Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, and Callum Turner in ‘Eternity’ (Credit: Leah Gallo / A24)
Have you ever thought about what happens after you die? We’re not necessarily talking Heaven and Hell or Valhalla here, just…what happens? Do you stay on the Earth in a different spiritual plane, or are you just bones in the ground and worm food? Or…does your soul move on to another place and start anew? That last theory is at the center of the new movie, Eternity, from Dating Amber director David Freyne.
Eternity is about an elderly man named Larry (The Gorge’s Miles Teller) who passes away while choking on a pretzel and finds himself with a choice to be made. With the help of his “Afterlife Coordinator,” Anna (Da’Vine Joy Randolph from The Holdovers), he must decide which of the “eternities” laid out before him he wants to spend his eternity in. He wants to wait for his wife of 65 years, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen from the Marvel Universe), to join him so they can make the decision together. And with Joan suffering from cancer, she should be along shortly.
And she does arrive shortly…but her first husband, a handsome soldier named Luke (Callum Turner from Green Room), is also waiting for her and has been for 67 years. Joan must choose which of her two loves she wants to spend her eternity with, and each of them tries to convince her that they are the correct choice.
The screenplay for Eternity was written by Patrick Cunnane (Designated Survivor) along with Freyne, and it’s about as unique as a romantic comedy can get. It has all the usual trappings of the genre – it’s full of heart and humor, with just enough intrigue to keep things moving forward. But the love triangle combined with Joan’s seemingly impossible choice makes it fresh and interesting. It’s a rom-com with a twist.
The romance part of the equation stems from Joan having to choose between her first love, the handsome and dashing Luke, and the man she spent most of her life with, her supposed soulmate Larry. And with eternity itself on the line, the stakes could not get any higher for Joan. Despite all of his faults, the audience is clearly rooting for the cantankerous Larry, but there’s no denying that, even after 67 years being apart, there are still feelings between Joan and Luke. And Callum Turner’s Luke is hard to dislike.
The comedy part of the movie is delivered mostly by Miles Teller and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. The incarnations of the characters in the afterlife are images of them when they were happiest in life, so Teller’s Larry is basically a cranky old man in the body of a handsome young man. And that combination is hysterical. Randolph is the clown to Teller’s straight man, providing him his afterlife guidance with plenty of wit and sarcasm. Much of this can be attributed to the film’s whip-smart writing, but it’s difficult to imagine another actress doing what Randolph does with the role. She’s hilarious.
For a movie that’s ultimately about a forever choice, Joan does change her mind a few times, and this back-and-forth indecision – and the guys’ reactions to it – leads to some fun twists and turns in the movie. Both Larry and Luke have made their afterlife choices, so not only is Joan choosing between her two loves, she’s choosing between their eternity choices as well. The ending may be predictable, but the path the movie takes getting there is anything but. And that’s what makes the movie so enjoyable.
Eternity is not your mother’s romantic comedy. Considering that the characters are mostly elderly people in the bodies of young’uns, it’s surprisingly hip and cool. And its premise keeps the movie and its audience on its toes. Even those who usually are not fans of rom-coms will like it. Those who usually are fans of rom-coms will love it.
GRADE: A
Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and some strong language
Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
Release Date: November 26, 2025
Studio: A24
CBS’s Tracker season three, episode six, takes the action to Fort Wayne, Indiana. A two-person crime scene cleaning crew from Biozone takes care of a house where an elderly man fell down the stairs and died. His wife died in the back bedroom. Both deaths were ruled accidental. The cleaner in charge of the back bedroom at the Hardens’ home snaps photos of the death area stains.
(The following is a recap of season three episode six and there are spoilers.)
Randy (Chris Lee) fills Colter (Justin Hartley) in on a new case involving Biozone. Margot Webster, one of the cleaners, is missing and her boss/cleaning partner, Ruth (Rebecca Field), is worried. She’s been missing 24 hours and Ruth’s offering a $10,000 reward. Ruth says Margot didn’t show up to clean up after a triple homicide. Margot didn’t respond to calls, her phone’s at home, and her car is missing.
Ruth recalls that Margot was getting lots of messages as they were leaving the Hardens’ house. She thinks it was a new guy Margot was seeing. Apparently, Margot met the guy in a chat room for the Toybox Killer, but her boss doesn’t know the guy’s name. Margot was fascinated by the grisly crime scenes but didn’t discuss what she did after hours.
Randy hasn’t gotten anything helpful off of Margot’s phone. No one called or texted Margot except for Ruth over the last 72 hours. Fortunately, Randy did get a hit on her car and sends Colter its location.
Reenie’s in Houston so it’s only Mel (Cassady McClincy Zhang) and Randy at the office. Randy fills her in on Colter’s current case, noting that Margot was a true crime buff. Mel has a few ideas on sites Margot might have been posting on, and Randy’s impressed.
