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On December 12, the Netflix feature film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will debut online.

The story revolves around the sudden death of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) whose assistant Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is accused of the murder. As Benoir Blanc (Daniel Craig) delves into the investigation, he navigates a complex web of secrets and tensions within the church community.

The ensemble cast includes Mila Kunis, Glenn Close, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Jeffrey Wright and Thomas Haden Church.

Here is a trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery:

The Lifetime holiday movie Christmas in Alaska will debut on December 12 at 10:03 PM.

Rival journalists competing for the same lucrative promotion get stuck together in snowy Alaska after their plane is forced to make an emergency landing. They find themselves caught up in a totally unexpected Christmas romance.

The movie stars Emma Johnson and Marcus Rosner.

Unfortunately, there is no trailer for Christmas in Alaska.

On December 12, the Lifetime holiday movie A Runaway Bride for Christmas will debut at 8 PM.

After fleeing her wedding, Emma (Entertainment Tonight host Nischelle Turner) returns to her hometown and falls for Mitch (Mark Ghanime), her old high school crush, who’s nursing his own broken heart.

Kaitlyn Leeb co-stars.

There is no trailer, unfortunately, for A Runaway Bride for Christmas.

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

On December 8, the three final episodes EVER of Bel-Air will air online on Peacock; meanwhile, that same day, the season finale of The Gone will air online on Acorn TV.

Hulu will air the season finale of All’s Fair online on December 9.

On December 10, the season finale of Down Cemetery Road will air online on Apple TV; meanwhile, that same day, the second season premiere of Percy Jackson and the Olympians will air online on Disney+ and Hulu.

The movie Merv will debut online on Amazon Prime on December 10. A recently separated couple (Zooey Deschanel and Charlie Cox) take their shared dog on a holiday trip to cheer him up, but end up reconnecting romantically. The movie also stars Patricia Heaton and Wynn Everett.

On December 11, the BET+ holiday movie Never Alone for Christmas: Memphis will air online. In the movie, two Memphis ladies with big hearts, a dating coach and a once great Beale Street blues singer, find themselves unexpectedly alone for Christmas, so they help one another reset their love lives. The cast includes Melissa L. Williams, Juhahn Jones, K. Michelle, Chris Sakyi and Tom Arnold.

The fall finale of Matlock will air on CBS on December 11 at 9 PM.

On December 12, the Lifetime holiday movies A Runaway Bride for Christmas and Christmas in Alaska will debut at 8 and 10:03 PM respectively. In A Runaway Bride for Christmas, after fleeing her wedding, Emma (Entertainment Tonight host Nischelle Turner) returns to her hometown and falls for Mitch (Mark Ghanime), her old high school crush, who’s nursing his own broken heart. Kaitlyn Leeb co-stars. And then, in Christmas in Alaska, rival journalists competing for the same lucrative promotion get stuck together in snowy Alaska after their plane is forced to make an emergency landing. They find themselves caught up in a totally unexpected Christmas romance. The movie stars Emma Johnson and Marcus Rosner.

The Netflix feature film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will debut online on December 12. The story revolves around the sudden death of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) whose assistant Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is accused of the murder. As Benoir Blanc (Daniel Craig) delves into the investigation, he navigates a complex web of secrets and tensions within the church community. The ensemble cast includes Mila Kunis, Glenn Close, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Jeffrey Wright and Thomas Haden Church.

On December 13, the holiday movie Recipe for Romance will debut at 8 PM on the CW. Sari’s (True O’Brien) big plans get derailed when Gabe (Alex Mallari Jr.) opens a bakery next door to her family’s coffee shop. This launches a prank war to end all prank wars, bringing Sari and Gabe together in a story of love, family, community and delicious pastries.

The Hallmark Channel holiday movie A Suite Holiday Romance will debut at 8 PM on December 13. Writer Sabrina (Jessy Schram) stays at a luxury hotel to ghostwrite a memoir. She meets Ian (Dominic Sherwood) at the bar and lets him think she’s wealthy. He’s actually a secretary posing as nobility while managing a royal jewels exhibit.

