SATURDAY’S BEST PICKS
7:30 PM ( FREE) MOVIE The Secret Life of Pets 2 Chris Renaud’s 2019 computer-animated follow-up to the 2016 blockbuster “The Secret Life of Pets” finds pooches Max and Duke (voices of Patton Oswalt, Eric Stonestreet) forced to make some big adjustments when their owner, Katie (voice of Ellie Kemper), gets married to a guy named Chuck (voice of Pete
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Holmes) and subsequently welcomes a baby into the household. Other voices include Kevin Hart, Harrison Ford, Jenny Slate, Tiffany Haddish, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey and Hannibal Buress.
8 PM ( LIFE) MOVIE A Picture Perfect Holiday Tatyana Ali stars in this new 2021 yuletide romance as ambitious fashion photographer Gaby Jones, who is thrilled when she lands a coveted magazine job. At the urging of a supportive editor, Gaby signs up for the annual Christmas Photography Retreat in scenic Pine Falls to brush up on her skills, although she’s not really into the whole holiday scene. Her skepticism mounts when a booking error forces her to share her rental with a wildlife photographer, but nature soon takes its course. Dina Meyer and Henderson Wade also star.
8 PM ( HBO) MOVIE Boogie Eddie Huang, whose personal memoirs inspired the ABC sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat,” wrote and made his directorial debut with this 2021 drama starring Taylor Takahashi in the title role of Alfred “Boogie” Chin, a young basketball phenom living in Queens, N.Y. He has the potential for a successful, even
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brilliant, future, if he can bust open the doors closed to him by racism. He also faces challenges in the form of his mother (Pamelyn Chee), a dragon-lady disciplinarian, and his father (Perry Yung), who just got out of jail.
8 PM ( TCM) MOVIE The French Connection Five Oscars, including best picture, best director (William Friedkin) and best actor (Gene Hackman), went to this high-octane (and largely fact-based) 1971 police drama in which narcotics officer “Popeye” Doyle (Hackman) and his partner (Roy Scheider) take on a drug ring shipping heroin into the United States. The film, which airs on TCM tonight to mark the 50th anniversary of its release, includes one of the most memorable pursuit sequences in screen history.
8 PM ( LMN) MOVIE A Mother’s Fury Overjoyed that she and doting husband Jeff are new parents to Evan, their infant son, author Elizabeth
Daley launches a mommy blog that documents the trials and tribulations of parenting. Almost immediately, however, she receives hateful abuse from online trolls, making her wonder whether she should abandon the
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project. As the trolling gets even worse, Elizabeth starts to suspect at least one of her attackers has a personal motive. Chelsea Hobbs, Stephanie Cleough, James Neate and Stephanie Izsak star in this 2021 melodrama.
9 PM ( AP) The Zoo In a new episode called “The Elephant Next Door,” the zoo staff works to build a relationship between a pair of Asian elephants, but the two animals have very different
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CSPN (3:30) Washington This Week FNC Fox Report With Jon Scott Life, Liberty & Levin (cc) Watters’ World (N) (cc)
MSN Voices-Alicia Menendez Voices-Alicia Menendez Ayman (N) (Live) (cc)
BSN Inside Pregame NBA Basketball Washington Wizards at Orlando Magic. (N) (Live) BSUN NBA Basketball Miami Heat at Utah Jazz. Postgame Inside HEAT Inside ESPN Football Football College Football Teams TBA.
