TV TOP PICKS
6 p.m. on LIFE
Movie: Sweet Mountain Christmas
En route to New York for a Christmas concert, country music star Laney Blu (Megan Hilty) finds herself stranded by a freak snowstorm in the Tennessee hometown she hasn’t seen in years. Laney has decidedly mixed emotions about this homecoming, since the community was not especially kind to her when she was younger. As she reluctantly agrees to take part in a local holiday program, however, she lets go of old resentments and embraces a potential romance in this 2019 yuletide drama.
7 p.m. on HMM
Movie: A Merry Christmas Match After her best friend (Lindsey Gort) leaves their hometown to pursue dreams of TV stardom in Hollywood, Corey Calvin (Ashley Newbrough) settles into a quiet life of helping her mother keep afloat the small antique shop her late father left them. When handsome Ryder Donnelly (Kyle Dean Massey), a real-estate scion from L.A., comes into the shop to browse, however, their mutual chemistry is undeniable — especially after Ryder sends her a meaningful gift on his return to California, in this 2019 holiday romance.
8 p.m. on TLC
Long Lost Family
Hosts Chris Jacobs and Lisa Joyner, pictured, return with more stories of estranged relatives forced to endure extended separation from their loved ones, but who now get to take a step toward finding and reuniting with those relatives. Tonight’s opener involves identical twins seeking their birth mother.
9 p.m. on PBS
American Masters
A Russian-born artist who came to the United States with his family at age 10 and later helped shift the epicenter of the art world from Paris to New York is profiled in the new “Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous.” This intimate onehour portrait chronicles Mark Rothko’s professional rise as his signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism.
9 p.m. on LIFEMOV Movie:
Designed to Kill
Suzanne (Jamie Luner) is a full-blown psychotic, but she’s also an accomplished fashion photographer, and when she manages to transform unassuming high-school nerd David (Joshua Hoffman) into an authentically hot male model, he’s obviously grateful for her help. Unfortunately, that’s when Suzanne turns the crazy dial to 10 and becomes obsessed with her new creation, a fatal attraction that compels her to homicidal actions. Linsey Godfrey also stars in this 2018 thriller.