Colter arrives at Margot’s car before it can be towed. It’s unlocked and Colter sees a spot of blood. He also finds another phone. Colter calls Randy, certain this is where Margot was taken from. The phone Randy’s been checking is her work-issued phone. The one Colter found is her personal phone. Randy accesses it and there are lots of texts. One of Margot’s shows she was meeting someone at the usual spot and thought she had something big. The text included a series of photos that were too large to send.
Colter notices a restaurant nearby and thinks that might be where they were meeting. Randy discovers the number she was texting was a burner phone that’s pinging 20 miles from Colter’s location. Cops are there and have the area blocked off when Colter arrives. An officer refuses to tell him if the body behind a dumpster is Margot’s. The body is wheeled away close to Colter, and he gets a look at her face.
Randy had sent a pin to the burner phone’s location, and Colter realizes it’s nearby. He looks at the small crowd that’s gathered and calls the number. It rings inside a car, but the owner drives away quickly. Colter snaps a photo of the plate as it takes off, and Randy gets an address.
Colter actually beats the car to the location and watches as the driver goes inside a building. Colter follows him, gun drawn, and sees murder boards with crime scene photos. He hears screaming from another room and barges in. The screaming is from 9-1-1 recordings, and the driver turns them off while claiming he had nothing to do with Margot’s disappearance. Colter snatches his ID and the man confirms his name’s Gunther (Connor Paolo). Apparently, he heard the call on the police scanner and went to the scene to see if it was Margot.
Gunther’s a freelancer who takes photos of crime scenes and that’s why he had a camera out the window when Colter called his phone. He took off because he thought Colter was a cop. Another guy tries to sneak up on Colter, but Colter’s far too skilled to let some random dude get the jump on him. The guy introduces himself as Eddie (Jay Lee) and Colter finally puts his gun down.
Eddie collects and sells crime scene memorabilia. They met Margot online and investigate cases that interest them. Colter learns that when she didn’t meet up with them two nights ago, they staked out her apartment and work. They think something bad must have happened but don’t recognize the photos Margo was trying to send them. However, Margot did tell them that the circumstances around the deaths at the Harden house were strange.
Colter tries to leave to head to the Harden house, but Gunther and Eddie insist on tagging along. They know Margot and can help him figure out what she was up to at the Hardens. Plus, Eddie is a whiz at crime scene timelines and is an entomologist.
Once they arrive at the Hardens’ place, Gunther explains that Nancy Harden was wheelchair bound. Her caretaker/husband, Mort, used a walker to get around. He fell down the stairs, cracked his head open, and Nancy died three days later from starvation. Neighbors discovered their bodies a week later. Eddie believes Nancy died eight and a half days before her discovery, based on blowflies.
Eddie and Gunther were going to investigate the deaths with Margot after she flagged them as suspicious. They look at marks on the stairs and Colter determines that some are from a person being dragged upstairs. Colter wonders if they drew a killer’s attention by posting about the Hardens online.
He looks around a little more and discovers a small hidden room. It’s obvious someone was hanging out in it; there are food containers on the floor. Eddie figures out that based on the larvae, the food was eaten around the time of Nancy’s death. That means someone was in the house at the time of the elderly couple’s deaths. Colter believes the killer took Mort upstairs and pushed him down. Then he sat in the secret room and watched Nancy starve to death.
This doesn’t explain why the killer went after Margot. Colter spots a drawing that looks like angel wings on the secret room’s door. Gunther thinks he’s seen it before and will look through the crime scene database they’re compiling.
And a short while later Gunther is proven correct. He finds the angel wing drawing in a photo from Linda and Debra Appelbaums’ murder scene. They died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The daughter was disabled, like Mrs. Harden, and the mom was her caretaker, like Mr. Harden. Margot must have realized the cases were connected.
Gunther does a little research on a rival forum and finds the case of Harry and Marie Rafferty. The angel wings were there too, and one of the Raffertys was disabled. Colter realizes the killer is targeting patients and their caregivers, and it’s likely the killer knew them.
Colter asks Randy to cross-reference the Hardens, Raffertys, and Appelbaums and see if they had anything in common—like a rehab center. Randy quickly discovers all three families were clients of the Vorhees Physical Therapy Center.
Eddie and Gunther keep digging for more potential victims while Colter heads to Vorhees. The employee isn’t helpful; everything is confidential. Before he leaves, Colter sees a flyer with photos of siblings Lisa and Hank Brooks who recently died in a fire. One of them was paralyzed. The flyer has the angel wings symbol at the bottom, and the employee says an aide named Francis made it.
Colter uses the employee’s computer when he steps away and gets info on Francis Gable.
A brief scene shows Francis serving a meal to his mom and a tied up and gagged Margot (Cassandra Naud).
