Day: November 15, 2023

Weekly Previews

Week’s top-10 for Nov. 20: The holidays take over

1) Thanksgiving Day parade (shown here), 8:30 a.m. Thursday, NBC; 9 a.m., CBS. Both networks show the same 12 marching bands, 26 floats (bearing music by Jon Batiste, Chicago, the Muppets and more) and – just before noon – Santa. The difference is in the early part, with Broadway casts. NBC even starts a half-hour early, to squeeze in five musicals (including “Spamalot” and “Back to the Future”), plus the Rockettes. It has a preview hour at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / November 15, 2023

News and Quick Comments

Bad news: It’s Sheldon’s final season

There’s some more bad news for TV viewers: This will be the final year for “Young Sheldon”
CBS announced that the show’s seventh season – which doesn’t even start until Feb. 15 – will be its last. The hour-long finale will be May 16.
After three months of summer reruns and two months on the shelf, “Sheldon” (shown here) finally was returned to its regular spot (8 p.m. Thursdays), starting Nov. 16. That’s for more reruns; CBS is holding off its post-strike season until after the Feb. 11 Super Bowl. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / November 15, 2023

Daily Best Bets

Best-bets for Nov. 17: Shakespeare plus a streaming spree

1) “Making Shakespeare: The First Folio,” 9-11 p.m., PBS. When Shakespeare died in 1616, about half of his 36 plays had been published. The rest – including “Macbeth,” “The Tempest” and “Julius Caesar” – could have faded away. But two friends, using stage copies and more, made the era’s biggest and most expensive book. This documentary has fascinating details … plus, oddly, long looks at “Hamlet” (shown here), which is not one of the shows that was rescued. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / November 15, 2023