Tis the Season (Had You Heard?), ’60 Minutes’ Goes to the Dogs, Kelly Rowland on ‘Equalizer’ & Oprah Meets Quinta

Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen

SUNDAY: Surely you’ve seen by now that Christmas-themed programming is in every single place you look. It’s a part of a wealthy historical past of vacation films and TV specials, surveyed in a two-hour particular from government producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog (The Sixties, and so forth.). With archival footage from a lot of our favorites, Tis the Season additionally options commentary from an eclectic array of filmmakers, celebrities, critics and historians, together with Ken Burns, Tim Burton, Vince Gilligan, Hanks, Ron Howard, Phil Rosenthal—and Dr. Anthony Fauci?

Mickey Saves Christmas

SUNDAY: The weekend’s highest-profile new vacation particular stars Disney icon Mickey Mouse in a stop-motion animated half-hour by which he, Minnie and their associates head to the South Pole after Pluto causes Santa to lose all of the presents on his sleigh. Simulcast on Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD. Followed on ABC by a repeat of the Frozen spinoff Olaf’s Frozen Adventure (7:30/6:30c) and the two-hour The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration (8/7c) with musical performances from Disney’s theme parks.

60 Minutes

SUNDAY: Correspondent Anderson Cooper does double responsibility with segments involving our canine companions. In “Survival of the Friendliest,” he reviews on the evolution of canine from wolves as they developed “friendliness mutations” that may also be present in a human situation referred to as Williams Syndrome. A second phase offers with Comparative Oncology, a rising scientific subject by which physicians and veterinarians examine related cancers in individuals and pet canine, hoping to seek out therapies for each species. In a extra sobering piece, Scott Pelley reviews from Clearwater, Florida, the place the search is on for misplaced graves from erased African-American cemeteries.

The Equalizer

SUNDAY: Grammy-winning singer Kelly Rowland visitors as a music famous person who wants Robyn’s (Queen Latifah) assist when a scary fan letter causes her to consider retiring. Her safety chief (Sullivan Jones) seeks out the Equalizer to ease her fears. What are the chances they’ll duet by the climax?

Let the Right One In

SUNDAY: The storylines start to converge in a pivotal episode of the vampire drama, when detective Naomi (Anika Noni Rose) follows the drug path to Claire Logan (Grace Gummer) at her household’s Long Island manse, the place her experiments in vampiric virus analysis have taken a grisly new flip. Back in Brooklyn, Mark (Demián Bichir) takes Naomi on a date, gleaning info which will lead him to Claire’s doorstep as properly. And how will Mark take the information that vampire daughter Eleanor (Madison Taylor Baez) has shared her secret with neighbor BFF Isaiah (Ian Foreman)? Not properly.

The White Lotus

SUNDAY: Tanya (Emmy winner Jennifer Coolidge) is beside herself with glee when Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his friends whisk her away from the White Lotus to Palermo for a debauched getaway. Back on the resort, younger Albie (Adam DiMarco) is in for a shock after his in a single day tryst with Lucia (Simona Tabasco), and Harper (Aubrey Plaza) isn’t about to let sleeping canine lie in relation to the fellows’ evening of partying with the native expertise.

The Yule Log:

• I’m Glad It’s Christmas (Saturday, 8/7c, Great American Family): Music legend Gladys Knight seems within the story of a would-be Broadway singer (Jessica Lowndes) who finds a mentor, and perhaps love, as she participates in an area Christmas celebration.
• The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Frasier’s Kelsey Grammer co-stars with daughter Spencer Grammer as a businessman who’s uncared for his household for years, however after a Christmas Eve automobile accident, will get 12 days (and probabilities) to get issues proper.
• Saturday’s Hallmark Channel choices embody A Tale of Two Christmases (6/5c), by which Emma (Wynonna Earp’s Kat Barrell) will get to expertise parallel holidays at residence and within the metropolis—and which can win out, we (don’t) marvel. In Haul Out the Holly (8/7c), channel favourite Lacey Chabert heads residence to her mother and father’ empty home, solely to get swept up in neighborhood festivities.
• Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas (Saturday, 10/9c, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries): The fifth film impressed by producer Blake Shelton’s “Time for Me to Come Home.”
• Faith Heist: A Christmas Caper (Saturday, 8/7c, Bounce): A sequel to Faith Heist stars Jonathan Langdon as Pastor Benjamin, trapped together with his congregants in a mall on Christmas Eve when thieves break in.
• A Christmas Spark (Sunday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Jane Seymour reunites along with her Dr. Quinn main man Joe Lando within the story of a widow discovering new love when she directs a city’s Christmas pageant.
• Hallmark Channel’s Sunday treats: A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe (6/5c) stars Rachel Boston as a cookie firm CEO who enlists native baker Victor Webster to recreate a stolen secret recipe. In A Holiday Spectacular (8/7c), the Radio City Rockettes and the legendary Ann-Margret seem in a interval piece about Maggie (Wicked’s Ginna Claire Mason), a Philly heiress who in 1958 places her wedding ceremony on maintain to chase her dream of turning into a Rockette.
• A Christmas… Present (Sunday, 8/7c, Great American Family): Candance Cameron Bure hopes to place controversy behind her on this “traditional” household movie, co-starring with Marc Blucas as busy mother and father who head with their teen youngsters to her widowed brother’s residence for the vacation.
• Dognapped: Hound for the Holidays (Sunday, 8/7c, Ion): When a social-media influencer’s valuable canine is kidnapped, her assistant groups with an area vet to retrieve the pup earlier than Christmas, or she’ll be within the doghouse.
• Perennial favorites embody the animated Robbie the Reindeer and The Story of Santa Claus on CBS (Saturday, 8/7c and 9/8c), and on The CW, Silent Night—A Song for the World (Saturday, 8/7c).

Inside Weekend TV:

• OWN Spotlight: Oprah and Quinta Brunson Abbott Elementary (Saturday, 9/8c, OWN): Oprah Winfrey sits with Emmy-winning Abbott Elementary creator/star Quinta Brunson to debate the hit comedy’s roots and Brunson’s personal childhood, mentors and profession. Given Oprah’s love for studying, it’s little marvel this glorious collection has captured her consideration.
• Byron Allen Presents theGrio Awards (Saturday, 8/7c, CBS): Yolanda Adams, Tyrese, Fantasia and Music Icon Award recipient Patti LaBelle carry out within the inaugural ceremony of an occasion, held on the Beverly Hilton, honoring cultural and civic leaders within the African-American neighborhood. Other recipients embody Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Norman Lear (Champion Award), Tyler Perry, Kenan Thompson and the ever-controversial Dave Chappelle (Cultural Icon).
• 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c, CBS): Eric Moriarty reviews on the case of Michael Politte, charged together with his mom’s homicide as a young person and now out on parole after practically 20 years, nonetheless claiming his innocence and telling Moriarty he is aware of who’s accountable.
• East New York (Sunday, 9/8c, CBS): In the city crime drama’s midseason finale, Deputy Inspector Haywood (Amanda Warren) second-guesses a retired policeman’s “suicide” after studying he was wished to disclose a listing of crooked cops.
• This Is Life with Lisa Ling (Sunday, 10/9c, CNN): The journalist returns for a remaining season of provocative reviews, beginning with a examine of how know-how is shaping love, intercourse and relationships after the current years of COVID-19 isolation.