Colter heads to Francis’ address and breaks into the house, gun drawn (of course). He looks around the place and heads down to the basement. Francis apparently took a cue from Norman Bates (and/or Ed Gein) and has his dead mom’s body seated at a table. There’s a man’s body in a nearby bed, and the angel wings design is painted on the wall.
Francis drives Margot, still tied up but no longer gagged, to a remote location. He admits he’s been watching her and knows all about her. Francis kidnapped her because of her posts about the Appelbaums. She was too smart and getting too close to figuring out his identity. Francis thinks she’s looking for attention and that’s why she posted about the Hardens.
Margot keeps him talking as he leans her against the outside of the car. She sees a farmer on a tractor not far away, and Francis warns that if she screams, he’ll burn the farm alive.
Colter calls the cops and tells Randy that the bodies have been there for decades. Colter tethers Randy into Randy’s laptop and Randy can tell Francis has been looking at Margot’s online activity. Mel interrupts with a list of dual caregiver and patient deaths in the region that were ruled as accidental. It’s a fairly lengthy list from the last 25 years.
Colter thinks Margot’s still alive because there’s evidence he was feeding her.
Margot believes Francis views himself as an angel of mercy. Francis confesses he watched his mom take care of his disabled brother and decided they were alive but weren’t really living. His mother spent all her time taking care of his brother and never noticed him.
Francis puts Margot back in the car and drives off while Randy’s telling Colter about Francis’ mom and brother. They vanished 25 years ago, and Colter realizes that those must be the bodies he found. Colter also figures out Francis is keeping Margot alive to get her to lead him to Eddie and Gunther.
Randy wants him to take backup to Gunther’s place, but Colter won’t. He’s sure Francis will kill Margot if he sees the cops.
Francis pulls up near Gunther and Eddie’s and orders Margot to take him inside to meet her friends. Margot insists they don’t know anything, but Francis teases that when he’s done, she can clean up the scene. Margot suddenly headbutts him, but he stops her from escaping.
Colter calls Eddie and Gunther as he races back to their place. Unfortunately, they don’t hear the phone and don’t know Francis is inside their building. (Doesn’t anyone lock their doors anymore?!)
Colter pulls up outside and hears Margot screaming from the backseat of Francis’ car. Colter has her call 9-1-1 as he runs to save Eddie and Gunter. Francis is suffocating Gunter when Colter confronts him. Francis launches himself at Colter and tries to choke him, but Colter picks up scissors and stabs him in the chest.
Colter checks on Gunther and Eddie and they’re both okay. The cops and EMTs arrive, along with Margot’s boss who hands over the $10,000 reward. Margot’s thankful that Ruth cared enough to hire Colter. Eddie and Gunther rush over for a group hug, happy to have their true crime partner back. Colter praises Margot’s work on finding a serial killer, and the threesome want to make Colter part of their team. Colter thinks they can manage it on their own, but it’s obvious he likes all three. He even says he may take them up on their offer to be consultants if he ever needs help.
Episode six ends with Randy informing Colter he found something in the records on David Pearson that Russell sent over. Something important enough that Colter should check it out.
Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky and Taylor Handley as Kyle McLusky in ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ episode 5, season 4 (Credit: Dennis P. Mong Jr./Paramount+)
Paramount+’s Mayor of Kingstown season four, episode five, begins with Bunny (Tobi Bamtefa) supervising as guns are loaded onto a train, hidden behind trash. The outside of the container is marked, while unknown to Bunny, Cortez watches all this going down through binoculars.
(The following is a recap of season four, episode five, “Damned,” and there are spoilers.)
Bunny confirms drugs will come in via the same delivery system later that night. He confesses to being impressed with Frank’s system.
Mike (Jeremy Renner) visits Kyle (Taylor Handley), and Kyle’s looking better. Mike breaks the news that it’s Merle Callahan in the cell next to him and Kyle’s enraged. He had no idea that he’d been talking to Merle. Kyle lies and says advice is the only thing Merle has offered and promises not to let Merle know he’s onto him. Merle will do anything to get to Mike, and the brothers are sure he’ll hurt Tracy if that’s what it takes. She needs to be moved out of Kingstown immediately.
Mike promises he’s taking care of it as Kyle panics. There’s pressure on his chest and it takes him a minute to get his breathing under control. Mike assures him he’ll get through it; he just needs to keep it together.
Mike gets into a shoving match with Torres (Clayton Cardenas) after showing up at the warden’s office without an appointment. Warden Hobbs (Edie Falco) stops the confrontation, and Mike is livid that Merle is next to Kyle. Hobbs claims it’s a mix-up and says she just found out yesterday. She insists paperwork’s been filed to move Merle.
