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| Gēmusetto: Death Beat(s) |
Hi! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, December 5!
Tonight's Top Pick goes to Adult Swim's Gēmusetto: Death Beat(s), now in its second season. I don't get why it is airing in Toonami because it is an AS original, not an anime import. In the first season, Gēmusetto was challenging various gods for their relics. The animation is weird and too amateurish for my taste. The humor can be pretty crass, too.
Elsewhere, it's Christmas at the Casagrandes and for the Louds, baby chimps invade BBC America, HGTV goes to chateaus, Decades moves on up, and a Hogan family member hosts SNL.
STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
Bear Witness, Take Action 2 (YouTube, 6 p.m.): SPECIAL. A 2-hour global conversation on racial justice hosted by Common and Keke Palmer.
The Casagrandes 🎄 (Nickelodeon, 7:30 p.m.): Ronnie Anne is excited for the perfect Christmas, but visits from the neighbors put her dream Nochebuena on hold.✔️
Detention (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. A Taiwanese supernatural horror drama.
The Fall (Ovation, 7 p.m.): As Gibson recovers from her close encounter with the Belfast Strangler, a shocking revelation proves how terrifyingly manipulative Paul Spector can be.
Mighty Express: A Mighty Christmas 🎄 (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SPECIAL. The Mighty Express welcomes a new train and speeds into a snowstorm to deliver Santa's presents and save Christmas for all the kids in Tracksville.
QUICK HITS:
Saturday Night Football 🏈 (ABC, 7:30 p.m.): Clemson at Virginia Tech
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| The Casagrandes (via Giphy) |
🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL
Baby Chimp Rescue (BBC America, 8 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. "At a home for rescued baby chimps in Liberia, couple Jim and Jenny Desmond teach the orphans the skills they would have learnt from their mothers in the wild. They rescue a new orphan called Miracle from her life on a chain."
Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing 🎥🎄 (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): The anthology Christmas in Evergreen is back, and this time the focus is Frosty, the general in charge, Evergreen is in his domain in the land of Christmasia, after all. President Kringle has lettered Frosty to hold his ground against Krampus and his powerful army. If Frosty falls, so does most of the Northern Forest all the way up to the Reindeer River Valley. With Christmas approaching, Frosty tries to work out a Christmas truce to give everyone a rest, but the bells in Evergreen start ringing when Krampus' forces begin another assault on the city on Christmas Eve. It's a bombardment unlike anything Frosty, a veteran all the way back to the War of the First Noel, has ever encountered.
A Christmas Surprise 🎥🎄 (BET, 8 p.m.): A daughter surprises mom with an engagement, and mom isn't impressed by the man... or his family.
Escape to the Chateau (HGTV, 8 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. The rich people want weddings at fancy places. Totally relatable stuff.
The Jeffersons 📺 (Decades, 8 p.m.): Spend the weekend at the deluxe apartment in the sky! George's best friend Louis Gossett Jr. comes by for a visit but takes an interest in Louise. I love this episode.
The Loud House 🎄 (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.): Lincoln tries to game the family gift swap and ends up learning a valuable lesson. A Scrooge-like Flip is visited by three ghosts in a take on A Christmas Carol.
Let's Meet Again on Christmas 🎥🎄 (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): "Two college sweethearts reconnect while coordinating a wedding just in time for the holidays."
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir (Disney Channel, 8 p.m.): SPECIAL. "Ladybug faces Nino's little brother, now Chris Master."
The Photograph 🎥 (HBO, 8 p.m.): This movie stars LaKeith Stanfield and Issa Rae, but I have no memory of it. Therefore, I'm going with my gut feeling that this movie is about the making of a Nickelback music video.✔️
Secrets in the Snow 🎥🎄 (Lifetime Movies, 8 p.m.): Dark secrets come to light when a woman and her new boyfriend travel to the wintry countryside to visit his family.
Side Hustle (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.): Every year Lex and Presley celebrate their Friendiversary by giving each other a thoughtful gift, but this year a blizzard threatens to derail their tradition and the girls venture into the storm, making for an unforgettable celebration.
