James Corden hosts the 60th annual Grammy Awards from New York’s Madison Square Garden. Performers include: Cardi B; Miley Cyrus; Luis Fonsi; Childish Gambino; Elton John; Kesha; Lady Gaga; Kendrick Lamar; Little Big Town; Bruno Mars; Pink; Sam Smith; U2; Daddy Yankee. Also: Patti LuPone and Ben Platt perform a tribute to Broadway; and Brothers Osborne, Eric Church and Maren Morris perform a tribute to victims of tragedies that occurred at live music events.
During his eight-decade career, Bob Hope (1903-2003) was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment: vaudeville, Broadway, movies, radio, television, popular song and personal appearances, including his annual USO Christmas military tours and hosting the Academy Awards more times than anyone else. A comedy innovator, Hope invented the topical monologue that later became a late-night TV staple and comedy tropes like talking while backing up. He refined a spontaneous, conversational, improvisational style of comedy as a vaudeville master of ceremonies that created a blueprint for acerbic standup comics.
At the historic 2018 Royal Rumble, Shinsuke Nakamura won the Men’s Royal Rumble and Asuka won the first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble. Though The King of Strong Style declared that he would face WWE Champion AJ Styles at WrestleMania, The Empress of Tomorrow’s decision was interrupted by the sudden emergence of Ronda Rousey!
The Amazing World of Gumball features one hilarious episode after another for Gumball and his friends. Gumball’s world is pretty run-of-the-mill. He’s chased around school by a T-Rex. He has a friend named Anton who’s a piece of toast. He’s got a crush on Penny, a peanut with antlers. His dad is a 6’4″ bunny. His mom works at a Rainbow Factory. And his brother is a goldfish named Darwin. Yup, everything looks perfectly normal here.
One of the essential documentary series from 20th-century television, Eyes on the Prize is an extraordinary, grassroots history of the civil rights movement in 1950s and ’60s America.
Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous awards, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America.
Brazil’s Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza meets North Carolina’s Derek Brunson in a middleweight (185 lbs.) main event in Charlotte. Jacare won their first bout in 2012. Also: Saint Preux vs. Latifi (205); Bermudez vs. Fili (145); and Rinaldi vs. Gillespie (155).
The Detour is a what-in-the-living-hell-is-wrong-with-this-family comedy featuring unfiltered dad Nate, who hits the road with wife Robin and kids Delilah and Jared. Every leg of their trip is fraught with disaster as they encounter one hellish turn after another. If there’s trouble on the road, this family will find it and plow into it.
Kristen Bell hosts the 24th annual gala, which honors outstanding film and TV performances. Morgan Freeman receives the Life Achievement Award.
UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou is a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that was held on January 20, 2018 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
Set against the backdrop of the hit dating competition show Everlasting, “UnREAL” is led by flawed heroine Rachel Goldberg, a young producer whose sole job is to manipulate her relationships with, and among, the contestants to get the vital dramatic and outrageous footage that the program’s dispassionate executive producer, Quinn King, demands. What ensues is an eye-opening look at what happens in the outrageous world of unscripted television, where being a contestant can be vicious and being a producer a whole other reality.
Years into the future and the human race has been defeated several times by the new ruling force of the planet: “kaijus”. And the ruler of that force is Godzilla, The King of the Monsters. Humanity is in such defeat, plans to leave the planet have been made, and several people have been chosen to look at a new planet to see if it is inhabitable. Realizing it’s not, though, the human race resorts to plan B: to defeat Godzilla and take back their planet.
American Crime Story is an upcoming American true crime anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy, co-creator of American Horror Story, to which American Crime Story will serve as a companion series. The first season, subtitled The People vs. O. J. Simpson, will focus on the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
