THURSDAY’S BEST PICKS
8PM $ Young Sheldon Necessity may be the mother of invention, but scientific advancements most often come from comic books. Sheldon’s (Iain Armitage) search for a comic book leads him to a defining breakthrough. Also, Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) have an uncomfortable first encounter with her parents in the new episode “A Tougher Nut and a Note on File.”
8PM (LIFE) MOVIE Christmas on Mistletoe Lake Every Christmas Reilly Shore (Genelle Williams) picks a random spot on the map for an adventurous trip. This year she’s chosen the quaint hamlet of Mistletoe Lake. But when she discovers that the town’s only bed and breakfast is full due to the town’s annual Christmas Harbor Festival, 12-year-old Emma (Hattie Kragten) invites her to stay on her dad’s boat. Unfortunately, Emma’s dad Raymond Mitchell (Corey Sevier) is selling his boat and can’t participate in the festival in this 2022 holiday romance. 8PM (TCM) MOVIE Bigger Than Life Ed Avery (Star of the Month James Mason) is a schoolteacher and family man who’s been suffering with severe pain and blackouts. When doctors tell him he has only months to live, he agrees to take an experimental treatment. Ed makes a remarkable recovery, and returns home to his wife, Lou (Barbara Rush), and their son, Richie (Christopher Olsen), but the miracle cure turns into its own nightmare as Ed starts to experience increasingly wild mood swings in this 1956 classic. 9PM G Walker Independence As questions keep surfacing, Abby (Katherine McNamara) digs deeper into her husband’s past while Gus (Philemon Chambers) and Calian (Justin Johnson Cortez) follow a hunch which has them questioning a former mentor — and Calian accused of a heinous crime.
Back in town, Tom (Greg Hovanessian) puts together a Fight Night in an attempt to impress a railroad executive despite Kate’s (Katie Findlay) protests. And Hoyt (Matt Barr) dives into helping the Reyes family in the new episode “Random Acts.”
9:30 PM _ Call Me Kat People can be so tiring. Kat (Mayim Bialik) is drained from helping Sheila (Swoosie Kurtz) run errands all over town. Meanwhile, Phil (Leslie Jordan) is exhausted from partying every night with his new boyfriend, Jalen (guest star John Griffin). And Carter (Julian Gant) needs a self-esteem boost in the new episode “Call Me Dame Booty Clench.” Cheyenne Jackson and Kyla Pratt also star. Ted Wass and Marlon Meikle guest star.
10 PM (FX) Atlanta After a spectacular run of superlatives and awards, this critically-acclaimed show airs its series finale episode “It Was All a Dream,” as Earnest (Donald Glover), Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) and Van (Zazie Beetz) are back in Georgia in a full-circle moment that is both profound and hilarious.
It’s been a long, strange, fascinating journey that feels very much like a beginning.