Svengoolie: The Revenge of Frankenstein 🎥 (MeTV, 8 p.m.): Baron Frankenstein escapes from the guillotine and goes to Germany. There, he names himself Dr. Stein and plans to restart his experiments by using parts of dead bodies. It's an okay Peter Cushing horror movie.
Tour of Duty 📺 (Heroes & Icons, 8 p.m.): Team Viking goes out to capture a Soviet chopper but ends up surrounded and captured. Luckily the mission was just practice. Myron discovers that his father -- Gernal Goldman -- is back on the base.
QUICK HITS:
CBS College Football 🏈 (CBS): Alabama at Louisiana State
Fox College Football 🏈 (Fox): Baylor at Oklahoma
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| The Photograph (via Giphy) |
🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL
Most Terrifying with Jason Hawes (Travel Channel, 9 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. A guy named Jason Hawes uncovers haunted ruins forever stalked by restless spirits and malevolent creatures.
This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? Have you been to the theater? Those are a thing again for some brave souls.
The Turning 🎥 (Showtime, 9 p.m.): A supernatural horror flick that got terrible reviews.
You Live in a What? International (HGTV, 9 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. "Architect George Clarke travels the globe and meet other people who build outside the box."
QUICK HITS:
History's Greatest Mysteries (History): John Wilkes Booth
🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL
Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas 🎥🎄 (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 10 p.m.): Deep undercover inside the highest levels of Mr. Potter's evil Potterstan administration, the Christmasia allies and longtime spies Q.T.E. Bunny, aka the Easter Bunny, and Sander S. McSandy, aka Sandman, are informed they need to wrap up their current mission and return to Christmasia before the holiday. The task proves harder for Sandman, given his boss is Overlord of Labor, Ebenezer Scrooge. But for Bunny, who has been undercover since before the War on Christmas began, there are worries of being able to adapt back to civilian life, even if only temporarily. He hasn't seen his lil bunnies in 2 years! (And they grow up fast!)
QUICK HITS:
Behind Every Man (OWN, season finale): Gia Casey
🕚 EASTERN / 🕙 CENTRAL
QUICK HITS: The Missing (Investigation Discovery, special)
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Fire Force (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): Company 8 dispatches an increasing number of Infernals. Shinra stops Charon and tries to convince Inca to join the Fire Force.
⭐ Gēmusetto: Death Beat(s) (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Tytti's boat docks in Diyu, the Chinese Mythological Hell. It appears abandoned and godless, populated only by roaming bicycle riding spirits who committed suicide. Later, getting drunk on the power of pill popping, Makasu totally misconstrues all the friendship advice Dr. Legs has been giving him during his redemption arc.
Hell Den (Syfy, midnight): The gang takes a psychedelic trip, making the world weirder than usual.
Hill Street Blues 📺 (Heroes & Icons, 1 a.m.): This is the show's crowning masterpiece: "Trial by Fury."✔️
Kolchak: The Night Stalker 📺 (MeTV, midnight): Defrosted ancient cell samples discovered in the Arctic grow into savage prehistoric primates and go on a rampage.
Lost in Space 📺 (MeTV, 1 a.m.): After Professor Robinson and the robot land the Space Pod on a planet, Robinson kills an attacking monster. But as it turns out, the creature was game in a hunting test for an alien being hoping to one day reign as leader of the planet. The alien then forces Professor Robinson to take the creature's place. I hate it when this happens. Really ruins your day.
The Six Million Dollar Man 📺 (Cozi, midnight): Steve watches over bionic boy, a paralyzed teen given bionic limbs.
Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): The traitor inside Rath is revealed, and he tries to thwart the operation to restore Kirito. Meanwhile, Sinon confronts Gabriel, who has logged back in.
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| Hill Street Blues (via Giphy) |
LATE-NIGHT TV
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 p.m.): Jason Bateman and Morgan Wallen
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Chris Hemsworth and Chance the Rapper (12 Dec 2015)
⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Chris Hemsworth and Chance the Rapper (12 Dec 2015)
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Note: All times are Eastern.
Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
🎄: Holiday program
🏈🥊🏎️: Sportsballs
Happy watching, everyone! And tomorrow's WOT will be a little early. Hashtag SNL!
Happy watching, everyone! And tomorrow's WOT will be a little early. Hashtag SNL!
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