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| The Real Charlie Chaplin |
Tish! You spoke French! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, December 11!
Tonight's Top Pick is the latest documentary on premium television — this time a profile of silent actor Charlie Chaplin. The Real Charlie Chaplin (Showtime, 8 p.m.) combines various authentic media to recreate Chaplin's life from the slums to international movie star.
Elsewhere, SNL brings in the bad guy, the Loud House exchanges gifts, CBS goes retro, Travel has a Merry Scary Christmas, and
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
🎥🎄 Christmas in the Rockies (UPtv, 7 p.m.): Romance sprouts in time for the holidays when Katie Jolly enters a lumberjack competition to save her family's business, and the paramedic who saved her father's life is Dexter and he wants to murder everyone.
🎥🎄 Hot Mess Holiday (Comedy Central, 7 p.m.): When a young finance exec is unceremoniously dumped by her cheating fiancé during the Diwali holidays, her free-spirited bestie is determined to help her get lit. They take a trip to Chicago, where the pair accidentally find a valuable diamond.
Wild Patagonia (AMC+, 3 a.m. / BBC America, 8 p.m.): Follows the path of a relentless wind from the Andes' peaks, that sweeps east through Patagonia's dry desert. It includes penguins.
NOTICES:
The Hungry and the Hairy (Netflix, 3 a.m.): South Korea
BRIEFLY: The Great Soul Food Cook-Off (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); Meet Your Makers Showdown (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); The Pioneer Woman (Discovery+, 3 a.m., special); Radford Returns (Discovery+, 3 a.m., special)
🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥🎄 A Christmas Day Miracle for Daisy (GAC Family, 8 p.m.): Good for her. (She's an orphan.)
🎥 Dangerous Snow Day (LMN, 8 p.m.): Not a sequel to that terrible Chevy Chase movie.
🎥🎄 Christmas Déjà Vu (BET, 8 p.m.): A Christmas-themed follow-up to that dumb Denzel Washington movie?
🎥🎄 The Holiday Fix Up (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): When an interior designer returns home during the holidays to help renovate the Bell Harbor Inn, she gets paired with a contractor, who broke her heart — and she's the one who got away.
📺🎄 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (TBS, 8 p.m.): Boris Karloff narrates an animated tale about the lonely and heartless title character who decides to dress up as Santa and steal the Christmas decorations, gifts and feast from the people of Whoville. A Christmas classic.
The Loud House (Nickelodeon, 8:38 p.m.): With a family this big, gift giving can be a stressful situation, but not anymore as Lincoln Loud solves all the Louds' perilous present predicaments. Later, a competition creates a rift. Then, Lana struggles to find homes for the exotic pets at the Royal Woods Animal Shelter before they're moved out.
⭐🎥 The Real Charlie Chaplin (Showtime, 8 p.m.): Combining unheard audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions and personal archives, filmmakers Peter Middleton and James Spinney trace Charlie Chaplin's meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights of Hollywood superstardom.✔️
🎥🎄 A Royal Queens Christmas (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): In the far-off land Queen Cuca thinks of herself as a popular and beloved queen to her homeland, despite plenty of naysaying and apathy to her family's 400-year rule. The introduction of a republican government 200-years ago still has limits. Cuca ascended to the throne as a teenager when her father, Bolo, died suddenly. Taking yet another trip elsewhere, she visits Christmasia and decides to mostly get off the grid, visiting some smaller communities and perhaps, in an overly-perfect world, find a spouse at one of the festivals. She's been a busy queen during her reign, never finding the right significant other. She doesn't want to marry a distant cousin like all her predecessors did. In Glenbrooke, she meets a young Pvt. Rudolph, and they hit it off pretty well. However, she soon finds herself embroiled in a crisis at home. Her people have had enough and they are set to topple her rule. They don't want a monarchy anymore, even if she is largely just a (rich) figurehead for the country. The allies Cuca thought she had in her government start to fall away due to pressure and soon she finds herself mostly alone with her inner circle in Christmasia, a country that itself disbanded remnants of a monarchy after the War of the Third Noel. Cuca soon finds herself wondering the world, looking for a country that will accept her, a person in exile.
📺🎄 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (CBS, 8 p.m.): Based on the song by Johnny Marks, the reindeer with the incandescent nose guides Santa's sleigh through a bad storm on Christmas Eve.✔️
NOTICES:
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV, 8 p.m.): How to Make a Monster (1958)
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| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (via Gifer) |
🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
📺 The Addams Family (Decades, 9:30 p.m.): Spend the weekend with the family that is creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and ooky. In this season one episode Cousin Itt visits.✔️
📺🎄 Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns (CBS, 9 p.m.): Jimmy Durante narrates the animated adaptation of Romeo Muller's story. In the Jonathan Winters-narrated sequel, a snow-removal spray threatens magic Frosty.
This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? This is our weekly thread for you talk about it.
🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
NOTICES:
📺 SNL Vintage (NBC): Lucy Liu, Jay-Z (16 Dec 2000)
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| The Addams Family (via Make a Gif) |
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Blade Runner: Black Lotus (Adult Swim, midnight): In her quest for revenge, Elle breaks into the home of her next target and is forced to take a hostage. Chief Grant calls in reinforcements.
Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Naruto is overcome with grief over Neji's death; Hinata's words restore his fighting spirit.
Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Adult Swim, 12:30 & 1 & 1:30 a.m.): Setsuna regains her demon powers. Later, Setsuna and Towa hire Moroha to help track down Zero. And even later, Towa, Setsuna and Moroha are left to confront Kirinmaru, but in the face of overwhelming power, they must pay a great price.
📺 That Girl (Antenna TV, 11 p.m.): Ann is worried about girlfriend who is in love.
📺 The Time Tunnel (MeTV, 3 a.m.): Series finale. In the terrible final episode, Tony and Doug are propelled into the future (1978) to fight invaders siphoning off the Earth's oxygen.
NOTICES:
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): Billie Eilish✔️
BRIEFLY: Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love (Investigation Discovery, 11 p.m.); Outgrown (HGTV, 11 p.m.)
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| Saturday Night Live (via Giphy) |
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📺: Throwback
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Happy watching, everyone!
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