Hobbs seems a little surprised that Mike has figured out the rise of the Colombian cartel inside the prison and on the streets is tied to her employment as warden. She fights back by suggesting he’s just frustrated because he no longer has power within the prison walls.
Mike continues to insist she’s bought and paid for by the Colombians, and Hobbs continues to deny it. Hobbs wonders what Merle did that has Mike so upset, and Mike suggests she move him to gen pop. “As far as what he’s done, he’s taught me how to kill,” says Mike.
Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky and Edie Falco as Nina Hobbs in ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ episode 5, season 4 (Credit: Dennis P. Mong Jr./Paramount+)
Over at the station, Captain Walter (Rob Kirkland) informs Ian (Hugh Dillon) that the grand jury is convening in two days. He will be indicted. Evelyn Foley only takes cases she can win to the grand jury. Plus, the public doesn’t like cops right now. Walter warns him Evelyn will make him appear to be worse than the criminals he takes off the streets.
Mike calls Ian to alert him that Kyle and Merle are neighbors and that Hobbs needs her cage rattled. Ian promises to take care of it but hopes Kyle won’t be on the losing end. Mike’s next conversation about Merle is with Tracy (Nishi Munshi), and they both assume the Aryan Brotherhood is responsible for her car alarm and the kitchen window being partially opened. Mike and Kyle want her to flee the state, but Tracy doesn’t want to leave. Mike insists it’s important that she survives and this is the only way to keep her safe. Tracy reminds him that everyone he tries to keep safe ends up hurt, including his mom and Mitch.
Tracy doesn’t want to leave but packs up anyway, knowing it’s for the best. KPD will escort her to the state line. She plans on staying at her sister’s home in Ohio.
Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky and Nishi Munshi as Tracy in ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ episode 5, season 4 (Credit: Dennis P. Mong Jr./Paramount+)
Ian and Stevie (Derek Webster) watch Hobbs drive away from the prison and have units pull her over. The cops inform her that they received a tip she has contraband in her vehicle. Hobbs asks to see the warrant and Ian has Stevie back him up when he lies and says she granted them access.
Ian finds a gun case and takes her weapon, without telling her he’s removed it. They wrap up the stop, and Ian claims it was bad intel that made them pull her over. She asks about Carney’s murder investigation and Ian says it’s open and could lead in any direction.
Hobbs immediately checks the gun case and bangs the steering wheel in frustration when she confirms her gun is gone.
Ian meets Mike at the diner and shows him Hobbs’ weapon. Ian is now convinced she’s connected to the cartel because the fully automatic gun doesn’t have a serial number and has an epoxy grip. Plus, she has a secret compartment where it’s kept in the passenger seat. It’s an impressive amount of firepower and she must know how to use it. Ian claims he can book her on the gun and scandalize DOC to get rid of her.
Mike thinks they need to be patient. She’s connected to powerful people, and she knows Ian has her gun. Mike thinks she’ll eventually ask him about it. They can arrest her now or hold off to get bigger fish. Ian disagrees and wants to bring her in. The streets are quiet now and it would be good to keep it that way. Mike reminds him it’s always calm before the storm.
After meeting with Mike, Ian tells Robert (Hamish Allan-Headley) that he’s about to get indicted for Morrissey’s murder and that Evelyn has a witness. Ian only knows the witness is a food delivery guy, and Robert’s all in on finding him and convincing him not to testify.
Mike visits Evelyn (Necar Zadegan) at home to find out what it’ll take to get Kyle out of prison. Evelyn confirms she wants Robert but doesn’t need Mike to get him. If she indicts Ian, he’ll rat on Robert rather than serve time. Mike isn’t sure about that. According to Evelyn, only someone bigger than Robert would make her let Kyle out of jail. Evelyn believes Kyle will get through this.
Merle (Richard Brake) is savvy enough to understand that Kyle’s treating him differently because Mike now knows he’s his neighbor. He recalls the first time he saw Mike going berserk on three inmates. Mike could tune out everything while fighting, and Merle claims he saved Mike that day. He also insists he kept Mike alive inside and is keeping him alive outside. Merle calls himself Mike’s keeper. He also realizes there must be something Kyle’s hiding that would make him agree to prison time after shooting a fellow cop.
“Who are you here for, brother?” asks Merle. Kyle doesn’t respond.
Robert and Ian follow the food delivery guy and Robert chambers a bullet before stepping out of his car. Robert approaches Reggie the delivery man, lying that there have been package thefts and they need to speak with him. Reggie knows it’s about the grand jury and refuses to speak with Robert. Ian joins them and of course Reggie recognizes him. He threatens to record them and accuses them of tampering with a witness. When he pulls out his phone to go live, Robert shoots him. Reggie pleads with them to let him live, swearing he won’t say anything. Robert indicates it’s Ian’s turn to shoot, and Ian does, finishing him off.
