Rueben's Ramblings

Here is the long list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming holiday week:

On December 27, the season finale of the limited series Landscapers will air on HBO at 9 PM.

The debut of The Book of Boba Fett will air on Disney+ online on December 29. On the sands of Tatoonie, bounty hunter Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) and mercenary Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) navigate the Galaxy’s underworld and fight for Jabba the Hutt’s old territory.

On December 31, the fourth season premiere of Cobra Kai will air on Netflix online.

The new Netflix drama series Stay Close will debut online on December 31. The lives of a photojournalist, a soccer mom and a homicide detective are disturbed by a terrible event from the past in the British crime drama based on the 2012 Harlan Coben novel. The cast includes Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, Richard Armitage and Eddie Izzard.

Also on December 31, the psychological drama film The Lost Daughter, written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal – in her feature directorial debut – will debut on Netflix online. A woman (Olivia Colman), while on a summer holiday, finds herself becoming obsessed with another woman and her daughter, prompting memories of her own early motherhood to come back and unravel her. The film will also star Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, Ed Harris, Paul Mescal, Oliver Jackson-Cohoen, Jack Farthing and Dagmara Domincyzk along with Jessie Buckley playing Coleman’s character as a younger woman.

The HBO Max special Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts will air online on January 1. Twenty years after Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, cast members are coming together for a new special that will include in-depth interviews and cast conversations from all of the films. Cast members featured will include Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as well as Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Imelda Staunton, Tom Felton, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Mark Williams, Bonnie Wright, Alfred Enoch, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch and Ian Hart [among others].

On January 1, the Hallmark Channel movie Where Your Heart Belongs will debut at 9 PM. Mackenzie Sullivan (Jen Lilley) is a New York-based marketing executive struggling to keep her clients. When she returns home to a rural maple farm to help her best friend plan her wedding in just two weeks, Mackenzie learns the hard way that the love and support of family and true friends means more than she’d imagined. Christopher Russell co-stars.

The New Year’s Day special Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks will air at 2 PM (check your local listings for airtime) on BBC America. On New Year’s Eve, the appearance of an executioner Dalek means Sarah and Nick’s countdown to midnight will be the strangest and deadliest they have ever known. Can the Doctor, Yaz and Dan save them?

On January 2, the PBS 8-episode series Around the World in 80 Days, based on the legendary book by Jules Verne, will debut at 8 PM. David Tennant stars as literature’s greatest explorer Phileas Fogg in a new adaptation of the classic adventure novel. French actor Ibrahim Koma and Leonie Benesch (Babylon Berlin and The Crown) co-star.

The two-hour season finale of Yellowstone will air on the Paramount Network on January 2 at 8 PM; while that same night The Rookie will be back from its winter hiatus on ABC at 10 PM. Also on January 2, both The Equalizer and NCIS: Los Angeles will return from their winter breaks on CBS at 8 and 9 PM respectively followed by the return of S.W.A.T. at 10 PM, its new night and time.

Mark your calendars!