THURSDAY’S BEST PICKS
8PM G Walker After Micki (Lindsey Morgan) comes clean to Trey (Jeff Pierre) about her past, the couple question what that revelation means in terms of their future in the new episode “Douglas Fir.” As Micki considers whether she just needs to start a new chapter in her life, Walker and Liam (Jared Padalecki, Keegan Allen)
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(3:30) U.S. House of Representatives (N) (Live) (cc) Politics and Public Policy Today
Special Report FOX News Primetime (N) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) Hannity (N) (Live) (cc) The Ingraham Angle The Beat With Ari Melber The ReidOut (N) (Live) (cc) All In With Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show The Last Word Celebrity College Basketball Bethune-Cookman at NC State. (N) Inside NBA Basketball Orlando Magic at Sacramento Kings.
Lightning Re Lightning Pre. NHL Hockey Tampa Bay Lightning at Toronto Maple Leafs. (N) (Live) Postgame Ins. Lightning SportsCenter College Football Awards (N) (Live) Finalists The Herbie Awards (N) Daily Wager Women’s College Basketball: Huskies at Yellow Jackets College Basketball Iowa at Iowa State. (N) (Live)
Undisputed College Basketball Texas at Seton Hall. (N) (Live) (cc) Monmouth at St. John’s. (N) (cc) Golf Central (N) (Live) (cc) Golf 2021 Spirit International. (N Same-day Tape) (cc) GOLF Films (cc) (5:00) Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (’80) Night Before The Polar Express (’04) Voices of Tom Hanks. Animated. A conductor guides Voices of Red Buttons. ‘NR’ Christmas a boy to the North Pole. ‘G’ (5:50) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (’97, Adventure) Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Music Box The untold story of Robert Stigwood and how he Moore. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc) amped up the disco era. (5:45) Inside Man (’06, Suspense) Denzel Washington. A cop matches wits Black and Missing (s) (cc) with a bank robber. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
Shampoo (’75, Comedy) Warren Beatty. A Beverly Hills hairstylist makes a mess of romance. (s) ‘R’ (cc) (5:15) Alita: Battle Angel zar. ‘PG-13’ (cc)
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set their differences aside after Denise (guest star Amara Zaragoza) asks them to investigate a case. Meanwhile, their dad, Bonham (Mitch Pileggi), plays Santa at an annual Christmas party. 8PM (LIFE) MOVIE A Fiancé for Christmas As the holidays approach, Sawyer (Amanda Payton) is so depressed to find herself with no romantic prospects that she makes a fake online wedding registry, hoping that a vigorous session of retail therapy — preferably with a scan gun — will boost her spirits. Unfortunately, her make-believe registry soon attracts notice, followed by well-wishers who start planning a big bridal shower for her. Mortified by the attention and unable to come clean, Sawyer finds a fake fiancé to help conceal her secret. Marie Osmond and Adam Gregory also star. 8PM (HBO) Music Box John Maggio’s music documentary “Mr. Saturday Night” chronicles the meteoric career ascent of Australian entrepreneur Robert Stigwood, who was so inspired by a magazine article on the Brooklyn night club scene that he made a movie about it. That movie, “Saturday Night Fever,” became nothing less than a culers!
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Eddie Jackson and Ree Drummond are the co-hosts.
9PM (HGTV) Flip or Flop Real estate experts Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack buy 15 more of the most neglected properties in Southern California and transform them into stunning modern homes they hope will fly off the market in a new season of this hit home improvement series. Several of those flips will present the duo with new challenges, including expensive issues with the structure’s foundation, the addition of a studio unit, and one year-long project. The premiere features the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
9PM (WE) Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars In the new episode “Hip Hop Edition: All Lies on Me,” the couples take a lie detector test to determine whether they’re being truthful to their partners about the core issue in their relationship. Unexpected drama erupts when they learn that, for the first time in the history of this series, at least one person lied in each featured couple.
Ish Major and Lynn Toler are the hosts. 10 PM (TRU) Tacoma FD “Physician,
heal thyself!” is a familiar maxim, and
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Gutfeld! (N) (cc) The 11th Hour
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Ins. Lightning The Card Life Lightning Re SportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt (N) (Live)
Don’t Ever Give Up
WWE Friday Night SmackDown (s) (cc)
GOLF Films GOLF Films (cc)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (’71, Children’s) Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson. ‘G’ (cc)
(s) (cc) (10:20) The Campaign
Galifianakis. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
(9:55) The 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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Ruthless People (9:35) The War of the Roses (’89) Michael Douglas. An attorney recalls a once- (11:35)
Midler. (s) ‘R’ (cc) happy couple’s bitter divorce. Hess
(7:35) Terminator Genisys (’15, Science Fiction) Arnold Schwarzenegger. Kyle Reese discovers that (9:55) Terminator Genisys (’15) Arnold Schwarzenegger. Kyle Reese discovers the past has been altered. ‘PG-13’ (cc) that the past has been altered.
