Friday, September 7, 2012

Alas, McCartney joins the "standards" crowd...

GREAT PERFORMANCES joins Sir Paul for an intimate concert recorded at the historic Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, featuring performances of such standards as "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter,"...really...Friday at 8pm

Meanwhile, Pearl Jam rocks it out on Austin City Limits, Saturday at 10pm                                                                       

POV follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard after graduating from high school. As it chronicles the young men's transformation from restless teenagers to soldiers looking for roadside bombs in Afghanistan, to 23-year-old combat veterans trying to start their lives again, the film offers an intimate look at the young Americans who fight our wars, the families and towns they come from -- WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM, Saturday at 11pm 

This weeks ON STORY features the creators behind the explosions of CON AIR, GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS, HULK, ZOMBIELAND and MACHETE...and debate what makes a great action movie. Sunday at 5:30

The REALLY BIG NEWS this weekend is BROADWAY OR BUST...cameras follow talented high school performers, the best in the country, to New York, where they meet their colleagues face-to-face and begin competition for a Broadway break. As day one unfolds, they learn a new opening number from director Van Kaplan and choreographer Kiesha Lalama, get one-on-one coaching in music, theater, dancing and acting from some of Broadway's top talent - including Leslie Odom, Jr. ("Smash"; Rent); Michael McElroy (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for Big River; Rent, Miss Saigon); Liz Callaway (Tony Award nomination for Baby; Cats, Miss Saigon) - and prepare for their solos in front of an influential group of judges. The episode ends with students wondering, "Do I have what it takes to make it on Broadway?" Sunday night at 7pm 

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