‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,’ ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin,’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week.

MONDAY

LEGO Masters: Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular: Robin Thicke, Finesse Mitchell, Leslie Jordan, and Cheryl Hines team up with former contestants to raise money for charity. Aww, R.I.P. Leslie Jordan. 7 p.m. Fox

The Santa Clause marathon: And then when you’re done with this, you can head over to Disney+ and binge the new series, if you are just desperate to overdose on Tim Allen for some reason. 5:30 p.m., Freeform

The Wheel: Season premiere. 9 p.m., NBC

TUESDAY

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Season three. Prime Video

Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!: The Queen of Christmas performs at Madison Square Garden. 7 p.m., CBS

Professionals: Zora’s goals are within reach in the first season finale. 8 p.m., The CW

WEDNESDAY

Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon: I know people have a thing for Bob Dylan, but for my money, Paul Simon is the greatest American songwriter, maybe of all time. Fight me. 8 p.m., CBS

Fuhgeddabout Christmas: Rapper Justina Valentine stars in this new Christmas movie as an Italian American superstar who is hosting Christmas for her family for the first time, and it’s packed full of weird guest stars like Teresa Giudice and Nick Cannon. You should go watch the trailer — it’s like something on 30 Rock, I’m not even kidding.  7 p.m., VH1

Emily in Paris: Season three. Netflix

THURSDAY

Top Gun: Maverick: I am the only person in the country who did not see this in the theater, apparently.  Peacock

The Best Man: The Final Chapters: “Midlife crisis meets midlife renaissance” is how this limited series that revisits Harper, Robyn, Jordan, Lance, Quentin, Shelby, Candace, and Murch and their relationships is described. Premiere. Peacock

I Hate Suzie: Emily Nussbaum, the wonderful TV critic, has described this three-episode second season of I Hate Suzie as “Think Fleabag, Crazy Ex-G, Enlightened, UnREAL.” I mean, I don’t know that you can give a stronger endorsement than that. Premiere. HBO Max

The Head: The Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station loses contact with the outside world in the dead of winter in this new survival thriller. Premiere. HBO Max

FRIDAY

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery: A tech billionaire invites his friends to a private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is on the case. Premiere. Netflix

Strange World: A family of explorers navigate a treacherous land alongside their motley crew in this new Disney animated feature. Premiere. Disney+

The 24th Annual Home for the Holidays at the Grove: The annual  7 p.m., CBS

2022 Back That Year Up: Kenan Thompson and Kevin Hart host this look back on the year that was. Peacock

SATURDAY

Tracking Santa: Follow the big guy as he begins his trip around the world! Hulu

It’s a Wonderful Life: Because it is. 7 p.m., NBC

Home Alone: Insert face slap here. 7 p.m., ABC

A Christmas Story marathon: As much a tradition of the holiday as anything at this point. 7 p.m., TBS

SUNDAY

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical: The musical version of Roald Dahl’s story of an extraordinary girl with a wild imagination. Premiere. Netflix

The Witcher: Blood Origin: Men and elves merge their powers to become one, and the first witcher is created in this origin story of The Witcher, starring the amazing Michelle Yeoh. Series premiere. Netflix

 

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