TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
(HALL) A Winning Team When former professional soccer player Emily (Nadia Hatt) finds herself no longer in the game, she teams up with small-town coach Ian (Kristoffer Polaha) to lead her niece’s team to the playoffs. This Hallmark original movie also stars Jovanna Burke.
8PM The Hillsdale Adoption Scam
(LIFE)
Unable to have a child, Bethany (Keshia Knight Pulliam) thinks it’s a blessing when a pregnant mother appears on her porch, asking for help. But as the pregnancy progresses, things don’t seem quite right. This Lifetime movie was inspired by true events.
8 PM (TCM) Hud Hard-drinking, arrogant, womanizing Hud Bannon (Paul Newman) lives a self-centered, indolent life supported by his hard-working and morally upstanding father, Homer (Melvyn Douglas), on the family cattle ranch in Texas. Hud’s teenage nephew, Lonnie (Brandon de Wilde), blames Hud for the car crash that took the life of his father, Hud’s older brother Norman, but shows hints of following in his ne’er-do-well uncle’s footsteps when both men pursue family housekeeper Alma (Patricia Neal).
8 PM (6) Despicable Me 3 Gru (Steve Carell), Lucy (Kristen Wiig) and the Minions are back. This time, Gru meets his long-lost twin brother, Dru (also Carell), and the two form an uneasy alliance in order to take down a former child star who is out for revenge.
9 PM (SHOW) The Last Manhunt Willie Boy (Martin Sensmeier), a long distance desert runner by Chemehuevi tradition, falls in love with Carlota (Mainei Kinimaka). But her father, a local tribal leader, refuses to let them be together. In a fatal confrontation, Carlota’s father is killed by an accidental gunshot and the young couple flees into the desert. An armed mounted posse and two Native American trackers seeking justice for their “murdered” tribal leader head into the brutal desert and face their own demons in this 2022 Western, which is also based on a true story.