What to watch
FRIDAY Dec. 24, 2021
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
Dickinson
Apple TV+ Season Finale
The third and final season of this fanciful comedy series following 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) comes to an end.
Don’t Look Up
Netflix Feature Film Exclusive
In writer/director Adam McKay’s darkly comic sci-fi film, an astronomy grad student (Jennifer Lawrence) and her professor (Leonardo DiCaprio) make the astounding discovery of a massive comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem: It’s on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care. The stellar cast also includes Meryl Streep, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothee Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Cate Blanchett and Michael Chiklis.
1000 Miles From Christmas
Original Film
Netflix
This Spanish romantic comedy follows Raul (Tamar Novas), a 30-something man who hates Christmas. He usually escapes the holidays on a faraway beach, but this year, his boss has different plans for him: Raul must attend a business trip to audit a factory that produces the most typical Yuletide sweet in a town that lives for and loves Christmas. Will the Grinchy Raul be able to overcome his worst nightmare?
A Holly Dolly Christmas ABC, 7 p.m.
This moving 2020 special makes a welcome return, with the ever-comforting Dolly Parton performing holiday favorites and originals on a candlelit church set. We would watch her hold back tears talking about her mother, and trying to have a good heart because of her, every year.
College Football: EasyPost Hawaii Bowl ESPN, 7 p.m. Live
College football’s bowl season continues tonight in Honolulu with the Memphis Tigers vs. the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in the EasyPost Hawaii Bowl on ESPN.
Olaf’s Frozen Adventure ABC, 7 p.m.
Excitable Olaf (voiced by Josh Gad) is a snowman on a mission: Find a holiday tradition for Arendelle’s royal sisters Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell). A 2017 animated follow-up to Frozen.
Hot Chocolate Holiday
Lifetime, 7 p.m. Original Film
Colette (Aubrey Reynolds) runs a coffee shop that is known for her secret and famous hot chocolate. When Marcus (Jonny Swenson), a new dessert-shop owner, starts to draw in Colette’s customers with his very own specialty hot chocolate that tastes exactly like the recipe from her beloved grandmother, she is determined to expose him. But as she gets to know Marcus, sparks fly between the cocoa connoisseurs.
It’s a Wonderful Life NBC, 7 p.m.
Frank Capra’s beloved, Oscar-winning 1946 holiday classic stars Best Actor Oscar nominee James Stewart as George Bailey, a discouraged and despairing building-andloan manager who contemplates suicide before a guardian angel named Clarence (Henry Travers) intervenes and allows him to see what George’s small town of Bedford Falls would be without him — and all that is right in his world. Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore also star in the iconic film whose Oscar nominations also included Best Picture and Best Director for Capra.
24 Hours of A Christmas Story TBS, Beginning at 7 p.m., TNT, Beginning at 8 p.m.
Ralphie’s quest for that Red Ryder BB gun in this 1983 classic just never gets old.
Small Town Christmas UPtv, 8 p.m. Series Finale
In “Summerville, S.C.,” host Megan Alexander explores the food, drink, music, entertainment and faith that residents of Summerville, South Carolina, enjoy during the Christmas season.
Christmas Eve Mass NBC, 10:30 p.m.
Watch the Pope Francis-led Mass from St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.