Middle America’s first family will take part in a Nativity, complete with Willie Robertson as Joseph and, irony of ironies, Uncle Si as a wise man — with, naturally, a chalice full of iced tea — in the “Duck Dynasty” Christmas special (10 p.m. Dec. 11, A&E). Just one the hundreds of holiday specials that will flood the airwaves during the next month.
CBS ordered “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan and her producer to take a leave of absence Tuesday following a critical internal review of their handling of the show’s October story on the Benghazi raid, based on a report on a supposed witness whose story can’t be verified.
How good is “Dallas Buyers Club”? Matthew McConaughey shed nearly 50 pounds for his role, blows the walls off of whatever boxes Hollywood has put him in and doesn’t utter a single “awright, awright, awright.”
In a parody of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s splits between two moving Volvo trucks, actor Channing Tatum says he is mentally and physically able to “master the most epic of splits.”
Unless you’ve spent the past few weeks under a rock — assuming that rock lacked access to Wi-Fi, cellular data and over-the-air TV and radio transmissions, as well as run-of-the-mill chatterboxes — you’re now painfully aware that Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.
Angela Lansbury says “it’s a mistake” for NBC to call a new series “Murder, She Wrote.”
As if winning the World Series MVP wasn’t enough, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is becoming a producer of his own MTV television show.
This year’s “Soul Train Awards” will originate from Las Vegas for the second year in a row, but most locals will watch the show where they are used to seeing it: on TV.