Ian and Robert dump Reggie’s body in the river after removing their slugs from his body. They toss him into the water and watch as Reggie’s body sinks.
Cortez (Derek Rivera) organizes the cartel soldiers, and they stop the train in a secluded spot. Gunshots ring out as they find the marked container.
It’s late at night when Mike makes it to his office and discovers the warden’s there to see him. She agrees to move Merle and says he wins. Mike reminds her he can help her, but Hobbs doesn’t reply to his offer.
Mike has another unexpected visitor after Hobbs leaves, and he grabs his gun before responding to a knock. It turns out it’s Cindy (Laura Benanti), stopping by after her kids said he came over to see her when she wasn’t there. Mike confirms he stopped by to warn her that Hobbs has been compromised and can’t be trusted.
Meanwhile, guards show up at Kyle’s cell and handcuff him. He’s told he’s being taken for R&R and Merle yells out, “Kill whatever comes close to you.”
Kyle’s moved into a bed in gen pop. The other prisoners in the large room watch as he heads to his cot, no longer safe in a single, isolated cell.
Bunny interrupts Mike’s quiet time with Cindy, telling him to get to a bird’s eye. Mike and Cindy step out on the roof and watch a train fully engulfed in flames rolling down the tracks through town. Bunny confirms his product was on that train. He’s ready to go to war with the Colombians.
A scene from ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ (Photo Courtesy of Bleecker Street)
HBO Max’s December 2025 lineup includes a new season of NFL Films’ Hard Knocks, a comedy special with Sarah Sherman, and a documentary on the short life of Jeff Buckley. The December calendar of premieres also includes the sequel to The Brothers McMullen, a documentary on Counting Crows, and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.
HBO MAX PREMIERES – DECEMBER 2025
December 1
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After: Pillow Talk, Season 9 (TLC)
Adult Swim Yule Log (Adult Swim)
Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out (Adult Swim)
Atomic Blonde
Battle of the Sexes
Bright Leaf
Christmas with the Kranks
Dames
DeLorean
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Girls Trip
Gunsmoke in Tucson
Hidden Figures
I’ll See You in My Dreams (1952)
Illegal
Jim Thorpe: All-American
Jimmy the Gent
Key Largo
Kid Galahad
Larceny Inc.
Law of the Badlands
Little Caesar
Liz and the Blue Bird
Lu Over the Wall
Mad Men, Seasons 1-7
Mandalay
Millennium Actress
Mind Game
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Mission to Moscow
My Dream is Yours
Ne Zha
Night and Day
Perfect Blue
Pierrot le fou
Racket Busters
Riffraff
Romance on the High Seas
Santa Fe Trail
Shin Godzilla (GKIDS)
Shining Victory
Shoeshine
Sing and Like It
Song of My City
Summer Wars
Table 19
Taking Woodstock
The Color Purple (1985)
The Colors Within
The Damned Don’t Cry
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
The Goonies
The Matrimonial Bed
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Sea Wolf (1941)
The Seventh Victim
The Shop Around the Corner
They Won’t Believe Me
Tiny Furniture
Trouble Along the Way
Walk Softly, Stranger
Walk the Dark Street
Wedding Crashers
Wilson
Wolf Children
X-Men First Class
Paul Anka: His Way (HBO Original) – From teen idol to chart-topping songwriter, Paul Anka has spent seven decades as one of the most prolific musicians in the world and he’s still going. Part road movie and part living biography, Paul Anka: His Way traces the iconic Canadian’s journey through stardom and constant reinvention in an ever-changing industry.
December 2
Capital One MLB Open
Chopped: Volume 4, Season 63 (Food Network)
New Orleans: Soul of a City (CNN Original Series)
“The Hidden Homeless,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Original)
Hard Knocks: In Season with the NFC East (HBO Original) – Hard Knocks: In Season with the NFC East will follow the reigning Super Bowl LIX champion Philadelphia Eagles, the Dallas Cowboys, the New York Giants, and the Washington Commanders during the final stretch of the NFL season. From wins and losses to injuries and adversity, the series will capture an inside look at life in one of football’s most historic divisions.
December 3
Fixer to Fabulous, Season 7 (HGTV)
Jeff Buckley (Courtesy of Dana Tynan 1996)
December 4
About Face, Season 1 (TLC)
Cheap A$$ Beach Houses, Season 1 (HGTV)
Dunkman, Season 1
Dylan’s Playtime Adventures, Season 1D (Max Original)
Architecton (A24) – An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete, and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley (HBO Original) – Through rare archival footage and deeply personal accounts, this documentary explores the extraordinary life, singular talent, and untimely death of Jeff Buckley — the enigmatic artist whose haunting voice and only album, “Grace,” left an indelible mark on music history.
