Indholdsfortegnelse for December 1, 2025 i TV Guide Magazine

Jared Padalecki (above) guest starred on three episodes of Fire Country in 2024, but other than that he’s been absent from TV screens. That could soon change. The former Supernatural and Walker star may lead the cast of a new CBS medical drama as a dedicated doctor in rural Texas, working with, according to the plot description, “his new protégée, a young doctor escaping her past.” The show has a development room, where writers and a showrunner are working on creating scripts. If it’s a go, the project would reunite Padalecki and Walker showrunner Anna Frike, both of whom have deals at the Tiffany Network. And while there is, as of yet, no series order or targeted time frame for when the proposed show would air, it sounds like a…

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY: HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR Monday, Dec. 1, 8/7c, ABC Get your Yuletide cheer on with Mickey, Minnie and host Derek Hough (Dancing With the Stars) for the 10th annual seasonal celebration, featuring brand-new performances straight from Florida’s Walt Disney World, California’s Disneyland and Disney’s Hawaii resort, Aulani. Pop singers Gwen Stefani and Nicole Scherzinger and country crooner Trisha Yearwood each perform. HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! Thursday, Dec. 4, 8/7c, NBC Prepare to have your heart (and presents) stolen by this 1966 Dr. Seuss animated classic. On Christmas Eve, the lonely Grinch (voiced by Boris Karloff) sets out to rid Whoville of all holiday spirit. He takes gifts and decorations but forms an unlikely bond with little Cindy Lou Who (June Foray). As the Grinch waits for…

Christmas in Rockefeller Center 8/7c, NBC It’s time to light it up—literally—as the beloved annual holiday celebration once again dazzles viewers at home and in front of New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza. Host Reba McEntire will treat viewers to a sampling of festive tunes while emceeing two hours of entertainment, including performances from Mar Anthony, Halle Bailey, Michael Bublé, Kristin Chenoweth, Laufey, New Edition, Brad Paisley, Carly Pearce, Gwen Stefani and, of course, the Radio City Rockettes (above), who are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year. Keeping with tradition, Today show anchors Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin and Al Roker will make special appearances during the celebration. But the real star of the show, helping usher in the holiday season in the Big Apple, is the 75-foot-tall, 45-foot-wide Christmas tree (sourced…

NCIS: Origins 9/8c, CBS GIBBS’ RULE NO. 10 says to never get personally involved in a case, but that’s a lesson Lala Dominguez (Mariel Molino) still needs to learn in the NCIS prequel’s winter finale. When the NIS agent’s criminal informant Twitchy Tony (Travis Hammer) is shot, she’s determined to find out who’s responsible. “It explores how our agents cultivate CIs and what they mean to Lala,” says executive producer Gina Lucita Monreal. “It tells this platonic love story between Twitchy Tony and Lala.” Speaking of love, Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell, second from right, with Caleb Foote, Tyla Abercrumbie, Diany Rodriguez, Kyle Schmid and Molino) faces a major decision in his relationship with future ex-wife Diane Sterling (Kathleen Kenny). A job is taking her to Los Angeles, and she…

Sheriff Country 8/7c, CBS SHERIFF MICKEY FOX (Morena Baccarin, right) has to contend with drama on the homefront and the work front tonight. There’s a tense visit from her stepsister Sharon (Diane Farr, crossing over from Fire Country) and major violence erupting within Edgewater’s seemingly idyllic cannabis community. “One of the things we do in Sheriff Country is show some of the darker corners of Edgewater that viewers may not have seen before on Fire Country,” says showrunner Matt Lopez of the fictional Northern Californian setting of the freshman hit and the show it spun off from. “This is a police drama, so in Fire Country, the enemy is the elements—fire and nature. Here, it is human beings.” And in this week’s hour, written by Lopez and directed by The…

