How to watch the last supermoon of the year ADITHI RAMAKRISHNANDecember 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM 0 A UPS Boeing 747 inbound from Anchorage, Alaska, passes in front of the supermoon as it approaches Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry) () NEW YORK (AP) — The last supermoon of the year will shine soon in December skies. The moon's orbit around the Earth isn't a perfect circle so it gets nearer and farther as it swings around. When a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit, a socalled supermoon happens.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The last supermoon of the year will shine soon in December skies.

The moon's orbit around the Earth isn't a perfect circle so it gets nearer and farther as it swings around. When a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit, a so-called supermoon happens. It makes the moon look up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the faintest moon of the year, according to NASA.

Supermoons happen a few times a year in clusters, taking advantage of the sweet spot in the moon's elliptical orbit, and Thursday night's event is the last of three in a row in 2025.

The supermoon can be glimpsed in clear night skies without any special equipment. But it can be tough to discern the subtle change with the naked eye.

Whether a supermoon or not, the moon also appears bigger when it's close to the horizon because of what's called the moon illusion. It's a strange visual trick that experts can't yet explain.

"When you have a supermoon, that effect is just slightly more striking," said astronomer William Alston with the University of Hertfordshire.

Tides could be slightly higher during a supermoon because the moon is closer to Earth, but again, the difference isn't very noticeable.

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Damaged Shenzhou20 spacecraft to return to Earth uncrewed for inspection By Eduardo BaptistaDecember 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM 0 A giant screen in Beijing shows news footage of rescue workers carrying an astronaut of Shenzhou20 mission outside the return capsule of the Shenzhou21 spacecraft which landed at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China November 14, 2025.

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BEIJING, Dec 1 (Reuters) - China's first crewed spacecraft to be ruled unfit to fly in mid-mission will be sent back to Earth for experts to assess the damage it sustained more closely, ‌state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday.

On November 5, the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft was meant to bring its crew back to ‌China just after finishing a six-month stay aboard Beijing's permanently inhabited space station Tiangong.

But after the Shenzhou-20 crew discovered a crack in the window of the vessel's return capsule right before takeoff, the return mission was delayed - a first in China's human spaceflight program.⁠

The vessel's crew was forced ‌to return to Earth in a different spaceship nine days later, temporarily leaving Tiangong and its remaining trio of resident astronauts without a flightworthy vessel.

China's ‍space-industrial complex raced to remove that risk by working overtime to execute its first emergency launch mission on November 25, just 20 days after the initial delay was announced.

But the future of the damaged Shenzhou-20 vessel, which remains docked at the Chinese space station, was unknown until CCTV's ‌televised report on Monday.

Ji Qiming, a spokesperson for the China Manned Space Agency, told the state broadcaster that Shenzhou-20 would return without crew to Earth, adding that on its way back it would "obtain the most authentic experimental data", without elaborating further.

Jia Shijin, a designer of the Shenzhou spacecraft, revealed to CCTV more details about the tiny crack ⁠that permanently altered China's crewed spaceflight schedule.

"Our preliminary judgement is that the piece of space debris was smaller than 1 millimetre, but it was travelling incredibly fast. The resulting crack extends over a centimetre," Jia said.

"But we can't directly examine ‍it in orbit, ⁠we will study it closely when Shenzhou-20 returns."

Jia added that the decision to delay the Shenzhou-20 return mission was based on a worst-case scenario where the window ⁠crack might spread, leading to cabin depressurisation and the ingress of high-speed gases.

If this happened, it ‌could then rapidly overwhelm life-support systems and prove fatal to the astronauts.

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Appeals court upholds ruling that disqualified Alina Habba from serving as N.J.'s top prosecutor Gary Grumbach December 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM 0 An appeals court affirmed a lower court ruling disqualifying Alina Habba from her role as acting U.S. attorney. (Mark Schiefelbein / AP) In a loss for the Trump administration, an appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling disqualifying Alina Habba from her position as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. In a 32page ruling, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals found that Habba's appointment violates the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.

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In a loss for the Trump administration, an appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling disqualifying Alina Habba from her position as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.

In a 32-page ruling, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals found that Habba's appointment violates the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.

"It is apparent that the current administration has been frustrated by some of the legal and political barriers to getting its appointees in place," wrote Judge Michael Fisher.

