MTV has set three back-to-back re-airings of its two Unplugged specials featuring Tony Bennett, commemorating the beloved singer’s death today at 96.
MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett from 1994 will return tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, followed by 2021’s MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga at 11.
Both will repeat starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and at 7 p.m. Sunday. Bennett’s first Unplugged aired as the second episode of MTV’s fifth season of the acoustic-concert series and spawned a smash album.
The 20-track set of standards from the Great American Songbook barely dented the Billboard Top 50 but won Album of the Year and another Grammy and eventually sold more than a million copies.
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