Sunday, Dec. 31: Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2024

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Sunday, Dec. 31

Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2024
ABC, 8pm Live
Ryan Seacrest, Rita Ora and Jeannie Mai host New Year’s Eve festivities in New York and Los Angeles, with performances from Post Malone, Ivy Queen and K-pop group NewJeans.

New Year's #RockinEve + @NewJeans_ADOR = best way to ring in 2024 🐰🥳 Don't be "SUPER SHY," watch their performance! "ETA" is Dec 31 at 8/7c on @ABCNetwork! pic.twitter.com/Mokw7Dv653

— New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (@RockinEve) December 29, 2023

Air Disasters
Smithsonian Channel, beginning at 12am
We are being given the opportunity to ring in the New Year from the edge of our couch with a two-day marathon of the best Air Disasters episodes.

Off Script With the Hollywood Reporter
Sundance TV, beginning at 8am
New Series!
Actress/comedian Yvonne Orji hosts this series of roundtable conversations that showcase some of the entertainment industry’s creative minds. The series begins with two hourlong installments this morning: “Songwriter” and “Actress.”

“Three’s Company” New Year’s Eve Marathon
SundanceTV, beginning at 10am
Enjoy 16 hours of episodes from the classic 1977-84 sitcom.

Dance in the New Year With Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
MOVIES!, beginning at 2pm
Kicking off New Year’s Eve afternoon on MOVIES! and running until well past the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day, enjoy a toe-tapping six-film marathon of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ classic big-screen pairings, starting with the duo’s quintessential pairing in Top Hat (1935). Following that are Carefree (1938); Flying Down to Rio (1933), the first time Astaire and Rogers danced together onscreen; The Gay Divorcee (1934); Shall We Dance (1937); and a re-airing of Top Hat.

’70s, ’80s & ’90s Comedies
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
This evening’s lineup on TCM, which continues well into early New Year’s Day, features several comedies from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, some lesser-seen but all hilarious. The lineup begins with Spaceballs (1987), cowriter/director Mel Brooks’ beloved parody of Star Wars and other sci-fi classics. Brooks also has a couple of roles in the film, starring alongside Bill Pullman, John Candy, Daphne Zuniga, Rick Moranis and Joan Rivers. After that comes Top Secret! (1984), a follow-up to the 1980 comedy hit Airplane! from cowriters/directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (ZAZ). Like the ZAZ’s previous film, this one throws everything at the wall for laughs as it combines and parodies the disparate film genres of Elvis Presley musicals and Cold War/World War II spy movies. Val Kilmer, in his feature film debut, leads the cast as Nick Rivers with not only great comic timing, but also terrific singing and dancing. Next come two music mockumentaries: This Is Spinal Tap (1984), cowriter/director Rob Reiner’s legendary and uproariously funny look at the fictional heavy metal band of the title, followed by the likely lesser-known Fear of a Black Hat (1993), a mockumentary about a fictional hardcore gangsta rap group written and directed by Rusty Cundieff. The lineup concludes in the early hours of 2024 with The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), an anthology of comedy sketches written by the ZAZ team and directed by John Landis, and Murder by Death (1976), a comedic mystery written by Neil Simon and with a heavy-hitting cast including Peter Sellers, David Niven, Alec Guinness, Truman Capote, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan and Elsa Lanchester.

Party With “The Partridge Family” Marathon
Antenna TV, beginning at 7pm
Come on, get happy as Antenna TV ushers in 2024 with 10 hours of episodes from The Partridge Family, the 1970-74 musical sitcom led by Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce and Dave Madden.

New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash
CBS, 7:30pm
Ring in the new year with this celebration featuring live, high-energy performances from country music’s hottest superstars. Thomas Rhett, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Lainey Wilson are among the first artists announced to appear in downtown Nashville to ring in 2024.

A Toast to “Twilight”
H&I Network, beginning at 8pm
This fan-favorite salute to Rod Serling’s classic sci-fi/fantasy anthology series The Twilight Zone moves to H&I Network (handitv.com/schedule) for its sixth year, following five years on the former Decades channel. Beginning tonight and continuing into the early morning of Tuesday, Jan. 2, the marathon binge features 68 back-to-back half-hour episodes of the series. Fan-favorite installments airing this evening include “Eye of the Beholder, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” “To Serve Man,” “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” and “Time Enough at Last.”