(’11, Action) Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender. Red Dragon (’02) Anthony Hopkins. An FBI agent asks Hannibal Lecter to (10:05) Primal Fear (’96) Richard Gere. A hotshot attorney defends an altar
help him nail a killer. (s) ‘R’ (cc) boy accused of murder. ‘R’ (cc)
(’01) Julia Stiles. A white teen falls for a black student (’06, Drama) Izabella Miko, Colum- (10:32) School Dance
Premiere. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
Dexter protects his
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tural touchstone for 1977, turning actor John Travolta into a global superstar in the process. The platinum-selling soundtrack also gave a shot of adrenaline to disco, thanks to four numberone hits from the Bee Gees.
8:15 PM (SHO) MOVIE My Salinger Year Director Philippe Falardeau adapted a 2014 memoir of the same title by Joanna Rakoff for his sweet, character-driven 2020 drama that is gracefully buoyed by its two female leads, Margaret Qualley (“Fosse/ Verdon”) and Sigourney Weaver. The former stars as Rakoff, an aspiring writer who moves from California to New York in 1995 and takes a job at one of New York’s oldest literary agencies run by Margaret (Weaver), an old-fashioned eccentric. Douglas Booth, Colm Feore and Brian F. O’Byrne also star. 9PM (FOOD) Christmas Cookie Challenge Five festive cookie makers use their imaginations to decorate cookies that feature the perfect Christmas gift for jolly old St. Nick in the new episode “Present for Santa Claus.” Later, the cookie wizards fashion sweet-treat versions of the ultimate Christmas partystarter: life-size ugly Christmas sweat
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(8:55) Black and Missing Relisha Rudd.
(’86, Comedy) Danny DeVito, Bette
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(6:25) Haywire (s) ‘R’ (cc) (5:33) Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (7:07) Save the Last Dance Save the Last Dance 2 (’91) ‘PG’ (cc) who also loves dance. (cc) bus Short. ‘PG-13’ (cc) (6:15) The Descendants (’11) George Clooney. A man navigates unfamiliar (8:15) My Salinger Year (’20) Margaret Qualley. Joanna Rakoff makes contact with waters after his wife’s accident. author J.D. Salinger. ‘R’ (cc) (6:05) Scarface (’83, Crime Drama) Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer. A Cuban immigrant fights to the top of Miami’s drug trade. (s) ‘R’ (cc) (5:04) Julie & Julia (7:11) Cinderella (’15) Cate Blanchett. A young woman tries not to lose hope Streep. ‘PG-13’ in the face of cruelty. ‘PG’ (5:28) Fighting (’09, Drama) Channing Tatum, Terrence (7:16) The Wife Howard. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc) (s) ‘R’ (cc) Tarzan’s Secret (6:45) Tarzan’s New York Adventure (’42) Johnny Weissmuller.
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The Big Lebowski (’98) Jeff Bridges. An L.A. slacker gets caught up in a wacky kidnapping plot. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
(’09) Meryl
(’12, Comedy) Will Ferrell, Zach
(’14, Comedy) Bobb’e J. Thompson.
Dexter: New Blood Desus & Mero son from drugs. (N) (cc)
(’97, Crime Drama) Kevin Spacey. A young police officer searches for justice in
L.A. Confidential
1950s L.A. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
Elf (’03) Will Ferrell. A man leaves Santa’s workshop to (10:40) The Pursuit of Happyness
search for his family. Smith. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc)
Saw (’04, Horror) Cary Elwes, Danny Glover. A doctor must kill his cellmate or (10:47) Saw II
his family will die. (s) ‘R’ (cc) (s) ‘R’ (cc)
Man of the World (’31, Drama) William Powell, Carole Today We Live (’33, War) Joan Crawford. A British woman falls in love with an Lombard. ‘NR’ American pilot. ‘NR’ (cc)
Frank Miller’s Sin City (’05) Jessica Alba. Sordid characters run amok in a (10:05) Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
crime-ridden metropolis. ‘R’ (cc) Mara. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
(’17, Drama) Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce.
(’13, Drama) Rooney
2021 ceremony
Best of All the Smoke
Desus & Mero (N) (cc)
(’06, Drama) Will
(’05) Donnie Wahlberg.
All About Eve
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Ganja &