ESP2 Football Scoreboard College Football Teams TBA. FS1 College Football Boxing (N) (Live) (cc) Football College Football GOLF PGA Champ. Golf Central (N) (Live) (cc) LPGA Tour Golf Pelican Women’s Championship, Third Round. (N Same-day Tape) (cc) (5:30) Red 2 (’13, Action) Bruce Willis. Retired operatives return to retrieve a Law Abiding Citizen (’09, Suspense) Jamie Foxx. A prosecutor gets caught up in a vengeful prisoner’s lethal device. ‘PG-13’ (cc) twisted scheme. ‘R’ (cc) (6:05) Mortal Kombat Boogie (’21, Drama) Taylor Takahashi, Taylour Paige. from Outworld. (s) ‘R’ (cc) Premiere. (s) ‘R’ (cc) (5:45) The Photograph Proof of Life (’00, Suspense) Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe. A negotiator tries to rescue a woman’s kid(cc) napped husband. (s) ‘R’ (cc) School Ties (’92) Brendan Fraser. A young Jew endures anti-Semitism at a Fried Green Tomatoes (’91) Kathy Bates. Fannie Flagg’s tale of friendship 1950s prep school. ‘PG-13’ (cc) between Alabama women. (cc) (5:10) Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Pitch Perfect 3 (’17) Anna Kendrick. The Barden Bellas reunite for an overseas Seyfried. ‘PG-13’ (cc) musical USO tour. ‘PG-13’ (cc) (6:13) Ted (’12) Mark Wahlberg. A grown man has a live teddy bear as a conThe Tuxedo (’02, Comedy) Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love stant companion. ‘R’ (cc) Hewitt. ‘PG-13’ (cc) (5:28) Point Break (’15, Action) Edgar Ramírez, Luke (7:22) Cruel Intentions (’99, Drama) Sarah Michelle Gellar. Bracey. ‘PG-13’ (cc) ‘R’ (cc)
Four Brothers (’05) Mark Wahlberg. Siblings seek revenge for their adoptive mother’s murder. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
Wakefield Nik pieces together his trauma. (s) (cc) Tyler Perry’s Good (6:22) The Misfits Deeds ‘R’ (cc) (5:26) The Devil Wears Prada ‘PG-13’ (cc)
Freedom on My Mind from 1961-’64. ‘NR’ (5:20) Savage (’19) John Tui, Jake Ryan.
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(’21) Lewis Tan. Earth’s greatest warriors battle enemies
(’20, Romance) Issa Rae. (s) ‘PG-13’
(’18) Amanda
Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible
(’21, Action) Pierce Brosnan, Rami Jaber. (s)
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(’94, Documentary) Mississippi voter registration project
(’06) Meryl Streep. (s)
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Dexter: New Blood
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Justice With Judge Jeanine
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Unfiltered with Dan Bongino Voices-Alicia Menendez Inside Magic Inside
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Scoreboard College Basketball Texas at Gonzaga. (N)
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“Lion in the Meadow” (s) (cc) (11:05) A Good Day to Die Hard
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Lane. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
(’90) Kevin Costner. A Union officer befriends
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personalities that could make them incompatible.
9 PM ( TRAV) Destination Fear In the new episode “Old Nazareth Hospital,” paranormal investigators Dakota and Chelsea Laden, Tanner Wiseman and Alex Schroeder roll into Mineral Wells, Texas, as they continue their “road trip through hell” with an investigation into what is regarded by many as one of the most haunted hospitals in America.
(’18, Action) Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx.
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(9:50) Back on the Record With Bob
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(10:15) Dances With Wolves the Lakota. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc)
(9:25) Pitch Perfect 3 (’17) Anna Kendrick. The Barden Bellas reunite for an (11:20) overseas musical USO tour. ‘PG-13’ Place
(9:40) Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (11:10) Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey Reeves. ‘PG’ (cc) (’91) ‘PG’ (cc)
Private Parts (’97) Howard Stern. Radio’s Howard Stern becomes king of the (10:50) Bad Words
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Boxing David Benavidez vs. Jose Uzcategui. Benavidez (30-4, 23 KOs) faces Uzcategui (24-0, 21 KOs) in a super middleweight bout, 12 rounds. (N) (s) (Live) (cc)
Django Unchained (’12, Western) Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz. An ex-slave and a German bounty hunter roam America’s South. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
City of Lies (’18) Johnny Depp. An LAPD detective investigates the murders of two rappers. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
Hannibal (’01) Anthony Hopkins. A disfigured victim of cannibalistic Dr. Lecter seeks revenge. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
(’71) Gene Hackman. Two New York cops try to foil
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Hightown “Daddy Issues” Deeper into the case. (cc)
(’05, Suspense) Michael Keaton. (s)
The French Connection an international drug ring. ‘R’
The Ring Two ›› (’05, Horror) Naomi Watts. A journalist must protect her son from evil Samara. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc)
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Aquarium of the Dead las. (s) ‘NR’ (cc)
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(’20) Diane
A Quiet
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To Live and Die in L.A. (’85) William L. Petersen. A federal agent looks for the crook who killed his partner. ‘R’
(’21, Action) Vivica A. Fox, D.C. DougThe Monster
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(’04, Horror) Cary Elwes.
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(’16, Horror) Zoe Kazan, Scott Speedman.