Day: December 9, 2021

Weekly Previews

Week’s top-10 for Dec. 13: Grinch, Charlie & lotsa finales

1) Grinch and Charlie Brown, Saturday and Sunday. The two greatest Christmas specials will share the weekend, offering clever animation, great music and stories that are both warm and funny. “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” is 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday on TNT, alongside terrific movies – “A Christmas Story” (1983) at 7:30 p.m. and Patrick Stewart’s “A Christmas Carol” (1999) at 10. “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (shown here) is 7:30 p.m. Sunday on PBS. Charlie’s also on Apple TV+; Grinch will be on NBC Dec. 25. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / December 9, 2021
Daily Best Bets

Best-bets for Dec. 11: Billie, Frosty & the Grinch

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 pm., NBC. Billie Eilish (shown here) becomes the first person this season to double as host and music guest. She’s also the first to do it since Nick Jonas in February; since then, three people who had previously hosted – Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and Halsey – settled for being music guest. Eilish also may be the youngest person to do both; she’ll be a teen until next Saturday. When she was 17, she became the second person ever (after Christopher Cross) to sweep the top four Grammys Read more…

By Mike Hughes / December 9, 2021