What to watch
MONDAY
December 12, 2022
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
Midsomer Murders
Acorn TV ■ Season Premiere
One of Britain’s best-loved and most enduring crime dramas returns for Season 23, with new episodes available in the U.S. exclusively on Acorn TV Mondays beginning today and through Jan. 2.
Baking It Peacock Season Premiere
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Hosts/executive producers Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph invite a new batch of home-baker teams to Season Two of their baking competition show. Over five hourlong
episodes, and with bigger challenges judged by a panel of grandmothers, one baking team must rise to the occasion and win some serious dough. Episodes are available Mondays beginning today. A Baking It holiday special will also air tonight, with an encore this Thursday (Dec. 15), on NBC.
The Voice NBC, 7 p.m. Live
The Top Five artists perform a ballad and an up-tempo song in front of coaches Camila Cabello, John Legend, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. The second part of the Season 22 finale airs live tomorrow night.
NFL Football: New England at Arizona
ESPN, 7 p.m. Live
Week 14’s Monday Night Football matchup has the New England Patriots at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, to take on the
Cardinals.
The Great Christmas Light Fight
ABC, 7 p.m. ■ Season Finale
The holiday festivities continue as Carter Oosterhouse and Taniya Nayak visit the most spectacular Christmas displays in America
while four families compete for the coveted Light Fight trophy and $50,000.
Dogs of the Year 2022 The CW, 7 p.m.
Hosted by Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier and Keltie Knight, this charming special will highlight the most amazing dog stories of 2022, celebrating dogs that go above and beyond.
American Masters: ‘The Adventures of Saul Bellow’ PBS, 7 p.m., WTTW Chicago, 8 p.m.
Explore Nobel and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Saul Bellow’s impact on American literature in the first-ever major documentary about the writer. The film illuminates how Bellow navigated through issues of his time, including race, gender
and the Jewish immigrant experience, and features rare archival footage and interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and many
others.
The Good Doctor ABC, 9 p.m.
In “Broken or Not,” Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) unknowingly creates
competition when he introduces a new performance-rating system.
Baking It: Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler’s Celebrity Holiday Special NBC, 9 p.m.
As Baking It returns for Season Two on the
Peacock streaming service beginning today, this special holiday installment of the baking competition finds hosts Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler inviting their famous friends to celebrate the holidays in a friendly competition to raise some dough for their favorite charities.