Between community, cable and streaming, the fashionable tv panorama is an unlimited one. Listed here are a number of the exhibits, specials and flicks coming to TV this week, Nov. 20-Nov. 26. Particulars and occasions are topic to alter.
Monday
MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL: PHILADELPHIA EAGLES AT KANSAS CITY CHIEFS 8:15 p.m. on ESPN. Whereas hundreds of thousands might be watching when the groups of the brothers Jason and Travis Kelce meet on the sphere, some eyes might be on the stands searching for Taylor Swift’s dad and mom who it’s rumored had been coming to satisfy the Kelce household for the primary time. (Perhaps it’s time for Donna Kelce to lend the Swift household her half-Eagles, half-Chiefs jersey.) It’s unlikely that Swift will attend as a result of she is performing in Rio on Monday, however as a result of the Swift household are Eagles followers, they might nonetheless present up.
Tuesday
THE HOLIDAY (2006) 6 p.m. on AMC. I’m thrilled to announce it’s time to observe this film advert nauseam. The story follows Amanda (Cameron Diaz), who, after a nasty breakup, decides to go to England for the vacations. In the meantime Iris (Kate Winslet) is heartbroken from unrequited love and lists her home on a house change web site. The 2 swap homes, and each find yourself discovering love: Amanda with Iris’s brother Graham (Jude Regulation) and Iris with a retired film producer (Eli Wallach)— in a good friend manner, don’t fear! Jack Black can be by some means within the combine. The entire film is unabashedly charming, goofy and so cozy.
Wednesday
COUNTDOWN TO MACY’S THANKSGIVING PARADE 8 p.m. on NBC. Whereas we prep our pumpkin pies or run into individuals we went to highschool with at our hometown bars, employees in Midtown Manhattan are closing off roads and enlisting their highest voltage air pumps to organize for the annual parade. This present offers a behind-the-scenes take a look at this 12 months’s floats and a again story for every of them.
LOVE ACTUALLY (2003) 9 p.m. on AMC. Following a voice-over from Hugh Grant saying “if you happen to search for it, I’ve bought a sneaky feeling you’ll discover that love really is throughout,” this film begins 5 weeks earlier than Christmas, and for that cause it has at all times been my and my mother’s vacation custom to observe it through the week of Thanksgiving. (It additionally marks the timing of our annual battle about why I don’t just like the Colin Firth story line and he or she does.) The film follows totally different narrative threads — all of that are after all linked in a technique or one other — and incorporates a star-studded solid, together with Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson and Keira Knightley.
Thursday
97TH ANNUAL MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE beginning at 8:30 a.m. on NBC. Cher, Brandy and Jon Batiste are a number of of the artists set to carry out this 12 months, alongside balloons, floats, marching bands and efficiency teams.
NATIONAL DOG SHOW 12 p.m. on NBC. The Nationwide Canine Present occurred in Philadelphia this previous weekend however is being broadcast after the parade festivities wind down. This 12 months, the German shepherd K9 Rom might be honored for its assist in the seek for the escaped inmate Danelo Cavalcante.
FRIENDS THANKSGIVING EPISODES beginning at 11 a.m. on TBS. Among the finest episodes of TV exhibits are those through which Thanksgiving is the centerpiece. Particularly, I’m pondering of the “Gossip Lady” episode with Jason Derulo’s tune “Whatcha Say” enjoying over dinner-table drama and the “Gilmore Ladies” episode with the mother-daughter duo going to 4 dinners. But when I had to decide on a themed-episode favourite, it might be “Associates,” the one the place all of them play soccer to relive Monica and Ross’s glory of the Geller Household Cup. Different episodes on this marathon embody “The One With Chandler in a Field,” “The One With the Rumor” and “The One With Ross’s Sandwich.”
Friday
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) 9 p.m. on E! It’s Christmas time, and George Bailey (James Stewart) is just not feeling his finest. His guardian angel Clarence (Henry Travers) exhibits him what life would have appeared like with none of his contributions. “For a turkey dinner, with Christmas trimmings, is exactly what’s cooking on the finish of this quaint and fascinating trendy parable on advantage being its personal reward,” Bosley Crowther wrote in his review for The New York Times.
Saturday
BYRON ALLEN PRESENTS THEGRIO AWARDS 8 p.m. on CBS. For a second 12 months, this award present is honoring Black excellence, with the assistance of the hosts Sheryl Underwood and Roy Wooden Jr. Mariah Carey is ready to obtain the Music Icon Award, and Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy and Don Cheadle may also be taking awards house. Boyz II Males, Jennifer Hudson, Patti LaBelle and Smokey Robinson are set to preform.
Sunday
THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT 10 p.m. on ABC. One other 12 months, one other season of this present that options people who find themselves simply actually nice at adorning their homes for Christmas. The primary episode prepares you for the additional enjoyable and artistic gentle shows which might be certain to be featured this season, with a glance again at previous 12 months’s shows and competitions.