Next at the Kennedy Center: “Cynthia Erivo & Friends: A New Year’s Eve Celebration”
PBS, 8pm
Stage and screen star Cynthia Erivo invites you to ring in the New Year with her friends Ben Platt and Joaquina Kalukango as they bring their powerful voices and favorite songs to the Kennedy Center. Erivo takes the audience on a journey through a diverse repertoire of songs that have shaped her career and artistic sensibility, including Broadway, Motown, R&B, folk and soul.

Drew Carey’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Marathon
Rewind TV, beginning at 8pm
Straight from Cleveland, you’re invited to wrap up the year and party like it’s 1995 with an eight-hour marathon of episodes from the 1995-2004 sitcom The Drew Carey Show.

90 Day Fiancé: Pillow Talk
TLC, 8pm
The Pillow Talkers will cover the best archival clips of the new Single Life cast and watch sneak peeks of what fate has in store for them in 2024!

NFL Football: Green Bay at Minnesota
NBC, 8:15pm Live
A New Year’s Eve edition of Sunday Night Football has the Green Bay Packers at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis for an NFC North clash with the Minnesota Vikings.

Sister Wives: “Look Back: How It’s Going”
TLC, 10pm
All but one of the sister wives have fallen out with their husband, Kody, but how did we get here? The Browns look back at the huge ups and downs of the relationship roller coaster this family has been on.

Who Can Forget?: 2023
FOX News Channel, 10pm
In this New Year’s Eve special, FOX News Channel personalities like America’s Newsroom’s Bill Hemmer, FOX & Friends Weekend’s Pete Hegseth, FOX Across America’s Jimmy Failla, Kennedy Saves the World’s Kennedy, FOX & Friends First’s Todd Piro, Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean, FOX News Live’s Eric Shawn, FOX Business Network’s correspondents Gerri Willis and Madison Alworth, and others will look back at 2023’s most memorable moments from Barbenheimer to ChatGPT to the fight for Speaker of the House.

A New Year With Tyrus
FOX News Channel, 11pm
Gutfeld! cohost, legendary wrestler and New York Times bestselling author Tyrus will headline his first New Year’s Eve special. Joined by Michele Tafoya, Sean Duffy (cohost of FOX Business Network’s The Bottom Line), and comedian Tyler Fischer, Tyrus will take viewers through the most viral trends, the most downloaded songs and more 2023 favorites. The special will also include an appearance by wrestler Ric Flair, as he provides advice on how to turn things around in 2024. Additionally, Zach Greig, a plant operator for the Australian Antarctic Division, will join the special to discuss the unique aspects of ringing in the new year from Antarctica.

Monday, Jan. 1

Bitconned
Netflix
Ray Trapani had always wanted to be a criminal, and in 2017, amid the economic frenzy of the bitcoin boom, there was no better place for scammers than cryptocurrency. So when Ray’s friend approached him with the idea of creating a debit card for crypto, Trapani jumped at the chance, and their Centra Tech was soon raking in millions of dollars a day. Was it real? No. But did it work? Maybe. In this fast-paced documentary, Ray himself guides viewers through what was the first high-profile fraud case of the crypto era.

Fool Me Once
Netflix
New Series!
Based on Harlan Coben’s book, this eight-episode limited series is a thriller that follows Maya Stern (Michelle Keegan), who is trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of her husband, Joe (Richard Armitage). But when Maya installs a nanny-cam to keep an eye on her young daughter, she is shocked to see a man she recognizes in her house — her presumed-dead husband. Meanwhile, Maya’s niece and nephew are trying to find out the truth about their mother’s murder several months earlier. Are the two cases connected?

You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment
Netflix
New Series!
Over four episodes, identical twins change their diets and lifestyles for eight weeks in a unique scientific experiment designed to explore how certain foods impact the body.

