Entertainment & Arts
The Lifetime cable channel on Tuesday unveiled a slate of original programming for the fall, including a TV movie starring Academy Award-winning actress Kim Basinger.
Aug. 9, 2006
Television
“Carmen McRae: Mostly Monk,” airing tonight at 7 p.m. and midnight on the Bravo cable channel, does not exactly live up to its subtitle; there are, however, four songs by Thelonious Monk in this 14-song program (“Straight No Chaser” and “I Mean You” are equipped with lyrics, respectively by Sally Swisher and Jon Hendricks).
June 23, 1989
Music
What does it take to put a program of jazz music on network television?
Jan. 3, 1998
Extending a novel experiment initiated this summer, ABC will continue running the USA Network series “Monk” on Thursday nights well into the new TV season--after the episodes play on cable--allowing ABC to delay the premiere of its special effects-laden project “Dinotopia” until Thanksgiving night.
Sept. 14, 2002
Pioneering ‘Monk’ ends its run Friday
Dec. 4, 2009
It’s NUTS no more.
June 15, 2007
Newport, R.I., where the first major American jazz festival took place in 1954, was also the site of the most memorable festival film, “Jazz on a Summer’s Day,” in 1960.
Oct. 6, 1992
Innocents with little knowledge of how jazz works may be mystified as they watch “Celebrating a Jazz Master” this weekend on PBS, a Charles Fishman production taped last year at Constitution Hall in Washington and sponsored by the Beethoven Society.
March 20, 1987
Conductor Anthony Parnther, who has worked on hundreds of film TV scores, proves as at home in Koreatown as at Montecito’s elite Music Academy of the West.
July 14, 2023
Basketball sitcom: Fiery college basketball coach Bob Knight has given his blessing to a proposed sitcom that CBS and Paramount are developing about his life.
Sept. 3, 2004