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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 12/19/25)
APPLE TV: Born to Be Wild (Premiere)
NETFLIX: How to Ruin Love: The Lobola (Premiere)
PARAMOUNT+: Dora (Premiere)
TUBI: Mo’ Waffles (Premiere)
(SATURDAY 12/20/25)
CRUNCHYROLL: Blue Miburo (Premiere)
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Ariana Grande, Musical Guest: Cher (Premiere) at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 12/21/25)
NBC: PNC Championship Golf at 1:30pm
Roblox has overtaken social media for GenAlpha consumption of entertainment, according to Gamefam’s State of Brands in UGC Gaming report. Users now spend 2.7 hours per day on Roblox, followed by TikTok (2 hours), Instagram (1.3 hours) and YouTube (1.3). In 2025 so far, over 210 unique brands have activated on Roblox. When broken down by sector, brands from the media, entertainment and toy vertical hosted the most activations on Roblox this year, followed by fashion and apparel, and then sports.
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Tony Dokoupil will spend January 5, his first night as anchor of “CBS Evening News,” in Miami, kicking off a 10-day road trip that will find him in a different city each day. “Growing up a bit ramshackle, moving between Florida, Maryland and West Virginia, traveling the country playing high school and college baseball, I learned to love talking to new people. As a journalist, I realized there are some things you’ll never understand until you’re standing there with the people in the middle of it,” said Dokoupil. “Being there, and bringing others there, is what I love most about this job, and what makes me so excited about this trip.”
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CBS is teaming with The Free Press to launch “Things That Matter,” a series of town halls and debates (“Does America Need a God?” “Has Feminism Failed Women?”) that will feature people in politics and culture – Vice President JD Vance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Maryland Governor Wes Moore, to name a few. The events, starting in 2026, will be held across the country, in front of audiences who have a stake in the topics under discussion. “We believe that the vast majority of Americans crave honest conversation and civil, passionate debate,” said Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News and Free Press founder. “In a moment in which people believe that truth is whatever they are served on their social media feed, we can think of nothing more important than insisting that the only way to get to the truth is by speaking to one another.” Bank of America is title sponsor. The series comes on the heels of CBS News’ town hall with Erika Kirk, which drove double-digit ratings increases in its time slot and generated 192 million views across social media.
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Psychological thriller “Imperfect Women” is set to debut Wednesday, March 18 on Apple TV. Based on the Araminta Hall novel, the drama stars Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara.
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Adult Swim has ordered two more seasons of “Haha, You Clowns.” The animated comedy from creator Joe Cappa follows the Campbell family as they navigate life’s awkward, funny, and emotional moments together. “It’s amazing that Joe and the team made something as radically heartfelt and strangely uncanny as ‘Haha, You Clowns,’” said Michael Ouweleen, President, Adult Swim. “But what’s even more amazing is that – in this cynical, uncertain time – all of you showed up for this new show, championed for it on social media, and grew it week over week so we could greenlight not one, but two more seasons. In the words of the show: ‘You are strong! You are loved!’”
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Also renewed for two more seasons is Hulu’s “The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball.” Season two of the animated series premieres Monday, December 22.
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CNN’s “Have I Got News For You” has been renewed for a fourth season,set to premiere Saturday, January 24 at 9p. The American version of the long-running UK comedy series is hosted by Roy Wood Jr. along with team captains Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black. “Thank goodness we’ve got season four of our show to make sense of this perfectly normal time we’re in where everything is stark-raving normal. A time in which everything is fine and nothing is wrong. Amen,” said Wood Jr., Ruffin and Black in a joint statement.
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“Young Sherlock” drops Wednesday, March 4 on Prime Video. The drama is adapted from Andrew Lane’s Young Sherlock Homes book series.
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STARZ has acquired the exclusive US rights to “The Nowhere Man,” a six-part drama starring Bonko Khoza (“The Woman King”) and Naturi Naughton-Lewis (“Power”). The series will be available to stream weekly on Fridays beginning January 16 on the STARZ app and all STARZ streaming and on-demand platforms.
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Norwegian drama “Stayer” premieres Thursday, January 15 with its first two episodes on Viaplay.
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Apple TV is expanding Legendary’s Monsterverse with a new, untitled Young Lee Shaw prequel starring Wyatt Russell reprising his role as Colonel Lee Shaw. Joby Harold has been tapped to showrun and, under an overall deal with Legendary, also oversee Legendary’s entire “Monsterverse” franchise for Apple TV. “Viewers around the world haven’t been able to get enough of ‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ since its global debut, and we cannot wait to unleash the electrifying new stories that Joby and the entire cast and creative team have been working on,” said Morgan Wandell, Head of International Development for Apple TV. “With Joby at the helm, and alongside our terrific partners at Legendary, this new spinoff will kick off an epic Monsterverse expansion.”
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Autentic pitching event Autentic Matchmaking Day, for documentary and factual series and multi-part formats currently in development, will take place on June 16. The goal is to is connect leading factual producers with broadcasters, platforms and decision-makers in factual commissioning.
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One-hour special “CBS News: Rob Reiner – Scenes From a Life” celebrates the life and legacy of the late Hollywood legend on Sunday, December 21 at 8:30p on CBS. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their LA home on December 14.
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Telemundo is kicking off the New Year with “El Desfile de las Rosas” (The Rose Parade) live on Thursday, January 1 starting at 11a. Penélope Menchaca and Carlos Calderón host.
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H&I Network’s eighth annual “The Twilight Zone” marathon, “A Toast to Twilight,” is set to begin New Year’s Eve on Wednesday, December 31 at 8p and continue through Friday, January 2 at 6.
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FOX News Media will ring in 2026 with programming on New Year’s Evewith three Fox News New Year’s Eve specials: “A New Year with Kat & Tyrus” at 9p; “Who Can Forget 2025?”, with network personalities including hosts Brian Kilmeade, Tomi Lahren, Griff Jenkins, at 10p; and “All-American New Year’s Bash” at 11p.
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ESPN alum Elle Duncan has inked a deal with Netflix as an on-air host across Netflix Sports and its live events. Duncan’s first assignment: “Skyscraper Live,” following free solo climber Alex Honnold as he attempts to scale Taipei 101.
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The season one finale of “IT: Welcome to Derry” drew 6.5 million viewersin its first three days across HBO and HBO Max. That’s up 12% from the previous episode, which had been the series’ most-watched.(Source: Cynopsis)
Reporter Peter Arnett died December 17. He was 91. Arnett won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War for the AP, rising to broadcast stardom after joining CNN in 1981. He resigned from CNN after the network retracted a report Arnett narrated claiming deadly Sarin nerve gas had been used on deserting American soldiers in Laos in 1970, and moved to NBC and National Geographic to cover the second Gulf War. He left NBC in 2003.
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MOVIES
Avatar: Fire and Ash – Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Giovanni Ribisi
The Housemaid – Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar, Indiana Elle
The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants (Animated) – Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence, George Lopez, Ice Spice, Sherry Cola, Regina Hall, Mark Hamill
Is This Thing On? (Limited Release) – Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper, Sean Hayes, Ciaran Hinds, Christine Ebersole, Amy Sedaris, Payton Man
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