SUNDAY’S BEST PICKS
8 PM ( HALL) MOVIE Christmas With the Darlings
As the height of the holiday season approaches, Jessica Lew (Katrina Law, “Arrow”) is looking forward to moving on from her familiar role as assistant to her wealthy boss to accept a position in the company that will allow her to put her newly earned legal degree to good use. She’s happy, however, to offer assistance when her boss’s charming younger brother, Max (Carlo Marks), needs help caring for his orphaned niece and nephew over Christmas. Steve Bacic also stars in this 2020 yuletide romance.
8:30 PM 4 NCIS: Los Angeles
After a Russian bomber goes missing while flying over U.S. soil, Callen and Sam (Chris O’Donnell, LL Cool J) race to track it down and secure the weapons and intel before the Russians on board destroy the aircraft in “The Bear,” the Season 12 premiere. Elsewhere, Hetty (Linda Hunt) gives Nell (Renée Felice Smith) a cryptic assignment. Vyto Ruginis guest stars; Daniela Ruah, Eric Christopher Olsen and Barrett Foa also star.
8:30 PM ( SHO) Our Cartoon President
It’s airing a few days after the real-life event, but this satirical comedy closes out Season 3 with a finale called “Election Day.” This occasion, capping a very contentious race between incumbent president Cartoon Donald Trump and his challenger, Cartoon Joe Biden (Jeff Bergman voices both candidates), is being touted as the most important election in modern American history, so everyone — candidates, supporters, news media, even? Cartoon? Vladimir Putin (voice of R.J. Fried) — is gearing up to find out who will be the next Our Cartoon President.
9 PM ( FOOD) Kids Baking Champion
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Four fan favorite bakers from past seasons return for “Season’s Sweetings,” a special yuletide-themed episode in which the contenders are put through their paces by hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman, who challenge them to create holiday gingerbread challenges with a cake twist. As one of several curveballs awaiting them, the bakers also must make reindeer treats. The overall winner takes home a dream package of top-of-the-line baking equipment valued at more than $10,000.
9 PM ( NGEO) MOVIE Rebuilding
Paradise
Academy Award winner
Ron Howard directed this heartfelt new documentary, which looks at how a community came together in the aftermath of almost incalculable loss to begin their shared recovery. On Nov. 8, 2018, a devastating wildfire swept through the postcard-pretty town of Paradise, Calif., moving with horrific speed. By the time this inferno, dubbed the Camp Fire, was extinguished, it had killed 85 people, displaced 50,000 residents and basically wiped Paradise off the map. The townspeople’s determination to rebuild is a testament to human resilience.
9:30 PM 4 NCIS: New Orleans
The Big Easy is grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as Season 7 of this crime procedural premieres with “Something in the Air, Part 1.” After Pride (Scott Bakula) dispatches Tammy and Carter (Vanessa Ferlito, Charles Michael Davis) to investigate a suspicious death aboard a humanitarian ship offshore, they learn that some crew members are infected with coronavirus. Meanwhile, Wade (CCH Pounder) is overwhelmed as the pandemic taxes the morgue capacity to its limit.
11 PM ( SHO) Moonbase 8
Fred Armisen (“Saturday Night Live”), Tim Heidecker and John C. Reilly are creators, writers and the stars of this new half-hour comedy series, in which they play, respectively, eager astronaut trainees Skip, Rook and Cap, the leader. The trio live and work at NASA’s Moon Base Simulator deep in the isolated desert outside Winslow, Ariz. There, the guys attempt to qualify for their first space mission, although a series of unexpected circumstances makes them second-guess themselves and even question their sanity.
11:47 PM ( NGEO) MOVIE Rebuilding Paradise
Academy Award winner Ron Howard directed this heartfelt new documentary, which looks at how a community came together in the aftermath of almost incalculable loss to begin their shared recovery. On Nov. 8, 2018, a devastating wildfire swept through the postcard-pretty town of Paradise, Calif., moving with horrific speed. By the time this inferno, dubbed the Camp Fire, was extinguished, it had killed 85 people, displaced 50,000 residents and basically wiped Paradise off the map. The townspeople’s determination to rebuild is a testament to human resilience.