"A Holly Dolly Christmas"--Global icon and country music superstar Dolly Parton shares the spirit of the holidays in her new one-hour entertainment special A HOLLY DOLLY CHRISTMAS, to be broadcast Sunday, Dec. 6 (8:30-9:30 PM, ET/8:00-9:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network and available to stream live and on demand on CBS All Access. Photo: Screen Grab/CBS ©2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Best-bets for March 15: basketball blitz, plus Dolly

1) “Dolly Parton: Here I Am” (2019), 8-10 p.m., CW. One of 12 children in a rural family, Parton (shown here) sang at the Grand Ole Opry at 13 and moved to Nashville the day after graduating from high school. She’s had 110 songs on the country charts (25 at No. 1) and had a 59-year marriage to Carl Dean, who died this month. Here’s a profile, with performance clips. Read more…

1) “Dolly Parton: Here I Am” (2019), 8-10 p.m., CW. One of 12 children in a rural family, Parton (shown here) sang at the Grand Ole Opry at 13 and moved to Nashville the day after graduating from high school. She’s had 110 songs on the country charts (25 at No. 1) and had a 59-year marriage to Carl Dean, who died this month. Here’s a profile, with performance clips.

2) Basketball conference tournaments. There are 10 title games, including ones on CBS (Mountain West, 6 p.m. ET) and Fox (Big East, 6:30). Cable has: ESPN – Big 12, 6 p.m.; ACC, 8:30. ESPN2 – American East, 11 a.m.; MAC, 7:40 p.m.; Big West, 9:40. ESPNU – MAAC, 4:30 p.m.; SWAC, 6:30. CBS Sports Network — Conference USA, 8:30 p.m.

3) “NCIS,” 8 p.m., CBS. An undercover agent has gone missing. In this rerun, the team tries to find him, in the midst of a hostage situation.

4) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Chris Rock – an “SNL” regular back in 1990 – hosted this episode, 34 years later. Also in this rerun, Gracie Abrams has her first time as music guest.

5) ALSO: It’s a good night for double-features. The “Frozen” films are 6:45 and 9:15 p.m. on Freeform. “Crocodile Dundee” ones are 7 and 9 on BBC America (rerunning at 11:30 and 1:30). And the “French Connection” ones (with Gene Hackman, who died recently at 95) are 8 and 10:15 on Movies.

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