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| Kennedy Center Honors |
Everything is hunky-dunky! Here's what's on television for tonight, Wednesday, December 22!
Tonight's Top Pick is The 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, 9 p.m.), which this year honors Justino Díaz, Berry Gordy, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler, and Joni Mitchell. This annual special — the ceremony took place earlier this month — is one of the few new things during the holiday dry spell. Every time I watch the KCH, I feel overly-cultured.
Elsewhere, It's Always Sunny at the end of a season, Hawkeye will probably face Yelena, The Matrix isreloaded resurrected, Cover Bands finish Clashing, Fox throws a Masked singalong, and Emily is still in Paris.
Elsewhere, It's Always Sunny at the end of a season, Hawkeye will probably face Yelena, The Matrix is
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
📺🎄 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (HBO Max, now): In one of Sesame Street's early specials (1978), Big Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on Christmas Eve, nobody would get presents.
Emily in Paris (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SEASON TWO. Where did we leave off? Oh, right. Emily's primary boy toy isn't leaving Paris to own his own restaurant because one of the older men who wants to smash Emily (and is her client) is backing the boy toy financially in a Paris restaurant. His leaving Paris drove him and his girlfriend, who is also Emily's BFF, to breakup, so the previous night he and Emily finally banged one out after a couple secret makeouts throughout the season. Any reunion will be awkward. Then again, most every interaction is awkward because Emily is always often timid and full of guilt. Me to this show.✔️
📺🎄 How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (Hulu, now): Hiccup and Toothless reunite to remind both their kinds of the inseparable bond between Vikings and Dragons in this delightful 2019 special.
📺🎄 It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown (Apple TV+, now): The Peanuts gang prepares for the holidays in their own unique ways in this 1992 special.
Hawkeye (Disney+, 3 a.m.): SEASON FINALE. Maybe he will finally get a new costume. Oh, and he has to somehow save himself from Yelena. I wonder if Valentina will make a cameo. That way she can get a guest Emmy.
💲 Jeopardy! (Syndicated, check local listings): Amy is a great player.
🎥 The Matrix Resurrections (HBO Max, 3 a.m.): "Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more."
📺🎄 Merry Madagascar (Netflix, now): When Santa and his reindeer crash onto Madagascar it's up to Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melvin, and the penguins to save Christmas in this 2009 special.
🍽️ Occasional Cooks (What's On Tonight & Pop Culture, 7 p.m.): What have you been making in your kitchen lately? Want some inspiration? Check out our weekly food thread!
📺🎄 Sonic Christmas Blast (Pluto TV, now): Sonic the Hedgehog must stop the evil Dr. Robotnik from ruining Christmas after Santa Clause disappears in this 1996 special.
INTERNATIONAL & DOCUSERIES NOTICES:
BRIEFLY: 💲 People Puzzler (GSN, 6 p.m.); The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles (Paramount+, 3 a.m.)
🎥🎄 Grumpy Christmas (Netflix, 3 a.m.): Mexico
WWII in Color (Netflix, 3 a.m.): Season 1
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| Emily in Paris (via Tumblr) |
🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥🎄 Christmas in Connecticut (TCM, 8 p.m.): Women's magazine publisher Sydney Greenstreet has Barbara Stanwyck, his best columnist and famed homemaker, play holiday host to Navy hero Dennis Morgan. However, she has a secret: the life she lives in her columns are a lie.
🎥🎄 The Grinch (NBC, 8 p.m.): This is the mediocre animated movie with Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character.✔️
🎥🎄 It Takes Christmas Village (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): When construction threatens business in a small town, the mayor decides to throw a Christmas market to boost sales. To do it, though, she'll have to convince a reclusive mill owner to host the gathering, sparking romance in the process. [*rolls eyes*]
BRIEFLY: The Challenge (MTV); 🎄 The Masked Singer Christmas Singalong (Fox, special); Moonshiners (Discovery Channel); My 600-Ib Life (TLC); 💲 The Price Is Right at Night (CBS, special); Property Brothers: Forever Home (HGTV)
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| The Grinch (via Giphy) |
🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
The 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, 9 p.m.): SPECIAL. Entertainers receive recognition at the annual ceremony, and this year, the honorees are operatic bass-baritone Justino Díaz, Motown founder Berry Gordy, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, actress Bette Midler, and singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. David Letterman hosts and an all-star lineup will be paying tribute to the honored.✔️
Sistas (BET, 9 p.m.): SEASON FINALE. "Fatima devises a plan to put a stop to Hayden's games once and for all."
NOTICES:
Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller (National Geographic): motorcycle 1% clubs
BRIEFLY: The Bradshaw Bunch/Clash of the Cover Bands (E!, season finale); Engineering Catastrophes (Science); Forged in Fire (History); The Real Housewives of Orange County (Bravo); Still a Mystery (Investigation Discovery, season finale)
🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FXX, 10 p.m.): SEASON FINALE. Mac spends a day at the seminary to truly understand what it takes to become a priest. Meanwhile, Dennis and Frank plan an elaborate trap to humiliate Charlie's pen pal. Elsewhere, Dee prepares for a date with an Irish doctor. Later, the gang attempts to ascend a mountain in order for Charlie to fulfill an old and mysterious Irish burial tradition. One by one, the gang backs out until Charlie is left to honor the dead body alone.✔️
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NOTICES & LINEAR PREMIERES:
Don't Cancel Me with Amara La Nagra (Fuse, 11 p.m.): Michael Salzhauer, Jennell Butler
The Drowning (Sundance TV, midnight): "Episode 3"
Gutfeld! (Fox News, 11 p.m.): To be announced
BRIEFLY: Flipping Showdown (HGTV, 11 p.m., season finale)
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| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (via Giphy) |
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💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
Happy watching, everyone!
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