By Rick Gables
Fifteen-time Grammy® Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer and global superstar Alicia Keys will return as host of the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards® , airing Sunday, Jan. 26, from 8 to 11:30 p.m., live ET/5 to 8:30 p.m., live PT) on the CBS Television Network. As host of the 2019 Grammy Awards® , Alicia took the event to a new level, which bodes well for music’s 2020 biggest night. In addition to recognizing the Grammy Awards® best music of the past year, we will once again be treated to many amazing live performances. Some of the key annual award categories include Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Rock Album, Best R&B Performance, Best Rap Album and Best Country Song.
The comedy series High Maintenance returns for its nine episode fourth season Friday, Feb. 7, at 11 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. The critically acclaimed series uses The Guy (Ben Sinclair), to connect a variety of distinctly authentic, empathetic and insightful stories about the community, including his own. The half-hour comedy continues to paint a unique and loving portrait of New York City, exploring the often-messy interpersonal moments of everyday people who are looking for meaning, companionship and a little high to make it through the day. This season finds The Guy back traversing the city on his bicycle, having said goodbye to last season’s RV. The series is enriched by the many guest stars that appear. In the season premiere episode, “Cycles,” The Guy finds a lost canine. A new reporter at This American Life, Yara (Natalie Woolams-Torres) pitches a story about her parents’ marriage and inadvertently strains her own relationship when her boyfriend Owen (Marcus Raye Pérez) visits for their anniversary weekend. A singing telegram (Larry Owens) in a bad mood looks for some relief while crisscrossing the city on a crazed workday.
USA Network will premiere the new anthology series Briarpatch on Thursday, Feb. 6, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, which follows Allegra Dill (Rosario Dawson), a dogged investigator returning to her border-town Texas home after her sister is murdered. What begins as a search for a killer, turns into an all-consuming fight to bring her corrupt hometown to its knees.