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FRIGHT NIGHTS

Its \"The One With Plants Gone Wild!\" Friends star David Schwimmer take on his first horror role in Goosebumps: The Vanishing

ORDER IN THE COURT!

The Big Bang Theory's Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch reunite in the sitcom revival

Yorkshire Homecoming

All Creatures Great and Small’s enlisted men adjust to life back in Darrowby

The Couple Next Door

Your day-by-day guide to the week's best television

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

Corporate intrigue will be the focus on The Bold and the Beautiful at the start of 2025, as the ripple effects of Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor) and Hope Logan's (Annika Noelle) underhanded takeover of Forrester Creations are felt.

Matt Roush's TOP 10 of 2024

In a year filled with biting vampire shows and the Summer Olympics, see which programs dominated our senior critic's watch list.

FAMILY TIES

An unexpected reunion revs up ABC's new sitcom Shifting Gears

NCIS: Origins

A HEARTBROKEN LEROY Jethro Gibbs faces his first Christmas without his murdered wife and daughter in the NCIS prequel's emotional midseason finale.

Elsbeth

MARRIED ACTORS CARRIE Preston and Michael Emerson (above) have happily guest starred on each other's shows before (Lost, Claws).

SOUTHERN CHARMERS

Meet the newest debutants on Charleston's social scene

Is Jamie Really Gone?

And will Claire marry Lord John Grey? Starz's twisty timetravel drama Outlander gets messier than ever before

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS

Eight years after his Daytime Emmy-winning run as lan Ward on The Young and the Restless, Ray Wise is back for a new reign of terror in Genoa City.

Spies Seeing Double

\"MY CHOSEN CAREER is a psychological tightrope walk over a pit of fire,\" says a CIA spook code-named Martian (played with steely intensity by Michael Fassbender) in the solemn spy drama The Agency.

BLITZ FRIDAY, NOV. 22

It is clearly \"the worst of times\" in this stirring Dickensian nail-biter of a movie, set during WWII's early days, when the German Luftwaffe bombed London nightly for months.

INTERIOR CHINATOWN TUESDAY, NOV. 19

Willis Wu (Silicon Valley's Jimmy O. Yang) is stuck.

BEATLES '64 FRIDAY, NOV. 29

In February 1964, the Beatles made their first flight to an America still reeling from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS

\"There's no one else like John Williams,\" says Laurent Bouzereau, director of this documentary.

Spellbound FRIDAY, NOV. 22

Three years after earning Oscar nods for Being the Ricardos, Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman are playing a much different celebrated couple with issues.

Our Little Secret WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27

The Lindsay Lohan (below) renaissance continues with this sassy anti-rom-com about a woman miserably stuck spending the holidays with her bitter ex (Pretty Little Liars' lan Harding) after they realize their new significant others are siblings.

The Merry Gentlemen WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20

If you've seen Chad Michael Murray in the closing number of Netflix's Mother of the Bride, you know he has the moves (and the abs) for his gig in this Magic Mike meets balls, er, boughs of holly.

BLACK DOVES THURSDAY, DEC. 5

Oh, bullet hole-y night!

Emilia Pérez WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13

A gritty crime drama about a Mexican cartel boss that's also a pulsating musical?

Our Oceans WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20

Nature docs always aim to top what has come before, and this five-parter delivers with glorious footage and facts that will make your jaw drop to the sea floor.

THE PIANO LESSON FRIDAY, NOV. 22

One profound question strains the bonds of family in this extraordinary drama set in 1936 Pittsburgh.

KNOW WHAT TO STREAM NEXT

\"In the middle of the day, he signals with a flashlight,\" deadpans Margo Martindale (below), indicating the ineptitude of the thieving crew she fronts in this dark comedy.

Mysteries Unearthed With Danny Trejo

SERIES PREMIERE Friday, Dec. 6, 10/9c, History

The Agency

Expectations are high for this spy thriller, inspired by international hit The Bureau and backed by a cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Richard Gere and Jodie Turner-Smith.

The Curse of Oak Island 9/8c, History

Vikings on Oak Island?

Lidia Celebrates America: Changemakers

Tuesday, Nov. 26. 9/8c. PBS (check local listings at pbs.org)

The 58th Annual CMA Awards 8/7c, ABC

Country music's popularity is at an all-time high-and tonight's annual telecast, live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, will show just how strong the genre is.