Sunday, December 21, 2014

Television Premieres and Notables: December 22-28, 2014

Monday, 12/22

Tiny House Nation; FYI. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Anger Management (FX; 9 pm CST). Series Finale.
Somehow, Charlie Sheen made it to episode 100...


Tuesday, 12/23

Mozart in the Jungle; Amazon Prime. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a conductor who is hired to bring the New York Symphony back to prominence.


Wednesday, 12/24

The Wrong Mans; Hulu Plus. Streaming. Season Premiere.


Thursday, 12/25

Doctor Who; BBC America. 8 pm CST. Special.
The 2014 Christmas Special has The Doctor and Clara teaming up with Santa Claus himself.

Black Mirror; DirecTV. 8:30 pm CST. Special.
Fans of this show are crazy-rabid fans. One of those being Jon Hamm, who snagged a role in this year's Christmas Special.


Friday, 12/26

HBO Signature is airing the long-awaited (but not always perfect) HD presentation of (the best show I've ever seen:) The Wire. One season a day, for the next five days, starting at 11 am this morning.

[So why "not always perfect"? It was intentionally framed in 4:3 aspect, so while many shots took advantage of the 16:9 aspect of the cameras the show was filmed with, sometimes the solution to make the 4:3 into 16:9 was to crop the top of the frame-- especially in instances where the filmed 16:9 showed things not intended to be on screen (like production people, boom mics, etc).]

And why watch The Wire?  Here's what I wrote a few years ago.


Sunday, 12/28

The Great British Baking Show; PBS. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Sunday Night Football (NBC; 7:30 pm CST). Season Finale.

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