TCM Morning & Afternoon Movies: Godzilla
TCM, beginning at 6am
Catch a Classic!
Godzilla, Toho Studios’ mighty King of the Monsters, will turn 70 later in 2024 (Nov. 3, to be exact), so it’s fitting to kick off the year with a day of movies starring that classic kaiju. Turner Classic Movies does just that with a New Year’s Day marathon featuring eight of the first nine titles from the original era of Godzilla flicks (only King Kong vs. Godzilla is missing, sadly). Note that these are the original Japanese versions, with English subtitles. The lineup kicks off with the one that started it all: 1954’s Gojira (Godzilla), which depicts Godzilla at his second-most terrifying (the Godzilla in last year’s Godzilla Minus One managed to top this one in ferocity and brutality) as he embarks upon his initial devastation of Tokyo. After that comes Godzilla Raids Again (1955), the second and last black-and-white entry in the franchise. It introduces the monster Anguirus, and while he and Godzilla become besties in later movies, they engage in deadly combat here. Next are two 1964 movies that are among the high points of the early Godzilla era: Mothra vs. Godzilla, in which fierce mom Mothra battles to defend the egg carrying her larval offspring from Godzilla, and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, which sees one of Mothra’s kids trying to convince Godzilla and winged monster Rodan to help her save Earth from the space monster King Ghidorah. Ghidorah and Rodan are back with Godzilla in the next film, Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965), and for a time all three are under alien control in a plot to conquer Earth. Then comes Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), which pits Godzilla against a giant crustacean on a South Seas island, and Son of Godzilla (1967), which is set on another remote island and introduces Godzilla’s adopted son, Minilla. The lineup concludes with 1968’s Destroy All Monsters, which features a who’s who of some of Toho’s most memorable early kaiju creations, 11 in all (led by Godzilla, of course), who eventually come together to help defeat King Ghidorah and more alien invaders.

“Elementary” Marathon
Start TV, beginning at 8am
Elementary, the procedural crime drama that ran on CBS from 2012-19, begins airing in its regular time slot on Start TV afternoons Mondays-Sundays. Before that, the network is welcoming the show with a 28-episode marathon starting today and running into tomorrow. The series offers a modern-day update to the Sherlock Holmes story set in New York City, with Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson.

135th Rose Parade
NBC, 11am Live; also streams on Peacock
The streets of Pasadena, California, are again lined with thousands of parade fans as gorgeous rose-covered floats and marching bands take part in this long-running New Year’s Day event. Hoda Kotb and Al Roker host.

College Football
ABC, ESPN & ESPN2, beginning at 12pm Live
New Year’s Day bowl games start with Wisconsin vs. LSU in the ReliaQuest Bowl (ESPN2), Liberty vs. Oregon in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl (ESPN) and Iowa vs. Tennessee in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl (ABC). College Football Playoff Semifinal games on ESPN are No. 4 Alabama vs. No. 1 Michigan in the Rose Bowl and No. 3 Texas vs. No. 2 Washington in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

NHL Winter Classic: Las Vegas vs. Seattle
TNT, 3pm Live
The Vegas Golden Knights try to slay the Kraken at the 2024 Discover NHL Winter Classic outdoor game at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park.

2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
ABC, 8pm
A three-hour special presentation of the newest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, filmed on Nov. 3 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, is scheduled to air tonight, featuring performances and collaborations by 2023 inductees Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Chaka Khan and Willie Nelson. Other nominees are Kate Bush, George Michael, Rage Against the Machine, DJ Kool Herc, the Spinners, Link Wray, Al Kooper, Bernie Taupin and Don Cornelius.

M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television
FOX, 8pm
This two-hour special looks back at the sitcom M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972-83 and remains one of the most memorable and beloved TV series of all time. Through new and archival interviews with cast members — including Alan Alda, Gary Burghoff, William Christopher, Jamie Farr, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Wayne Rogers and Loretta Swit — and rare and behind-the-scenes footage, the program reveals what made M*A*S*H a cultural phenomenon.

Celebrity IOU
HGTV, 8pm
Season Premiere!
The heartwarming series that has Hollywood A-listers giving deep thanks for special friends and mentors by surprising them with stunning home renovations alongside HGTV superstars and series executive producers Drew and Jonathan Scott returns for eight new episodes. The upcoming Celebrity IOU lineup includes Mayim Bialik, Sterling K. Brown, Rosario Dawson, Fran Drescher, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Ray Romano and Zoe Saldana. In the first episode, “Everyone Loves a Ray Romano Renovation,” Romano gifts his friend and assistant of 23 years, Christy, with a spa-like upgrade to her outdated main suite. Ray is not just repairing Christy’s dated digs but upgrading the space with all the trimmings of a chic boutique hotel. Then, in “Anna Faris’ Swanky Surprise,” Faris teams up to surprise Amanda, her BFF for the past 24 years. Anna and Amanda have leaned on each other through some of the toughest times, and Anna wants to say a huge thank you with an eclectic speak-easy style kitchen and dining space.