Also on December 13, the Lifetime holiday movies Thank God: Christmas at Keller Ranch and Rodeo Christmas Romance will debut at 8 and 10:03 PM respectively. In Thank God: Christmas at Keller Ranch, the movie follows the story of a pro hockey player who finds romance with a grieving rancher. The movie stars Arielle Kebbel and Tyler Hilton. While in Rodeo Christmas Romance, when a fiercely independent equestrian finds herself ranch-sitting for a friend while caring for her injured horse over Christmas, she clashes with a brooding veteran. The movie stars Rebecca Dalton and Corey Sevier.

The holiday movie Very Merry Mystery will debut on OWN on December 13 at 9 PM. Ashleigh Murray and Tristan Mack Wilds star as a small-town hairstylist and her detective boyfriend, respectively, in a story that revolves around a beauty shop owner who attends a Christmas Murder Mystery party where the host goes missing, leading to a thrilling investigation.

On December 14, the Hallmark Channel holiday movie Oy to the World will debut at 8 PM. When a synagogue’s pipes burst, a church offers space. As choir directors prepare a joint Christmas-Hanukkah service, old rivals Nikki and Jake must overcome their competition to unite their communities through song. The movie stars Brooke D’Orsay and Jake Epstein.

Lastly, the holiday movie Christmas in Big Sky Country will debut on UPtv on December 14 at 7 PM. Becca Collins (Rebecca Dalton) collaborates with Logan Johnston (Olivier Renaud), the oil company’s new PR agent, to ensure her brother-in-law returns home safely for the holidays after an incident on an oil rig. Can Becca trust Logan’s intentions? The cast also includes Tamara Duarte, Mark Ghanime, Conrad Coates and Shaun Johnston.

Mark your calendars!

Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:

NOTE: The series finale of Bel Air will air online today on Peacock while the season finale of The Gone will air online on Acorn TV.

5 PM:
Black Panther movie on FX

5:40 PM:
The Woman King movie on HBO

5:45 PM:
Terminator: Dark Fate movie on Showtime

6 PM:
Three Wiser Men and a Boy movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
The Princess Bride movie on BBC America
It’s a Wonderful Life (classic) movie on E!

7 PM:
Robin Hood on MGM+ (Encore)

8 PM:
Mayor of Kingstown on Showtime (NEW)
Rogue Heroes on MGM+ (Encore)
A Godwink Christmas movie on Hallmark Mystery (Reair)
A Knight’s Tale movie on BBC America
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie on FX

9 PM:
FBI on CBS (NEW)
The Pitt on TNT (NEW)
Rogue Heroes on MGM+ (Encore)
It’s a Wonderful Life (classic) movie on E!
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial movie on E!

10 PM:
Watson on CBS (NEW)
The Pitt on TNT (NEW)
The Christmas Cup movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
The Christmas Charade movie on Hallmark Mystery (Reair)

11 PM:
The Pitt on TNT (NEW)

Enjoy!

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

When Calls the Heart has been renewed for season 14 by the Hallmark Channel. (Entertainment Now)

Hulu has given a second season renewal to the Glen Powell-led football comedy Chad Powers. (Variety)

CBS has given both new dramas Sheriff Country and Boston Blue season two renewals. (Variety)

Paramount+ has given a third season renewal to Landman. (Deadline)

