TV TOP PICKS
7 p.m. on AMC The Little Drummer Girl
The same acclaimed novel by John le Carré that was adapted into a 1984 feature film starring Diane Keaton provides the source material for this three-night, six-hour do-over, airing nightly through Wednesday. British actress Florence Pugh (Lady
Macbeth) takes Keaton’s old role of Charlie, an idealistic actress who is swept off her feet by a handsome stranger named Becker (Alexander Skarsgard) during a Greek holiday.
7 p.m. on HMM Movie: Last Vermont Christmas
Shortly after widowed mom Megan (Erin Cahill) and sisters Bethany and Audrey (Rachel Rhodes-Devey, Catherine Corcoran) return to their parents’ Vermont residence for the Christmas holidays, their folks drop a bombshell: They’re retiring, and plan to sell the family home. This will be their last Christmas together in this place where their family has spent most of their commingled lives. Megan gets another jolt when she discovers that the prospective buyer is her old high school boyfriend, Nash (Justin Bruening), in this 2018 yuletide romance.
8 p.m. on PBS Julia Louis-Dreyfus: The Mark Twain Prize
Some of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’, pictured, closest friends and colleagues gather at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay tribute to the 11-time Emmywinning actress as she is honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which recognizes individuals who have had an impact on American society much like the distinguished novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, who wrote as Mark Twain. Participants include Jerry Seinfeld, Tina Fey, Bryan Cranston, Tony Hale and Stephen Colbert, among many others.
9 p.m. on NBC Manifest
Ben (Josh Dallas) finds himself in an improbable alliance with Vance (Daryl Edwards) as they make a high-stakes dash to locate the missing passengers of Flight 828 in the new episode “Point of No Return.” Elsewhere, an uneasy Cal (Jack Messina) returns to school, where he struggles to cope with his unwanted notoriety as well as the fact that all his former best buddies are now 16.
9 p.m. on NGEO StarTalk
In the 1990s, Joe Rogan co-starred in the NBC Dave Foley sitcom NewsRadio, but these days he’s best known as a comic, podcast host and UFC commentator. In tonight’s new episode, he joins host Neil deGrasse Tyson to discuss the science of fighting and mental wellness technology, a conversation that also includes co-host Sasheer Zamata, professor and author Jonathan Gottschall and clinical psychologist Leah Lagos.