Robin Roberts hosts “In Memoriam: 2018” (10 p.m., ABC). This Disneyfied take on “news” presents celebrity tributes to newsmakers we’ve lost during the globe’s past trip around the sun.
Look for Loni Anderson to recall Burt Reynolds and the days when they were the couple that sold a billion supermarket tabloids. Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Kelly Clarkson and Smokey Robinson pay honor to Aretha Franklin. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman mourn their lost colleague John McCain, and Condoleezza Rice recalls President George H.W. Bush as well as first lady Barbara Bush.
For reasons that defy logic, two entertainers, Hank Azaria and Benedict Cumberbatch, have been called upon to remember physicist Stephen Hawking.
