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2015
Dec
2
 
 
Yesterday, ABC Family showed the 2000 live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie, starring Jim Carrey. Tonight at 9 ET, NBC presents the original animated Christmas Grinch special from 1966, also based on the beloved Dr. Seuss story and character. And this is indeed a special special: Chuck Jones directs. Boris Karloff narrates and plays the Grinch. June Foray, the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel on The Bullwinkle Show, plays Cindy Lou Who. And the producers are Chuck Jones and Ted Geis
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
2
 
 
FALL FINALE: Actually, “fall finale” is one of those recently coined terms, designed, I suspect, to make the network practice of vanishing for the holidays, and not showing any fresh episodes for a month or so, sound more like a favor than an imposition. Here, look! It’s the “fall finale” of Empire! See you again next year!
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
2
 
 
We may or may not learn the identity of the Ten Commandments killer tonight, as on-air promos have teased – but after a week’s hiatus, at least we’ll get closer. And so will John (Wes Bentley), the man on the case…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
1
 
 
Earlier this week, A Charlie Brown Christmas celebrated its 50th anniversary. Well, tonight on CBS, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, with that Burl Ives song leading the way, is celebrating its 51st. Take that, Charlie Brown!
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
1
 
 
Part 1 of 2. It’s another crossover adventure, with a story beginning tonight on The Flash that isn’t concluded until tomorrow’s new installment of Arrow. There was a crossover story last season as well, but this one’s especially complicated, also serving as the back-door pilot for a midseason spinoff, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, premiering in January. This is where Hawkman tells Kendra that she’s a reincarnated soul, destined to be his lover and fellow superher
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
1
 
 
I’ve just previewed the new batch of midseason comedies, and have come to one inescapable conclusion: The Grinder is by far the funniest of this year’s broadcast network sitcoms. And overall, it’s one of the funniest too, on a par with Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix comedy, Master of None. In tonight’s episode, Timothy Olyphant continues his guest appearance as a rival TV hunk.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
1
 
 
Let other shows devote themselves to presenting special Thanksgiving episodes. This show, with all its snooty sorority girls, focuses instead on the retail aftermath, and a different “holiday” entirely: Black Friday.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
1
 
 
Ron Howard directs this 2000 live-action version of the Dr. Seuss villain, starring Jim Carrey in a Christmas fable proving that, even for the holiday-hating Grinch, it’s not easy being green.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
1
 
 
With the final Downton Abbey countdown under way, it’s time to extend a little sympathy to PBS for facing this season’s TV mission impossible: replacing the most popular show in network history...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
30
 
 
SPECIAL: Kristin Chenoweth, who won a Tony Award playing Charlie Brown’s little sister, Sally, in the Broadway revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown 16 years ago, is one of the musical performers in this new special, which celebrates the original telecast of the first Peanuts animated TV special – and that was 50 years ago, on Dec. 9, 1965. Sarah McLachlan, Boyz II Men and Pentatonix also appear, and the host is Kristen Bell (pictured), a mean vocalist herself. When I thi