What To Watch: Martin Short Hosts SNL, PLL Vet's Christmas Romance And More
On TV this Saturday: Martin Short returns to Studio 8H, a Pretty Little Liars vet gets a Christmas crush and 48 Hours takes another look at the JonBenét Ramsey murder case. Here are eight programs to keep on your radar. (Also check out our weekly TVLine-Up of premieres and finales and monthly streaming guide.)
Showtimes for December 21, 2024
College Football
First round playoff games include SMU vs. Penn State (12 pm, TNT); Clemson vs. Texas (4 pm, TNT); and Tennessee vs. Ohio State (8 pm, ABC/ESPN).
A Carpenter Christmas Romance
TV-movie premiere: A novelist (Pretty Little Liars' Sasha Pieterse) flees to her family’s farmhouse to finish her book and is reunited with an old crush (The Sex Lives of College Girls' Mitchell Slaggert). (View Christmas Movie Guide!)
Christmas in Scotland
TV-movie premiere: An installation designer (The Sandman's Jill Winternitz) and a wealthy heir (Annika's Dominic Watters) who doesn't like Christmas help a Scottish community win a "Best Christmas Village" festival.
Happy Howlidays
TV-movie premiere: A webpage editor (90210's Jessica Lowndes) crosses paths with a dog shelter owner (Finding Mr. Christmas winner Ezra Moreland) after finding a stray.
The Waltons' Homecoming
In the 2021 TV-movie, John Sr.’s (Firefly Lane‘s Ben Lawson) Christmas trip home is threatened by a dangerous storm; Logan Shroyer (This Is Us) and Bellamy Young (Scandal) co-star.
24-Karat Christmas
TV-movie premiere: When a jewelry designer (All Rise's Samantha Marie Ware) accidentally sends a set of wedding bands off with the wrong person, she and the best man (The Kings of Napa's Curtis Hamilton) must track them down.
48 Hours
Erin Moriarty examines the unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey, a case she's been covering since 1999.
Saturday Night Live
Only Murders in the Building's Martin Short hosts; Hozier performs.