Finding Mr. Christmas SEASON FINALE 8/7c, Hallmark Channel AFTER WEEKS OF festive face-offs, acting challenges and emotional eliminations, the warmest, fuzziest competition closes out its standout second season. With only three of the original 10 hopefuls left standing, it all comes down to nailing a scene with Hallmark Channel fave Krist offer Polaha and bringing that positive energy the network is known for to the screen. “You’re not going to be a contestant on Finding Mr. Christmas if you don’t have a big heart and you don’t lead with kindness,” notes Ben Roy, who executive produces with show creator and host Jonathan Bennett (above, with head judge Melissa Peterman and guest judge Erin Krakow). “That’s one of our biggest things. As a Hallmark star, that’s who you are.” The winner,…

Ghosts 9/8c, CBS Another Christmas means another possession at Woodstone. For Season 5’s two-part “Ghostmas” episodes, the action revolves around a nationally televised interview promoting B&B proprietor Sam’s (Rose McIver) book Isaac Higgintoot: Colonial Vampire, which recounts the life of Revolutionary soldier (and current spirit) Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) with a supernatural twist. And according to star Asher Grodman, who portrays pantsless finance bro and resident haunt Trevor, the twists don’t end there. “The ghost shenanigans are at play in a new creative way,” he teases. “The way that we get to possession…we’ve never used this as the way in before.” Over the years, Sam, Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) and the spirits of Woodstone have discovered possession is possible when a “living” is electrocuted, allowing for a ghost to find residence in their…

The Simpsons 1/noon c, FXX As night approaches, let us screen an afternoon of Hanukkah-themed episodes from seasons past. Sure to make an appearance is 2003’s “Today, I Am a Clown,” when Krusty finally is granted a bar mitzvah at the age of 50. Mario Lopez Presents: Chasing Christmas MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Great American Family A wish tree sets off a holiday adventure in this family film about two single parents—a morning show host and an artist—who team up to track down the season’s most sought-after toy. Their journey, however, brings them more than they expected—including a chance at love. I Love LA SEASON FINALE 10:30/9:30c, HBO Rachel Sennott’s comedy about a codependent group of ambitious friends navigating the ups and downs of early adulthood in the City of Angels…

The Left-Handed Girl AVAILABLE NOW This fast-moving Taipei-set film, a blend of light charm and deep family drama, follows debt-ridden single mother Shu-Fen (Janel Tsai) as she tries to make a living with a noodle stand in a crowded market. She’s also responsible for cynical, unhappy teenage daughter I-Ann (Shih-Yuan Ma) and the titular character, I-Jing (Nina Ye, above), a perky 5-year-old whose wide-eyed need to explore—including some shoplifting—is irresistible. —Ileane Rudolph The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo AVAILABLE NOW A shot of a shrieking, naked 12-year-old girl, her body burned by napalm, remains the indelible image of the Vietnam War. One famous photojournalist got credit for taking the picture; the man who really took it, part-time stringer Nguyen Thanh Nghe (above right) was erased from history… until…

PREMIERES Vanderpump Rules Dec. 2, 9/8c, Bravo Kimora: Back in the Fab Lane Dec. 2, 10/9c, E! NEW The Abandons Dec. 4, Netflix NEW The Great Christmas Light Fight Dec. 4, 9/8c, ABC Owning Manhattan Dec. 5, Netflix Dance Moms: A New Era Dec. 8, Hulu Here Come the Irish Dec. 8, Peacock Percy Jackson and the Olympians Dec. 10, Disney+, Hulu Little Disasters Dec. 11, Paramount+ NEW Man vs Baby Dec. 11, Netflix NEW  The Creature Cases Dec. 15, Netflix The Madame Blanc Mysteries Dec. 15, Acorn TV Fallout Dec. 17, Prime Video Emily in Paris Dec. 18, Netflix Born to Be Wild Dec. 19, Apple TV NEW FINALES Murder in a Small Town Dec. 2, 8/7c, Fox The Last Frontier Dec. 5, Apple TV Harry Potter: Wizards of…