America’s Got Talent: Fantasy League
NBC, 8pm; episodes stream the following day on Peacock
New Series!
This latest extension of the America’s Got Talent franchise is set up similarly to a fantasy sports draft. Judges Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel and a returning Mel B will compete alongside the contestants as they draft their own dream teams of winners, finalists, viral sensations and fan favorites from across AGT and international Got Talent editions (Britain, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia and Ukraine). The winning act will receive a grand prize of $250,000, and the judge who drafted the act will earn bragging rights.

Great Performances: “From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024”
PBS, 8pm
Ring in 2024 with waltzes by Strauss and more from Vienna’s Musikverein. Hugh Bonneville returns to host the celebration.

90 Day: The Single Life
TLC, 8pm
Season Premiere!
90 Day singles look to move past their failed romances and start fresh with better and stronger relationships. This season, fan favorites spice things up with a season of “firsts” — first dates, first loves, first kisses. From an island romance right out of a fantasy novel to relationship ultimatums, follow these singles as they journey through the modern dating world and prove that it’s never too late to fall in love.

The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks
Investigation Discovery, 9pm
Three-Night Docuseries!
Over the course of the next three nights, this docuseries dives headfirst into the questions, controversies and secrets unearthed in the original story (The Curious Case of Natalia Grace), but this time, Natalia shares her side. Natalia retraces her adoption saga and addresses the allegations made by her adoptive parents Michael and Kristine Barnett, offering insight into what really went on behind closed doors in the Barnetts’ home and how much truth there actually is to their claim that Natalia was not a 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan with a rare genetic disorder, but rather a homicidal adult intent on harming them and their children. Plus, genetic experts try to help determine Natalia’s true age, along with shedding light into Natalia’s next chapter, offering a portrait of her life with her new adoptive family.

90 Day: The Single Life: Pillow Talk
TLC, 10pm
90 Day franchise favorites invite viewers into their homes as they watch and comment on the latest episodes. The Pillow Talkers have all been through the 90 Day universe and have their own take and advice on what these singles should be looking for in a new romantic partner, and they aren’t holding back!

Tuesday, Jan. 2

Moonshiners
Discovery Channel, 8pm
Season Premiere!
As the reality series returns, tensions brew in the backwoods, pitting centuries of tradition against a budding movement to legalize home distilling. As old guard shiners consolidate power, savvy innovators develop new techniques and recipes to pocket a season of tax-free profits.

Night Court
NBC, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Melissa Rauch, John Larroquette, Lacretta, India de Beaufort and Kapil Talwalkar are back for Season 2 of this reboot of the classic sitcom set in a late-night arraignment court often populated with assorted oddballs, which according to NBC was last season’s No. 1 new comedy.

Finding Your Roots
PBS, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. returns for Season 10 of his genealogy docuseries. Using detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides 18 celebrities and, for the first time, three non-celebrity guests deep into their family trees, revealing surprising stories, unraveling deep ancestral histories and solving family mysteries. In tonight’s premiere, “Born to Sing,” Gates explores the roots of singers Alanis Morissette and Ciara.

Star of the Month: Robert Mitchum
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Famed actor Robert Mitchum, who is likely most associated with his antihero roles and performances in films noir, but was also talented in other genres, will be celebrated each Tuesday night in January on Turner Classic Movies. You’ll see 11 of Mitchum’s memorable noirs right away tonight and into early tomorrow, in a lineup beginning with the legendary Out of the Past (1947), costarring Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas. Also featured are Crossfire (1947), costarring Robert Young and Robert Ryan; director Don Siegel’s The Big Steal (1949), which re-teams Mitchum and Greer; Where Danger Lives (1950), also with Faith Domergue and Claude Rains; and Macao (1952), costarring Jane Russell, among several others.

