New DVD shows Beatles' first 1964 US TV appearance

A new DVD about the Beatles' initial appearances on U.S. television's "The Ed Sullivan Show" is like cracking open a time capsule to American life in 1964.

E.J. Dionne Jr.: On missing ‘big labor'

WASHINGTON — Watching the great civil rights march on television in August 1963, I couldn't help but notice that hundreds carried signs with a strange legend at the top: "UAW Says." UAW was saying "Segregation Disunites the United States," and many other things insisting on equality.

Television review: 'Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That'

A PBS series brings wonders of the natural world to preschoolers. The Cat in the Hat is back — again — with his red bow tie and rave-ready stripey soft topper. This time he comes not, as he did in the first book to bear his name, only to make "fun that is funny" but rather in the name of science: "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That," an American-Canadian-British co-production beginning ...

HUD's Donovan Says It's Too Early to Declare Housing Victory (Transcript)

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt ,” airing this weekend, that it’s too early to “declare victory” even as the housing market shows progress two years after the credit crunch drove down home prices.

Use your own filter when watching, reading news

I observed comments on cable television news this morning suggesting that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy were good for the economy and that they need to be extended. They said this like it was not even questionable.

Ellen Gray: Season's greetings: The best and the worst of the upcoming TV shows

IN TELEVISION, where the picture is always being adjusted, it's probably best to keep predictions to a minimum. A year ago, a new-to-prime time Jay Leno was the face of our fall TV preview as a struggling NBC set out to reinvent its broadcast model - and save money - by stripping the once and future "Tonight Show" host across five weeknights at 10 p.m.