The decision stems from a motion from Julien Giraud Jr., a New Jersey man who faced drug trafficking and firearm charges that predated Habba's appointment. Giraud moved to dismiss his indictment on July 27, arguing that President Donald Trump's appointment of Habba, who had been overseeing the case, was unlawful.

He pleaded not guilty. The court did not dismiss Giraud's underlying criminal case.

Habba is a former personal lawyer to the president.

A federal judge ruled in August that Habba's appointment was "unlawful," though the judge's order was on hold as the legal proceedings continued in an appeals court.

In the summer ruling, U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann took issue with Trump naming Habba as interim U.S. attorney in March, a position that is time-limited to 120 days. He said in his ruling that while Trump nominated her in June to serve as the permanent attorney, the Senate did not take up her nomination.

Weeks after Trump nominated her to the permanent position, judges for the U.S. District Court of New Jersey appointed her deputy to be the new U.S. attorney. In response, Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the deputy, appointed Habba as "Special Attorney to the Attorney General," then appointed her to the deputy position, which allowed her to become the acting U.S. attorney again.

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Mamdaniappointed NYC professor who wrote book on ending policing now tasked with shaping community safety Peter D'AbroscaDecember 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM 0 A sociology professor at Brooklyn College appointed to New York Mayorelect Zohran Mamdani's transition team wrote a book about ending policing. "I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC," Alex Vitale said on X. Vitale is the author of "The End of Policing," published in 2017.

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A sociology professor at Brooklyn College appointed to New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team wrote a book about ending policing.

"I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC," Alex Vitale said on X.

Vitale is the author of "The End of Policing," published in 2017. The book, which opens by explaining that police don't exist to help citizens, argues for an end to traditional policing for certain criminal activity, including narcotics use, prostitution, patrolling borders and "misbehaving adolescents." The book also argues that police shouldn't combat street gangs.

Alex Vitale, author of "The End of Policing," speaks during a discussion on school policing at the University of Southern Maine on Thursday, March 5, 2020. Other speakers were, left to right, Portland Police Chief Frank Clark, South Portland School Resource Officer Al Giusto, Portland School Board Chair Roberto Rodriguez and Al Cleveland of Maine Youth Justice.

On ending gang units, Vitale argues that they are racist.

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"In most cities, gang units function as a mechanism for racialized social control," the book says in chapter five. "Black and Latino youth are labeled as gang members for hanging out together, while white youth groups are dismissed as harmless."

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Policing borders is also racist, according to the author.

"The expansion of Border Patrol powers has been justified through fear and racism. It legitimizes xenophobic narratives that define immigrants as threats rather than as fellow workers or neighbors," the book says in chapter six.

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Vitale also describes border policing as "inhumane."

Chapter nine of the book argues against training police officers on implicit bias, claiming that police officers' views on race do not matter because the whole system of policing is racist.

"Racism in policing is structural, not simply a product of bad attitudes," the book says. "Training officers to recognize implicit bias without changing what they are tasked with enforcing is like teaching a soldier to be sensitive while sending him to occupy a foreign country."

The professor's faculty profile on Brooklyn College's website says Vitale has spent 30 years writing about policing and that he consults with law enforcement entities and international human rights organizations.

He teaches courses about African Americans in the criminal justice system, according to his university profile.

Vitale has often called to abolish police on his X account, including bicycle police, police helicopters and police in schools. He has also called to abolish joint terrorism task forces, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Border Patrol and even the presidency of the United States.

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He has also called for the NYPD to abolish its gang database.

Neither Vitale nor Brooklyn College returned requests for comment.

Mamdani has hired others who harbor anti-police sentiments.

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Earlier this month, he announced that campaign advisor Elle Bisgaard-Church would join his staff. She has been dubbed the "chief architect" of Mamdani's campaign proposal to have social workers respond to certain non-violent 911 calls and is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America.

Mamdani officials did not return a request for comment.

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DAN GAINOR: November's Nuttiest News: An Elvis judge, COP chaos and more media lunacy Dan GainorDecember 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM 0 Here's your round up of the seven wildest stories from last month. Let's get started with the blazing insanity of a climate conference in Brazil and then look at six others. It's November, and that usually means the ecoloons come out of the woodwork. For the past several years, November has brought the annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties, or COP.

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Here's your round up of the seven wildest stories from last month. Let's get started with the blazing insanity of a climate conference in Brazil and then look at six others.

