Christmas Goes Nation, ‘Accused’ Finale, Laborious Knocks with the AFC North, ‘St. Denis’ Pink Slip

CMA Nation Christmas

As we’ll say lots this month, ’tis the season — on this case, for musical vacation specials, with Amy Grant and Trisha Yearwood internet hosting the fifteenth annual showcase for nation music stars overlaying Christmas classics. Amongst these performing in Nashville earlier than a stay viewers: the hosts singing “Santa Claus Is Coming to City” and “Sing Your Reward to the Lord,” with Grant soloing on “Tennessee Christmas” and Yearwood delivering a medley of acquainted tunes. They’re joined by KING + COUNTRY with Carin León (“O Come, O Come Emmanuel”), Cody Johnson (“White Christmas” and “I’ll Be Residence for Christmas”), Ashley McBryde and Brittney Spencer (“Man with the Bag”), Jon Pardi (“400 Horsepower Sleigh”) and gospel nice CeCe Winans with “Pleasure to the World.”

Accused

The authorized anthology wraps its second season with the weakest and the strangest episodes to this point. Within the first, with a bizarrely one-sided courtroom presentation, The Masked Singer’s Ken Jeong performs a naïve jeweler in what he believes to be a fairy-tale marriage, who veers into tragedy when he tries to save lots of his beloved spouse (Jamie Chung) after her shady previous makes an unwelcome return. The second is a futuristic cautionary story of an bold music government (Star Trek: Discovery’s Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced) who outsources her I’m-too-busy intercourse life to a sexbot (Kiara Barnes) that seduces her initially AI-resistant husband (Evil’s ridiculously hunky Mike Colter).

Laborious Knocks In Season

There’s a primary time for all the pieces, and after greater than twenty years, the Laborious Knocks franchise mixes up its ordinary format of specializing in a single NFL workforce by overlaying a whole division, the AFC North, over the last six weeks of the season as they head to the playoffs and probably the Tremendous Bowl. Featured groups embody the Pittsburgh Steelers, who’ve by no means been featured in a Laborious Knocks season, the Baltimore Ravens (the primary workforce ever to take the highlight within the Laborious Knocks coaching camp collection in 2001), the twice-featured Cincinnati Bengals (proven in 2009 and 2013) and the Cleveland Browns, making their second look after a season in 2018.

St. Denis Medical

The droll medical mockumentary presents its most relatable character, supervising nurse Alex (Allison Tolman), with a problem to step up and go towards her always-nice persona when her boss Joyce (Wendi McLendon-Covey) orders her to fireside a popular however bumbling co-worker. Whereas her hemming and hawing solely makes the state of affairs worse, ER doc Ron (David Alan Grier) clashes with Bruce (Josh Lawson) after the cocky surgeon takes the final NutRageous bar — Ron’s day by day consolation meals — from the merchandising machine. And beginner nurse Matt (Mekki Leeper) goes too far when attempting to bond with a affected person who he helped revive however is exhibiting treasured little gratitude.

INSIDE TUESDAY TV:

• FBI (8/7c, CBS): The search is on for a serial killer when ladies’s our bodies are found everywhere in the metropolis, whereas Maggie (Missy Peregrym) juggles her duties as little Ella’s guardian. Adopted by FBI: Worldwide (9/8c), with the Fly Staff off to Morocco to seek out American support staff kidnapped from a hijacked bus; and FBI: Most Wished (10/9c), the place Philadelphia is the vacation spot for the Fugitive Activity Pressure after a magnificence queen is killed on stay TV.
• Night time Court docket (8:30/7:30c, NBC): Anticipate some trash discuss within the courtroom when a sanitation strike makes issues messy at work.
• The Voice (9/8c, NBC): Discover out who makes it to subsequent week’s stay finale when the votes are tallied, with 4 singers incomes a spot and a fifth chosen when the remaining contestants carry out for the final slot within the Instantaneous Save.
• Santa Claus Is Comin’ to City (9/8c, ABC): The 1970 stop-motion animated perennial, narrated by Fred Astaire, tells the origin story of Kris Kringle (Mickey Rooney). Beware the Burgermeister Meisterburger.
• The Irrational (10/9c, NBC): Within the fall finale, Alex (Jesse L. Martin) learns extra about Rose’s (Karen David) previous after they examine the homicide of a Okay-Pop superfan.

 ON THE STREAM:

• As1One: The Israeli-Palestinian Pop Music Journey (streaming on Paramount+): A four-part docuseries profiles the groundbreaking band as1one (pronounced “as one”) comprised of younger Jewish and Palestinian males from Israel. Fashioned in 2020, they arrived in L.A. to document their first album on the eve of the October 7 terrorist assaults that launched the Israel-Hamas warfare and turned the musicians into surprising symbols of musical unity.
• Jack in Time for Christmas (streaming on Prime Video): British comic Jack Whitehall (The Afterparty) stars as himself in a comedy function that follows his slapstick makes an attempt to get house from the U.S. with solely 4 days till Christmas. Celebs together with Jimmy Fallon, Michael Bublé, Insurgent Wilson, and Dave Bautista seem in cameos.
• Ladies Gone Wild: The Untold Story (streaming on Peacock): A 3-part docuseries goes contained in the sexploitation video franchise from the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, marketed closely by creator Joe Francis in late-night informercials, which led to allegations of sexual exploitation involving underage females. The collection options what’s stated to be the primary in-depth on-camera interview with Francis from his exile in a Mexican compound.
• Fortune Feimster: Crushing It! (streaming on Netflix): The outrageous comic delivers her third Netflix stand-up particular.