Here is the long list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:
On November 1, the holiday movie Another Christmas will debut online on The Roku Channel. Kelly Brooks (Sheena Faust) is an elementary school teacher who gave up on love until her childhood friend, Andrew (Malik Brazile), a professional baseball player, returns home and invites Kelly to spend Christmas with his family. Although reluctant to attend a Christmas party after remembering how things ended with Andrew, she soon realizes she still has feelings for him.
The holiday movie Meeting Mr. Christmas will debut online on November 1 on Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (check your streaming service for access). Sophie Montgomery, a female travel blogger with a column called ‘Sophie’s Solo Travels,’ has spent the last four years avoiding Christmas and traveling alone. When she receives a call that her mother has had a fall, she comes home to help her mom by planning their annual Christmas charity event only to learn she is not planning the event alone. Holiday-loving town doctor Fin Miller’s positive and festive charms are no match for Sophie’s cynicism when it comes to Christmas, so she decides to take Finn’s Christmas charm and turn it into a story for her escaping Christmas blog she does every year, only to realize her thoughts about Christmas and feelings for Finn have changed. The cast includes Greta Carew-Johns, Madison Smith, Jaime Callica, Eileen Pedde and Laura Mitchell.
On November 3, the second season of The Capture will premiere online on Peacock; meanwhile also on November 3, the fourth season of Titans will premiere online on HBO Max.
The holiday film A Wesley Christmas will debut online on BET+ on November 3. Adult siblings Chris, Todd, and Cydney Wesley travel to their childhood home to celebrate Christmas with their parents and the entire Wesley family. With everyone together and all their physical and emotional baggage in tow, the annual Wesley family holiday promises to be a festive hot mess of a Christmas, with life-changing impacts on the whole family. The film stars Dorien Wilson, Jasmine Guy, Terrence Carson, Loren Lott, Terayle Hill and Mike Merril.
On November 3, the limited series The Suspect will debut online on Sundance Now. This five-part thriller, based on the best-selling novel by acclaimed crime writer Michael Robotham, stars Aidan Turner (Poldark) as Joseph ‘Joe’ O’Loughlin, who appears to have the perfect life – a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted – even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. Caught in an increasingly complex web of deceit, Joe risks everything as he embarks upon a search for a killer that will take him into the darkest recesses of the human mind.
The Amazon feature film My Policeman will debut online on November 4. A tale of forbidden romance and changing social conventions, the film follows the relationships between three people—policeman Tom (Harry Styles/Linus Roache), teacher Marion (Emma Corrin/Gina McKee) and museum curator Patrick (David Dawson/Rupert Everett)—and their emotional journey spanning decades.
On November 4, the Apple TV+ movie Causeway will debut online. Jennifer Lawrence stars as Lynsey, a soldier struggling to adjust back home in New Orleans following a traumatic injury. When she meets local mechanic James (Brian Tyree Henry), the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.
The Hallmark Channel holiday movie A Magical Christmas Village will debut on November 4 at 8 PM. When Summer’s mother, Vivian, moves in with her and her young daughter, Chloe, her orderly existence is upended. Upon arrival, Vivian sets up an heirloom miniature Christmas village resembling their town and tells Chloe it grants Christmas wishes. As Chloe begins setting up the figurines, real-life events seem to mimic the scenes she creates. With a little help from the magic of the Christmas village, the family will be brought closer together and, just maybe, Summer will learn to open her heart to love again. The film Alison Sweeney, Luke Macfarlane and Marlo Thomas.
On November 4, the second season of The Mosquito Coast will debut online on Apple TV+; and that same day, the fourth and final season of Manifest will premiere online on Netflix.
The Netflix movie Enola Holmes 2 will debut online on November 4. Fresh off the triumph of solving her first case, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) follows in the footsteps of her famous brother, Sherlock (Henry Cavill), and opens her own agency — only to find that life as a female detective-for-hire isn’t as easy as it seems. Resigned to accepting the cold realities of adulthood, she is about to close shop when a penniless matchstick girl offers Enola her first official job: to find her missing sister. But this case proves to be far more puzzling than expected, as Enola is thrown into a dangerous new world. Returning cast members include Adeel Akhtar as Lestrade, Susan Wokoma as Edith, and Louis Partridge as Tewkesbury. New cast members include David Thewlis and Sharon Duncan-Brewster.
On November 4, the special film presentation Weird: The Al Yankovic Story will debut online on The Roku Channel. This movie is the “true” story of Alfred Matthew Yankovic (Daniel Radcliffe) – the artist otherwise known as “Weird Al” Yankovic – from his beginning interest in the accordion, his discovery by Dr. Demento, his support from Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) and his overall claim to fame. The ensemble cast includes Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson, Quinta Brunson, Dot-Marie Jones, Will Forte, Conan O’Brien, Jack Black, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patton Oswalt and Nat Faxon.
The UPtv movie Unperfect Christmas Wish will debut on November 4 at 7 PM. Madison O’Hara (Alys Crocker) performs as a singing elf for Christmas parties with her best friend Cooper (David Pinard), but her real dream is to be a singer-songwriter and to find the perfect man.
On November 5, the UPtv movie Christmas in the Pines will debut at 7 PM. As an up-and-coming magazine writer and a successful architect battle over ownership of an idyllic Christmas cottage, they soon discover that their cozy holiday getaway may not be the only thing they love. The film stars Jillian Murray and Dean Geyer.
