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Under the Vines Acorn TV
In this lighthearted romantic drama from New Zealand, Sydney socialite Daisy Munroe (Rebecca Gibney) heads to New Zealand for a vacation at her recently deceased stepfather’s winery, which she intends to sell. Little does she know that the failing vineyard has a co-owner: grumpy U.k.-born lawyer Louis Oakley (Charles Edwards), who also travels to New Zealand to escape a spiraling series of unfortunate events in his life. Despite neither having done a hard day’s work in their lives and despising each other, both must somehow make the vineyard successful so they can sell up. The first two episodes are available today; subsequent new episodes are available Mondays.
David and the Elves
Netflix
Christmas is drawing near, but it’s not a happy time for David. After moving to a big city, his parents have been bogged down with work and forgotten the meaning of Christmas. David decides to change that. Together with Albert, an elf who escaped from the land of Santa to figure out what Christmas is all about, David sets off to Tatra Mountains, where his grandparents live, on a journey full of adventures. They are followed by David’s parents and Santa, who doesn’t get the modern world.
Voir Netflix
Executive producers David Fincher and David Prior present this six-episode series of visual essays celebrating cinema and the personal connection we each have to the stories we see on the big screen. From intimate personal histories to insights on character and craft, each episode has film lovers examining the cinematic moments that thrilled, perplexed, challenged and forever changed them, reminding us why cinema holds a special place in our lives.
TCM Birthday Tribute: Agnes Moorehead
TCM, beginning at 5:30 a.m.
Acclaimed actress Agnes Moorehead would have turned 121 today (she was born Dec. 6, 1900; she passed away at age 73 on April 30, 1974). In commemoration of her birth, Turner Classic Movies is airing a morning and afternoon of some of her most memorable
film performances, many of which were in supporting, but still impactful, roles. The day fittingly begins with the actress’ feature film debut, in cowriter/director/producer/ star Orson Welles’ iconic, Oscarwinning “Citizen Kane” (1941). In “Citizen Kane,” Moorehead portrays Mary Kane, mother of Welles’ title character, Charles Foster Kane. Next, in the drama “Scandal at Scourie” (1953), Moorehead has a supporting role as a sympathetic nun in a story about controversy that arises in a small Canadian town when a Protestant couple tries to adopt a Catholic child. Following that, Moorehead has a smaller role as a pawnbroker in the 1949 drama “The Great Sinner,” starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Frank Morgan, Ethel Barrymore, Walter Huston and Melvyn Douglas. Moorehead reteams with writer/ director Welles in today’s next movie, which was her second feature film: the Best Picture Oscar-nominated “The Magnificent Ambersons” (1942). The drama is based on Booth Tarkington’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and earned Moorehead her first Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, portraying Fanny Minafer. Up next, Moorehead has a darker, femme fatale-type role when she costars with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Bruce Bennett in the mystery thriller “Dark Passage” (1947). Moorehead plays a more sympathetic character in today’s next title, the film noir “Caged” (1950), one of the earliest “women-in-prison” movies, where she portrays reformist prison superintendent Ruth Benton. The Moorehead birthday celebration concludes with “Johnny Belinda” (1948), the Best
Picture Oscar-nominated drama that earned the actress her third Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, as Aggie Macdonald, aunt to the film’s deaf-mute main character, Belinda Macdonald (Best Actress Oscar winner Jane Wyman).
A Very Boy Band Holiday ABC, 7 p.m.
“A Very Boy Band Holiday” brings together an all-star cast featuring members of your favorite boy bands to sing their holiday hits and celebrate the season. It’s a festive night to reminisce, harmonize and celebrate the most wonderful time of the year together.
The Neighborhood CBS, 7 p.m.
Calvin (Cedric the Entertainer) decides to splurge on an expensive jacket, then worries it’s too special to risk wearing outside the house in the new episode “Welcome to the Splurge.”
9-1-1
Fox, 7 p.m.
The members of the 118 are called to series of emergencies around Christmas Eve in the midseason finale episode “Wrapped in Red.”
Landscapers HBO, 8 p.m.
In this story, inspired by real events, Emmy winner Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star as a British couple on the run from reality, who cast themselves as Hollywood heroes in their own love story tainted by a 15-year sinister secret buried in a
garden.