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Merry Christmas! Here's what's on television for tonight, Sunday, December 25!
Our Top Pick tonight is the latest Dutton miniseries 1923 (Paramount+, 3 a.m. / Paramount Network, 9:21 p.m.). The series jumps ahead 40 years from the previous Yellowstone prequel 1883 to a Dutton household headed by Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. The West continues to expand, prohibition approaches, and the Great Depression is starting. They have a son in Africa still grappling with WWI combat (typical Sheridan character). There's the Scottish herder Jerome Flynn, businessman Timothy Dalton, sheriff Robert Patrick, and the indigenous schoolgirl Aminah Nieves. If you like Yellowstone-verse, this is probably decent. If you don't (like me), it isn't good.
Elsewhere, The Witcher tells an Origin, Christmas calls the Midwife, Ziwe wraps another season, 1923 tries to keep the peace, and Tammy wants a sober husband.
Cancellation League (3 p.m.-ish or tomorrow): Midseason changes continue. The deadline is next weekend.
Elsewhere, The Witcher tells an Origin, Christmas calls the Midwife, Ziwe wraps another season, 1923 tries to keep the peace, and Tammy wants a sober husband.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
ON THIS SITE
Cancellation League (3 p.m.-ish or tomorrow): Midseason changes continue. The deadline is next weekend.
Thoughts On (now): In 1982, CBS News' occasional investigative series CBS Reports aired the documentary Don't Touch That Dial!, hosted by Morley Safer, and which attempted to explain how TV shows get produced and who decides what we can watch. For anyone curious about the industry, it is a fascinating watch.
🎄 CHRISTMAS SPECIALS 🎄
AMC+: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas; The Year Without a Santa Claus
Apple TV+: A Charlie Brown Christmas; It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown
Disney+: Mickey's Christmas Carol; Prep & Landing; The Star Wars Holiday Special; Toy Story That Time Forgot
Peacock: A Garfield Christmas; How the Grinch Stole Christmas; The Little Drummer Boy; Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol; Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
Tubi: Jack Frost
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STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
⭐ 1923 (Paramount+, 3 a.m. / Paramount Network, 9:21 p.m.): "Nature's Empty Throne." An empty throne is where I'd put this entire franchise.
The Chosen (Angel App, 7 p.m.): Jesus returns to his childhood home for the big Jewish new year celebration.
🎥🎄 Christmas in Wolf Creek (UPtv, 7 p.m.): I choose to believe this is a sequel to that short-lived CBS series Wolf Lake from the early 2000s.
🎥🎄 Love at the Christmas Contest (GAC Family): Maestro Love goes to the Christmasia capital of Alcott intent to ruin the latest crazy to sweep the city: dating games. The games are more like speed dating, but the word "contest" can bring in more of a crowd. Maestro’s mission is simply throw as many wrenches in the event – which draws more than 200 people – as possible. Make all these single young people have a miserable time and not find a possible future significant other. He schemes to make the computer randomizer that will determine ice breaking questions to only land on two possible options, and the sorting of people into smaller groups keeps repeating the same group composition over and over again. There is little socializing. And a lot of the groups are skewed toward matches that aren't necessarily designed to work. A punxsutawni and a yeti are barely compatible; and a pixie, who are overwhelmingly pansexual, isn't likely to date a kallikantzaro, who are largely the opposite type of personality of a typical pixie. The event organizer, Geppetto Olive-Tree, is broken. The event is a disaster, and he worries The Workshop will fire him. However, the more Maestro ruins the event and crosses paths with Gappetto, the more he thinks he might be hiding some possible feelings about him. Could Maestro Love find love as he ruins it for everyone else?
🎥🎄 Our Italian Christmas Memories (Hallmark): There are a few humans in Christmasia but not many. They comprise only a micro-sliver of the population and almost all live in the southeast. The handful that are here mostly arrived from their native Ognissanti some 5 decades ago when it was suffering political unrest and social upheaval. About half of those that came here and since returned, but those that remain sit down and tell us their stories and how their traditions and holidays have been intertwined with those of Christmasia. They offer a unique perspective as we can see how they celebrate Christmas Day and their native holiday the following day, St. Stephen's Day. However, many of the youth – the grandchildren of the original adventurers – simply call it Second Christmas, much to the dismay of their elders, especially the influential Azura Mangiafuoco.
That Girl Lay Lay (Nickelodeon, 7:30 p.m.): Lay Lay's avatar creator visits Sadie with some changes to the app settings, turning Lay Lay's personality negative. Sadie tries to restore her best friend's positivity while convincing the techie not to shut down the app completely.
Tulsa King (Paramount+, 3 a.m.): "Warr Acres"
📺💲 Weakest Link (The Roku Channel, now): This isn't the original American version with Anne Robinson hosting. Roku has the first season of the syndicated show, hosted by George Gray. I loved Weakest when it premiered on NBC; it self like such an event with all the promotion and teasers. Yet contestants rarely seem to be able to pile up and save money in their rounds of quickly answering various trivia questions. The new Jane Lynch version is all right.
The Witcher: Blood Origin (Netflix, 3 a.m.): LIMITED SERIES. More than a thousand years before the events of The Witcher, seven outcasts in an Elven world join forces in a quest against an all-powerful empire. Sophia Brown, Michelle Yeoh, and Laurence O'Fuarain are among the stars.✔️
WHAT ELSE IS ON
🎥 Matilda the Musical (Netflix, 3 a.m.)✔️
Written in the Stars (Discovery+, 3 a.m.)
🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
Dangerous Liaisons (Starz): Camille and Valmont continue to fight for their freedom, unaware of the threat of a returning figure.
📺 Hangin' With Mr. Cooper (TruTV): Mark and Vanessa (Mark Curry, Holly Robinson Peete) have a serious argument and each tells a different story about what happened.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? (TLC)
🎥 The Wizard of Oz (TBS)
🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
Call the Midwife (PBS): As Christmas approaches, life starts to return to normal in Poplar after a terrible train crash. Trixie arrives from Portofino... but Hotel Portofino?!? Poplar pitches a festive talent show to raise money for families affected by the train crash.✔️
George & Tammy (Showtime): The only Christmas present Tammy wants is George's sobriety. When he cannot deliver, their relationship hits a crisis point, forcing Tammy to make a drastic threat. When George calls her bluff, they find themselves singing sad songs.
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🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
The L Word: Generation Q (Showtime): Alice, Shane and Sophie grapple with the big questions on their path to finding The One after many missteps, heartbreaks and disappointments.
💤😴 LATE NIGHT 😴💤
📺 Mission: Impossible (MeTV, 3 a.m.): Gunther Schell, the brains behind many Syndicate operations, escaped with the aid of a gang specializing in smuggling criminals out of the country. The IMF must locate Schell and the millions in Syndicate money he hid.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Ziwe (Showtime, 11 p.m.): Wayne Brady, Laura Benanti, Larry Owens, Michelle Davis; season finale✔️
🎄: Holiday programming
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Happy watching, everyone!
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