Extended Family
NBC, 8:30pm
New Series!
Following its series premiere just ahead of Christmas last month, this sitcom moves into its regular time slot tonight. Jon Cryer and Abigail Spencer star as Jim and Julia, a couple who, after an amicable divorce, decide to continue raising their two kids (Sofia Capanna and Finn Sweeney) at the family home while taking turns on who gets to stay with them. Navigating the waters of divorce and child-sharing gets more complicated for Jim, however, when Trey (Donald Faison), the owner of his favorite sports team, enters the picture and wins Julia’s heart.

The Floor
FOX, 9pm
New Series!
Rob Lowe hosts this quiz show in which 81 players who proclaim to be experts in a unique category occupy a space on a grid. A player is chosen at random to challenge another contestant in a fast-paced duel of knowledge, with the winner claiming the loser’s space. Over 10 weeks, the player who conquers all the spaces on The Floor wins $250,000.

American Masters: “Hopper: An American Love Story”
PBS, 9pm
This documentary illuminates the secrets behind renowned artist Edward Hopper’s most iconic and enigmatic works, such as Nighthawks, which have become an indelible part of American culture. The film introduces the man behind the brush and reveals how his marriage to fellow artist Josephine “Jo” Nivison Hopper shaped his art and career. Actor J.K. Simmons brings Hopper’s words to life, while Christine Baranski reads from Jo’s diaries and Isabel May voices the letters of Hopper’s romantic interest, Alta Hilsdale.

Good Trouble
Freeform, 10pm
New Episodes!
The second part of Season 5 of the Fosters spinoff starring Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez and following the 20-something residents of a Los Angeles co-living space begins airing tonight. Freeform has not renewed the series for Season 6, so these will be the final episodes.

A Citizen’s Guide to Preserving Democracy
PBS, 10pm
In this program based on Richard Haass’ book The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, interviews and real-life examples explore how Americans are working toward strengthening democracy.

Wednesday, Jan. 3

NHL Hockey: New Jersey at Washington
TNT, 7:30pm Live
Jack Hughes and the New Jersey Devils are in D.C. to skate against Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals on TNT.

I Can See Your Voice
FOX, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Host Ken Jeong and panelists Cheryl Hines and Adrienne Bailon-Houghton return with a rotating panel of celebrity detectives to help one contestant tell the difference between good and bad singers without ever hearing them sing a note.

TCM Spotlight: Columbia Pictures 100th Anniversary
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Columbia Pictures may not necessarily be one of the names that jumps into people’s heads when asked to name a movie studio, but it has a long history of producing notable films across a variety of genres. That long history began 100 years ago this month, in fact; the company known as Columbia Pictures, based off an existing company that had begun in New York City in 1918, was founded on Jan. 10, 1924. You can enjoy many of the movies Columbia has produced over the past century each Wednesday night this month when Turner Classic Movies airs lineups devoted to Columbia titles from two decades per night. Up first is a look at highlights from the studio’s first two decades, the 1920s and ’30s. It begins with the legendary screwball comedy It Happened One Night (1934), which was the first of only three movies in Hollywood history to win all five major Oscar categories: Best Picture, Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Actor (Clark Gable), Best Actress (Claudette Colbert) and Best Screenplay (Robert Riskin). After that comes the TCM premiere of 1934’s Woman Haters, the first comedy short starring what would become one of Columbia’s most beloved and enduring acts: the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Jerry “Curly” Howard were billed under their own names at the time of the film’s release, since the Stooges had yet to be professionally known as the Stooges at that point). A couple of more acclaimed early comedies from Columbia follow: The Awful Truth (1937), starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, and You Can’t Take It With You (1938), another Best Picture-winning classic from Best Director winner Capra. The lineup concludes early tomorrow with the 1933 drama Man’s Castle, led by Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young, and silent romantic drama The Belle of Broadway (1926).

We Are Family
FOX, 9pm
New Series!
Anthony Anderson and his mother, “Mama Doris” Bowman, host this new musical guessing game series. The not-so-famous relatives of celebrities perform onstage solo and also in duets with their famous family member, who’s concealed offstage. A studio audience of 100 contestants plays through multiple rounds to win up to $150,000 each by correctly guessing which celebrity the performer is related to before they are revealed.

