Remembering Luther Vandross, Celebrating Rock Legends, ‘Lacking You’ on Netflix, School Soccer Playoff Quarterfinals

Luther: By no means Too A lot

The “velvet voice” of R&B celebrity Luther Vandross (1951-2005) underscores an admiring biographical documentary with archival footage and interviews with collaborators and shut associates together with Mariah Carey, Dionne Warwick, Valerie Simpson, and Roberta Flack. Famend for his love songs, Vandross by no means got here out publicly as homosexual, and the movie explores his unrequited love life and his well being points in addition to his musical triumphs.

Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony

For those who missed the livestream in October, ABC presents three hours’ value of musical highlights from the ceremony at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, when rock and pop legends Cher, Mary J. Blige, Peter Frampton, Dave Matthews Band, Kool & The Gang, Foreigner joined the illustrious roster of inductees, with Dionne Warwick, MC5, and the late Jimmy Buffett honored for Musical Excellence. The dazzling checklist of performers and presenters paying tribute consists of James Taylor, Keith City, Roger Daltrey, Dua Lipa, Demi Lovato, Chuck D, Busta Rhymes, Methodology Man, Julia Roberts, Jelly Roll, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Chesney, and lots of extra.

Lacking You

The mega-streamer kicks off the brand new 12 months with its newest adaptation of thriller author Harlen Coben, relocating the story to the U.Ok. and starring Gradual Horses’ Rosalind Eleazar as lacking individuals detective Kat Donovan. The five-part thriller begins with Kat experiencing her personal missing-persons trauma when her fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters) instantly vanishes. Quick-forward 11 years, and Kat discovers Josh’s face on a relationship app whereas investigating one other disappearance, upending her existence and plunging her right into a world of deception that additionally entails revelations about her father’s cold-case homicide.

Rose Bowl

The playoffs transfer a step nearer to the championship recreation with three extremely anticipated bowl video games. The motion begins on the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl (1 pm/ET), the place No. 4 Arizona State takes on No. 12 Clemson, adopted by the Rose Bowl (5 pm/ET), with No. 1 Oregon going through No. 8 Ohio State, and the Allstate Sugar Bowl (8:45 pm/7:45c), that includes No. 2 Georgia vs. No. 7 Notre Dame.

INSIDE WEDNESDAY TV:

• From Vienna: The New 12 months’s Celebration 2025 (8/7c, PBS): Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville hosts the Nice Performances presentation of the annual live performance from the Golden Corridor of the Musikverein, with Riccardo Muti conducting a tribute to Johann Strauss on the 200thanniversary of the waltz grasp’s delivery.
• Liberation: D-Day to Berlin (8/7c, Smithsonian Channel): Colorized archival footage brings to life the turning factors in historical past that led to the liberation of Western Europe from the horrors of World Conflict II. The collection opens with the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day in 1944.
• Murder Squad New Orleans (10/9c, A&E): From Dick Wolf’s true-crime division, a docuseries follows murder detectives of the New Orleans Police Division, opening with Detective Maurice Stewart’s investigation into the homicide of a 15-year-old boy who was shot after strolling his youthful sister dwelling.
• Don’t Die: The Man Who Needs to Reside Perpetually (streaming on Netflix): A documentary profiles Bryan Johnson and the controversial wellness regime he adopted in his quest to defy the ageing course of.