TV We Love SEASON FINALE 8/7c, The CW Talk about a cultural touchstone. Touched by an Angel, the 1994–2003 CBS drama that followed angels inspiring humans to connect with God, was a major hit for the network. (The show twice graced the cover of TV GUIDE MAGAZINE, notably our 1996 Holiday Guide, inset.) So it’s no surprise that the spirited series starring (from near right) Roma Downey as angel Monica and Della Reese as her haloed supervisor Tess is the final show highlighted in The CW’s well-named docuseries TV We Love. Downey, Alexis Cruz (angel Rafael), guest star Scott Baio (Det. Frank McCovey), plus writers and producers all contribute their memories to the installment. (Reese passed away in 2017.) “Every series we featured had to have a compelling back-story,” says…

A Christmas Murder Mystery MOVIE PREMIERE 7/6c, UPtv SANTA MAY HAVE a sleigh to fly, but in this cozy head-scratcher, an amateur sleuth has a slay to solve. Morgan Bradley (above right) stars as Vera Vexley, quirky part-time detective and full-time puzzles editor for a San Fran newspaper, who takes a break from trying to impress her boss (Vivica A. Fox, center) to spend the holidays with family friends, the überwealthy Sterlings. But it’s not all holly and jolly for the fractious brood. By Christmas morning, there’s a dead patriarch (Michael Paré) and many suspects, including his kids and lawyer (Jason-Shane Scott, left), on Vera’s ever-shifting radar.“Anyone in that house could be guilty,” explains writerdirector Peter Sullivan. “The aim was to craft a classic whodunit infused with the warmth and…

99 to Beat SEASON FINALE 9/8c, Fox THE ODDS ARE in their favor. The pool of players, which started with 100 contestants in September pitted against each other in TV’s most bizarre challenges, is now down to the final six. Those remaining hope to earn the $1 million cash prize. “If you’ve been watching the show, you know it’s incredibly competitive,” says Erin Andrews (right), who cohosts with Ken Jeong. “That doesn’t change in the finale.” The silly games they play tonight include the Confetti Sweep, where players must use paintbrushes to get confetti off the ground. (“I cannot imagine having to execute this game,” says Andrews. “I can barely clean my own floors.”) Another tough one: Alphabetti Golf, in which contestants search for golf balls in a big tub…

College Football Noon/11am c, ABC Cricket Celebration Bowl 3/2c, CBS Army vs. Navy 7/6c, ABC Heisman Trophy Presentation 8/7c, ABC Bucked Up LA Bowl LET THE BOWLS begin! It’s a packed day for college football fans, and the pigskin pageantry kicks off at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta with the Cricket Celebration Bowl, where the winners of the MEAC and SWAC conferences will play for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ national championship. Later, another great tradition, the Army–Navy football game, is played for the 126th time when the Black Knights (the Cadets) meet the Midshipmen (the Middies) at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Navy leads the overall series 63–55–7, but Army has won six of the last nine contests, including a 20–17 double-overtime thriller in 2022. This season, the Middies…

English National Ballet’s Nutcracker 8/7c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) WHAT WOULD THE holiday season be without a lavish production of Tchaikovsky’s beloved Nutcracker? Thankfully, we won’t have to find out. Great Performances is airing a spectacular new staging, filmed last year at the London Coliseum, with more than 100 dancers and musicians bringing the 1892 masterpiece to life. Set against an evocative Edwardian backdrop, with chimney sweeps and suffragettes reminiscent of Disney’s Mary Poppins, the timeless ballet transports a sleeping Clara (Delilah Wiggins as a child, Ivana Bueno as an adolescent) and her magically transformed Nutcracker Prince (Francesco Gabriele Frola) into a fantasyland of ice and snow. (Anna Nevzorova, left, dances the Ice Queen.) In the second act, the Sugar Plum Fairy (Emma Hawes) and her dashing Cavalier…