December 5
Batwheels, Season 3A (Cartoon Network)
House Hunters International: Volume 9, Season 205 (HGTV)
House Hunters: Volume 10, Season 247 (HGTV)
The Family McMullen (2025) – 30 years after Edward Burns’ The Brothers McMullen wowed critics and audiences—winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival—with its exploration of the lives and struggles of three Irish American brothers from Long Island, New York, the family returns in the long-awaited follow-up, The Family McMullen. The new film tracks the romantic entanglements of a now 50-something Barry McMullen (Burns) and his 20-something kids, as well as his brother Patrick (Michael McGlone) and widowed sister-in-law Molly (Connie Britton), each facing unexpected romantic hurdles of their own.
December 7
The Christmas Showdown (OWN)
December 8
90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days, Season 8 (TLC)
December 9
Bugs Bunny Builders, Season 2I (Cartoon Network)
Fixer Upper: Colorado Mountain House (Magnolia Network)
December 11
Wizkid: Long Live Lagos (HBO Original) – An intimate and heart-thumping documentary following Wizkid’s rise to global stardom, and how he has reshaped the way Africa is seen — and heard — around the world. Blending revealing moments, explosive performances, and cultural commentary, the film captures how Wizkid is using his platform to change perceptions, reclaim post-colonialidentity, and inspire a new generation.
December 12
Stolen Children (HBO Original)
This Is Spinal Tap
Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh (HBO Original) – Sarah Sherman’s unholy alter ego, Sarah Squirm, slithers onto your screen in her first stand-up comedy special. After four seasons (and counting) on Saturday Night Live, the comedian rips off the straitjacket, unleashing a festering and hilarious hour of bodily fluids, open-wound confessionals, and jokes that will leave scars on your soul.
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues – The band reunite after a 15-year break for one final concert.
December 13
Vantara: Sanctuary Stories, Season 1 (Animal Planet)
December 14
Toad and Friends, Season 1D
Very Merry Mystery (OWN)
December 15
Assassination in the Valley of the Kings (Discovery)
The Bold Type, Seasons 1-5
Tony Shalhoub Breaking Bread (CNN Original Series)
Truck U, Season 21
White House Christmas (HGTV)
December 16
The Secrets We Bury (ID)
“MisinfoNation: White Genocide,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Original)
December 17
Obsession: The Murder of a Beauty Queen (HBO Original)
December 18
Saving Yellowstone with Dennis Quaid, Season 1 (Animal Planet)
Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? (HBO Original) – A revealing portrait of Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz, and the emotional and creative toll a band’s meteoric rise can have on a musical artist. The documentary traces how he navigated early fame while crafting a raw, defiant follow-up to the band’s iconic debut album.
December 19
House Hunters: Volume 10, Season 248 (HGTV)
Teen Titans Go!, Season 9F (Cartoon Network)
December 20
Adult Swim’s The Elephant (Adult Swim)
December 21
Secrets in the Sand, Season 2 (Science)
December 22
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (2025)
The Last Captains, Season 1 (Discovery)
December 23
“The Exorcists,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Original)
December 24
Guy’s Grocery Games, Season 40 (Food Network)
Ne Zha II (A24) – A rebellious young boy, Ne Zha, is feared by the gods and born to mortal parents with wild, uncontrolled powers. Now he’s faced with an ancient force intent on destroying humanity, he must grow up to become the hero the world needs.
December 25
Happy And You Know It (HBO Original) – A joyful and surprising journey into the fascinating world of toddler pop, the film explores why kids’ music is so catchy, can be deeply meaningful, and how AI is taking hold and shaping the industry. The film features appearances by The Wiggles, Laurie Berkner, and other musicians.
December 26
Heaven (HBO Original)
December 27
Junk or Jackpot?, Season 1 (HGTV)
December 28
Home Reimagined, Season 1B (Magnolia Network)
My Pet Ate What!?, Season 1 (Animal Planet)
December 29
Celebrity IOU, Season 11 (HGTV)
Two Guys Garage, Season 24
December 31
Building Outside the Lines, Season 3 (Magnolia Network)
CBS’s Ghosts season five, episode seven teaser confirms Isaac is really out of place among the basement ghosts. Episode seven – “The Proposal” – will air on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 8:30pm ET/PT.
“The Proposal” Plot: Sam helps Eric (Andrew Leeds) plan the perfect proposal for Bela, until an encounter with Sasappis plants doubt in Bela’s mind. Meanwhile, Isaac tries to prove he’s “just one of the basement ghosts.”
Season five stars Rose McIver as Sam, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay, Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac, and Richie Moriarty as Pete. Danielle Pinnock is Alberta, Asher Grodman is Trevor, Román Zaragoza stars as Sasappis, Rebecca Wisocky plays Hetty, Devan Chandler Long is Thorfinn, and Sheila Carrasco plays Flower.
