Twelve days before Thanksgiving and there’s four new Christmas movies on cable (it will only get worse as we go on).
In “Christmas at Plumhill Manor” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), Maria Menounos, pictured here, portrays a New York architect who inherits a British manor where she finds Christmas and a dude (Kyle Pryor).
Ashley Williams plays a bookworm paired with an ex-hockey star (Andrew Walker) for a cross country race in “Jingle Bell Run” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.).
Candace Cameron Bure finds a tape in her late dad’s truck that instructs her to take a trip on “A Christmas Less Traveled” (Great American Family, 8 p.m.), with Eric Johnson.
And in “Dognapped: Hound for the Holidays” (UPtv, 7 p.m.), Vivica A. Fox plays a social media influencer whose dog is kidnapped. She sends her assistant (Sara Ball) and a local vet (Noah Fearnley) to search, but they take time to find each other.
But there is a replay of the 2022 “A Waltons Thanksgiving” (CW, 8 p.m.).
Miss Universe 2024 (Roku, Telemundo, 8 p.m.) is held in Mexico City. Hosting is Mario Lopez with Olivia Culpo, Zuri Hall and Catriona Gray.
Primetime network college football has Oregon at Wisconsin (NBC, 7:30 p.m.), Tennessee at Georgia (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) and Cincinnati at Iowa State (Fox, 8 p.m.). The day’s other games are listed below.
Roy Wood Jr. and the team from “Have I Got News for You” (CNN, 9 p.m.) certainly have a lot of comic material to work with this week.
“Ghost Adventures: House Calls” (Travel, 9 p.m.) visits an historic house in Fort Gaines, Ga.
The ladies’ St. Thomas adventure wraps up on “Love and Marriage: Huntsville” (OWN, 8 p.m.).
“To Catch a Smuggler” (National Geographic, 8 p.m.) goes on a 48-hour sting.
Svengoolie presents Vincent Price in “Dr. Phibes Rises Again” (MeTV, 8 p.m.).
Steven Spielberg has some unexpected choices when he hosts Turner Classic Movies tonight: “Jailhouse Rock” (8 p.m.) and “Forty Guns” (10 p.m.), both from 1957. His own “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (3:30 p.m.) runs earlier in the day. The 12 o’clock noir is “The Big Combo” (midnight), which is followed by “Blue Velvet” (2 a.m.) and just plain ”Blue” (4:15 a.m.). The midday musical is “The Glass Slipper” (noon).
NBA action has San Antonio at Dallas (NBA, 8:30 p.m.),
Hockey has St. Louis at Boston (NHL, 1 p.m.) and Edmonton at Toronto (NHL, 7 p.m.).
College football begins at noon with games that include Tulane at Navy (ESPN2), Utah at Colorado (Fox), Texas at Arkansas (ABC), Clemson at Pittsburgh (ESPN), Clark Atlanta at Miles (ESPNU) in the SIAC championship, and Louisiana Tech at Western Kentucky (CBS Sports).
After Michigan State at Illinois (Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.) and Syracuse at California (CW, 3 p.m.), games at 3:30 include Virginia at Notre Dame (NBC), LSU at Florida (ABC), Penn State at Purdue (CBS), Boston College at SMU (ESPN) and Oregon State at Air Force (CBS Sports).
Then comes James Madison at Old Dominion (ESPNU, 4 p.m.), Nebraska at Southern California (CW, 4 p.m.), Baylor at West Virginia (ESPN2, 4 p.m.), Rutgers at Maryland (Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.), Arizona State at Kansas State (ESPN, 7 p.m.), Boise State at San Jose State (CBS Sports, 7 p.m.), Alabama-Birmingham at Memphis (ESPN2, 8 p.m.), Kansas at Brigham Young (ESPN, 10:15 p.m.) and San Diego State at UNLV (CBS Sports, 10:30 p.m.).
Men’s college basketball includes Wake Forest at Xavier (Fox Sports 1, noon), Wagner at Seton Hall (Fox Sports 2, noon), Notre Dame at Georgetown (NBC, 1 p.m.), Wisconsin Green Bay at Providence (Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.) and Missouri Kansas City at Creighton (Fox Sports 2, 7 p.m.).
Juanes plays a new “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings).
Expect a lot of “Brat” when Charli XCX hosts and is musical guest on a new “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.).