WHAT TO WATCH Christmas on Ice
On the Rocks
Apple TV+ (original film) Rashida Jones, Bill Murray and Marlon Wayans star in Sofia Coppola’s generation-clash comedy about a father and daughter rediscovering their relationship.
Once Upon a Snowman
Disney+ (original film)
This short film reveals the previously untold origins of Olaf, the lovable snowman from the “Frozen” films. Josh Gad returns to voice Olaf.
Gold Rush Discovery Channel, 7 p.m. (season premiere)
The all-new season of Discovery’s hit reality series kicks off with a two-hour premiere tonight. Gold miners Parker Schnabel, Tony Beets and Rick Ness take massive gambles this year as they face the worst time crunch ever due to the gold fields opening two months late because of COVID-19. Joining the series this season is ex-special forces medic and greenhorn miner Fred Lewis, who takes his destiny into his own hands as he strikes out with a band of out-of-work veterans in the gold fields of Oregon.
Lifetime, 7 p.m. (original film)
Courtney Bennett (Abigail Klein), a former U.S. figure skating hopeful, runs the city’s public skating rink, and when the mayor (Will Lyman) announces its closing, Courtney is heartbroken but determined to save it. After Courtney’s attempts to warm the mayor’s Scrooge-like heart fail, she enlists the help of Noah Tremblay (Ryan Cooper), a former professional hockey player and single dad, who owns the new indoor skating center, to help her, and together they find more than just the spirit of holidays on the ice.
Trapped by My Father’s Killer
LMN, 7 p.m. (original film) Five years after her testimony sent Louis (Craig Olejnik) to jail for the murders of her father and
Rashida Jones, left, and Bill Murray in “On the Rocks,” a film by Sophia Coppola.
her fiancé, Diana (Lindy Booth) returns home to find that he has escaped from prison and has come to confront her. As he holds her captive, Louis tries to convince Diana that he is not guilty of the murders. Diana begins to question what she saw that night as well as her own testimony, while also starting to develop feelings for Louis. As she searches for answers, Diana must decide if Louis really is a coldblooded killer out for revenge. Or did she send an innocent man to prison?
Fright Favorites: Creature Features
TCM, beginning at 7 p.m. Some of the creepiest cinematic creatures of all time star in tonight’s installment of Fright Favorites. Beginning the four-film lineup, you’ll thrill to one of Universal’s last great movie monsters, the Gill-man, in 1954’s influential “Creature From the Black Lagoon.” After that, a 28-year-old Steve Mcqueen portrays one of the teenagers on the run from an all-consuming intergalactic protoplasm in “The Blob” (1958). Next, William Castle’s gimmicky flick “The Tingler” (1959) focuses on monsters who feed off fear. The final feature is Howard Hawks’ 1951 classic “The Thing From Another World,” which — though it eschewed the shapeshifting nature of the alien invader featured in the original John W. Campbell novella “Who Goes There?” and in John Carpenter’s famed 1982 remake “The Thing” — still ramps up the terror faced by a scientific and military team trapped in the Arctic with a deadly extraterrestrial on the loose.