It's November, and that usually means the eco-loons come out of the woodwork. For the past several years, November has brought the annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties, or COP. This year was COP30, held in Brazil and drawing more than 56,000 delegates and business representatives from around the globe. Yep, you made the connection — that's a carbon footprint the size of a small city, flying all around the world to protest … the use of carbon.

It was far worse than that. First, there's the massive highway they built right through the Amazon to get to the conference instead of, you know, doing it online. According to the BBC, that meant eight miles of "a new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest."

The highway had been proposed back in 2012, "but it had repeatedly been shelved because of environmental concerns."

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Then rooms at the event were so expensive even some of the delegates balked at the cost. (And most weren't paying for themselves.) So Brazil brought in two large cruise ships to house poorer delegates. One of them advertised that it "offers 11 restaurants, 12 bars, 3 swimming pools, and 8 hot tubs." Life's tough working to save Mother Earth. That's not a climate event — it's a 56,000-person group vacation.

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We're talking Ken Burns, sometime historian and all-around lefty. Burns is in the news for his new documentary series on the Revolutionary War. I'll leave fact-checking that to actual historians. I'm here to mock Burns for his elitist view of rural America. Burns was interviewed on Bulwark's "How to Fix It" podcast, and he decided to shill for his paymasters in formerly public media.

According to Burns, defunding public media will hurt us in non-blue America. "It'll hurt mostly rural communities — maybe that's their intention. There'll be news deserts."

That's right, folks in rural America must not have things like the internet to find news. He sounds like he expects us to be upset because we can't hear NPR while sitting in our outhouse and drinking our moonshine.

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Rural America barely even notices public media. Those outlets are designed for upscale urban audiences who are more than 90% liberal. A country boy can survive … without NPR's ever-left spin on the news.

Things are changing in the opinion section of The Washington Post. In an effort to reach out to other voices, the paper launched a new section called Ripple. Depending on your age, that might mean what happens when you toss a pebble into a pond. Or it could conjure images of the great Redd Foxx playing Fred Sanford in "Sanford and Son." His preferred drink on the show was a fortified wine called Ripple. For oldsters like myself, one wonders if the other names they considered were Mad Dog, Night Train or Thunderbird.

Things are changing in the opinion section of The Washington Post.

Change, as we learned from President Barack Obama, is often not so good. Such is the fate for the Farmers' Almanac. The almanac is, well, buying the farm. No, not that almanac, the other one — or, as The put it, "not to be confused with its older, longtime competitor, The Old Farmer's Almanac in neighboring New Hampshire."

Still, this Maine-based almanac has 208 years under its prodigious belt, and AP says, "it's believed to be the oldest continually published periodical in North America."

The Maine State Capitol in Augusta.

All that is ending in 2026 due to a "chaotic media environment." The staff has nothing to be ashamed of. They outlasted more than half the newspapers I ever worked for. Chaotic, indeed.

And while we are down on the farm, let's talk sheep, followed by goat cuddling. The Washington Post ran a feature on a farmer who rescues gay sheep, under the memorable headline, "I love your sweater. Is it made from gay sheep wool?"

According to the Post, "As many as one in 12 male sheep are non-procreative but show an — ahem — interest in other rams." So the farmer, whose sheep carry names like "Marvin Gay," did "a fashion hookup with Grindr," appropriately the gay hookup site. Together, they launched a fashion show "to promote Rainbow Wool." The title of the show: "I Wool Survive."

Not to be outdone, USA Today marked Thanksgiving by writing about "turkey cuddle therapy." "Cuddling turkeys, in particular," we are told, "can be profound." But don't you dare touch a turkey without its permission. "All interaction between guests and animals happens on the animals' terms − in other words, the turkey needs to choose me," wrote the author.

I will tell you, I cuddled some turkey on Thanksgiving — along with mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

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The media are bombarding us with well-earned complaints about how expensive life is for most Americans and how hard it is to buy a house. Leave it to lefty Vox to zig while the entire world zags. Vox ran a piece in November headlined, "Why owning a house is overrated."

Yeah, building equity and having a place you can fix up and call home — what craziness. What followed was an interview with Jerusalem Demsas, editor-in-chief of The Argument, who argues: "Homeownership is overrated." Now, I agree houses don't always go up in value, but to come out against the American Dream is uniquely liberal.

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Movies that involve quirky judges are more honest than we want to admit. A Missouri judge is losing his job for wearing an Elvis wig and playing "The King" during court cases.

