TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
6:45 PM (CMT) MOVIE Beverly Hills Cop Street-smart Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) shakes up the straight-arrow law-enforcement community in Beverly Hills, Calif., when he heads west to investigate a buddy’s death. Murphy’s deadon comic timing, an infectious soundtrack and star-making supporting performances by Bronson Pinchot and Judge Reinhold make this an ’80s classic. Lisa Eilbacher and Ronny Cox also star in the 1984 comedy-adventure. 8PM (FX) MOVIE Toy Story
3 There’s still plenty of life left in Buzz Lightyear and cowboy Woody, as Tim Allen and Tom
Hanks reprise their voice roles in this delightful and quite affecting 2010 sequel to the earlier DisneyPixar box-office smashes. With their owner, Andy, heading off to college, most of his toys — except Woody, who goes with him — get a new destination, a day care center where they aren’t treated too well. Michael Keaton gives voice to Ken, longtime boyfriend of Barbie.
8PM (HALL) MOVIE A Fabled Holiday Is it a coincidence that the holidays fall at the perfect time each year? Talia (Brooke D’Orsay) and her childhood best friend Anderson (Ryan Paevey) unexpectedly reunite in a curiously familiar looking town full of Christmas spirit that restores its visitors when they need it most in this 2022 romance. Other stars include Rochelle Greenwood, Jake Guy, Daphne Hoskins, John Prowse and Benjamin Jacobson. 8 PM (LIFE) MOVIE A New Orleans Noel Grace Hill (Keshia Knight Pulliam) and Anthony Brown (Brad James) went to college to study architecture together, but their lives took them on completely separate paths. But when they’re both hired to work together on the home of Loretta Brown (Patti LaBelle) — a New Orleans praline icon — the two find themselves stuck working together at Christmas and butting heads over more than just architecture in this 2022 romance. Tim Reid also stars.
9PM (SHO) MOVIE Bandit After escaping a Michigan prison, charming career criminal Robert (Josh Duhamel) assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewelry stores while being hunted by a police task force led by Detective Snydes (Nestor Carbonell). This 2022 crime thriller is based on the true story of “The Flying Bandit,” and also stars
Mel Gibson, Elisha Cuthbert and Olivia d’Abo.