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Happy Holidays! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, December 19!
And they said the perfect Christmas movie doesn't exist! Letters from Satan Claus, Syfy's second Christmas movie remix this season, garners the Top Pick tonight. The movie follows a reporter who returns home for the holidays, and Satan is there is wreck the halls. As a kid, the reporter accidentally wrote "Satan" instead of "Santa" on a Christmas letter. I guess that means Satan has harassments right or something.
Elsewhere, Toonami celebrates Wonder Woman, Kristen Wiig rings in another SNL Christmas, CNN revisits the 1918 pandemic, NBC honors activists, and if cheesy Christmas horror movies aren't your thing, other networks have you covered.
STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
Christmas at Rosemont 🎥🎄 (UPtv, 7 p.m.): Stranded by a raging blizzard after a chance meeting, Brad and the very pregnant Lisa are forced to seek shelter together at the shuttered Rosemont Lodge with its reclusive owner, Josephine, five days before Christmas. Once a vibrant year-round resort, the Rosemont has been closed for nearly 20 years following a devastating family tragedy which may uncover a connection between... Lisa and Josephine. I'm shocked! Shocked!
Doctor Who 📺 (Retro TV, 6 p.m.): The Borad, the mutated leader of Karfel, plots to start a war with the Bandril race which would wipe out both the Bandrils and Karfel's Karfelon population so that the Borad could repopulate it with his own kind to rule the planet. The Doctor and Peri don't like this plan.
The Fall (Ovation, 7 p.m.): SEASON FINALE. With Paul Spector in custody, DSI Gibson desperately searches for clues to find Rose Stagg. However, Spector does all he can to thwart her, locking them into a deadly duel. The third season will begin in two weeks.
Touched by an Angel 📺 (Decades, 7 p.m.): Spend the weekend getting touched by angels. It's a good touch. In this episode, the angels try to help a group of runaway children living on the streets. I wonder if these angels knew that angel in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, a show I'm sure you already forgot happened.
QUICK HITS:
2020 Tropical Smoothie Café Frisco Bowl 🏈 (ESPN, 7 p.m.): Stanford at UCLA✔️
🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL
Christmas Carousel 🎥🎄 (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): In this mostly historical drama, the Christmas Carousel gets the spotlight. The carousel was built during the War of the Third Noel and finished the day it ended and has therefore been a prized icon for the capital city. The film tells the story of its building and the woman who designed it. She was a designer for warcraft during the war and was recruited by an attractive mayor to design a fancy carousel. What people didn't know at the time was that below the carousel was a command center for the country's intelligence and spy services, which managed the country's operations through the peace era after the War of the Third Noel.
Global Citizen Prize (NBC, 8 p.m.): SPECIAL. "Special musical collaborations, notable presenters and intimate conversations celebrate activists all over the world for their inspirational achievement in working to end extreme poverty and fight for change."
In the Long Run (Starz, 8 p.m.): Agnes gets introduced to a fellow colleague and Valentine confronts Kobna's boss. Leon's plans affect Bagpipes in more ways than one.
Stolen in Plain Sight 🎥 (Lifetime Movies, 8 p.m.): To escape her abusive husband, Melissa hides with her son in the family chalet that has been uninhabited for years. However, he still disappears.
Tour of Duty 📺🎄 (Heroes & Icons, 8 p.m.): Christmas finds Team Viking the bush trying to capture prisoners in Cambodia. Doc tries to show compassion to one of the captured men... who turns out to be able to speak English.
Wendy 🎥 (HBO, 8 p.m.): Lost on a mysterious island, a girl fights to save her family, her freedom and the joyous spirit of youth. At the end, she gets the idea for a better fast food restaurant when she visits another and wonders... Where's the beef?
QUICK HITS:
Saturday Night Football 🏈 (ABC): Tulsa at Cincinnati✔️
SEC Championship 🏈 (CBS): Alabama at Florida✔️
Thursday Night Football 🏈 (NFL Network): Carolina at Green Bay✔️
🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL
⭐ Letters to Satan Claus 🎥🎄 (Syfy, 9 p.m.): A journalist must confront her past when Satan returns to her hometown to put a damper on the holidays.
Pandemic: How a Virus Changed the World in 1918 (CNN Special Report) (CNN, 9 p.m.): SPECIAL. In 1918, America was fighting 2 wars, with World War One and the pandemic of 1918. Anderson Cooper, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and others trace the evolution of this virus and look at lessons that should have been learned from back then.
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.
QUICK HITS:
Boxing 🥊 (Showtime): Emmanuel Rodriguez vs. Reymart Gaballo
History's Greatest Mysteries (History): Roswell
🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL
Swept Up by Christmas 🎥🎄 (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 10 p.m.): Young Ded Moroz is living a lonely life with his aunt and uncle on their farm but then two elves show up. They send word to Kris Kringle that he has been found, and soon the leader of Christmasia arrives to recruit Moroz for a greater purpose. To win the War on Christmas, Kringle needs him. He is the lost child of Krampus, after all, but he doesn't know that yet. Suddenly, Moroz is the brought into the war and quickly proves himself a leader. But Krampus is on his trail, seeking his long lost son.
🕚 EASTERN / 🕙 CENTRAL
Nurses (USA, 11:30 p.m.): RERUN. The poorly received Canadian import on NBC also gets airing on its cable sister. This doesn't happen often.
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Justice League: The New Frontier 🎥 (Adult Swim, 1:45 a.m.): An adaptation of DC's excellent comic The New Frontier, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Green Lantern, The Flash, and others form an alliance in the 1950s to battle evil. The voice list includes David Boreanaz, Neil Patrick Harris, Kyle MacLachlan, Kyra Sedgwick, Jeremy Sisto, Brooke Shields, Miguel Ferrer, and Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker 📺 (MeTV, midnight): Bent on revenge, a headless motorcycle rider murders those who wronged him.
Lost in Space 📺🎄 (MeTV, 1 a.m.): In this sorta-Christmas episode, nobody believes Will Robinson when he sends himself back to Earth with an alien transporter, since the world believes they all had died once they realized their ship had gone off course.
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines 🎥 (Adult Swim, midnight): To prep for Wonder Woman 1984, Toonami presents this average DC animated film. Wonder Woman embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue a troubled young girl from Villainy, Inc., a criminal organization that plans to invade the superhero's island home of Themyscira.
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| Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (via Giphy) |
LATE-NIGHT TV
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 p.m.): Kristen Wiig and Dua Lipa
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Paul Rudd and One Direction (7 Dec 2013)
⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Paul Rudd and One Direction (7 Dec 2013)
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Note: All times are Eastern.
Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
🎄: Holiday programming
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
🏈🥊🏎️: Sportsballs
Happy watching, everyone!
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