St. Louis Judge Matthew Thornhill "faces a six-month unpaid suspension under the deal he reached with the state," according to AP. After that, he gets 18 more months on the bench before he steps down, possibly to go on tour. (People magazine even had photos of him as Elvis.)

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The Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline went after his love for the "King of Rock 'n' Roll," noting how he posed "with staff in a plastic Elvis wig and sunglasses" and sang from the bench.

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The Elvis-is-everywhere schtick allegedly violated rules on "order and decorum," despite 35 letters backing the judge's character. So the judge was judged and found wanting.

On the bright side, he might have the makings of a sequel to "My Cousin Vinny."

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When a Devastating Famine Hit the Nigerian Village Where I Volunteered, I Felt Powerless. Then I Read This Book (Exclusive) Lizz Schumer, Janet Rich EdwardsDecember 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM 0 Courtesy of Janet Rich Edwards Photos from Janet Rich Edward's time in Niger as a Peace Corps Volunteer, 1982 It was 1984, and I was 22, flying to my post as a Peace Corps volunteer. I was glued to the window as we crossed the Sahara, awed by the barren expanse that was shrouded in red haze to the horizon. When I pressed my hand to the pane, it came back warm.

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It was 1984, and I was 22, flying to my post as a Peace Corps volunteer. I was glued to the window as we crossed the Sahara, awed by the barren expanse that was shrouded in red haze to the horizon. When I pressed my hand to the pane, it came back warm. I remember thinking it would green up as we approached Niger, which I knew was dry, but not desert desert. I'd grown up in the Cuyahoga Valley, splashing through brooks and pressing autumn leaves between wax paper sheets on my mother's ironing board. Only as we descended to the Niamey airport did I make out any trees. They were spindly, unfamiliar. It felt like we were landing on the moon.

My assignment was as a "nutritionist" in a maternal and infant clinic in the village of Torodi. In practice, that meant doing well-baby checkups, mixing up a homemade version of Pedialyte, and lecturing mothers on the value of a balanced diet, which was kind of absurd, given the difficulty of growing vegetables in sand. As out-of-place as I felt, I came to love the work and my colleagues, especially Djulde, the tiny, sharp-witted traditional midwife who taught me jokes in the local language and how to dance to the drums. I held the lantern for her while she delivered babies.

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My favorite part of the job was riding my bicycle out to remote hamlets to check on the children. Toddlers would hide behind their mothers' skirts, thinking I was a ghost. More often than not, I'd return with a live chicken dangling by its feet from my handlebars. I'd learned not to protest the gift; that generosity was the lifeblood of Niger. By the end of the first year, I thought I had my feet under me. But I had no idea what was coming.

If you're old enough, you'll recall the song, "Feed the World," the Band Aid anthem for the Ethiopian famine. Its lyrics were cringey even then, but it was meant as a heartfelt fundraiser for food aid. The song was on a mix tape that a friend sent me, sandwiched between "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "What's Love Got to Do With It?" I danced my heart out to that tape, behind the closed door of my hut so my neighbors couldn't see my awkward moves. The Ethiopian drought felt far off. But by 1985, the whole desert belt of Africa was running out of food.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sent us food aid in bulk packages, including dried soup, which I taught the mothers to pronounce: "MIN–UH–STRO–NEE ZOOP." We laughed together. But the laughter couldn't disguise what was happening. Children were dying. When we lost our first newborn at the clinic, I stepped outside, blinking back tears. Djulde strode up to me and slapped my face — sharp, quick. "Don't you dare cry," she said. "If you do, how will the mother feel?"

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Janet teaching the villagers how to make minestrone soup

I had no knowledge of death. I'd grown up sheltered, losing only grandparents we visited once a year. In Niger, death was suddenly everywhere — even the tough lizards that scampered over the mud walls of my compound were dying. I felt an impotence so deep it verged on despair. Raised vaguely Christian, I had, at best, a wary relationship with God. While I could see that the villagers around me drew great comfort from their faith, the oft-murmured phrase "Insh'Allah "— "God willing" — rang hollow to me.

Then, one day, an army duffel bag of paperbacks arrived from my mother. Inside was Huston Smith's The Religions of Man. I was so hungry for spiritual guidance, I devoured that book. I recall being struck by how similar the great faiths were, each describing something true and eternal, something far larger than us. To be sure, they used different words and parables, but they all seemed to be pointing toward some fundamental truth.

