The rest of 2016 may have been a raging dumpster fire, but there was at least one category in which the year was better than its predecessor: local ties to movies. Meanwhile, on TV, Paula Francis ends a long career as news anchor for KLAS-TV, Channel 8.
In an attempt to cut through all the holiday clutter on TV, here’s a look at the 25 specials of the season you should check out.
Caesars Palace hosted a special Friday screening of the documentary “Unchained: The Untold Story of Freestyle Motocross,” where the man of the hour was Mike Metzger. The 40-year-old was back at the hotel where in 2006, he completed a backflip over the Caesars Palace fountains.
Four years ago, Bryshere “Yazz” Gray was fired from a Pizza Hut. Now, he’s spending hours in an on-set hot tub with Naomi Campbell before drying off and hustling to a recording studio to work with Timbaland. That’s the power of broadcast television.
The artists responsible for visual and audio effects in “The Force Awakens” were greeted like rock stars at the National Association of Broadcasters Show Monday.