The Great American Family holiday movie A Royal Christmas on Ice will debut on November 5 at 8 PM. Looking to escape his royal life, a dashing prince comes to the United States to start a business in a small town in upstate New York and winds up falling for a former Olympic ice skater. The film stars Anna Marie Dobbins and Jonathan Stoddard.
On November 5, the Hallmark Channel movie Lights, Camera, Christmas! will debut at 8 PM. When a holiday rom-com movie shooting in her town needs a costume designer, Kerry (Kimberley Sustad), a local shop owner, steps into the role. While working on the movie, she rediscovers her passion for costume design and finds herself falling for Brad (John Brotherton), the film’s famous leading man.
The Lifetime movie Merry Swissmas will debut at 8 PM on November 5. Alex (Jodie Sweetin) has wonderful memories of Christmas with her best friend Beth (Mikaela Lily Davies), until Beth starts dating Alex’s ex, Jesse (David Pinard). Because she has missed the last few Christmases with family due to her demanding job as an architect, Alex is excited to spend the holidays with her mother, Caroline (Jane Wheeler), who is opening an inn in Switzerland. Much to her dismay, she learns that Jesse and Beth are also visiting for the inn’s opening. When Alex meets Liam (Tim Rozon), a single father and the manager of her mother’s inn, Liam attempts to show her all the Christmas traditions and culture of Switzerland and helps Alex open herself up to love and forgiveness this holiday season.
On November 5, the holiday movie A Maple Valley Christmas will debut at 10 PM on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Erica (Peyton List) is a rancher who has spent her whole life working the family farm with her mother and sister. When Aaron (Andrew Walker) arrives and disrupts her plans, she starts to question what it is she actually wants.
The season finale of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire will air online on AMC+ on November 6; and that same day, a special episode of FBI will air on CBS at 8:30 PM.
On November 6, the new 6-part series Mood will debut online on AMC+ and it will debut on BBC America at 10 PM. Sasha Clayton (Nicole Lecky) dreams of becoming a major recording artist, but right now she’s a bedroom artist: spending her days smoking weed and stalking her ex-boyfriend (Jordan Duvigneau) on Instagram. When she is kicked out of her family home for drunkenly trying to burn her ex’s house down, Sasha becomes homeless and is forced to fend for herself, sofa-surfing with local drug dealer Saleem (Mohammad Dalmar). Everything seems to change when she meets and moves in with Instagram influencer and party girl Carly (Lara Peake, Brave New World), who introduces her to the exciting world of making money and becoming ‘famous’ on social media. But as the gap between her online presence and her dream of being a singer continues to grow, Sasha finds herself struggling to escape this new influencer world that is more complex and darker than she could have imagined.
The UPtv movie Christmas Masquerade will debut at 7 PM on November 6. When Julieanne (Erin Agostino) is mistaken for her glamorous boss at a masquerade ball by a notoriously aloof businessman (David Lafontaine), she continues the ruse over Christmas. Will she be able to find real love in the makeshift fairy-tale world they’ve created?
On November 6, the Hallmark Channel movie All Saints Christmas will debut at 8 PM. Lisette (Ledisi) is a popular R&B singer who’s getting ready to travel home to New Orleans for Christmas. When the media mistake a photo of her with her music producer ex as an engagement announcement, her family insists that he join her on the trip, Roger Cross also stars.
The new period drama Dangerous Liaisons, based on characters from the box office movie, will debut at 8 PM on Starz on November 6. This modern take on a classic story takes audiences through wonder and terror, beauty and degradation, seduction and deception in pre-revolutionary Paris. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, the young couple’s survival depends on their skills of seduction and manipulation of not only the French nobility but of each other. Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton portray the notorious lovers: Camille who is taken in by the current Marquise de Merteuil (played by Lesley Manville) navigates her own path in a world of men, using the power of secrets to take back control, and Valmont who will stop at nothing to regain his title that was recently taken from him. Their on-again off-again love story is the heart of the series. The series also stars Carice van Houten, Hakeem Kae-Kazim and Tom Wlaschiha.
On November 6, the Great American Family holiday movie Love at the Christmas Contest will debut at 8 PM. For as long as she can remember, Angie’s (Samantha Cope) favorite part of Christmas has been the Christmas Eve tree lighting in the town square. But this Christmas, her first without her mom, Angie doesn’t feel much like celebrating until she learns her mom had always dreamed of winning the annual tree-decorating contest and seeing her tree lit up in the town square. Angie realizes winning the contest and decorating the town’s tree is the perfect way to honor her mom. What Angie isn’t expecting is her high school sweetheart David (Ross Jirgl) and his adorable daughter Gabby to enter the contest too.
Lastly, the Lifetime movie Well Suited for Christmas will debut on November 6at 8 PM. Fashion designer Rachel Rocca (Mercedes de la Zerda) lands a spot in a design competition to create a tuxedo for one of the city’s most eligible bachelors, Brett Stone (Franco Lo Presti), for a Christmas charity gala. As Rachel begins to unthread his well-spun public image, she discovers the true reason behind his Christmas charity, and they find themselves falling in love.
Mark your calendars!
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