That was the thread that led me to the medieval mystics. For roughly 400 years, from 1100 to about 1500, a series of remarkable women claimed to communicate directly with God, receiving what they called "showings." They were Catholic, but they sounded remarkably similar to modern-day Buddhists. And they were women who sounded like, well, women. Writing from centuries plagued by war and plague and famine, they spoke of divine love. Their words rang with passion, urgency, clarity. The anchoress Julian of Norwich, who probably lost her entire family to the Black Death, was still able to write, "All is well, and all is well, and all manner of things shall be well." When I first read it, I laughed. It sounded naïve.

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Janet (second from right) with her clinic colleagues

But then something happened that I'll never forget. It was late afternoon in the clinic, and the call to prayer had just echoed from the mosque. Our last patient was a toddler who was so sick, his body so wasted, it was obvious he wouldn't last the night. My heart ached for him and his mother, who held him tightly. The little boy raised his head to look at me and suddenly everything fell away. His gaze was direct and his eyes were frank. He seemed to know he was dying. I felt that I was looking into the eyes of someone who had already seen ahead, and I somehow knew — I knew — that something in him would live on. I can't explain how I knew, nor can I expect anyone to believe me. He died that night. But in the morning, alongside the pain, I felt a strange peace. Nothing was well. Everything was well. Both were true. Somehow, in the eyes of that child, I'd glimpsed a mystery.

That paradox stayed with me. I came home, fell in love, got married, had children and a career. It wasn't until later, after my daughters left home, while attending a lecture about medieval nuns who crafted illuminated manuscripts, that I knew I wanted to write about a mystic. I had wondered so long about the brave women who dared to speak their experience. They were as likely to be branded heretic as they were to be recognized as messengers of God. As a young woman, I'd been struck by their words. As I grew older, I grew more curious about their lives. That's why I wrote Canticle, a novel about a headstrong mystic and the sisterhood that shelters her. It's a story with roots in a famine, a book, a child, and the mystery that still makes me wonder.

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**8:15 p.m.*****Monday Night Football* (New York Giants at New England Patriots) - ABC / ESPN

**8:30 p.m.*****The Neighborhood* - CBS******

**9 p.m.*********Baked With Love: Holiday* - Hallmark*******Celebrity Weakest Link *- Fox*******FBI* - CBS*******Gingerbread Land: The Biggest Little Holiday Competition* - Magnolia Network and Food Network (next day on HBO Max and Discovery+)*******Paul Anka: His Way* (doc) - HBO / HBO Max*******The Pitt* (network premiere) - TNT*******Seeking Sister Wife* (season finale) - TLC*******The Voice* - NBC (next day on Peacock)*******Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen* - Bravo******

**10 p.m.*****Brilliant Minds* (fall finale) - NBC*******Watson *- CBS

**11 p.m.*****The Daily Show* - Comedy Central**

Tuesday, Dec. 2

VANDERPUMP RULES -- Season:12 -- Pictured: (l-r) Natalie Maguire, Shayne Davis, Marcus Johnson, Audrey Lingle, Demy Selem, Lisa Vanderpump, Angelica Jensen, Kim Suarez, Venus Binkley, Jason Cohen, Chris Hah

'Vanderpump Rules'.

Mark Hunter/Bravo

**Movies*****Adventure Tom* - Digital*******Bau* - Digital*******Tapawingo* - Digital*******Tron: Ares* - Digital******

**Streaming*********5-Star* (docuseries debut) - Paramount+*******All's Fair *- Hulu*******The Boulet Brothers' Dragula* - Shudder*******Matt Rife: Unwrapped — A Christmas Crowd Work Special* - Netflix*******Sean Combs: The Reckoning* (docuseries debut) - Netflix*******Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators* - BritBox*******Vanguard* - Viaplay******

**8 p.m.*****Beat Bobby Flay: Holiday Throwdown* - Food Network (next day on HBO Max and Discovery+)*******Dancing With the Stars: Dancing With the Holidays* (special) - ABC*******Fixer to Fabulous* (season premiere) - HGTV*******Love & Hip Hop Miami* - BET*******NCIS* - CBS*******The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City* - Bravo******

**9 p.m.*********Baylen Out Loud* - TLC*******CMA Country Christmas* (special) - ABC*******Hard Knocks: In Season With the NFC East* (season premiere) - HBO / HBO Max*******NCIS: Origins* - CBS*******Vanderpump Rules* (season premiere) - Bravo******

