‘Simpsons’ Bonus ‘Treehouse of Horror,’ ‘Franchise’ Finale, Thanksgiving ‘Someplace,’ Trendy ‘Little Girls’ Leads Vacation Film Parade

The Simpsons

SUNDAY: Take into account it an early vacation present when the long-running animated comedy affords a bonus version of its Treehouse of Horror franchise proper earlier than Thanksgiving. In Simpsons Depraved This Method Comes, the collection pays homage to short-story grasp Ray Bradbury and The Illustrated Man when the household visits a pop-up evening circus and Lisa turns into enthralled with the tales behind a circus freak’s tattoos. Two of the vignettes are slightly perfunctory—Bart in a variation on “the boy who cried wolf,” and Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner dealing with off in a parable about robotic clones—however the remaining story, a twist on Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, is a basic, projecting a dystopian future during which lowbrow leisure (presumably together with The Simpsons) is outlawed. “It’s our civic responsibility to observe essentially the most densely plotted tv we are able to,” drones a mesmerized Marge. Fireman Homer’s rallying cry, “I select crap!” is an anthem for the ages. (Kudos to Pamela Hayden, who after this episode is retiring because the voice of Milhouse and different memorable characters after a 35-year run.)

The Franchise

SUNDAY: It’s a wrap for Tecto: Eye of the Storm and the show-biz satire concerning the chaotic making of a Hollywood superhero epic. Anita (Aya Money) frets she’s going to “producer jail” if rumors concerning the film’s launch are true, and third assistant director Dag (Lolly Adefope) fears going to precise jail as a consequence of the Armenian bridge catastrophe. Nonetheless, the present should go on. Mustn’t it?

Someone Someplace

SUNDAY: Let’s give thanks for the small miracle of this heat and tart comedy a couple of household of offbeat associates in rural Manhattan, Kansas. A Thanksgiving dinner gathering on the dwelling of Brad (Tim Bagley) and Joel (Jeff Hiller) is an event for nice pleasure, meals and fellowship—but in addition for reflection, when Susan (Jennifer Mudge) pries into Brad’s earlier life as a married father of two. “I didn’t need to be the way in which I used to be, so I attempted being another person,” Brad explains in his light, poignant manner. Sam (Bridget Everett) has an eventful vacation, coping with drunken sister Trish (Mary Catherine Garrison) and reaching out to her taciturn tenant Iceland (Darri Ólafsson).

A Little Girls’s Christmas

The Xmas Log: Going again to the classics, Nice American Household adapts the Louisa Might Alcott favourite in A Little Girls’s Christmas (Saturday, 8/7c) with a modernized model set in small-town Tennessee, starring Jen Lilley, Jillian Murray, Laura Osnes and Julia Reilly because the March sisters. Gladys Knight co-stars, singing her new unique track “Pleasure.” Additionally from Nice American Household: Christmas by Candlelight (Sunday, 8/7c), the place Christmas candles rule.

Hallmark Channel affords Three Wiser Males and a Boy (Saturday, 8/7c), a sequel to Three Males and a Child set 5 years later, with the Brenner brothers (Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes and Andrew Walker) taking up a faculty vacation musical whereas their mother (Margaret Colin) introduces them to her new boyfriend. In Hallmark’s To Have and to Vacation (Sunday, 8/7c), a pastor (Eric Shut) places an engaged couple (Madeleine Arthur and Robert Bazzocchi) by means of a “bootcamp” of Christmas-related challenges to check their relationship. On Lifetime, Christmas within the Highlight (Saturday, 8/7c) depicts a budding romance between a preferred singer (Jessica Lord) and a professional soccer participant (Laith Wallschleger). The place do they get these loopy concepts? Additionally on Lifetime: Sincerely, Really Christmas (Sunday, 8/7c) stars Paula Brancati as an unemployed occasion planner who magically develops a present to listen to what individuals need for Christmas. UPtv offers us The Seek for Secret Santa (Saturday, 7/6c), a couple of reporter (Skye Coyne) monitoring the historical past of a long-lost Secret Santa present, and Competition of Bushes (Sunday, 7/6c), about an inside designer (Kate Miner) who hopes to make a reputation for herself within the metropolis’s annual Competition of Bushes adorning contest.

Tsunami: Race Towards Time

SUNDAY: On the twentieth anniversary of one of many deadliest pure disasters in fashionable historical past, a four-hour documentary (concluding Monday) revisits the Dec. 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia that claimed over 225,000 lives. Three years within the making, culling from greater than 100 interviews with survivors, rescuers, scientists and journalists and 300 hours of archival footage, the movie supplies a harrowing and definitive timeline of tragedy, heroism and survival.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• The Sing Sing Chronicles (Saturday, 9/8c, MSNBC): A four-part documentary exposé (persevering with Sunday at 9/8c) from director Daybreak Porter makes use of the investigative reporting of NBC Information correspondent Dan Slepian over 20 years to inform the story of wrongly convicted inmate JJ Velazquez, exonerated practically 27 years after his arrest, and 5 different harmless males.
• James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome (Saturday, 10/9c, HBO): The British comic welcomes heckling from the viewers in an unconventional interactive stand-up efficiency from Northampton, England.
• Sunday Morning (Sunday, 9 am/8c, CBS): The annual “Meals Subject” options Tracy Smith’s interview in Hawaii with musician Mick Fleetwood, whose restaurant was misplaced within the Maui wildfire, plus David Pogue exploring NASA’s meals recipes for area and Kelefa Sanneh’s toast to the martini.
• 60 Minutes (Sunday, 7/6c, CBS): Jon Wertheim visits the self-described “anti-woke” campus of the start-up College of Austin, Lesley Stahl travels to Nairobi, the place employees work digitally to coach AI, and Invoice Whitaker heads to the low-rider capital of Espanola, New Mexico.
• Moana (Sunday, 8/7c, ABC): Prematurely of Wednesday’s launch of Moana 2, one other probability to revisit the Oscar-nominated animated unique from 2016.
• Yellowstone (Sunday, 8/7c, Paramount Community): Beth (Kelly Reilly) turns to a brand new ally in her mission to avoid wasting the ranch. Additionally from Taylor Sheridan world: New episodes of Landman and Lioness, streaming on Paramount+.
• Tracker (Sunday, 8/7c, CBS): There’s some heavy petting when Colter (Justin Hartley) finds a misplaced canine that subsequently is stolen from his truck, and he makes it his mission to reunite the canine with its proprietor. Adopted by The Equalizer (9/8c), with Crew Robyn (Queen Latifah) searching for the humor-challenged perp who’s put successful on a humorist who’d slightly not die on stage.
• Married to Medication (Sunday, 9/8c, Bravo): Medical doctors and docs’ wives return for the eleventh season of the Atlanta-based actuality franchise.
• From (Sunday, 9/8c, MGM+): City chief Boyd (Harold Perrineau) faces one in all his most daunting challenges within the Season 3 finale as he tries but once more to avoid wasting the day for a cherished one. Excellent news: The sci-fi/horror collection has been renewed for a fourth season.