Nov. 24 – Nov. 30
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman reprise their 2008 roles in ‘Faraway Downs.’
FRIDAY, Nov. 24
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Laugh until…well, until you need to get another piece of pumpkin pie! Funnyman Cedric the Entertainer hosts this collection of holiday-themed mishaps and merriment, culled from around the globe (8 p.m., CBS).
Mickey’s Christmas Tales
Series of new stop-motion holiday shorts features beloved Disney characters (above) including Goofy, Donald and Daffy, Pluto…and, of course, Mickey House (Disney+).
Elf
Jump in anywhere within a 24-hour period today and you’ll catch some of the marathon of the classic holiday comedy starring Will Ferrell as North Pole transplant Buddy the Elf (8 p.m., TBS).
SATURDAY, Nov. 25
Byron Allen Presents the Grio Awards
Sheryl Underwood from The Talk and comedian Roy Wood Jr. host this star-studded celebration of African American excellence in film, music, comedy, TV, sports, business, education and more, taped live at the Beverly Hilton in Hollywood (8 p.m., CBS).
SUNDAY, Nov. 26
Faraway Downs
Acclaimed Aussie director Baz Lehrmann’s six-part “reimagining” of his 2008 film Australia, this limited series reunites the stars (Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman) in a tale of a British aristocrat who travels halfway across the world to confront her wayward husband and unload a million-acre cattle ranch in the Australian Outback (Hulu).
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
The network holiday season staple returns for year eight with a spectacle of musical performances from Walt Disney World in Florida and Disney’s Aulani Resort and Spa in Hawaii (8 p.m., ABC).
MONDAY, Nov. 27
Steeltown Murders
New drama series follows the hunt for a killer in a working-class community of Wales, and how the mystery was solved nearly 30 years after the crime (Acorn TV).
Holiday: Santa in Space
Blast off for this cooking-competition special, in which bakers vie to make over-the-top cake creations around the theme of Old Saint Nick going intergalactic (11 p.m., Food Network).
TUESDAY, Nov. 28
Verified Stand-Up
If you can’t find anything to laugh about in this cavalcade of comedy from a host of stand-up pros (including Asif Ali, Nimesh Patel, Robby Hoffman and Sabrina Wu), well, you’re a true sourpuss (Netflix).
South to Black Power
New streaming documentary is based on Charles Blow’s provocative book, which calls for a “reverse migration” of African America from the North back to the South to reclaim the land, political representation and the culture they left behind (10 p.m., HBO).
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So-called “cancel culture” is nothing new, as author Kliph Nesteroff posits in Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars (Abrams), which examines pushbacks through censorship, protests and advocacy across the years on the ongoing battlefield of popular culture. Turns out, somebody has been objecting to something in entertainment for almost two hundred years!
One of the Big Apple’s most acclaimed photogs gets a spotlight in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective (Thames & Hudson), an oversized look-book of his lifelong work as a photographer and painter known for his “street scenes” of life in New York City, his 1960s fashion work for Harper’s Bazaar, and (ahem) his “intimate” portraits of people at home, in various states of undress.
Why do we like listening to music, and how do we do it? Learn all about the fascinating world of sound and our relationship to the world through music in Michael Faber’s insightful and engaging Listen: On Music, Sound and Us (Harper Collins).
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 29
The Artful Dodger
Find out about the “double life” of one of Charles Dickens’ famous prince-of-thieves pickpocket in this new series (above) from Australia starring David Thewlis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Mia Mitchell (Hulu).
Pretty Hard Cases
Tune in tonight for the third and final season of the drama series about a pair of female detectives (Meredith MacNeill and Kelly Duff) return for even more investigations the test both their professional relationship and their personal lives (Amazon Freevee).
Sex Sells
It’s a new season of AI sex toys, smutty costumes, surrogate partners, intimacy coaches, celebrity sex tapes and more in this series in which “sex positivity advocate” Weezy explores sex-related businesses and their impacts on people’s lives (10 p.m, Fuse).
THURSDAY, Nov. 30
Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays
Selena Gomez, the Only Murders in the Building star, joins culinary pros including Alex Guarnaschelli and Claudette Zepeda to whip up holiday dishes in her home kitchen (8 p.m., Food Network).
Family Switch
Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms and Rita Morena star in this new comedy (above) about a family mixup—when a rare astrological event causes a “body switch” between the parents and their kids. Wild, way out, 13-Going-on-30 fun, compounded into more than one body! (Netflix).
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