It’s one for the money, two for the show, and tree to get ready. Tonight’s the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, an annual ceremony that only in the past decade or so has been deemed worthy of being televised. But here it is, with not only the visuals of the lights, but the sounds of the holidays – as delivered in song by Tony Bennett, Josh Groban, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, and others.

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ARROW SUPERHERO CROSSOVER By David Bianculli

The CW superhero parade of DC Comics characters continues tonight, as Arrow – a.k.a. Green Arrow, at least in the vintage comics – hosts the latest hour in this week’s four-episode, four-series crossover story. And if the prospect of that make you all a-quiver – well, Arrow is the place for quivers, so why not?

2016

Nov

DOLLY PARTON’S CHRISTMAS OF MANY COLORS: THE CIRCLE OF LOVE By David Bianculli

This new NBC holiday telemovie is a sequel to last year’s Coat of Many Colors Dolly Parton holiday biography. If anything, the sentimental quotient is upped for this continuation movie, which once again stars Alyvia Alyn Lind as the young Dolly Parton – and the current Dolly Parton as a vision of herself billed as the Painted Lady.

2016

Nov

SOUTH PARK By David Bianculli

There are only two episodes left in this season’s new shows, and its continuing story line of an international computer hack aimed at trolls in general – and, in tonight’s episode, at South Park residents in particular.

2016

Nov

INCORPORATED By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Behind the scenes, this new Syfy series about a dystopian future is produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. On screen, its stars include Dennis Haysbert of 24 and Julia Ormond of Mad Men. It’s set in 2074, and, as with the movie Minority Report, what’s most impressive – at least in tonight’s premiere episode – is its detailed vision of its imagined future, which is ruled by corporations instead of countries and is divided into green and red “z

2016

Nov

KOYAANISQATSI By David Bianculli

Please, please, stay up to watch this, or record it for viewing at a later date. This 1982 film bears the title of a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance," and it's basically an entire movie showing scenes, of nature and of civilization, either sped up or slowed down so we can see them in a different way -- all scored to the perfectly matched music of Philip Glass. When I saw this documentary for the first time, 33 years ago, it blew me away. When I watch it again tonight, it'll do the

2016

Nov

JULIA ORMOND CONTROLS THE BLEAK FUTURE OF 'INCORPORATED' By David Hinckley

Incorporated's Julia Ormond talks about Syfy's unsettling vision of a future in which cold, soulless mega-corporations rule what’s left of the world for the benefit of a select elite...

2016

Nov

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

Tonight is another elimination night – and this time, the field is being whittled down to the Top 9.

2016

Nov

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER By David Bianculli

Another 1960s holiday TV special that refuses to die, this one is repeated tonight to kick off CBS’s evening of prime time. The title song is sung, as it has been for 52 years, by Burl Ives.

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