This timely new Nick News special looks at the young children crossing the U.S. border from Mexico – a number that’s more than doubled in one year. Are they illegal immigrants, or refugees? And now that they’re here, what next? Unlike most news specials on this topic, executive producers Ellerbee and Rolfe Tessem also ask the kids themselves.

2014

Dec

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS By David Bianculli

The best Christmas special ever made, and one of the first. And somehow, though I have it on several DVDs without ads or edits, there’s something about watching it in “real time” that makes it seem like… Christmas. I much prefer, though, when it’s expanded to a one-hour slot, so I know it isn’t being squeezed.

2014

Dec

SONS OF ANARCHY By David Bianculli

This is the penultimate episode of this series – and much as I hate that word, there is a sense of (next-to-) finality about it, as Jax gets closer and closer to the truth about the actions of his mother Gemma, who killed his wife. Jax made a lot of wrong, lethal moves as a result of that murder – so the question becomes, will he react similarly now? And when your mother kills your wife, what is the correct response? Especially in a bikers club?

2014

Dec

THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON By David Bianculli

The countdown celebration of Ferguson’s final shows continues – and tonight, it continues with two of the host’s clear favorites: Henry Winkler, who’s been a guest more than almost anyone else, and Kristen Bell, who accompanied him on his Late Late Show invasion of France. The accompanying photo does not include Henry Winkler…

2014

Dec

2007: CABLE'S SCI FI REIMAGINES 'THE WIZARD OF OZ' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 2007, cable's Sci Fi channel (before it became SyFy) introduced a reimagined version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...

2014

Dec

THE LAST ONE By David Bianculli

December 1 is World AIDS Day, and this new documentary looks at the history and current status of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a patchwork tribute in the best sense of the word. Begun in 1987 by San Francisco activists, it was displayed at the Mall in Washington, D.C. that same year, already having grown larger than a football field and containing 1,920 individual panels, each memorializing a victim of AIDS. Decades later, that quilt has expanded to more than 48,000 panels – and this documenta

2014

Dec

50 YEARS WITH PETER, PAUL AND MARY By David Bianculli

The title’s a bit modest: It’s actually been more than 50 years since this influential folk trio released its first album, back in 1962 and reaching No. 1 on the charts, thanks to their versions of “If I Had a Hammer” and “Lemon Tree.” Other hits followed, including ones that helped popularize Bob Dylan (“Blowin’ in the Wind”) and John Denver (“Leaving on a Jet Plane”). Then, of course, there’s “Puff (The Magic Dragon)

2014

Dec

SHE DONE HIM WRONG By David Bianculli

Mae West plays sexy and suggestive nightclub singer Lady Lou in this 1933 comedy, her first starring role – and one of only two films she made before censors at the time clamped down stringently on the type of double entrendre, and straight-out sexual aggressiveness, that was her stock in trade. He co-star here is a young Cary Grant – but even he is bowled over, if not steamrolled over, by West’s self-penned, tossed-off one-liners.

2014

Dec

THE COLBERT REPORT By David Bianculli

Stephen Colbert began hosting The Colbert Report in January 2005, but it wasn’t until last month that he featured, as an official guest on his show, the man who gave him the job: Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart. Stewart was promoting his new movie, Rosewater, but also clearly was celebrating a decade of their joint success, as the two close friends had spent much of the time trading Emmy wins. Now, in December, Colbert begins the final three weeks of his tenure on The Colbert Report –

2014

Dec

THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON By David Bianculli

Craig Ferguson began hosting The Late Late Show on CBS the first week of 2005. This month, after basically 10 years at the helm, Craig Ferguson is stepping down – and is going out the way he came in, determined to find his own way of having fun and interviewing his guests. His final show is scheduled for Dec. 19, and the guests populating these last three weeks of his show may not even be showing up with anything to promote. They’re people who have been on the show before, usually ma

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