Kennedy Middle Honors, ‘Dune’ Finale, Hallmark’s Mr. Christmas Makes His Debut, Marvel Wonders “What If?”

Kennedy Middle Honors

SUNDAY: Washington, D.C.’s fabled Kennedy Middle rocks greater than regular on this 12 months’s annual celebration of the humanities, with tributes to the Grateful Useless, blues rocker Bonnie Raitt, Harlem’s Apollo Theater, jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval—and fewer musically, Francis Ford Coppola, whose motion pictures rock. The honorees get an evening off from performing as well-known followers salute them from the Opera Home stage. Raitt’s tribute, led by Julia Louis Dreyfus, contains performances from Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Keb Mo, and Susan Tedeschi. Sandoval’s section options Andy Garcia, who performed the musician in an HBO biopic, trumpeter/composer Chris Botti, and an ensemble together with Trombone Shorty. Present host Queen Latifah joins the Apollo Theater jubilee, with Dave Chappelle, Savion Glover, Doug E. Contemporary, and The Battle and Treaty becoming a member of in. Robert De Niro leads the Francis Ford Coppola tribute, with members of the family Talia Shire (his sister), Jason Schwartzman (his nephew), Gia Coppola (his granddaughter) reminiscing with director Martin Scorsese, actors Al Pacino and Laurence Fishburne, and fellow director George Lucas. The climactic celebration of the Grateful Useless options David Letterman, actors Miles Teller and Chloe Sevigny, remembrances of the late band members Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, and performances from Don Was, Leon Bridges, Dave Matthews, Susan Tedeschi, and extra.

Dune: Prophecy

SUNDAY: Getting thus far has typically felt like a dense slog by means of a mythological thicket within the Dune prequel, however there are payoffs within the eventful 80-minute season finale, with game-changing twists inside the Sisterhood (which can sometime turn out to be the omnipotent Bene Gesserit) and the Imperium, led by the weak-willed Emperor Corrino (Mark Sturdy). Whereas conceited Mom Superior Valya (Emily Watson) prepares for a climactic showdown with soldier Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel), whose affect with the Emperor could also be on the wane as a palace coup brews, Valya’s troubled sister Tula (Olivia Williams) displays on her personal private reference to the navy hero-turned-zealot. Each Sisters have taken their eye off of their acolytes at an unlucky time, when a possessed Lila (Chloe Lea) exposes the sect’s darkest secrets and techniques.

Comfortable Howlidays

The Yuletide Log: Main this weekend’s cornucopia of Christmas motion pictures: Hallmark Channel’s Comfortable Howlidays (Saturday, 8/7c), that includes the debut of Ezra Moreland, the good-looking winner of the Hallmark+ Discovering Mr. Christmas actuality competitors. The mannequin and former Navy rescue driver joins Hallmark’s corridor of hunks as Max, a canine shelter proprietor who bonds with Seattle webpage editor Mia (Jessica Lowndes), who’s taken in a stray pooch at Christmastime.

On Lifetime, A Carpenter Christmas Romance (Saturday, 8/7c), pairs novelist Andrea (Sasha Pieterse), who’s bunkered in her household’s farmhouse to complete a e book in non-public, with ex-crush Sam (Mitchell Slaggert), a woodworker serving to rebuild the city of Wildwood after a hearth. In Engaged by Christmas (8/7c), broken-hearted Zoe (Brittany Bristow) confronts recommendation columnist Expensive Adora, solely to study Adora is a man named Adam (Marcus Rosner). OWN‘s 24-Karat Christmas (Saturday, 9/8c) stars Samantha Marie Ware as jewellery designer Trish, who tracks down lacking wedding ceremony bands with finest man E-book (Curtis Hamilton) earlier than a Christmas Eve wedding ceremony deadline. Different highlights embrace Nice American Household’s A Royal Christmas Ballet (Sunday, 8/7c), with Brittany Underwood as a former ballerina serving to a staff of royal ambassadors to stage The Nutcracker, and on UPtv, A Nation Music Christmas (Saturday, 7/6c), North by North Pole: A Dial S Thriller (Sunday, 7/6c), and a brand new season of Small City Christmas (Sunday, 9/8c), with visits to vacation celebrations in Oxford, Mississippi, and Bryson Metropolis, South Carolina.

What If…?

SUNDAY: For a 3rd and last season, Marvel’s animation arm presents various situations for a few of its hottest heroes, with The Watcher (voiced by Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright) serving as narrator and information for his or her alt-world adventures. With new episodes dropping over eight consecutive days, the characters braving new fantasy universes embrace Captain America, the Winter Soldier, the Hulk, Agatha Harkness, Shang-Chi, Storm, Captain Peggy Carter, and the Pink Guardian.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c, CBS): The true-crime collection as soon as once more revisits the 1996 Christmas homicide of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey, with father John Ramsey revealing one other principle of the crime in an interview with Erin Moriarty, who has coated the chilly case since 1999.
• Saturday Night time Stay (Saturday, 11:30/10:30c, 8:30/PT, NBC): To shut out 2024, former solid member (1984-85) and Solely Murders within the Constructing star Martin Quick returns for his third solo guest-hosting gig (his fifth general) on the standard pre-Christmas episode. Hozier returns as musical visitor for the second time.
• The Simpsons (Sunday, 8/7c, Fox): A brand new episode sends the Pin Buddies to Capital Metropolis for the state bowling championship, with Glenn Shut returning because the voice of Mona Simpson.
• Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs. Doyle (Sunday, 8/7c, PBS): Within the last episode, historian Lucy Worsley explores Arthur Conan Doyle’s determination to resurrect his most well-known character, Sherlock Holmes. The ravages of World Battle I and the flu epidemic (which claimed his eldest son) led to his obsession with spiritualism, and a feud with Harry Houdini threatened to cloud his legacy.
• Sunday Night time Soccer (Sunday, 8:15 pm/ET, NBC): The Tampa Bay Buccaneers tackle the Dallas Cowboys within the prime-time match.
• Earth Abides (Sunday, 9/8c, MGM+): In back-to-back episodes of the postapocalyptic drama, the not-so-safe haven of San Lupo experiences a drought, after which the return of the virus.
• Landman (streaming on Paramount+): Laborious to say what’s a extra troubling difficulty for Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton): his dealings with the cartel or together with his ex, Angela (Ali Larter), and daughter Ainsley (Michelle Randolph) as they settle in.