WATCHTHIS: SUNDAY
“On the 12th Date of Christmas”( 7 p.m., Hallmark): Jennifer (Mallory Jansen), a headstrong game designer, is teamed with the more experienced Aidan (Tyler Hynes), who doesn’t play well with others, on a challenging assignment: creating, in less than a week, a romantic, Chicago-wide scavenger hunt with a “12 Days of Christmas” theme that’s part of a marketing campaign for a new hotel. Executives in the hotel chain’s corporate offices are insanely demanding, but if Jennifer and Aidan can pull it off, theymay well land a huge account in this new yuletide romantic comedy.
“Pandora” (7 p.m., CW): Xander and Jett (Oliver Dench, Akshay Kumar) embark on amission to rescue Ralen (Ben Radcliffe), who has been swept up in the highstakes world of an intergalactic fight club in the new episode “On a Night Like This.” Elsewhere, Osborn (Noah Huntley) tasks Jax (Priscilla Quintana) with acquiring some vital intel from a beautiful Sumi princess who is about to get married.
“The Simpsons”( 7 p.m., FOX): Itmay have missed the Halloween deadline, but the new “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” marks the 31st edition of this seasonal favorite. As usual, the format is a terror-themed trilogy, this year encompassing a frightening look at the 2020 election, parodies of Pixar and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and a ninth birthday that Lisa (voice of Yeardley Smith) just can’t get over. Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner and Nancy Cartwright also star in the voice cast.
“Killer Competition” (7 p.m., 11 p.m., LMN): Nicole, a high school senior, is obsessed with becoming her class valedictorian, so she goes along when her friend Sarah suggests they prevail over her stiff competition by hacking into the school records and manipulating test scores. After their subterfuge results in the suicide of another student, new evidence comes to light suggesting the “suicide” was actually murder.
“Virus Hunters” (8 p.m., 10 p.m., NATGEO): Timed to coincide with National Geographic Magazine’s November issue on COVID-19, this new companion special chronicles global efforts by researchers, epidemiologists and other experts who are racing to avert the next deadly contagion by identifying and targeting the human behaviors and environmental factors that can trigger them. Chief among these, according to some reports, are deforestation.
“Race in America: Our Vote Counts” (9 p.m., 11:15 p.m., Bravo): In this new 90-minute special (also simulcast on E!), host Nina Parker welcomes a group of celebrity guests to talk about issues facing America today and how events have converged tomake the Black vote more important than ever before, on both a local and national level. Topics also include the ways in which local elections play a critical role in changing the system and how a new generation of voters can wield real power through their votes.
“Holly& Ivy” (9 p.m., HMM): Big-hearted Melody (Janel Parrish) is heartsick to learn that Nina, a young single mother who lives nearby, is gravely ill, but she promises to keep the latter’s daughters, Holly and Ivy, together, no matter what happens. As a former foster child herself, Melody takes this responsibility very seriously, but the fixer-upper where she lives needs some repairs to meet the requirements of child welfare officials.
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