SATURDAY’S BEST PICKS
8 PM ( HALL) MOVIE A Nashville Christmas Carol Jessy Schram (“Country at Heart”) stars in this new 2020 holiday musical romance as Vivienne Wake, a driven TV producer currently working on an upcoming country music Christmas special that showcases newcomer Alexis (RaeLynn). Although Vivienne prides herself on not letting personal issues interfere with work, she’s rattled when her childhood sweetheart Gavin Chase (Wes Brown) turns up as manager to another artist (Sara Evans) on the special. Three ghosts (Wynonna Judd, Kix Brooks and Kimberly Williams-Paisley) try to help Jessy get her life back on track.
8 PM ( LIFE) MOVIE Feliz NaviDAD Arizona high school principal David Morales (Mario Lopez) hasn’t been able to summon the Christmas spirit since losing his wife a few years ago during the holiday season. In fact, he moonlights as a seasonal delivery driver just to keep busy and not think about Christmas. As another yuletide approaches, however, David’s teenage daughter (Paulina Chávez) and live-in sister (Marycarmen Lopez) vow to bring Christmas back into their home, a plan that may enlist the help of Sophie (AnnaLynne McCord), a musician on David’s delivery route.
8 PM ( LMN) MOVIE Pretty Cheaters, Deadly Lies After her cousin Madison (Sydney Meyer) tricks her into a compromising situation, high school senior Hanna (Keara Graves) thinks she may be able to get her scheming relative to stop blackmailing her if Hanna agrees to take her college entrance exam for her. Unfortunately, the twisted Madison has no intention of letting her off the hook that easily, and her scheme takes a far more deadly turn in this 2020 thriller. Kate Drummond and Sebastien Roberts also star.
9 PM ( SHO) MOVIE First Reformed Writer- director Paul Schrader’s deep 2018 drama casts “The Good Lord Bird” star Ethan Hawke as a pastor at an upstate New York church that is situated along the Underground Railroad and about to mark a milestone. He’s forced to face his troubled past when a pregnant member of his ever more sparse congregation (Amanda Seyfried) seeks his help, triggering a shocking attempt by him to resolve his own crisis of faith. Cedric Kyles, Victoria Hill and Philip Ettinger also are featured. 9:25 PM ( HBO) MOVIE Underwater
William Eubank’s claustrophobic 2020 sci-fi horror film stars Kristen Stewart as the mechanical engineer on a research and drilling facility operating deep underwater, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. A crisis strikes in the form of a strong earthquake that cripples their work station, leaving them stranded in the depths. Raising the stakes considerably is the discovery that the quake also has released a horde of hostile and voracious creatures. Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr. and T.J. Miller also star.
12 AM ( LMN) MOVIE Pretty Cheaters, Deadly Lies After her cousin Madison (Sydney Meyer) tricks her into a compromising situation, high school senior Hanna (Keara Graves) thinks she may be able to get her scheming relative to stop blackmailing her if Hanna agrees to take her college entrance exam for her. Unfortunately, the twisted Madison has no intention of letting her off the hook that easily, and her scheme takes a far more deadly turn in this 2020 thriller. Kate Drummond and Sebastien Roberts also star.
1 AM ^ Austin City Limits Founded in 1989 in Miami, the Grammy-winning American country music band The Mavericks always has lived up to its name by combining Tex-Mex, Latin, rockabilly and non-traditional country influences into a sound that’s like no other, yet highly accessible. This new episode finds the group taking things a step further as they perform numbers from their first-ever all-Latin format release “En Español.” Songs include “La Sitiera,” “Recuerdos,” “Cuando Me Enamoro” and “Mujer.”