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| Hell Den |
Top Pick goes to the really mediocre Hell Den, which is in its second season and now is a Syfy original series. It tries to be an MST3K with cartoons, but it does so with clips rather than features. The humor is callow for my taste, though the setup of a child forcing strange beings to watch TV after Earth's destroyed is a good setup.
Elsewhere, a good doggo meets Harrison Ford, an Obama docuseries gets to the ACA, CBS airs some quasi-Christmas classics, Kolchak searches for an android, and Danger Force hunts a pranker.
STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
Doctor Who 📺 (Retro TV, 6 p.m.): The Sixth Doctor era begins when Gastropod Mestor plots to explode the sun of Jaconda to scatter his eggs throughout the universe to conquer it.
The Fall (Ovation, 7 p.m.): After the vital break through which finally identifies Paul Spector as the killer, Gibson must now play an agonising waiting game.
The Uncanny Counter (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. The latest K-drama.
QUICK HITS:
Saturday Night Football 🏈 (ABC, 7:30 p.m.): Utah at Washington
🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL
The Call of the Wild 🎥 (HBO, 8 p.m.): A good pupper teams up with Harrison Ford in the latest adaptation of the Jack London book, which many of us had to read in school.
Christmas Waltz 🎥 (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): Composer Johann Strauss II is commissioned to write a waltz for Francis Joseph I of Christmasia-Not'hungary for a Christmas dance. But he is haunted by the ghost of his father, which causes him anxiety and become highly critical of his works, often believing them inferior. Then a grown up Claudia Salinger time travels back in time and meets Strauss. Plus she is single and ready to mingle. (Spoiler: The waltz Strauss composes is the current national anthem for Christmasia, and a rally cry in the ongoing War on Christmas.)
Danger Force (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.): The prank war rages on with Danger Force's best pranker now on team Rivalton.
Earth's Great Seasons (BBC America, 8 p.m.): SERIES FINALE. Winter! On a good day, I'd put it in the top 4 seasons.
Finding My Daughter 🎥 (Lifetime Movies, 8 p.m.): A woman must... well, it's pretty obvious.
Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding 🎥 (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): Kelly Rowland is getting married, but it isn't to Nelly. Quite the "Dilemma."
Obama (MSNBC, 8 p.m.): In this continuing docseries, Obama works to carve out his administration's foreign policy including a tough decision about the killing of Osama Bin Laden. At home his domestic agenda is challenged by the second most deadly school shooting in American history. Later, the Affordable Care Act is up for debate, and there's a drive to make same-sex marriage legal.
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire & Legend of the Lost Tribe 📺 (CBS, 8 p.m.): CBS is still trying to make these BBC specials a thing. They are... average.✔️
Side Hustle (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.): Lex is excited when her cousin Ruby comes to visit, but Ruby is more interested in spending time with Fisher. The kids are given a suspicious job at the dump.
Svengoolie: The Thing 🎥 (MeTV, 8 p.m.): "Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost."
Tour of Duty 📺 (Heroes & Icons, 8 p.m.): The men of Team Viking are receiving medals in a ceremony in recognition of their heroism. In the midst of the ceremony, General Higgins arrives and reads out Brewster.
QUICK HITS:
Fox College Football 🏈 (Fox): Arizona at UCLA
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| Robbie the Reindeer (via Tumblr) |
🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL
The All-Star Nickmas Spectacular (Nickelodeon, 9 p.m.): SPECIAL. Cheering up Christmas with star-studded appearances and musical performances by JoJo Siwa, That Girl Lay Lay, and Ne-Yo, as Lex Lumpkin journeys to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.
The Story of Santa Claus 📺 (CBS, 9 p.m.): CBS also airs this average 1996 special again. "A jolly couple comes to live at the North Pole and begins a toy-giving tradition."✔️
This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? Television... movies... music... games... you pick your media.
QUICK HITS:
History's Greatest Mysteries (History): Shackleton's ice ship
🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL
USS Christmas 🎥 (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 10 p.m.): The latest in Hallmark's ongoing War on Christmas Telefilm Universe... the military's iconic and most powerful warship, USS Christmas, comes under heavy assault as the opposition — led by Krampus — is determined to "Sink the Christmas!" If the USS Christmas and its supporting fleet — USS Kris Kringle, USS Frosty, USS Little Drummer Boy — can pull off a victory, it could turn the tides of the war at sea and send the opposition scrambling.
Vega$ 📺 (Decades, 10 p.m.): Spend yet another weekend with Dan Tanna. In this early episode, "a tennis pro is ordered to throw a match or be brutalized."
QUICK HITS:
Behind Every Man (OWN): Claudinette Jean
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⭐ Hell Den (Syfy, 12:05 a.m.): BET-C upsets the Controlled Home Automated Zystem (CHAZ) and it starts acting up.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker 📺 (MeTV, midnight): An android murders anyone that threatens its survival.
Lost in Space 📺 (MeTV, 1 a.m.): After Dr. Smith answers a distress call from an alien space ship, he learns that the aliens need him to operate on their leader. They only problem is that the aliens are actually a race of robots; furthermore, they will all cease to function if their leader perishes.
The Six Million Dollar Man 📺 (Cozi, midnight): Dr. Wells becomes a psychopathic superman after a lab accident.
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| The Story of Santa Claus (via WTVR) |
LATE-NIGHT TV
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Phil Hartman and Bush (23 Nov 1996)
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💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
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Note: All times are Eastern.
Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it⭐: Top Pick
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🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
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🏈🏒🥊🏎️: Sportsballs
Happy watching, everyone!
Happy watching, everyone!
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