**10 p.m.*********7 Little Johnstons* - TLC*******Kimora: Back in the Fab Lane* (series debut) - E!*******NCIS: Sydney* - CBS*******Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen* - Bravo*******What Would You Do?: Holiday Edition* (special) - ABC*******Who Hired the Hit Man?* - ID (next day on HBO Max)

**10:30 p.m.*****Kimora: Back in the Fab Lane* - E!******

**11 p.m.*********The Daily Show* - Comedy Central**

Your guide to 2025 TV premiere dates

TV Premier Dates with Billy Bob in Landman; Millie Bobby Brown in Stranger Things; Walton Goggins as the Ghoul in Fallout; Niecy Nash in All's Fair

Your guide to 2025 movie release dates

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Wednesday, Dec. 3

Oh. What. Fun.

'Oh. What. Fun.'.

Alisha Wetherill/Prime

**Movies*****My Secret Santa* - Netflix*******Oh. What. Fun.* - Prime Video

**Streaming*********Down Cemetery Road* - Apple TV*******Ink Master* - Paramount*******Loot* - Apple TV*******The Mighty Nein* - Prime Video*******The New Years* (series debut) - MUBI*******Palm Royale *- Apple TV*******With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration* (special) - Netflix******

**8 p.m.*********The Challenge: Vets and New Threats* - MTV*******Christmas in Rockefeller Center *- NBC / Peacock*******The Floor* - Fox*******Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent* (season finale) - The CW*******Shifting Gears *- ABC*******Survivor* - CBS*******Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas* - Food Network (next day on HBO Max and Discovery+)

**8:30 p.m.*****Abbott Elementary* - ABC******

**9 p.m.*********99 to Beat* - Fox*******Cheap A$$ Beach Houses* (series debut) - HGTV*******Dangerously Obese* - TLC*******Expedition Unknown* - Discovery*******Sistas* - BET*******Southern Charm* - Bravo (next day on Peacock)******

**9:30 p.m.*****The Amazing Race* - CBS*******Cheap A$$ Beach Houses* - HGTV******

**10 p.m.*********About Face* (season finale) - TLC*******Christmas in Nashville* (special) - NBC*******Expedition Files* - Discovery*******Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen* - Bravo******

**11 p.m.*****The Daily Show* - Comedy Central******

Thursday, Dec. 4

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS -- Season:15 -- Pictured: (l-r) Sutton Stracke, Rachel Zoe, Bozoma Saint John, Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards, Amanda France

'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'.

Phylicia J. L. Munn/Bravo

**Movies*****Love After Holidays* - BET+*******Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning* (streaming debut) - Paramount+******

**Streaming*********The Abandons* (series debut) - Netflix*******Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake* - HBO Max*******Ângela Diniz: Murdered and Convicted* - HBO / HBO Max*******The Assassin* - AMC+*******Blue Lights* - BritBox*******The Kardashians* - Hulu*******Murdering Love* (U.S. debut) - Viaplay*******The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives* (reunion special) - Hulu******

**8 p.m.*********Celebrity Family Feud* - ABC*******George & Mandy's First Marriage* - CBS*******Hell's Kitchen* - Fox*******The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills* (season premiere) - Bravo********

**8:15 p.m.*********Thursday Night Football* (Dallas Cowboys at Detroit Lions) - Prime Video

**9 p.m.*****The Great Christmas Light Fight* (season premiere) - ABC*******It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley *(doc) - HBO / HBO Max*******Matlock* - CBS*******Next Level Baker* (series debut) - Fox

**9:15 p.m.*****Watch Watch Happens Live With Andy Cohen* - Bravo

**10 p.m.*****Elsbeth* - CBS*******The Great Christmas Light Fight* - ABC******

**11 p.m.*****The Daily Show* - Comedy Central**

Friday, Dec. 5

Jay Kelly. George Clooney as Jay Kelly in Jay Kelly.

George Clooney in 'Jay Kelly'.

