Day: November 7, 2019

Weekly Previews

Week’s best-bets for Nov. 11: It’s country’s time

1) Country build-up, Tuesday and Wednesday, ABC. Dolly Parton, Barbara Walters has said, is the perfect interviewee; she has candor, intelligence and great stories to tell. We’ll see that at 10 p.m. Tuesday, when Robin Roberts hosts a Parton documentary. The next morning, Roberts and “Good Morning America” will be in Nashville. That night, at the Country Music Association awards, Parton joins the mega-opener and also does a gospel number; there’s more ahead, including a series (shown here) based on her songs, Nov. 22 on Netflix. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / November 7, 2019

Daily Best Bets

Best-bets for Nov. 9: “SNL” reruns a gem

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. For Phoebe Waller-Bridge, this is a can’t miss year. She won three Emmys (for writing, producing and starring in “Fleabag”) and was nominated for a fourth (for producing “Killing Eve”). Then she hosted the season’s second “SNL,” which reruns here; it was a big improvement over the first. The “Mid-Day News” sketch was sharp and another – letters between a war-time soldier and his love, with Mikey Day (shown here) and Waller-Bridge – was wonderfully clever. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / November 7, 2019