Ghosts is a single-camera comedy about Samantha and Jay, a cheerful freelance journalist and chef from the city, respectively, who threw both caution and money to the wind when they decided to convert Woodstone Mansion, which Sam inherited, into a bed & breakfast—only to find it was inhabited by the many spirits of deceased residents who now call it home.
The departed souls are a close-knit, eclectic group that includes a saucy Prohibition-era lounge singer (Pinnock); a pompous 18th-century militiaman (Scott Jones); a ‘60s hippie fond of hallucinogens (Carrasco); an overly upbeat ‘80s scout troop leader (Moriarty); a cod-obsessed Viking explorer from 1009 (Chandler Long); a slick ‘90s finance bro (Grodman); a sarcastic and witty native from the 16th century (Zaragoza); and a society woman and wife of a 19th-century robber baron who is Sam’s ancestor (Wisocky), to name a few.
The opening of the B&B and Jay’s new restaurant are a source of intrigue, anxiety, and curiosity among the spirits, but they will gladly put up with the commotion as long as they can continue to interact with a living inhabitant.
CBS’s FBI is taking a two-week break, returning after the Thanksgiving holiday with an episode that finds agents trapped in a prison riot. Season eight, episode seven – “Fadeaway” – will air on Monday, December 1, 2025 at 9pm ET/PT.
“Fadeaway” Plot: When a large-scale explosion rocks a Brooklyn apartment complex, the team quickly locates the perpetrator and discovers he’s acting on the orders of a convicted felon currently serving time. Meanwhile, Isobel must name her successor before she moves into her new role. Woody Strassner wrote the episode and Yangzom Brauen is the director.
Missy Peregrym stars as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki plays Special Agent Omar Adom “OA” Zidan, Jeremy Sisto returns as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, Alana De La Garza is Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, John Boyd stars as Special Agent Stuart Scola, and Juliana Aidén Martinez plays Eva Ramos.
FBI is a fast-paced drama about the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This elite unit brings to bear all their talents, intellect, and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep New York and the country safe. Born into a multigenerational law enforcement family, Special Agent Maggie Bell commits deeply to the people she works with as well as those she protects.
Her partner is Special Agent Omar Adom “OA” Zidan, a West Point graduate via Bushwick who spent two years undercover for the DEA before being cherry-picked by the FBI. Overseeing them is Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, who operates under intense pressure and has undeniable command authority.
The team also includes Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, the nerve center of the office whose ability to easily relate to and engage with both superiors and subordinates makes him a master motivator, as well as Special Agent Stuart Scola, an Ivy League-educated Wall Streeter-turned-FBI agent. These first-class agents tenaciously investigate cases of tremendous magnitude, including terrorism, organized crime, and counterintelligence.
Fox is promising an explosive fall finale for Doc, including a flashback that provides new info on Jake. Season two episode nine, “Kaddish,” will air on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 9pm ET/PT.
“Kaddish” Plot: At Jake’s father’s funeral, grief helps clarify his feelings for Amy. In a gripping flashback story that takes us back to March 2020, Jake’s past intentions to leave Westside are revealed, along with the reason he decided to stay. To Hannah’s surprise and dismay, Charlie goes too far with their plan to destroy Amy, causing explosive repercussions.
Molly Parker stars as Dr. Amy Larsen, Omar Metwally plays Dr. Michael Hamda, Felicity Huffman is Dr. Joan Ridley, Amirah Vann is Dr. Gina Walker, and Charlotte Fountain-Jardim plays Katie Hamda. Jon Ecker is Dr. Jake Heller and Anya Banerjee plays Dr. Sonya Maitra.
“Inspired by a true story and based on the hit eponymous Italian drama series, Doc begins its second season of the life-affirming medical drama following the heartbreak and victories of hard-charging, brilliant physician DR. AMY LARSEN (Parker) as she rebuilds her life after a car crash erased eight years of her memory. This season, Amy will continue to confront hard truths about her missing years, work to repair fractured relationships and seek to reconcile the person she used to be with the one everyone else has come to know.
Determined to get her memory back and piece together who she really is, Amy’s goal is to become the doctor she used to be in those missing years and to eventually, once again, be Chief of Internal Medicine. In the interim, her ex-husband/Westside Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer, DR. MICHAEL HAMDA (Metwally) fills the position with Amy’s former mentor and friend DR. JOAN RIDLEY (Huffman), whose motives and priorities remain hidden, just as long as Amy still can’t recall Joan’s life-changing secret. Amy’s best friend and colleague, DR. GINA WALKER (Vann), is weary of Joan’s motives and continues to be a beacon of support for those around her, while finally learning to put on her own oxygen mask first.
