We’re big fans of the the band OK Go who have really taken the idea of music videos into what we might all agree is the realm of fine art. For the past few years, they have been the high priests of the single take, fusing mind-boggling choreographed performance and colorful op-art into 4 minute masterwork achievement...

2016

Nov

PBS’S ‘NATIONAL PARK SYMPHONY’ TAKES USUAL PLEDGE DRIVES INTO BEAUTIFUL NEW TERRITORY. LITERALLY. By Tom Brinkmoeller

There are many awful necessities in life; among them are: Cutting grass, raking leaves, shoveling snow and enduring PBS pledge drives... But there’s an exception to that rule coming soon that will envelope most of the PBS universe...

2016

Nov

MACY'S 90TH THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE By David Bianculli

Of the TV parade coverage today, this one, on NBC, is the most tenured and traditional – and today’s the day when those particular attributes should count for something. So watch as Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker work their way through the 90th edition of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and recount the history that goes all the way back to the first. And goes back, in fact, to a Felix the Cat balloon, which will be represented, in modernized form, in today’s pa

2016

Nov

THE SIMPSONS 600 MARATHON By David Bianculli

Back in 2014, FX’s sister network FXX put itself on the map by presenting a marathon of all 552 episodes then produced of Fox’s The Simpsons – a 12-day marathon that set records as the longest TV marathon in history. Well, history marches on, as does The Simpsons. Today at noon ET, FXX presents a new compilation of Simpsons episodes, a mega-marathon that now covers 600 episodes, presented over 300 hours, represents 27 seasons, and will take 13 days to complete, finishing up at

2016

Nov

PRO FOOTBALL: WASHINGTON REDSKINS VS. DALLAS COWBOYS By David Bianculli

Here’s another long-standing Thanksgiving Day tradition: the Dallas Cowboys, once called America’s Team, playing on Turkey Day. This time they face the Washington Redskins – and I wonder how much thought the NFL gave in putting together this particular holiday game schedule. On a day we’re supposed to be recalling and revering the first Thanksgiving and all it represents, are the Cowboys facing an appropriate opponent? It’s a somewhat uncomfortable thought, whether

2016

Nov

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES By David Bianculli

TELEMOVIE PREMIERE: In 1985, PBS imported a fabulous Candian CBC miniseries version of the Lucy Maud Montgomery story, starring Megan Follows in the title role, and Richard Farnsworth and Colleen Dewhurst as the crusty siblings who reluctantly take in the bubbly young orphan girl. More than 30 years later, another delightful new version comes along, also on PBS – a taste, at least, dramatizing just the start of young Anne’s story – that’s perfectly positioned as a Thanksg

2016

Nov

SOUTH PARK CHRISTMAS MARATHON By David Bianculli

And now for something completely different. If it’s full-family holiday entertainment you want, look elsewhere. But if, after Thanksgiving dinner, you’re eager to get on to the next big televised holiday fixation, and you’re decidedly irreverent and not easily shocked, then this South Park mini-marathon may be for you. It gathers all the episodes featuring the most improbable animated characters in the history of Christmas TV holiday specials: a talking piece of excrement calle

2016

Nov

THANKSGIVING IS BRIGHTER WITH THE NEW ADAPTATION OF 'ANNE OF GREEN GABLES' By David Hinckley

The new telemovie adaptation of the beloved novel, further solidifies Thanksgiving’s reputation as one of TV’s last remaining safe places...

2016

Nov

A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING By David Bianculli

After the two best Peanuts holiday specials, for Christmas and Halloween, there’s a steep dropoff in satisfaction among the remaining animated programs featuring Charlie Brown and the gang. But on what may as well be considered Thanksgiving Eve, let’s give thanks, at least, for a holiday special that even the youngest gathered among us can enjoy on this occasion.

2016

Nov

MACY'S 90TH THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE By David Bianculli

The parade isn’t until tomorrow, of course, but tonight’s Macy’s parade special sets the stage, if not the table, by giving both a preview of tomorrow’s festivities and a history lesson of Macy’s past parades – a tradition that goes back 90 years now, all the way to one year before the advent of the talking motion picture. And even then, the first parade balloons had a cinematic link: to the animated Felix the Cat.

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