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Tonight s top telly includes Outlander star Sam Heughan in SAS: Red Notice, a very busy Late Late Show, a visit to The Comedy Vaults at The BBC, and the pick of new stuff that’s streaming . . .
Pick of the Day
SAS: Red Notice, Sky Cinema & NOW TV
Outlander star Sam Heughan heads the cast in this action thriller based on the best-selling novel of the same name by former SAS operative Andy McNab. Here s our review.
An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham (Heughan), faces a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel.
As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.
It’s not paranoia if the threat is real. A rogue A.I. might spell global catastrophe in NEXT, starring John Slattery. Watch Season 1 full episodes only on FOX!
You know how everyone keeps talking about certain TV shows as an 18-hour movie or whatever?
Next is the opposite: a 10-hour TV show that would have been a much better two-hour film. It nailed the AI thriller part, but was forced to stretch that premise out like an all-day sucker. Each episode was broken down into simple goals to aid the viewer: Decrypt the hard drive; insert a virus into Next; and now, in the finale, blow it all up with a truck bomb.
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John Slattery wasn’t trying super hard by this point, but such is his effortless charm that he doesn’t really have to. Still he is much less believable as a guy who would take a bunch of office workers hostage than he is as a guy who would infiltrate a kids’ birthday party to get access to some tech.Fernanda Andrade as Shea Salazar is the series’ actual revelation, taking the stereotypical by-the-book FBI agent (helllllllo Dana Scully) and putting her through the absolute wringer: having her have to kill her fat
The streaming services are bringing the big-budget Christmas presents for the holiday season including three would-be blockbuster films opening wide at home, on your TV.
Wonder Woman 1984 is easily the biggest story this week, as Warner Bros. kicks off its new release strategy to simultaneously drop its films on HBO Max and in theaters. Another major Christmas Day film drop is heading to Disney+, as Pixar s buzzy new original film
Soul hits the service. So yeah, with theaters largely closed this holiday, the big movies are coming to us. But that s not all! Netflix is also in the mix, with its new post-apocalyptic film