While relearning eight years of medical advancements is complicated, it pales in comparison to learning to navigate her new/old/current romantic entanglements. Amy continues to fight her feelings and let Michael go, especially now with the birth of his son with his new wife, bringing up emotions for both Amy and their daughter KATIE HAMDA (Fountain-Jardim). Amy’s on-again, off-again relationship with Chief Resident DR. JAKE HELLER (Ecker) is a bit more delicate as he struggles to protect his heart from her this time around. However, DR. SONYA MAITRA (Banerjee) would only be too glad to pick up the pieces, navigating the balance between her feelings for Jake and her complicated resentment towards Amy.
The second season of Doc begins as Amy’s past comes back to haunt her when a desperate father sacrifices everything to secure his daughter’s heart transplant. Chaos and confusion reverberate through the hallways of Westside Medical when a subsequent high-stakes emergency leaves a doctor’s life in the balance.”
CBS’s Watson season two, episode seven introduces Clarke Peters (The Man Who Fell to Earth) as Watson’s father, Hamish. Directed by Amanda Row, episode seven – “Giant Steps” – will air on Monday, November 24, 2025 at 10pm ET/PT.
“Giant Steps” Plot: Watson’s father, Hamish (Peters), visits UHOP to introduce Watson and the fellows to his protégé, Annabelle, a saxophone prodigy with musically induced blackouts. As Annabelle’s condition worsens, Watson must confront his long-standing tensions with his father in order to save her.
Morris Chestnut leads the cast as Dr. John Watson, Eve Harlow stars as Dr. Ingrid Derian, and Peter Mark Kendall returns as Dr. Stephens Croft and Dr. Adam Croft. Ritchie Coster plays Shinwell Johnson, Inga Schlingmann is Dr. Sasha Lubbock, and Rochelle Aytes is Dr. Mary Morstan.
Watson is a medical show with a strong investigative spine, starring Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson, in a modern version of one of history’s greatest detectives as he turns his attention from solving crimes to solving medical mysteries. While Watson’s team of “doc-tectives” may have defeated Moriarty last season, they remain determined in season two in their mission to investigate and treat the world’s most rare diseases for their clinic’s patients.
With his eyes fixed on the future, Watson faces an unexpected twist when Sherlock Holmes, who was presumed dead, resurfaces, forcing him to confront a buried secret from his past—one that lies hidden within his own body.
A decades-old mystery is examined in the documentary The Secrets We Bury. ID’s set a December 16, 2025 premiere for the documentary, which debuted at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
ID offers this description: “In the early 1960s, George Carroll walked out on his family, leaving his wife, Dorothy, and their four children behind. Decades later, the Carroll siblings are still left haunted by what happened to their father. Seeking much-needed closure for himself and his family, The Secrets We Bury follows Mike Carroll as he unravels the mystery of his father’s disappearance and uncovers a story much darker and more complex than his family could have imagined.
Told through extensive sit-down interviews with the Carroll siblings and layered with intimate archival footage of the Carroll family spanning decades of their lives, the documentary offers a sensitive look into one family’s journey to find closure. Part mystery and part family drama, The Secrets We Bury raises important questions about whose stories we choose to believe and why.”
The true crime documentary was directed by Emmy winner Patricia E. Gillespie (The Fire That Took Her).
Poster for ‘The Secrets We Bury’ (Photo Credit: ID)
Ella Langley performs on ‘THE 59TH ANNUAL CMA AWARDS’ (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
Riley Green, Ella Langley, and Lainey Wilson earned three awards each at the 59th Annual CMA Awards held on November 19, 2025 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Wilson, who served as the evening’s host, was named CMA Entertainer of the Year and won in the Album of the Year and Female Vocalist categories. Brooks & Dunn entered the CMA Awards record book with 20 wins.
The 2025 awards show’s standout performances included Wilson’s opening number and Kenny Chesney’s medley, as well as Kelsea Ballerini, Megan Moroney, and Luke Combs.
2025 CMA Awards Winners:
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
• Lainey Wilson
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
• “you look like you love me” – Ella Langley & Riley Green
Producer: Will Bundy
Mix Engineer: Jim Cooley
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
• Whirlwind – Lainey Wilson
Producer: Jay Joyce
Mix Engineers: Jason Hall, Jay Joyce
SONG OF THE YEAR
• “you look like you love you”
Songwriters: Riley Green, Ella Langley, Aaron Raitiere
FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
• Lainey Wilson
MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
• Cody Johnson
VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
• The Red Clay Strays
VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR
• Brooks & Dunn
MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
• “Pour Me A Drink” – Post Malone (feat. Blake Shelton)
Producers: Louis Bell, Charlie Handsome
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
• Paul Franklin – Steel Guitar
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
• “you look like you love me” – Ella Langley & Riley Green
Directors: Ella Langley, John Park, Wales Toney
