HBO goes again 10,000 years earlier than the Dune motion pictures for an origin story of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone) provides one other sequence to his empire with Landman, starring Billy Bob Thornton as a fixer within the Texas oil trade. Martin Scorsese is government producer of a sequence dramatizing the lives of saints. A 90-minute version of 60 Minutes options an replace on efforts to determine the stays of 9/11 victims.
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Dune: Prophecy
SUNDAY: The Dune franchise involves TV in a good-looking although oppressively solemn prequel, relationship again 10,000 years from Denis Villeneuve’s hit motion pictures to disclose the origin story of the sisterhood of mystics that turned often known as the Bene Gesserit. Emily Watson stars because the bold Valya Harkonnen, a Mom Superior intent on sustaining her tribe’s affect with the Imperium’s management. She faces a frightening problem after the arrival from planet Arrakis (seen solely briefly) of a charismatic soldier (Travis Fimmel) whose mysterious energy threatens the sisterhood’s dominance. (See the total evaluation.)
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Landman
SUNDAY: Taylor Sheridan provides to his library of rugged sagas from America’s heartland with Landman, starring Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, a tricky man with a dry wit who spends his eventful days placing out fires—typically actually—as a fixer and negotiator for the bosses who management the booming oil fields of Texas. That is very a lot a person’s world—Tommy’s nubile daughter and shrewish ex-wife are performed largely for laughs, and a cutthroat litigation lawyer is paralyzed when she spies a rattlesnake. Thornton rises above with a droll angle and thick pores and skin, observing on the scene of 1 explosive catastrophe, “You wouldn’t need to have my job any week.” Jon Hamm co-stars as his ruthless boss, with Demi Moore as his pampered spouse. Launches with two episodes, the primary being made accessible Sunday at 9/8c on Paramount Community following a brand new episode of Sheridan’s megahit Yellowstone (8/7c).
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Lioness
SUNDAY: Right here’s a fast rundown of what else is occurring in Taylor Sheridan’s TV universe. His uncompromising navy thriller delivers one other tense episode, wherein the Lioness workforce is rocked after their warehouse raid with the DEA uncovered not medicine however youngsters being trafficked from Mexico. Joe’s (Zoe Saldaña) bosses in D.C. forbid the workforce to intervene, susceptible to blowing their main mission of infiltrating a cartel, and hard decisions have to be made—on the similar time sending the newest Lioness, helicopter pilot Josie (Genesis Rodriguez), into the lion’s den of her cartel-associated household, with veteran Lioness Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira) watching her each transfer. Additionally streaming on Paramount+: the Season 2 finale of the crime dramedy Tulsa King, with Dwight (Sylvester Stallone) tying up unfastened ends whereas his empire grows. And Yellowstone (Sunday, 8/7c, Paramount Community) continues its march to the tip with Beth (Kelly Reilly) coming to grips with the household’s newest disaster, whereas Jamie (Wes Bentley) meets with these villains at Market Equities.
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints
SUNDAY: The famed filmmaker hosts, narrates and serves as an government producer of an bold anthology that dramatizes the lives of eight Catholic saints. (4 episodes drop weekly, adopted by 4 extra in April to coincide with the holy season.) The sequence opens with the story of Joan of Arc and continues with John the Baptist (Nov. 24), the martyred Saint Sebastian (Dec. 1) and Maximilian Kolbe (Dec. 8), a Polish priest who sacrificed himself to save lots of a prisoner at Auschwitz in the course of the Holocaust.
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60 Minutes
SUNDAY: One other 90-minute version of the venerable newsmagazine 60 Minutes options two double-length segments, together with Scott Pelley’s report on persevering with efforts to seek for and determine stays of victims misplaced when the World Commerce Heart was attacked and destroyed on 9/11. Lesley Stahl travels to the Buddhist land of Bhutan, going through a inhabitants scarcity, and Jon Wertheim explores the pop-culture phenomenon of Australian prominence within the film trade, in entrance of and behind the display screen.
Jingle Bell Run
The Yuletide Log: So many vacation motion pictures. On Hallmark Channel: Jingle Bell Run (Saturday, 8/7c) stars Ashley Williams and Andrew Walker as teammates who get very acquainted whereas touring the nation on the Wonderful Race-style actuality competitors The Nice Vacation Sprint. In Confessions of a Christmas Letter (Sunday, 8/7c), The Workplace’s Angela Kinsey is a matriarch who hires a novelist (Alec Santos) to assist her win a vacation letter-writing contest, with problems ensuing when rumors hyperlink him romantically along with her daughter.
Lifetime’s “It’s a Great Lifetime” film sequence will get began with Christmas at Plumhill Manor (Saturday, 8/7c), starring Maria Menounos as an architect who finds romance throughout the pond when she inherits an English countryside property. In Vacation in Pleased Hole (Sunday, 8/7c), a real-estate developer (Tamara Almeida) discovers that the Christmas tree farm she purchased contains small deeds belonging to native households.
On Nice American Household: A Christmas Much less Traveled (Saturday, 8/7c) stars channel favourite Candace Cameron Bure as Desi, who discovers an audiocassette in her late dad’s truck with instructions for a highway journey to romance. In A Christmas Quilt (Sunday, 8/7c), Ferelith Younger is a quilting instructor who bonds with a firefighter (Harmon Walsh) when she makes a quilt for his sister’s Christmas wedding ceremony.
On UPtv: Dognapped: Hound for the Holidays (Saturday, 7/6c) options Vivica A. Fox within the story of a social influencer whose pet is kidnapped, along with her assistant and a neighborhood vet rising shut whereas becoming a member of the search. In A Very English Christmas (Sunday, 7/6c), Kimberly Nixon scrambles to assist plan her sister’s impromptu Christmas Eve wedding ceremony in England.
INSIDE WEEKEND TV:
- 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c, CBS): Peter Van Sant reviews on the 2020 homicide of Texas mom Alyssa Burkett throughout a toddler custody dispute.
- Saturday Night time Stay (Saturday, 11:30/10:30c, 8:30 pm/PT, NBC): Bratty musician Charli XCX makes her third look as musical visitor, doing double obligation for the primary time as visitor host.
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta Stories: Is Ozempic Proper for You? (Sunday, 8/7c, CNN): The medical correspondent reviews on a yearlong investigation into the weight-loss drug.
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future (Sunday, 8/7c, ABC): The fifth and remaining movie within the journey franchise makes its broadcast debut.
- How It Actually Occurred with Jesse L. Martin (Sunday, 9/8c, HBO): The docuseries returns with two episodes (and a 3rd subsequent Sunday), together with an investigation into 1982’s murders by cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules and a report on the crimes of con-artist killer Sante Kimes and her son Kenny.
- The Marlow Homicide Membership (Sunday, 9/8, PBS): Newbie sleuth Judith (Samantha Bond) places her life at risk as she will get nearer to the killer’s identification throughout a storm within the thriller sequence’ Season 1 finale.
- The Franchise (Sunday, 10:10/9:10c, HBO): A location shoot in Armenia results in chaos in the course of the filming of a stunt involving the destruction of a neighborhood bridge.
- The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon (Sunday, roughly midnight/11c, NBC): Following the Bengals-Chargers recreation on Sunday Night time Soccer (8:15 pm/ET), a particular version of the late-night present options friends Jon Hamm, Lindsay Lohan and Pharrell.