It's A Wonderful Life
On Christmas Eve and Christmas, people who squeezed in some television amidst all the opening of presents, eating and visiting the folks went with an old holiday standby and — what else? — football.
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Family Guy
Family Guy
9/8c Fox
Hugh Laurie lends his House voice (if not his dignity) to this repeat from last December, in which Peter grabs the reins of Pewterschmidt Industries after Lois' dad, Carter, suffers a heart attack and lapses into a coma (that's where House comes in). Peter's management style certainly won't surprise regular Family Guy viewers, and taxpayers can be relieved that Pewterschmidt Industries didn't receive a bailout. Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons have voice cameos in their Big Bang Theory roles. — Paul Droesch
Read on for previews of Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular, The Sound of Music, Sunday Night Football, Little Caesars Bowl, Masterpiece Contemporary and My Kid Survived.
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Golden Girls: 25th Anniversary Complete Collection
Laugh It Up Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy ($27.99 Blu-ray, available December 21)
Family Guy's first two Star Wars parodies were a perfect mix: one part reverence for the classic sci-fi film series and two parts Seth MacFarlane outrageousness. The latest and final riff-off in the planned trio, It's a Trap, premieres in this box set before making its TV debut next year. May the goof be with you. ...
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The Sound of Music
Hear that? That's the sound of a Sound of Music reunion on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, along with co-stars Charmian Carr (Liesl), Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich), Heather Menzies-Urich (Louisa), Duane Chase (Kurt), Angela Cartwright (Brigitta), Debbie Turner (Marta) and Kym Karath (Gretl) will reunite ...
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Sunday Night Football
Sunday Night Football
8:15/7:15c NBC
The Redskins may be out of the NFC East battle royale and the playoff picture, but that doesn't mean they can't have an effect on both. True, they rolled over against the Giants last Monday, but five weeks ago Washington gave the Cowboys all they could handle in a 7-6 loss (in which Tony Romo tossed the winning TD with 2:41 left in the game). For Dallas, this game at Washington is sandwiched between last Saturday's crucial upset of the Saints and next weekend's highly anticipated finale with the Eagles.
Read on for previews of The Sound of Music, Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, Everest: Beyond the Limit and Biography on CNBC.
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Chris Colfer, Glee
As if you couldn't add any more points to Glee's Quinn-Finn-Puck-Rachel love quadrangle, a new glee club member is being added to the mix. TVGuide.com sat down with Chris Colfer to get the dirt on who else is crushing on the cool kids. Colfer also discusses the "Defying Gravity" diva-off and the return of one wicked guest-star and the possibility of another ...
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Chris Lilly, Summer Heights High
Summer Heights High
10:30 pm/ET HBO
Series creator Chris Lilley's bravura performance as not one but three characters made high school seem like more fun than it probably was. Tonight's first-season finale features his typical over-the-top spins on his chief drama queens, Mr. G and Ja'mie, as they hilariously hog the spotlight in, respectively, a pulsating musical and the Year 11 formal.
Read on for previews of Dog Whisperer Nick News with Linda Ellerbee Million Dollar Password and The Sound of Music.
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ABC Family has ponied up $3 million to air The Sound of Music up to seven times a year for the next three years, starting in April. As part of the deal, ABC proper gets one holiday-season airing of its own.... To commemorate (what would have been) John Wayne's 100th birthday, the Warner Bros. and Paramount studios on May 22 will release 48 of the Duke's films. The six-disc collection includes spiffed-up versions of Rio Bravo, The Cowboys and True Grit (for which he won an Oscar), as well as six titles never issued on DVD.... John Inman, best known for his role as Mr. Humphries on the long-running BBC comedy Are You Being Served?, died Thursday following a long illness. He was 71.
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Question: Whatever happened to the six von Trapp children whose family's story inspired The Sound of Music? Two boys and four girls, right? Did any of them go on to do more movies or television shows?
Answer: Though inspired by the true story of the von Trapp family, The Sound of Music (1965) fictionalized certain aspects of their story. The widowed Georg von Trapp actually had seven children from his marriage to his first wife, Agathe, who died of scarlet fever in 1922. The family later expanded to 10 after his 1927 marriage to aspiring nun Maria Augusta Kutschera, who originally came to work for him not as a governess to his entire brood but as a teacher for his ailing youngest daughter. In order, the children were Rupert, Agathe, Maria,
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Question: I heard that The Sound of Music was not the first movie made about the von Trapp family. Is this true? If so, what is the other movie called, and is it available on DVD?
Answer: Before the Broadway musical and beloved movie The Sound of Music (1965), the story of the von Trapp family was explored in two nonmusical German films in the 1950s, Die Trapp-Familie (The Trapp Family 1956) and Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (The Trapp Family in America, 1958). Both were based on Maria Agathe Kutschera von Trapp’s 1947 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was also the basis for The Sound of Music. By all reports she was treated very badly by her German publishe
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