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(3:00) Public Affairs Events
Special Report FOX News Primetime (N) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N)
The Beat With Ari Melber The ReidOut (N) (Live) (cc) All In With Chris Hayes (N)
American Ninja Warrior (s) American Ninja Warrior Ins. Panthers Ins. Panthers
Destination Snow Motion NHL Hockey Tampa Bay Lightning at Toronto Maple Leafs.
SportsCenter NBA NBA Basketball Brooklyn Nets at Atlanta Hawks. (N) (Live)
Daily Wager College Football FCS Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (Taped)
FOX Bet Live NASCAR Race Hub (cc) NASCAR Boxing From Oct. 9, 2021. (N Taped) (cc) Undisputed
(5:00) PGA Tour Golf QBE Shootout, First Round. (cc) Golf Central (cc) PGA Tour Golf QBE Shootout, First Round. (cc)
The Polar Express (’04) Voices of Tom Hanks. Animated. A conductor guides Four Christmases (’08) Vince Vaughn. A couple must somehow fit in four holiday Four Christmases (’08) Vince Vaughn. A couple must somehow fit in four holiday a boy to the North Pole. ‘G’ visits with family. ‘PG-13’ (cc) visits with family. ‘PG-13’ (cc)
(5:30) Succession (6:40) Surrogates (8:10) Limbo (’20) Amir El-Masry. A young Syrian refugee seeks asylum on a How to With John Music Box The untold story of Robert Stigwood and how he (cc) ‘PG-13’ (cc) Scottish island. ‘R’ (cc) Wilson amped up the disco era.
(5:05) Music Box Simple as Water (’21) Portraits of Syrian families displaced (8:15) The Legend of the Underground (9:45) The Happening (’08, Science Fiction) Mark Wahlberg. (11:15) Oblivion
(N) (cc) and fractured by war. (Subtitled-English) (s) ‘NR’ (s) ‘R’ (cc) ‘PG-13’ (cc)
(4:50) Nowhere Game 6 (’05, Comedy-Drama) Michael Keaton, Robert High Plains Drifter (’73) Clint Eastwood. A mysterious stranger protects a The China Syndrome (’79) Jane Fonda. Journalists see the cover-up of a
Boy Downey Jr. (s) ‘R’ (cc) corrupt town from gunmen. (s) ‘R’ crisis at a nuclear-power plant. ‘PG’
(5:20) Black and Blue (’19, Suspense) Naomie Harris, (7:35) Hidden Figures (’16, Historical Drama) Taraji P. Henson. Mathematicians help launch astronaut (10:15) Hidden Figures (’16) Taraji P. Henson. Mathematicians help launch Tyrese Gibson. ‘R’ (cc) John Glenn into space. ‘PG’ (cc) astronaut John Glenn into space.
(4:46) The Rocker Bad Words (’14, Comedy-Drama) Jason Bateman, Kathryn Max Payne (’08) Mark Wahlberg. A cop hunts those who (9:40) The Book of Eli (’10) Denzel Washington. A lone warrior carries hope
Hahn. (s) ‘R’ (cc) killed his family. ‘PG-13’ across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
(5:51) Fifty Shades of Black (’16, Comedy) Marlon Wayans. (7:23) Swingers (’96, Comedy) Jon Favreau, Vince Chasing Amy (’97) Ben Affleck. A male artist pursues romance with a con-
‘R’ (cc) Vaughn. ‘R’ (cc) firmed lesbian. ‘R’ (cc)
Four Brothers (’05) Mark Wahlberg. Siblings seek revenge for their adoptive Ricky Powell: The Individualist (’20) Ricky Powell. Photographer Ricky Powell mother’s murder. (s) ‘R’ (cc) captures music, fashion and art. ‘NR’
(3:30) Casino VICE (s) (cc) Yellowjackets “Bear Down” The girls play
(’95) ‘R’ with guns.
(4:51) Big Fish Outlander Lallybroch is threatened by (7:59) Outlander
(s) ‘PG-13’ redcoats. (cc) is an old foe.
(5:15) Working Girl (7:12) Limitless (’11, Suspense) Bradley Cooper. A writer takes a mind-enhancing
Griffith. ‘R’ (cc) drug. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc)
(5:00) Camelot (’67) Richard Harris. Adaptation of the Lerner-Loewe musical about King Arthur. ‘G’ (cc)
(4:35) S...house ‘R’ (6:20) Blue Jasmine
Blanchett. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc)
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(’03) Ewan McGregor.
(’88) Melanie
O’Leary, Lori Greiner and Daymond John.