Peter Mountain/Netflix

**Movies*****100 Nights of Hero* - In theaters*******The Chronology of Water* - In select theaters*******Come Closer* - In select theaters*******The Family McMullen* - HBO Max*******Five Nights at Freddy's 2* - In theaters*******Frontier Crucible* - In theaters, Digital*******La Grazia* - In theaters*******Hunting Season* - In theaters, Digital, VOD*******Jay Kelly* - Netflix*******Jingle Bell Wedding* - The Roku Channel*******Man Finds Tape* - In theaters*******Merrily We Roll Along* (Broadway film) - In theaters*******The New Yorker at 100* (doc) - Netflix*******Night in West Texas* (doc) - In theaters*******A Private Life* - In select theaters*******Reflection in a Dead Diamond* - Shudder*******Rosemead* - In select theaters*******Speed Train* - In theaters, VOD*******Universal* - Digital*******WTO/99* (doc) - In select theaters******

**Streaming*****The First Snow of Fraggle Roc*k (holiday special) - Apple TV*******The Last Frontier* (season finale) - Apple TV*******Heated Rivalry* - HBO Max*******Owning Manhattan* (season premiere) - Netflix*******Pluribus* - Apple TV*******The Seduction* - HBO Max******

**8 p.m.*********2025 National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony* (special) - GAF*******Friday Night Vibes* (*Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody*) - TBS*******Gold Rush* - Discovery *******Jingle All the Way to Love* (movie) - Lifetime*******The Last Cowboy* - CMT*******Power Book IV: Force* - Starz*******Ready to Love* - OWN*******Sheriff Country* - CBS*******Twelve Dates 'Til Christmas* (series debut) - Hallmark******

**9 p.m.*****Fire Country* - CBS*******The Last Woodsman* - Discovery*******Spartacus: House of Ashur* (series debut) - Starz*******Twelve Dates 'Til Christmas* - Hallmark*******The Unbelievable With Dan Aykroyd* - History

**9:15 p.m.*****Happy's Place* - NBC

**9:45 p.m.*****Stumble* - NBC******

**10 p.m.*****Boston Blue* - CBS*******A Christmas Cookbook* (movie) - Lifetime*******Everything on the Menu With Braun Strowman* (season finale) - USA*******It's Florida, Man* - HBO / HBO Max*******Spartacus: House of Ashur* - Starz

**10:15 p.m.*****Dateline* - NBC**

Saturday, Dec. 6

**8 p.m.*********Cranberries and Carols* (movie) - GAF*******Deck the Hallways* (movie) - Lifetime*******Dinner and a Movie* (*Sweet Home Alabama*) - TBS*******Love & Marriage: Huntsville* - OWN*******She's Making a List* (movie) - Hallmark ******

**9 p.m.*****The Christmas Showdown* (movie) - OWN******

**10 p.m.*****48 Hours* - CBS*******The Hallmark Christmas Experience: A Hometown Holiday Christmas Special* - Hallmark*******Merry Missed Connection* (movie) - Lifetime

**11:30 p.m.*********Saturday Night Live* (host Melissa McCarthy; musical guest Dijon) - NBC******

Sunday, Dec. 7

Justin Hartley on 'Tracker'.

Sergei Bachlakov/CBS

**Streaming*********Landman* - Paramount+*******Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints* (fall finale) - FOX Nation*******Mayor of Kingstown* - Paramount+******

**6 p.m.*****Snapped: Behind Bars* - Oxygen******

**7 p.m.*********60 Minutes* - CBS*******America's Funniest Home Videos* - ABC*******Killer Relationship With Faith Jenkins* - Oxygen

**8 p.m.*********90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days* (season premiere) - TLC*******Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking* (season finale) - Food Network (next day on HBO Max and Discovery+)*******Killer Grannies* - Oxygen*******Masterpiece: Miss Scarlet* (season premiere) - PBS*******Mistletoe at the Manor* (movie) - GAF*******The Real Housewives of Potomac* - Bravo*******Reality Hot Seat* (special) - Peacock*******The Simpsons* - Fox*******Single on the 25th* (movie) - Hallmark*******Tracker* - CBS********

**8:15 p.m.*****Sunday Night Football* (Houston Texans at Kansas City Chiefs) - NBC

**8:30 p.m.*********Universal Basic Guys* - Fox********

**9 p.m.*********It: Welcome to Derry* - HBO / HBO Max*******Krapopolis* - Fox*******Married to Medicine* - Bravo*******The Road* - CBS*******Robin Hood* - MGM+*******Sweet Empire: Winter Wars* - Food Network (next day on HBO Max and Discovery+)******

**9:30 p.m.*****Bob's Burgers* - Fox******

**10 p.m.*********Sister Wives* - TLC*******Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen* - Bravo*******Words + Music* - MGM+******

**10:30 p.m.*****I Love LA* - HBO / HBO Max**

*times are ET and subject to change

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