as, quoting Simon himself, “Mr. Alienation.” But you don’t have to have that long a TV memory, because NBC just repeated that episode of SNL as a special vintage prime-time presentation last Saturday. But tonight, it’s only one element in a Thanksgiving-themed SNL special.

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