That’s Not Santa! Marathon 6:30/5:30c, AMC Movie Picks Santa? You know him! But do you really? Find out in this film marathon, which starts with 1983’s Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, followed by 2003’s Elf (9/8c) and 2007’s Fred Claus (11/10c). Yogi’s First Christmas 8/7, The CW Ramp up your holiday spirit in this 1980 animated TV film featuring the classic cartoon bear and Huckleberry Hound, Augie Doggie and Snagglepuss (all voiced by Daws Butler) as they attempt to stop Sophie Throckmorton (Janet Waldo) from selling Jellystone Lodge. My Lottery Dream Home: David’s Happy Ending 9/8c, HGTV In this one-hour special, host David Bromstad tackles a renovation close to his heart: his own home. Watch a four-yearlong journey come to a happy end as he undergoes challenges…

ACROSS 1 Middle child on The Simpsons 5 Illuminated 8 Nobody Wants This star Brody 12 And Just Like That… actor Handler  13 Grand ____ Opry 14 Betty White on The Golden Girls 15 Camping structure  16 Ryan of Wheel of Fortune 18 ____ the Top 20 Kimmel and Fallon, for two 21 Last name on Roseanne 24 She-Hulk: Attorney at ____ 25 Look forward to 26 Your Show of Shows star Caesar  27 ____ Tac Dough 30 ____ 911!  31 Who makes the season bright?  32 Mabel’s last name on Only Murders in the Building 33 Evidence in a CSI lab  34 ____ Grant 35 Natasha’s accomplice on The Bullwinkle Show  36 FUBAR actor Baruchel 37 One of the kids on The Cosby Show 38 Telly Savalas 1973–78 detective series 41 2025 animated series ____…

@TVGMMattRoush Pluribus Fridays, Apple TV MY IDEA OF happiness: a new series from Vince Gilligan, a master of the gloriously offbeat (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul). In his latest creation, Pluribus, he taps into the genre-blending spirit of his earlier work on The X-Files for a sci-fiinfused character drama that’s simultaneously creepy, funny and wholly original. He has gifted his brilliant Saul star Rhea Seehorn with the role of a lifetime in Carol Sturka, who might just be the last unhappy person left on Earth. A snarky writer of romantasy novels (which she considers “mindless crap”), she finds herself isolated in an eerily transformed world where everyone but her is unusually chipper and cheerful. The startling, succulent twist: Carol is chronically allergic to anyone and everyone’s well wishes. “We just…

Monday, December 1 Come to the Stable (8p, FMC) Room for One More (10p, FMC) Tuesday, December 2 Fitzwilly (8p, FMC) Tenth Avenue Angel (10:15p, FMC) Wednesday, December 3 The World of Henry Orient (8p, FMC) Little Women (1949) (10:15p, FMC) Thursday, December 4 The Trouble With Angels (8p, FMC) The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady (10:30p, FMC) Friday, December 5 Bell, Book and Candle (8p, FMC) The Man Who Came to Dinner (10:15p, FMC) Saturday, December 6 It Happened on Fifth Avenue (8p, FMC) Wednesday, December 10 All That Heaven Allows (8p, FMC) Bundle of Joy (10p, FMC) Saturday, December 13 Holiday Affair (3p, FETV) Sunday, December 14 Holiday Inn (3p, FETV) Little Women (1949) (7p, FMC) Tuesday, December 16 Room for One More (8p, FETV) The Thin Man (10p,…

Twelve Dates ’Til Christmas SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, Hallmark Channel There are few actors who can boast a fourdecade career and still be under age 40, and Mae Whitman (right) is one of them. Her career has taken her from television hits like Arrested Development, Parenthood and Good Girls to movies with George Clooney, Meg Ryan and Bill Pullman. In this new series based on the beloved book by Jenny Bayliss, Whitman finds herself in the U.K. playing Kate, a textile pattern designer who is in a rut when her friends recruit her for a holiday-themed matchmaking program. And these dates are anything but routine. “There are some doozies,” Whitman teases. “I really felt for her. She handles them in a very fun and relatable way. There’s one in which someone…

