What to watch SATURDAY
Nov. 20, 2021
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
The Haunted Museum
Discovery+ Season Finale
In “Curse of the Dybbuk Box,” the Season 1 finale, a skeptical college professor must reexamine his beliefs and face his greatest fears as he struggles to unravel the mystery surrounding one of the world’s most dangerous paranormal artifacts, a cursed antique that contains a terrifying entity.
New World
Netflix New Series
This unscripted Korean reality series/variety show tells the story of unexpected events that take place in a utopia full of survival missions, competitions and twists through a new type of simulation. Six entertainers are invited to a mysterious place that feels like a movie or fairytale, where they experience events beyond imagination.
College Football: Georgia Tech at Notre Dame
NBC, 1:30 p.m. Live
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish host the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for a Saturday afternoon matchup on NBC.
A Kindhearted Christmas
GAC Family, 7 p.m. Original Film
After a widow (Jennie Garth) plays Secret
Santa to a fundraising high school, her TV crush, a handsome Upstate New York morning show anchor (Cameron Mathison), tries to uncover her identity.
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
HBO, 7 p.m.
Inductees include Tina Turner, Carole
King, the Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Jay-Z and Todd Rundgren. Among the performers:
Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson and Christina Aguilera.
You Make It Feel Like Christmas
Lifetime, 7 p.m. Original Film
Emma (Mary Antonini) is a talented designer who finds herself too busy to return home for the holidays after her work catches the eye of design guru Kate Marguiles (Stephanie Sy), much to her father Tom’s (Alex PochGoldin) dismay. When her ex-boyfriend and childhood best friend Aaron (Michael Xavier) returns home after active military duty, he makes it his mission to get her home to celebrate their Christmas traditions.
Abduction Runs In the Family
LMN, 7 p.m. Original Film
Single mother Alyssa is a successful author who was kidnapped as a child before making a safe return seven years later. Given her past, Alyssa is overprotective of her young daughter, Emma. When Alyssa has a panic attack and believes Emma has gone missing — despite Emma being by her side — she visits her therapist and admits her senses are heightened due to her captor Miles’ recent release from prison. Days later, Emma is abducted from a local park, sending Alyssa into a tailspin. Believing Miles is the culprit, Alyssa is frustrated when she learns he has an alibi. Miles suggests there is someone
else copying his past abduction of Alyssa and urges her to let him help find Emma. Desperate to save her daughter, Alyssa must decide if trusting her former captor is worth the risk. Stars Jessica Morris, Sarah Navratil, Jason-Shane Scott, James Hyde, Jason Cook,
Tryphena Wade and Charlotte Hare.
The Hunt for Planet B CNN, 8 p.m.
This film follows scientists as they build and plan for the December launch of NASA’s Webb Space Telescope, a massive machine that will be able to peer more than 13 billion light-years into deep space, toward the very first stars and galaxies in the universe. It will also yield new data into the search for possible signs of life on “exoplanets,” planets outside of our solar system.
Saturday Night Live NBC, 10:30 p.m. Live
Simu Liu, star of the recent Marvel feature Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, makes his SNL hosting debut tonight. Also making her first appearance on the show, as musical guest, is global singing star
Saweetie.