Magnum P.I.
NBC, beginning at 9pm
Series Finale!
This reboot of the detective series concludes with two hourlong episodes. First, in “Ashes to Ashes,” Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Higgins (Perdita Weeks) reexamine an investigation into a fatal arson at the request of TC (Stephen Hill) and Mahina (Emily Alabi), leading to a sinister discovery. Meanwhile, Kumu (Amy Hill) volunteers with Rick (Zachary Knighton) at a veterans’ crisis call center. The series then concludes with “The Big Squeeze,” in which a high-stakes homicide case falls apart at trial, and Katsumoto (Tim Kang) asks Magnum to help him stop a killer from walking free.

FBI True: “Waco: The Deadliest Siege”
CBS, 10pm
This true-crime series from Paramount+ continues on CBS with “Waco: The Deadliest Siege.” In 1993, federal agents surrounded the Mount Carmel Center outside of Waco, Texas, where cult leader David Koresh and his followers held back authorities in a 51-day armed standoff. Former officers and agents recall the events that ultimately resulted in a fire and a tragic loss of life.

Thursday, Jan. 4

The Brothers Sun
Netflix
New Series!
This dark comedy/action series begins when the head of a powerful Taiwanese triad is shot by a mysterious assassin. The leader’s eldest son, legendary killer Charles “Chairleg” Sun (Justin Chien), heads to Los Angeles to protect his mother, Eileen (Michelle Yeoh), and his naive younger brother, Bruce (Sam Song Li) — who has been completely sheltered from the truth about his family. Now, Charles, Bruce and their mother must heal the wounds caused by their separation and come together before one of their countless enemies kills them all.

Society of the Snow
Netflix
Feature Film Exclusive!
This survival thriller that is Spain’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the upcoming 96th Academy Awards is based on true events. In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, catastrophically crashes on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of the 45 passengers survive and, finding themselves in one of the world’s toughest environments, are forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.

Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale
Sundance Now & AMC+
New Series!
This supernatural drama series based on V.V. James’ novel is set in a contemporary world where witchcraft is real. In the idyllic English town of Sanctuary, witches have lived peacefully, and as valued members of society, for hundreds of years … until now. At the heart of the story is Sarah Fenn (Elaine Cassidy), Sanctuary’s resident witch, on whom the town relies to solve their problems when conventional remedies have failed. When local teen rugby star Dan Whithall (Max Lohan) dies tragically in an apparent accident, his death exposes a terrifying undercurrent of suspicion and fear toward Sarah and her teenage daughter, Harper (Hazel Doupe). The dead boy’s mother, Abigail (Amy de Bhrún), once Sarah’s closest friend, is wracked with grief. To avenge her son’s death, she launches a modern-day witch-hunt to get “justice” — no matter what the cost. The first two episodes are available today; new episodes drop on Thursdays.

TCM Birthday Tribute: Jane Wyman
TCM, beginning at 6:15am
Academy Award winner Jane Wyman, known for her roles in The Lost Weekend and The Yearling, is the focus of this morning’s selection of films, starting with the Joseph Schrank novel adaptation He Couldn’t Say No (1938), in which an office clerk (Frank McHugh) is harassed by his girlfriend’s mother (Cora Witherspoon), and Kid Nightingale (1939), about a singing waiter (John Payne) who gets into a fight that costs him his job but catches the eye of a boxing promoter. Next, a shy woman (Wyman) and a soldier (Van Johnson) meet in the rain and fall in love during World War II in Miracle in the Rain (1956), and problems ensue when a man (Kay Kyser) discovers he has been enlisted into the Army to become a secret agent in My Favorite Spy (1942). Following that is the romance drama So Big (1953), a story about a widow in the late 19th century who becomes a successful farmer so she can send her son to college. Then, a pianist (David Niven) learns he is the owner of an apartment building that includes a very pretty tenant (Wyman) in A Kiss in the Dark (1949); a college professor (Edward Everett Horton) turns a man (Jeffrey Lynn) invisible after his bachelor party in the comedy The Body Disappears (1941); three friends discover their marriages are not legally valid during World War II in The Doughgirls (1944); and a kind doctor (Lew Ayres) tutors a young deaf girl in Johnny Belinda (1948), for which Wyman won an Oscar for Best Actress.

The Golden Bachelor: The Golden Wedding
ABC, 8pm Live
Viewers are invited to watch the wedding of recent Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner and his chosen bachelorette Theresa Nist in this two-hour special.

Son of a Critch: “Pope Visit”
The CW, 8pm
Mark (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) tries to fake being healthy after falling ill the day he is supposed to meet the Pope.