Matlock 9/8c, CBS IT’S A DECEMBER to remember for the attorneys of Jacobson-Moore in the midseason finale of this twisty legal drama starring Kathy Bates, who earned an Emmy nod as justice-seeking Madeline Kingston, aka Matty Matlock. In tonight’s hour, “a seismic event shifts things for our characters,” teases executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman. The lawyers’ secrets start to come to light while they take on a harassment case involving the city’s fire department. “Going into the episode, Matty and Olympia [Skye P. Marshall] finally get a major break in their Wellbrexa investigation,” Urman reveals of the frenemies. “On the homefront, things are going well. That’s when there is the most to lose. The episode complicates their lives quickly.” Matty and husband Edwin (Sam Anderson) brace to meet their grandson’s…

It: Welcome to Derry SEASON FINALE 9/8c, HBO The It prequel series brings its 1962-set storyline to a thrilling conclusion as Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) wreaks havoc on the whole town of Derry. It’s up to the new “losers” and their parents to come together to stop him from escaping Derry and bringing the whole world into his deadlights. TODAY’S SPORTS PICK NFL FOOTBALL 8:15/7:15c, NBC Minnesota Vikings at Dallas Cowboys Playoff hopes could be bolstered or dashed at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Dick Van Dyke 100th Birthday Binge Catchy Comedy HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, Dick! Or, as Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) might say to her legendary TV spouse, “Oh, Rob!” To celebrate the star’s (born December 13, 1925) centennial, a weekend-long binge begins December 13 at 6am/5c and airs…

Survivor SEASON FINALE 8/7c, CBS PREPARE FOR DRAMA: Despite a slowburning first half of the season, host Jeff Probst (right) promises that “pentup emotion and desperation start to percolate” in the reality competition’s final episode of the season. “Once you get a little food in the belly and the inspiration of a possible spot on Survivor 50 starts to kick in, suddenly, that slow burn turns into a short fuse that’s been lit,” he shares. “To win Survivor, you have to take a swing, knowing it could cost you everything. You have to risk your spot to earn your shot.” That includes impressing the jury, who, according to the host, deliver a “very lively, interactive interrogation of the final three.” After tonight’s episode, viewers will not only find out who…

Ordinary Girl in a Tiara MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, The CW Sparks fly when Caro (Katharine King So) gives couture heiress and childhood nemesis Philippa (Kathryn Gallagher, above right, with So) a place to stay in this rom-com that puts a stylish, Sapphic spin on the Harlequin novel it’s based on. “Their chemistry is playful, heartfelt and impossible to fake,” executive producer Craig Cegielski says. “Their journey isn’t about one rescuing the other; it’s about two people helping each other evolve—personally, professionally and emotionally. That makes the romance both timeless and contemporary.” TODAY’S SPORTS PICKS COLLEGE FOOTBALL Noon/11am c, ABC/ESPN; 3:30/2:30c & 7:30/6:30c, TNT College Football Playoff First Round The three remaining knockout invitational first-round games begin today. Winners advance to the quarterfinal bowl games on New Year’s Eve and Day.…

White-knuckling it at the wheel of a police car during a chase, the usually calm Constable Grace Ellis (Siân Brooke) of the Police Service of Northern Ireland cries into her radio to the command center, “Tell me what to do!” Turning right or left at the next corner could mean life or death. It’s one of the heart-pounding Season 3 scenes TV GUIDE MAGAZINE observed on the Belfast set of Brit-Box’s Blue Lights. The gritty, acclaimed police drama in the vein of The Wire won a 2025 BAFTA, the British equivalent of the Emmy, for best drama and has been renewed for a fourth season. (New episodes drop through December 18.) “Grace can’t help but stand up for the right thing,” Brooke told us later in the storeroom of a…