8PM G Penn & Teller: Fool Us God rest ye, merry magicians! Illusionists Penn & Teller are joined by host Alyson Hannigan for a special yuletide edition of this hit reality competition series. Apart from the Christmassy decor, costumes and some other surprise elements, fans of the show will find the familiar format pretty much unchanged, as Penn & Teller watch as aspiring magicians try to impress them with a trick, then try to replicate the illusion based on one viewing.
8PM (HALL) MOVIE A Dickens of a Holiday! In this delightful 2021 yuletide romantic comedy, Cassie (Brooke D’Orsay, “Royal Pains”), tasked with coordinating the 100th anniversary of her hometown’s justifiably celebrated Victorian Christmas festival, has been racking her brain for something that will guarantee this high-profile event will be a success. In a flash of nostalgic inspiration, she decides to invite her former high school classmate Jake (Kristoffer Polaha, “Mystery 101”)
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(’09, Science Fiction) Bruce Willis. (s)
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(’13, Drama) Alec Baldwin, Cate
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— who has gone on to a successful career in action movies — to play Ebenezer Scrooge in a production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” 8PM (LIFE) MOVIE Holiday in Santa Fe For years, the Ortega family has run a popular Santa Fe holiday shop that specializes in award-winning ornaments and Christmas decor inspired by authentic Mexican traditions. After the unexpected death of the family matriarch, who created all the visionary designs, however, siblings Tony and Magdalena Ortega (Mario Lopez, Aimee Garcia) struggle to find the resolve to keep the business going, especially when a powerful businesswoman (Emeraude Toubia) offers to acquire the company. Don Most, Gia Lopez and Efrain Figueroa also star in this 2021 romance.
8PM (DISN) MOVIE Arthur Christmas Santa is known to “save” some youngsters’ holidays, but his youngest son goes to the rescue in this animated feature from the studio that also was behind “Chicken Run.” If Arthur doesn’t come through, a British girl may not get the bicycle she
West Side Story
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Before Sunrise
Delpy. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
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(and fictional) island in Scotland, where they are taking cultural awareness classes while waiting for their refugee petitions to be processed. Among them is Omar (Amir ElMasry), a young Syrian musician who has carried his grandfather’s oud, a stringed instrument, all the way from his homeland. Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi and Kwabena Ansah costar.
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Politics and Public Policy Today
Hannity (N) (Live) (cc) The Ingraham Angle (N)
The Rachel Maddow Show Paper & Glue (’21, Documentary) (cc)
NHL Hockey Florida Panthers at Arizona Coyotes. (N) (Live) (cc)
Postgame Lightning Re Ins. Lightning Football (10:05) NBA Basketball Boston Celtics at Phoenix Suns.
USA Soccer (N) (Live)
(’21, Documentary) desires ... but he’ll have to get past his own foibles to complete the mission. The voice cast includes such notables as James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie (“House”) and Bill Nighy. Justin Bieber is on the music soundtrack.
8PM (SHO) MOVIE Ricky Powell: The Individualist Filmmaker Josh Swade’s documentary chronicles the somewhat improbable life and career of New
York photographer Ricky Powell, who shot to worldwide fame while capturing one of the wildest and most electrifying eras in American pop culture. From Madonna and
Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat to The Beastie Boys and Run DMC, the man known to his friends as “The Rickster” documented the music, fashion and art scene of downtown New York in the 1980s and ’90s like no one else.
8:10 PM (HBO) MOVIE Limbo Writer-director Ben Sharrock’s critically acclaimed 2020 comedy-drama takes a wry, offbeat look at the refugee experience by centering on four recently arrived asylum seekers who currently are staying on a remote
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Gutfeld!
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Panthers Celebrity
(’13) Tom Cruise. (s)
Dragged Across
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Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (’05) Curtis 50 Cent Jackson. A drug dealer turns to rap music for salvation. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
Dexter: New Blood Queenpins (’21, Comedy) Kristen Bell. Two women scam money by starting an son from drugs. illegal coupon club. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
Hightown Renee goes past the point of The Equalizer 2 (’18) Denzel Washington. Robert McCall fights assassins to no return. (cc) avenge his friend’s death. ‘R’
Elysium (’13) Matt Damon, Jodie Foster. In 2154 the wealthy live aboard a luxurious space station. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
(’61, Musical) Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer. Tragedy clouds the romance of two young lovers. ‘NR’
Jamie’s prison warden
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(’95, Romance) Ethan Hawke, Julie
Dexter protects his
(9:40) Before Sunset Delpy. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
(’04, Romance) Ethan Hawke, Julie
(’11) Jennifer Garner. (10:53) White House Down
Channing Tatum.
The King and I
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Before Midnight
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(’56) Deborah Kerr.
(’13) Ethan