Swamp People
History, 8pm
Season Premiere!
The reality series is back for Season 15. In the premiere episode, “Cruel Summer,” Mother Nature levels the playing field this alligator season, unleashing a host of challenges that push the hunters to new limits: Water levels have plummeted to unprecedented lows as temperatures soar to scorching new heights.

Legends of the Stagecoach
INSP, 8pm
This hourlong special looks at the iconic stagecoach, a marvel of engineering that became indispensable when Americans settled the West, transporting passengers, goods and gold throughout the far reaches of the frontier. Along the way, stagecoaches and their courageous drivers faced a multitude of dangers, and with the help of armed guards, often called shotgun messengers, many drivers became legends as they refused to back down from the threats.

The Power of Film
TCM, 8pm
New Series!
Catch a Classic!
This six-part docuseries explores some of the greatest American classic films from the past century. Hosted and curated by renowned UCLA professor emeritus, and one of the founders of the UCLA Film Archive, Howard Suber (and based on his book of the same name), each 40-minute episode dives deep into the art of storytelling by examining the defining principles and inner workings of beloved films. Each episode will be followed by films related to the theme of that episode. The series begins tonight with “Popular and Memorable,” which looks at the small minority of movies that were commercially successful when released and have continued to be enjoyed by generations. Representative films following the episode are A Place in the Sun (1951), Do the Right Thing (1989), City Lights (1931) and The Great Dictator (1940).

Hudson & Rex
UPtv, 8pm
Season Premiere!
The Canadian police drama returns for Season 5. It follows dedicated detective Charlie Hudson (John Reardon) and his extraordinary German shepherd dog, Rex (Diesel vom Burgimwald), as they resolve complex cases each week with the help of Dr. Sarah Truong (Mayko Nguyen), techie Jesse Mills (Justin Kelly) and superintendent Joe Donovan (Kevin Hanchard) in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Children Ruin Everything: “Parenting”
The CW, 8:30pm
When Astrid (Meaghan Rath) and James (Aaron Abrams) get called in to school, they find themselves wrestling with their competing philosophies on raising their kids.

Ghosts UK
CBS, 9pm
The BBC comedy that inspired the CBS series Ghosts continues with two episodes tonight. In “Bump in the Night,” the ghosts attempt to alert Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) when Button House receives some uninvited guests. Then in “Perfect Day,” the first wedding scheduled at Button House is marred by a major blizzard and a case of cold feet.

Transplant: “Rumination”
NBC, 9pm
Bash’s (Hamza Haq) psychiatrist suggests an unusual form of therapy to help with his PTSD; Mags (Laurence Leboeuf) counsels an irascible patient in a similar health situation to her own; Theo (Jim Watson) finds himself in an awkward spot with a patient’s mother; and June (Ayisha Issa) reaches a breaking point between her personal and professional lives.

Swamp Mysteries
History, 9:30pm
Season Premiere!
In Season 2, host Troy Landry again teams with local experts in a wild chase to track down hostile, menacing and often mysterious creatures. In the season premiere, “Voodoo Hogs,” Troy gets a call from a local rancher with a huge problem: Feral hogs are tearing his property apart, and no matter what he tries, he can’t get rid of them.

SEAL Team: “Close to Home”
CBS, 10pm
Jason (David Boreanaz) seeks refuge at home while Ray (Neil Brown Jr.) leads Bravo Team on a mission accompanying British forces in the new episode “Close to Home.”

Friday, Jan. 5

Man on the Run
Netflix
This true-crime documentary follows the enigmatic “Asian Great Gatsby” Low Taek Jho (aka Jho Low), a businessman/playboy who was behind one of the most colossal financial scandals in history and is now believed to be hiding in China. Working with former Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia, Low exploited millions from a sovereign wealth fund established in 2009 to benefit the people of Malaysia, using the money to fuel his extravagant lifestyle. This film exposes a complex web of greed and corruption, with unprecedented access to key individuals involved on both sides of the story.

