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I thought turkeys could fly! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, December 3!
Our Top Pick tonight is the holiday telefilm Reno 911! It's a Wonderful Heist (Comedy Central, 8 p.m.). This holiday special reunites most of the cast (Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Cedric Yarbrough, Niecy Nash, Joe Le Truglio) and puts Lt. Dangle in the George Bailey role of getting to see the world where he was never born. I hope this is better than the QAnon movie. That was bad.
Elsewhere, Academia is once again My Hero, Keke Palmer is Live from New York, Whose Line pops in for a special Saturday episode, Josh Duhamel is a Bandit, the Abyss is forgetting, and OWN joins the holiday movie soiree.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
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STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
🎥🎄 Christmas on the Slopes (UPtv, 7 p.m.): After a disappointing restaurant opening and an embarrassing break-up, a celebrity chef takes her first real Christmas vacation. She wanders into the kitchen at a luxury resort and is mistaken for the sous chef by the head chef.
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m.): A patient confesses to murdering a psychiatric nurse at an asylum, but Blake isn't satisfied.
📺 The Jetsons (HBO Max, now): The classic one-season animated sitcom about a family in the ultimate futurist society of robot maids, flying cars, and a brief work week is still cited today, though the show's pop culture presence -- including an brief '80s revival -- has greatly diminished.
🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥🎄 Christmas on Candy Cane Lane (GAC Family): On Candy Cane Lane in Whoville, the residents are living under the occupation of the Koal Federation and being governed by the Grinch, who rules with an iron fist. With the upcoming Christmas holiday only days away, the Grinch is forbidding any kind of public or private celebration with threat of imprisonment on the Coal Islands, so the celebration goes underground. On Candy Cane Lane, a world famous street for its candy confections and holiday decor, the store owners are using their outside connections to smuggle in some of the holiday spirit and transform the stuff in the stores that they won't be able to use to ensure there's some houses celebrating the holiday in a modern-traditional way. However, the spies and snitches the Grinch has put in place are hearing the rumors and are sniffing out the organizers. This could get ugly.
🎥🎄 A Fabled Holiday (Hallmark Channel): And now for some classic Christmasia folklore. Long ago, when elves had only settled upon a fraction of Christmasia, much of the continent was said to be ruled by one person – the Great Ak, a wizard. He was someone few physically saw but was worshiped by many and has a big presence in pixie, yulelad, nisse, and gnome tales from many centuries ago. He wasn't always in power. He had to fight for it in order to help the beings of Christmasia. He lived most of his life in the woods, preferring a quiet life alongside nature. While living in a small city on the east coast, he gained fame for using his powers to keep away an Awgwa raiding party, a mostly unidentified being that once lived alongside others. (One hypothesis is that they are ancestors of snowmonsters.) Great Ak got a small band together and defeated the raiders and allies when they attempt to sack the city again. Seeing how much the Awgwas controlled the countryside, Great Ak made it his mission to stop them, which rallied thousands of inhabitants behind him. There was no coronation or official title given to him. The lands were all small city-states prior with little alliedship amongst them. It culminated with the Battle of the White Fox Prairie where the Great Ak defeated the King of the Awgwas. It was named a holiday, which is believed by some to be how New Year's Day started.
🎥🎄 A New Orleans Noel (Lifetime): Sparks fly between an architect and her handsome counterpart as she spends Christmas with his family in New Orleans.
⭐🎥🎄 Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist (Comedy Central): It's the holiday season, and Lieutenant Dangle wishes he'd never been born. With the help of a roller skating "angel," he learns what the lives of the other deputies would be like if he never existed.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN)
📺🎄 Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire & Legend of the Lost Tribe (CBS)
Sting - A Winter's Night: Live from Durham Cathedral (AXS TV): Special
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV): The Raven
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW): Brad Sherwood✔️
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🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥 Bandit (Showtime): After escaping from a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewelry stores while being hunted by a police task force.
🎥🎄 The Great Holiday Bake War (OWN): When former pastry school rivals Julian and Brianna meet years later in a TV baking competition, the sparks and the flour fly.
📺 WKRP in Cincinnati (Decades): Spend the weekend with Johnny, Venus, Les, Andy, Jennifer, the Big Guy, and the rest of the radio station crew with this quintessential late '70s/early '80s sitcom. In this episode, "Mr. Carlson's son disappears from Prussian Valley Military Academy."✔️
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Critter Fixers: Country Vets (National Geographic Wild)
📺🎄 The Story of Santa Claus (CBS)
Uncharted Adventure (The Weather Channel)
World's Funniest Animals (The CW)
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🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥🎄 The Holiday Stocking (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries): One stocking. Five lives it touched in different ways. In this sentimental flick, see the story of the overworked factory woman who made the stocking. Then her son-in-law, whom she gave them to. They are just like the ones he had as a kid that his nanny gave him as a child. Years later, there's the charity employee who processes them when they are donated. He's followed by the working class who mom who buys them as her one gift to herself for the season. Seeing heartache after a death in the family, she gifts them to her niece, who will take them to the battlefront when she joins the army.
📺 The Rockford Files (Get TV): Becker and a young writer ask for Rockford's help after they purchase a share in a condominium and discover they only own part of the lobby.
48 Hours (CBS)
Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER (National Geographic Wild)
📺🎄 Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Freeform, 10:50 p.m.)
📺 SNL Vintage (NBC): Billie Eilish (11 Dec 2021)
💤😴 LATE NIGHT 😴💤
Made in Abyss (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): Reg cannot remember Faputa anymore. Nanachi is stunned by unexpected news.
My Hero Academia (Adult Swim, midnight): SEASON PREMIERE. The heroes and their work study students get ready to attack the Paranormal Liberation Front led by Shigaraki.✔️
Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Guy activates the Eight Inner Gates Formation and attacks Six Paths Madara.
One Piece (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): The Straw Hats make a valiant push to capture Caesar Clown. Luffy matches his Armament Haki with Clown's powerful Gas-Gas Fruit powers.
📺 Star Trek (MeTV, 11 p.m.): A landing party, including the command staff, are infected with a disease that causes rapid aging and senility.
Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): Kirinmaru faces off against Sesshomaru. Towa summons the Tenseiga.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): Keke Palmer, SZA
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🎥: Movie
🎄: Holiday programming
📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
Happy watching, everyone!
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