TV SERIES PICK-UP

MGM+ has picked up the TV series Legacy of Spies based on the John le Carre novel with Matthew Macfadyen playing the legendary spymaster George Smiley. The cast of the new series will also include Sons of Anarchy start Charlie Hunnam as British intelligence officer Alec Leamas and Daniel Bruhl (Captain America: Civil War) as East German spy Jens Fielder. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Richard Armitage (The Hobbit movie franchise) and Annabel Scholey (Rivals) will star in the police procedural Winter over on PBS that is about one of the most gifted pathologists of his generation. Based on the long-running French crime series Balthazar, the series follows the titular Ethan Winter, who possesses an analytical mind capable of deductive reasoning, which perfectly complements DI Lauren Bell (Scholey), a no-nonsense detective who is as driven as Winter when working on a case. Together they use Winter’s genius and insight into the victims alongside Bell and her murder squad detectives. Yet Winter is harboring a secret. The unsolved murder of someone close to him still haunts his every move. (Deadline)

Game of Thrones alum Kit Harington will star opposite Shailene Woodley and Lindsay Lohan in the limited series Count My Lies over on Hulu. The tagline for the new series: “When compulsive liar Sloane Caraway (Woodley) fibs her way into a nanny position for the gorgeous and charismatic Violet (Lohan) and Jay Lockhart (Harington), it seems she’s finally landed her dream job. But little does Sloane know, she’s just entered a household brimming with secrets that are about to explode, with potentially catastrophic consequences for all. (Deadline)

Recent Emmy winner Shawn Hatosy (from The Pitt) will star opposite Olivia Colman and Brie Larson in the FX limited series Cry Wolf that will be a psychological family thriller, following a social worker, Kath (Colman), and a mother, April (Larson), thrust into crisis when the mother’s teenage daughter, Mia, alleges abuse, pushing both women to their limits as they navigate an impossible situation. Hatosy will play April’s husband and Mia’s stepfather who is at the center of the girl’s abuse allegations. (Deadline)

Season two of the Paramount+ crime drama MobLand has added to its cast with Johnny Flynn (Beast) and Ophelia Lovibond (Minx) joining as series regulars. Also returning for Season two are Janet McTeer, Toby Jones and Alex Fine, who will reprise their original Season 1 roles. (Deadline)

The Fed Five, as featured in the 11th episode of season two of NCIS: Origins, has found its other members, including Adam Kulbersh (Modern Family and SVU) as NIS Special Agent Felix Betts and Mark Deklin (Blue Bloods) as NIS Special Agent Dan McLane. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star Lana Condor will be joined by Jack Whitehall (Jungle Cruise and Malice), Robbie Amell (Upload), Lizzie Broadway (Gen V), Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost) and Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat) in the upcoming indie rom-com Whodunnit, which follows Tess Klein (Condor), whose life was supposed to follow the plan: love by 25, marriage by 30, baby by 34. But after a spectacularly failed marriage proposal and one wild rebound weekend where her best friend Kelsey tells her “the only way to get over someone is to get under someone else,” Tess finds herself pregnant and clueless about who the father is. As she sets out to solve the mystery, she discovers that sometimes, the right family finds you. (Deadline)

Cailee Spaeny (Civil War and Priscilla) and Drew Starkey (Queer) will star in Deep Cuts, the adaptation of the Holly Brickley novel that is a love story about two music-obsessed twentysomethings navigating the messy realities of ambition, belonging and adulthood over the course of an era-defining decade. They will be taking over for Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler, who both left the production due to scheduling conflicts. (Deadline)

MADE-FOR-TV-MOVIE NEWS

Hallmark Channel will be teaming with Walt Disney World for a new original holiday movie called Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True that will star Lacey Chabert and The Last Ship alum Travis Van Wickle. The official logline for the movie is: “Lindsey (Chabert) and her extended family head to Walt Disney World to spend a magical Christmas together. But the dream of a jolly holiday gets quickly dashed when Lindsey discovers her room is next door to Philip (Van Winkle), a disastrous first date she recently had, who’s also there on a family trip. As Lindsey and Philip’s paths cross throughout their stay, the frost starts to thaw as they learn they’re not so different from each other after all. Thanks to some Walt Disney World magic, the holiday wish Lindsey made in Cinderella Fountain just might turn their rivalry into romance.” (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!

