Day: November 23, 2023

Best bets for Nov. 25: one big game, many little movies

1) College football, noon ET, Fox. This is what sports fans and accountants dream of: Arch-rivals, undefeated and ranked No. 2 and 3 in the nation, collide in a stadium that has held 115,000. Ohio State visits Michigan (shown here); the winner faces Iowa in the Big Ten championship game. Also, top-ranked Georgia visits Georgia Tech at 7:30 p.m. on ABC and Iowa State is at Kansas State at 8 on Fox. Read more…

Here’s the TV Christmas mega-list

For 57 years, people have been singing the Broadway song, “We Need a Little Christmas.”
Now it seems especially true. TV networks and viewers need A LOT of Christmas.
Scrambling to fill voids created by strikes, networks have strained their supply of reruns, reality shows, game shows and other nonsense. They need a break – and a six-week Christmas cruise. Here’s a mega-list, by category and date, of what’s coming. Read more…

When does your show return? Here’s the list

Now that the big-four networks have set their post-strike schedules, viewers can ask the key question: “Hey, when does my show return?”
Maybe you only care about “La Brea” (we won’t judge) or “Celebrity Name That Tune” (well, maybe we’ll judge a little). You can find them in this alphabetical list, which includes shows that are new (including “Elsbeth,” shown here) or returning from last season or simply back from a mid-season break.
Not included here are shows that never left (“60 Minutes,” for instance) or still haven’t been scheduled. Everything is subject to change, via network whim. This follows the usual rules for alphabetizing – ignore any “The”; numbers are presented as if they were spelled out. Here we go: Read more…