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2020
Dec
31
 
 
This day in 1972, marked the last telecast of the CBS sitcom, Anna and the King...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
31
 
 
And the prize for the best documentary of 2020 goes to – wait for it – The Crown. Go ahead, laugh...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
31
 
 
Perhaps even more than usual, television was comfort food in 2020...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
31
 
 
I’m not recommending any of the televised New Year’s Eve celebrations this year. Too depressing. I can’t wait for the pages to turn on the calendar, but for the ball to drop? If there are no people gathered to celebrate, that’s a sad sight. And if there are people to party, and watch the ball drop in Times Square and elsewhere? Even more depressing. But TCM is showing, starting at 8 p.m. ET, all three That’s Entertainment! compilation films of mo
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
31
 
 
For good and bad, PBS keeps surprising us. We don't expect it to be involved with New Year's Eve, a holiday that includes confetti, inebriation, and silly hats. Arbor Day is more its style...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
30
 
 
Because we’re in the middle of the “Dead Week” between Christmas and New Year’s, when almost nothing new or good is presented on television, choices are few, and tonight’s Bianculli’s Best Bets recommendations are for the birds – and they’re crazy. Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, from 1963, begins at 8 p.m. ET on TCM, and another of his horror movie masterpieces, 1960’s Psycho, follows at 10:15 p.m. ET, with
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
30
 
 
Of all the entities that enjoyed the year 2020, a modest list, none stands above Amazon, our national retailing Godzilla...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
30
 
 
On this day in 1963, NBC introduced the game show, Let's Make a Deal...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
29
 
 
This day in 1989 marked Jane Pauley's final day with NBC's Today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
29
 
 
The three lives of Laura Ingalls Wilder continue to fascinate us...