On December 11, the BET+ holiday movie Never Alone for Christmas: Memphis will air online.

In the movie, two Memphis ladies with big hearts, a dating coach and a once great Beale Street blues singer, find themselves unexpectedly alone for Christmas. So, they help one another reset their love lives.

The cast includes Melissa L. Williams, Juhahn Jones, K. Michelle, Chris Sakyi and Tom Arnold.

Here is a trailer for Never Alone for Christmas: Memphis:

Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:

5 PM:
National Treasure movie on FX

5:45 PM:
Green Book movie on TCM
Captain America: Civil War movie on TNT

5:50 PM:
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina movie on Encore

6 PM:
She’s Making a List movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Private Princess Christmas movie on Hallmark Mystery (Reair)
Gift Wrapped Christmas movie on Lifetime (Reair)
Ocean’s Eleven movie on Paramount Network
The Matrix movie on Vice

7 PM:
Braveheart movie on Showtime
Rampage movie on TruTV

7:30 PM:
Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors movie on CMT (Reair)

8 PM:
Tracker on CBS (NEW)
Single on the 25th movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
The Christmas Campaign movie on Lifetime (Encore)
Vienna Blood on PBS (Reair)
A Glenbrooke Christmas movie on Hallmark Mystery (Reair)
Minority Report movie on Encore

8:30 PM:
The Princess Bride movie on BBC America

9 PM:
Robin Hood on MGM+ (NEW)
Vienna Blood on PBS (Reair)
Ocean’s Twelve movie on Paramount Network
The Matrix movie on Vice

9:15 PM:
The Mark of Zorro movie on TCM

9:30 PM:
Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors movie on CMT (Reair)

10 PM:
Sheriff Country on CBS (Encore)
Mayor of Kingstown on Showtime 2 (Encore)
The More the Merrier movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Vienna Blood on PBS (Reair)
Check Inn to Christmas movie on Hallmark Mystery (Reair)

10:15 PM:
Dances With Wolves movie on HBO 2

Enjoy!

On December 10, the movie Merv will debut online on Amazon Prime.

A recently separated couple (Zooey Deschanel and Charlie Cox) take their shared dog on a holiday trip to cheer him up but end up reconnecting romantically.

The movie also stars Patricia Heaton and Wynn Everett.

Here is a trailer for Merv:

Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:

4:30 PM:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie on Bravo

5:30 PM:
Hairspray movie on VH1

6 PM:
Jingle All the Way to Love movie on Lifetime (Encore)
Holiday Touchdown movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
A Timeless Christmas movie on Hallmark Mystery (Reair)

6:20 PM:
When Harry Met Sally… movie on Encore

7 PM:
The Christmas Checklist on UPtv (NEW)
The Wizard of Oz (classic) movie on AMC
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 movie on FX
Raiders of the Lost Ark movie on Paramount Network
Shooter movie on Showtime
Doctor Strange movie on Syfy
Black Adam movie on TNT

8 PM:
Paws in the City movie on CW (DEBUT)
She’s Making a List movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
Deck the Hallways movie on Lifetime (DEBUT)
Mystery on Mistletoe Lane movie on Hallmark Mystery (Reair)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 movie on Bravo
Olympus Has Fallen movie on Comet
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina movie on Encore
GoldenEye movie on MGM+

9 PM:
The Christmas Showdown movie on OWN (DEBUT)
Hidden Figures movie on HBO 2

9:30 PM
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie on Paramount Network
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness movie on Syfy

10 PM:
Merry Missed Connection movie on Lifetime (DEBUT)
The Hallmark Christmas Experience: A Hometown Holiday Christmas Special on Hallmark Channel (Special)
Christmas in Toyland movie on Hallmark Mystery (Reair)
Guardians of the Galaxy movie on FX
Tomorrow Never Dies movie on MGM+
Hairspray movie on VH1

Enjoy!