Best-bets for Jan. 5: “Videos” returns; so does “Fire”

1) “Greatest @Home Videos,” 8 p.m., CBS. Born amid the pandemic’s burst of online originality, this has its 10th special. It’s the second with an award-show theme. Cedric the Entertainer picks the best videos from around the world, settles on a top two and lets viewers choose. Max Greenfield, who stars with him in “The Neighborhood” (shown here) shows up as “verifier of the results of stuff.” Read more…

1) “Greatest @Home Videos,” 8 p.m., CBS. Born amid the pandemic’s burst of online originality, this has its 10th special. It’s the second with an award-show theme. Cedric the Entertainer picks the best videos from around the world, settles on a top two and lets viewers choose. Max Greenfield, who stars with him in “The Neighborhood” (shown here) shows up as “verifier of the results of stuff.”

2) “Fire Counntry,” 9 p.m., CBS. After being gone for months, this returns with reruns. So does “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m.), which never goes away. (CBS has been showing rerums from the 13-year run; UPtv has reruns today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) Both start a new season Feb. 16, but for “Blue Bloods” it will be the last, wrapping up next fall.

3) “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” 8-9:52 p.m., Lifetime, rerunning at 9:52 and midnight. Viewers have been fascinated by the story of Dee Dee Blanchard, who convinced the world that her daughter Gypsy was severely disabled. Gypsy was convicted of helping her then-boyfriend kill her mother. This three-night film was made before her release from prison on Dec. 28.

4) “Chicago” (2002), 8 p.m., Pop. At at time when two great musicals (“Wonka” and “Color Purple” are in theaters, here’s the only musical in the past 55 years to win the best-picture Oscar. Other movies range from action — “Black Panther” (2018), 8 p.m., TBS — to top dramas on Turner Classic Movie: “Moonstruck” (1987) is at 8 p.m., with “The Apartment” (1960) at 10.

5) Streaming. New shows arrived Thursday, AMC+ has “Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale,” a British seven-parter with accusations flying after a teen is killed. Netflix has “The Brothers Sun,” an eight-parter that takes a crime family from Taiwan to Los Angeles, and “Society of the Snow.” It re-enacts the 1972 crisis when half the survivors of a plane crash then survived 72 days in the Andes snow.

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