Last night, NBC repeated its 2013 Sound of Music Live! television adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic musical, starring Carrie Underwood. Tonight, ABC trumps that, and wins the holiday pot, by rebroadcasting the 1965 movie version of that same Broadway musical. This one, of course, stars Julie Andrews, and doesn’t require a spoonful of sugar to swallow it. It arrives plenty sweet enough as is.

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LONE SURVIVOR By David Bianculli

In this fact-based 2013 war drama, four Navy SEALS are stuck in the mountains of Afghanistan, isolated from reinforcements, when their routine-sounding mission devolves into an unexpected battle against a veritable army of Taliban fighters. Peter Berg directed and is co-writer, and the stars include Mark Wahlberg and Taylor Kitsch. The latter, of course, worked with Berg before, on the TV version of Friday Night Lights. But don’t get too attached to both of these leading roles, because the

2014

Dec

TREASURES FROM THE DISNEY VAULT By David Bianculli

Here’s an exciting new occasional offering from TCM: dipping into the Disney vault for vintage treasures, just like they used to do on The Mickey Mouse Show. Tonight’s dip into the Disney archives begins at 8 p.m. ET with a trio of vintage shorts, starting with 1932’s Santa’s Workshop. At 8:30 p.m. ET comes 1954’s The Disneyland Story, the preview for the still-under-construction California theme park, which opened Disney’s cannily cross-promotional ABC series

2014

Dec

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: You’ve got to give credit to this season’s villain, Haqqani, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but with the right human shield to protect him. First it was Saul, whose presence prevented Haqqani from being obliterated by a bomb strike. Then, last week, it was Carrie, whose presence at the scene of Quinn’s planned bombing of Haqqani’s vehicle allowed him to drive away unscathed from that potential assassination as well. But the person Carrie sa

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THE AFFAIR By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Whether you watch this season finale depends upon how drawn you’ve been by the interlocking, often contradictory love story that, by tonight’s episode, takes back seat to a detective story. Whether the questions are answered to your satisfaction will depend – on both what you’re expecting, and how the show delivers.

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Dec

CLASSIC SIGN OFF By Eric Gould

Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show signed off on Friday (Dec 19) after ten years on the air, closing out a memorable week as Ferguson and robot sidekick Geoff Peterson (Josh Robert Thompson) sent the show off with some great sketches...

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Dec

THE WIZARD OF OZ By David Bianculli

Nobody gets in to see the Wizard. Not nobody, not nohow! Not unless you have cable – in which case, you can tune to TNT tonight and see, almost casually, the annual movie-on-TV event that was so significant, and so eagerly awaited, when I was a child that I wrote about it in advance, in a countdown, in my diary at age 7. And today, by the way, is the final day of my Personal History of Television exhibition at the Apexart gallery in New York, where that very diary is on display under glass

2014

Dec

THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE! By David Bianculli

Here’s a truly informative “compare and contrast” exercise, though it takes a full day to complete. Tonight in prime time, NBC presents a repeat of last year’s live TV theatrical event, starring Carrie Underwood in the 2013 adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Then, tomorrow night at the same time, ABC presents the 1965 movie version of the same musical, starring Julie Andrews. Guess who wins?

2014

Dec

DIVERGENT By David Bianculli

Shailene Woodley stars as Tris in this 2014 action movie, one of the latest films to aim squarely at the young audience by building a drama, and a potential franchise, around a defiant, strong and independent young woman. And Divergent hit its mark, so there will be more.

2014

Dec

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey are on hand in this new edition, to promote Dumb and Dumber To – but look who else is on hand, as a big bonus. There’s Tamsin Greig, the Episodes actress I absolutely adore – and Jude Law, about whom many women I know feel likewise.

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