Friday TV: College Football, Avenue 5 Encore, The White Lotus Encore & More

News & Notes

Over on cable, BET has the TV movie premiere of The Christmas Clapback, Comedy Central has the Jeff Dunham: Me the People comedy special, GAF has the TV movie premiere of Chirstmas at the Drive-In, Hallmark has the TV movie premieres of #Xmas and A Royal Corgi Christmas, Lifetime has the TV movie premiere of Steppin’ Into the Holiday, and LMN has the TV movie premiere of Fatal Family Reunion.

On streaming, as of this morning, HBO Max has the first season finale of Garcia!, Netflix drops the third season of Blood & Water, and Prime Video has The Peripheral S.1 Ep.7.

Next Friday, Apple TV+ has the series premiere and Ep.2 of Slow Horses, Netflix drops Season 2 Part 1 of Firefly Lane and drops the first season of Hot Skull, and Prime Video has the first season finale of The Peripheral, drops the limited series Riches and has the series premiere and Ep.2 of Three Pines.

Prime Picks

Jeff Dunham: Me the People (Comedy Central): New. Jeff Dunham, Peanut, Walter and the rest perform. Plays three times.

Andor (Freeform): Repeat. The first two episodes, “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me,” of the Disney+ series replay on its sister cabler. Runs 90 minutes.

Avenue 5 (HBO2): Repeat. This past Sunday night’s episode, “I Love Judging People,” replays. Starts 21 minutes after the hour and runs 29 minutes.

Solid Selections

Frosty the Snowman (ABC): Repeat. The 1969 animated holiday classic replays.
Frosty Returns (ABC): Repeat. The 1995 follow-up replays.

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network): New. “A-Z: U for Universal.” Plays again later. A-T play right before.
Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network): New. “A-Z: V for Veal.” Plays again later.

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network): Repeat. “A-Z: W for Wild and Crazy Wings.” Plays again later.
Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network): Repeat. “A-Z: X for (Banh) Xeo.” Plays again later. Y-Z and another new episode follow.

Other Options

• Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer (The CW): Repeat. From 2000.
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (NBC): Repeat. The 1966 animated holiday classic replays.
• Trolls: Holiday in Harmony (NBC): Repeat. From 2021.

Sports Notes

• ABC has doubleheader college football action today with Tulane at Cincinnati followed by NC State at North Carolina and later tonight has Florida at Florida State.
• ESPN has college football action today with Baylor at Texas.
• FOX has college football action today with UCLA at California.
• Golf Channel has second round coverage of the Joburg Open DP World tournament and the Spanish Open LET tournament.
• NBA TV has doubleheader action tonight with the New Orleans Pelicans at the Memphis Grizzlies followed by the Denver Nuggets at the Los Angeles Clippers.

Late Night

• The White Lotus (HBO): Repeat. This past Sunday night’s episode, “In the Sandbox,” replays.