TUESDAY’S BEST PICKS
8PM & Grand Crew This new ensemble comedy from members of the “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” creative team gets a two-episode preview tonight before officially starting its NBC run in early 2022. The show revolves around a close-knit group of young professionals in Los Angeles who always find time
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9:30 PM (FOOD) Throwdown With Michael Symon Iron Chef and restaurateur Michael Symon travels to the home turf of some of the best chefs in the game to challenge them to a throwdown with their signature dish in this new culinary competition. Tonight’s premiere, which includes two back-to-back episodes, begins as Symon takes on former fine dining chef Mike Abdoo from Pig Beach, a dining hotspot in Brooklyn, N.Y., who slings a mean burger piled high with pulled pork.
10:30 PM (TBS) The Last O.G. In the new episode “The Squared Circle,” Veesy (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) convinces a Brooklyn artist to paint a mural for the community center. Meanwhile,
Tray (Tracy Morgan) approaches boxer Mark Breland and trainer Teddy Atlas to work with Javi, who lands a fight that conflicts with prom. Josh (Ryan Gaul) doesn’t lose any time before he steps in to help Amira (Taylor Mosby), though. Also: Shahzad (Dante Hoagland) makes a special promposal. (3:30) Public Affairs Events Special Report The Beat With Ari Melber Ins. Panthers Panthers Under Lights Lightning Pre. SportsCenter (N) (Live) (cc)
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Undisputed PBC Collection Golf Central (cc) CDW Highlights The Polar Express (’04) Voices of Tom Hanks. Animated. A conductor guides a boy to the North Pole. ‘G’ (5:50) Jurassic Park (’93) Sam Neill. Cloned dinosaurs run amok at an islandjungle (11:10) Changing Lanes theme park. (s) ‘PG-13’ Affleck. ‘R’ (5:05) Half Brothers (6:45) Curb Your Enthusiasm Freaky (10:45) Life of Crime 1984-2020 Have I Done?” (cc) (s) ‘R’ (cc) cycles of drug addiction. (6:05) Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 54: The Director’s Cut (’98) Ryan Phillippe. A young blue-collar man discovers On the Road (’12, Drama) Garrett Hedlund. An aspiring writer and his new Emily Blunt. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc) the ’70s disco scene. ‘NR’ (cc) friend hit the open road. (s) ‘R’ (cc) (5:15) Breakthrough (’19, Drama) Chrissy Metz, Josh (7:35) Bohemian Rhapsody (’18, Biography) Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton. Singer Freddie Mercury and Queen find success (10:20) Bohemian Rhapsody Lucas. ‘PG’ (cc) in the 1970s. ‘PG-13’ (cc) Malek. ‘PG-13’ (cc) (4:45) Deadfall (6:20) The Prophecy (’95, Fantasy) Christopher Walken. Private Parts (’97) Howard Stern. Radio’s Howard Stern becomes king of the (9:51) The Rocker (’08) Rainn Wilson. A failed drummer
(’12) (s) ‘R’ (cc) New York airwaves. (s) ‘R’ (cc) gets another shot at fame. (5:44) Beverly Hills Cop III (7:29) Brothers by Blood (’20, Crime Drama) Matthias Schoe- Gone (’12, Suspense) Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Sunjata. (10:35) ‘R’ (cc) naerts. ‘R’ (cc) ‘PG-13’ (cc) ‘R’ (cc) (4:45) Gloria Bell Cusp (’21) The lives of three spirited teenage girls in Texas. The Real Charlie Chaplin (’21) Charlie Carter. Charlie Chaplin’s meteoric rise to Hol- Natalie and Misty tame a
‘R’ (s) ‘NR’ (cc) lywood superstardom. ‘NR’ The Gentlemen (’20) Matthew McConaughey. Shady characters plot to steal a Dexter: New Blood “Too Many Tuna London drug lord’s domain. ‘R’ Sandwiches” (s) (4:15) Hannibal Hightown “Houston, We Have a Problem” Liar Liar (’97) Jim Carrey. A fast-talking lawyer cannot tell
‘R’ (s) (cc) a lie. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc) (5:05) Charlie’s Angels (’19) Kristen Stew- (7:07) Bloodshot (’20, Action) Vin Diesel. A reanimated soldier tries to recover art. ‘PG-13’ (cc) his true memories. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc)
Yours, Mine and Ours (’68) Lucille Ball. A man with 10 children weds a woman with eight of her own. ‘NR’
Windows on the World (’19) Luna Lauren Velez. Man travels from Mexico to New
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(s) (cc) to “wine down” at their favorite bar. The gang includes hopeless romantic Noah (Echo Kellum), who’s eager to settle down and Nicky (Nicole Byer), an aggressive real-estate agent who approaches dating fearlessly. Justin Cunningham, Aaron Jennings, Grasie Mercedes and Carl Tart also star. Another episode follows.
8PM (LIFE) MOVIE Ghosts of Christmas Past Ellie (Annie Clark) has developed a bad reputation for abruptly ghosting guys she meets on dating apps, until a fortune teller issues a dire warning to her: If she doesn’t resolve matters with all those people she left hanging and make amends to them before Christmas, she will never find true love. That gives Annie only a week to track down a lot of prospective boyfriends she treated badly. Dan Jeannotte, Joey Belfiore, Angelica Alejandro and Andrea Carter also star in this 2021 romance.
8PM (HBO) The Murders at Starved Rock This three-part true-crime docuseries — which premieres tonight with
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(s) (cc) two back-to-back episodes, followed by the finale on Wednesday — follows David Raccuglia as he tries to confirm whether convicted killer Chester Weger really murdered three women in 1960, a triple homicide that has sharply divided the community of La Salle County, Ill., for half a century. Raccuglia’s investigation is complicated by the fact that his father was lead prosecutor in the case, so those who believe Weger was framed regard Raccuglia’s inquiry with deep suspicion.
9PM ^ The Nutcracker and the Mouse King While many people know and love Tchaikovsky’s Christmas ballet “The Nutcracker,” in this charming holiday special, narrator Alan Cumming goes all the way back to the 1818 book by E.T.A. Hoffmann to fill in the blanks with story details missing from the ballet — chief among them, how the character of the Prince got turned into a nutcracker in the first place. John Mauceri is the conductor.
9PM _ Gordon Ramsay’s Road Trip
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9PM (OWN) MOVIE A Christmas Stray A work-obsessed executive is hopelessly stranded in a small mountain town on Christmas Eve after he swerves his car and runs off the road to avoid hitting a stray dog. The adorable mutt immediately attaches himself to this stranger, who would like to do the same with the free-spirited town veterinarian who frankly could use some real Christmas magic herself. Andra Fuller, Rhyon Nicole Brown, Melissa Murray-Mutch and Chris Shields star in this holiday romance.
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Here Today (’21) Billy Crystal. A comedy writer forms an unlikely friendship Hightown “Houston, We Have a Problem” with a singer. (s) ‘PG-13’ (cc) (s) (cc)
Along Came a Spider (’01) Morgan Freeman. A detective and a Secret Service (10:47) Saw III agent investigate an abduction. Bell. (s) ‘R’ (cc)
(9:15) Die Austernprinzessin (’19, Comedy) Victor Janson. Three Women (’24, Drama) May McAvoy, Pauline Frederick. Premiere. ‘NR’ Premiere. ‘NR’
(’90, Historical Drama) Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell. A Union officer befriends the Lakota. (s)
The Doll (’19, Comedy) Josefine Dora. Premiere. ‘NR’
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