‘George & Tammy,’ Holiday TV Deluge, College Football, ‘SNL’ Returns

SUNDAY: They lived their lives and carried out their torrid, tormented relationship as if reenacting the country-music lyrics that made them well-known. Michael Shannon and Oscar winner Jessica Chastain star, and supply their very own vocals, as nation legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette in a six-part restricted collection that usually performs like a real-life model of A Star Is Born. (See the full overview.)

SUNDAY: Network TV films are virtually as uncommon as a white Christmas in Miami, however CBS will get again within the recreation with a vacation movie starring and govt produced by The Talk’s Amanda Kloots, who additionally co-wrote the movie’s story. She performs Audrey, a Christmas-phile health teacher who will get cozy with a businessman (Paul Greene) who’s planning to show the group middle the place she works right into a profitable resort.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY: It’s make-or-break time for staff USA because the knockout spherical of 16 begins with U.S. dealing with the Netherlands (Saturday, 10 am/ET, Fox), adopted by the Argentina–Australia match (2 pm/ET, Fox). Sunday’s matches pit France towards Poland (10 am/ET, FS1) and Senegal towards England (2 pm/ET, FS1).

SATURDAY: The irrepressible Keke Palmer (Nope, Password) makes her debut as visitor host within the first of three new episodes in December. (The Only Murders within the Building duo of Steve Martin and Martin Short, each with lengthy SNL histories, are subsequent week’s hosts, and Elvis star Austin Butler is the first-time host Dec. 17.) SZA returns as musical visitor for her second time.

College Football Conference Championships:

• Marking the top of the faculty soccer season, groups battle it out for his or her convention titles by means of the day on Saturday. Undefeated TCU faces Kansas State within the Big 12 Championship (midday/ET, ABC), Toledo takes on Ohio within the MAC Championship (midday/ET, ESPN), Coastal Carolina goes to battle with Troy within the Sun Belt Championship (3:30 pm/ET, ESPN), undefeated Georgia seems to be to whomp LSU within the SEC Championship (4 pm/ET, CBS), Fresno State faces Boise State within the Mountain West Championship (4 pm/ET, Fox), and in prime time, the Big Ten Championship (8 pm/ET, Fox) pits undefeated Michigan towards Purdue, and Clemson takes on North Carolina within the ACC Championship (8 pm/ET, ABC).

TV Yule Log:

• The Great Holiday Bake War (Saturday, 9/8c, OWN): A fictional baking competitors is the background for a vacation romance involving pastry college rivals Julian (Finesse Mitchell) and Brianna (LeToya Luckett).
• Homes for the Holidays (Saturday, 7/6c, AXS TV): Ashley McBryde hosts an occasion benefiting households of fallen first responders and Gold Star heroes. Making appearances and/or performances: Travis Tritt, Yellowstone’s Cole Hauser, Robert Randolph & the Family Band and nation trio Runaway June.
• Reno 911! It’s a Wonderful Heist (Saturday, 8/7c): The wacky Nevada cops are again with a twist on It’s a Wonderful Life, as a dejected Lt. Dangle (Thomas Lennon) learns from a roller-skating angel how the opposite deputies would have fared—higher, it seems—if he’d by no means been born.
• On UpTV: Christmas on the Slopes (Saturday, 7/6c) stars Soma Chayya as a down-on-her-luck celeb chef posing as a sous chef in a luxurious resort, the place she falls for the curmudgeonly head chef (Oliver Renaud). Christmas on the Rocks (Sunday, 7/6c) takes place throughout a snowstorm that disrupts a company Christmas get together at a ski resort the place the supervisor (Lyla Porter-Follows) quickly realizes the CEO (Jon McLaren) is an previous beau.
• On Lifetime: R&B legend Patti LaBelle seems in A New Orleans Noel (Saturday, 8/7c) as a New Orleans praline mogul who hires rival architects (Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James) to renovate her residence. In Merry Textmas (Sunday, 8/7c), app developer Gaby (Ariana Ron Pedrique) heads residence to Mexico, unaware her matchmaking household has additionally invited graphic designer Alex (Rodrigo Massa).
• On Hallmark: A Fabled Holiday (Saturday, 8/7c) brings disillusioned childhood friends (Brooke D’Orsay and Ryan Paevey) again collectively in a magical city. In Undercover Holiday (Sunday, 8/7c), pop star Jaylen Rodriguez (Noemi Gonzalez) heads residence, letting her household assume her bodyguard (Stephen Huszar) is her boyfriend. On Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, the Mahogany presentation The Holiday Stocking (Saturday, 10/9c) is touched by an angel, when RJ (B.J. Britt) returns to earth to assist his estranged sisters (Nadine Ellis and Tamala Jones) reconcile.
• On Great American Family: Christmas on Candy Cane Lane (Saturday, 8/7c) stars Andrea Barber as Ivy, who hopes to stay as much as the legacy of her late mom, the “Christmas Maven” of Icicle Falls. B&B Merry (Sunday, 8/7c) is the story of a journey blogger (Jen Lilley) testing a small city’s B&B, whose proprietor’s son (Jesse Hutch) is price a rave overview.
• The Search for Secret Santa (Sunday, 8/7c, ION): Skye Coyne is a younger reporter monitoring down the Secret Santas related to a present that was by no means delivered—a priceless nutcracker that seems to have been stolen.
• HouseDamaged (Sunday, 8:30/7:30c and 9/8c, Fox): The animated comedy teeming with anthropomorphic home pets returns with back-to-back vacation episodes. In the primary, poodle Honey (Lisa Kudrow) will get despatched to a dream residence after a vet’s mix-up. In the second, Honey and her dopey St. Bernard housemate Chief (Nat Faxon) are residence alone once they defend the household residence from an intruder.
• America’s Funniest Home Videos (Sunday, 7/6c, ABC): No vacation season is full with no new compilation of Christmas-themed movies, together with a runaway inflatable Santa and a mother who surprises her son by leaping out of a large reward field

Inside Weekend TV:

• 2022 NASCAR Awards (Saturday, 8 pm/ET, streaming on Peacock): Country star Erin Kinsey sings her hit “Just Drive” on the Nashville ceremony honoring the 2022 Series champs Joey Logano (Cup Series), Ty Gibbs (Xfinity Series) and Zane Smith (Truck Series).
• 60 Minutes (Sunday, 7:30/6:30c, 7 pm/PT, CBS): Bill Whitaker interviews French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, of the eve of his journey to Washington, D.C. for a state go to and White House dinner.
• Yellowstone (Sunday, 8/7c, Paramount Network): John Dutton (Kevin Costner) would moderately model cattle on the ranch than attend to state enterprise. He could must wrangle daughter Beth (Kelly Reilly) as properly, who’s none too glad that her dad has introduced environmentalist Summer (Piper Perabo) again residence.
• Let the Right One In (Sunday, 10/9c, Showtime): Things are dicey for Mark (Demián Bichir) within the supernatural drama’s penultimate episode. He’s now a prisoner after being caught snooping across the Logan property and Claire’s (Grace Gummer) experiments find a remedy for vampirism. When his vampire daughter Eleanor (Madison Taylor Baez) learns her dad is in peril, be careful.