Foe
Prime Video
Feature Film Exclusive!
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal star in this sci-fi/psychological thriller that offers a haunting exploration of marriage and identity set in an uncertain world. Hen (Ronan) and Junior (Mescal) farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior’s family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger (Aaron Pierre) shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Are they willing to risk their relationship, and perhaps their personal identity, for a chance to continue survival in a new world? Based on bestselling author Iain Reid’s novel, directed by Garth Davis and cowritten by Davis and Reid, Foe’s questions about the nature of humanity (and artificial humanity) bring the not-too-distant future to life.

TCM Morning & Afternoon Movies: Hollywood on Ice
TCM, beginning at 6:30am
Catch a Classic!
Winter is the theme of today’s lineup. First, in the musical comedy Melody Cruise (1933), a playboy (Charles Ruggles) goes on a winter cruise and falls in love with another guest on the ship, despite objections from his friend (Phil Harris). Then, gangsters try to pressure a hockey player (Dick Purcell) into throwing a game for a payoff in the romance drama King of Hockey (1936); and a hockey player with a drinking problem (Michael O’Shea) gets kicked off his team for fighting and joins an ice show, where he meets a woman set on breaking up his marriage, in It’s a Pleasure (1945). Next, in the musical drama The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939), an ice skater (Joan Crawford) puts her marriage in jeopardy when she becomes a movie star without her husband (James Stewart); then, an ice show facing bankruptcy is complicated by a love triangle in the musical Silver Skates (1943). The dubious intentions of a recently promoted peanut vendor at an ice show (Barry Sullivan) are at the heart of the film noir Suspense (1946), the final film of actor Eugene Pallette; a cop arrests his own girlfriend in the film noir The Hunted (1948); and a gifted young ice skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson) from Iowa loses her sight in an accident and must figure out a way to continue to pursue her dreams in Ice Castles (1978).

NBA Basketball
ESPN, beginning at 7:30pm Live
An NBA doubleheader on ESPN has the N.Y. Knicks at the Philadelphia 76ers and the Memphis Grizzlies in Los Angeles to clash with the Lakers.

The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Lifetime, 8pm
Three-Night Documentary!
The six-hour special features unprecedented access to Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy who suffered horrific abuse and made national headlines for her role in her mother’s violent murder. Still incarcerated at the time of filming, Gypsy’s finally ready to tell her truth before she becomes a free woman for the first time in her life.

Ancient Aliens
History, 9pm
Season Premiere!
The paranormal investigation series returns for Season 20 with “The Top Ten Alien Influencers.” Giorgio Tsoukalos looks at mysterious teachers who have appeared throughout history and reveals which of them he believes provide the ultimate proof of extraterrestrial contact.

Beachfront Bargain Hunt Renovation
Magnolia Network, 9pm
Season Premiere!
A Dallas couple is looking for a vacation home that’s only a short walk to the beaches of Biloxi, Mississippi. They are on a budget and willing to put in the work to renovate a house into a place where they can eventually retire.

Saturday, Jan. 6

College Basketball
CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, FOX, FS1 & USA Network, beginning at 12pm Live
Highlights of Saturday’s college hoops action include La Salle at Fordham (USA Network), Kentucky at Florida (ESPN), St. John’s at Villanova (FOX), TCU at Kansas (CBS), Providence at Creighton (FS1), UNLV at San Diego State (CBS), Ohio State at Indiana (FOX) and Texas Tech at Texas (ESPN2).

NFL Football
ABC & ESPN, beginning at 4:30pm Live
ABC and ESPN simulcast two Week 18 NFL games, with the matchups announced following Week 17.

Love on the Right Course
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
A struggling professional golfer (Ashley Newbrough) returns to her family-owned golf course in Budapest to reevaluate her career and finds her father has handed over day-to-day operations to a laid-back golf pro named Daniel (Marcus Rosner) who throws her off her game. However, as they get to know each other, a romance begins to blossom.

The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard: “I Pulled the Trigger” & “Only Way Out”
Lifetime, beginning at 8pm
In the second night of this six-hour special, after running away, Gypsy is lured home by her mother with promises of freedom and independence. Behind closed doors, Dee Dee chains Gypsy to the bed and uses witchcraft to put a voodoo hex on her daughter. Then, Gypsy turns to Nick Godejohn, her long-distance boyfriend from a Christian dating site, and the young couple hatches a plan to murder Dee Dee.

Cleopatra
MOVIES!, 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star as history’s most famous lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony in the 1963 biographical drama set during the reign of Julius Caesar.