What to watch
SATURDAY
Dec. 18, 2021
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
My Dream Kitchen: Giada De Laurentiis Discovery+
Professional chef Giada De Laurentiis has spent more than 20 years cooking in kitchens all over the world. Now, for the first time, the Food Network star, cookbook author and restaurateur has the opportunity to build her own kitchen from the ground up as she renovates the midcentury house in Los Angeles that she purchased for her forever home. But bringing this vision to reality is filled with unexpected twists and turns as bold design choices come to life, and construction delays and supply-chain issues conspire to delay the culmination of this dream.
College Football
ABC & ESPN, Beginning at 10 a.m. Live
Seven bowl games are on the schedule for Saturday with the RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl (ESPN), the Cricket Celebration Bowl (ABC), the New Mexico Bowl (ESPN), the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl (ABC), the LendingTree Bowl (ESPN), the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl (ABC) and the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl (ESPN).
The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls
Hallmark Channel, 7 p.m. Original Film The Mitchell brothers compete to see who can create the best Christmas House. Stars Robert Buckley, Ana Ayora, Jonathan Bennett, Sharon Lawrence, Treat Williams and Brad Harder.
Toying With the Holidays
Lifetime, 7 p.m. Original Film Workaholic designer Danielle (Cindy Busby) returns to her hometown of Holly Pines for the holidays with her young son, Paul, and hopes to introduce him to some beloved holiday traditions — in particular, the town’s North Pole Express train. Once home, she discovers that the North Pole Express has been sidelined. Determined to help, Danielle reconnects with her former high school classmate Kevin (Chad Michael Murray), now a hobbyist and model-train enthusiast himself. Together, Danielle and Kevin attempt to pull off a Christmas miracle that would get the old North Pole Express running — and quite possibly give Danielle many reasons, one of them romantic, to consider staying in Holly Pines for good.
Deadly Girls’ Night Out
LMN, 7 p.m. Original Film
Willa heads to her hometown for the holidays for the first time in years. She and her high school friends Naomi and Tia decide to hit the town for a girls’ night out. The fun is cut short when Naomi meets an untimely death. All signs point to an apparent suicide, but Willa doesn’t believe this. Desperate to avenge their friend, Willa and Tia try to dig up any piece of evidence they can find. But with no real leads, they are left hopeless, and worse, it appears someone doesn’t want Willa to keep searching. Gina Vitori, Rene Ashton, James Hyde, Emma Jessop and Josh Murray star.
When Hope Calls: ‘A Country Christmas, Parts 1 and 2’
GAC Family, 7 p.m.
The cast of When Hope Calls returns for this two-part holiday film that finds Abigail Stanton from When Calls the Heart (Lori Loughlin) and her son Cody (Carter Ryan) visiting Lillian’s (Morgan Kohan) orphanage, and the town of Brookfield scurrying to be named America’s No. 1 Country Christmas Town by a national magazine.
Destination Fear: ‘Loftus Hall’
Travel Channel, 8 p.m.
The team jumps out of their comfort zone and across the pond to the rugged and stormy coast of Ireland — and their firstever international investigation together. They’re prepared to come face-to-face with poltergeists, ghostly nuns and maybe the devil himself inside Loftus Hall, a cursed 14th-century mansion. It’s a location that will test Dakota’s theory that the older and more ancient the entity, the more active and frightening it becomes.
Christmas for Keeps Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 9 p.m.
Original Film
At Christmastime, a close-knit group of childhood friends returns home after 10 years to take part in the celebration of the life of their beloved high school teacher. Stars Christa B. Allen, Ryan Rottman, Ashley Newbrough and Marielle Scott.