Wes Chatham in “The Expanse” RAFY/SYFY The highly anticipated 10-hour Syfy series “The Expanse” will premiere on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14 and 15, at 10 p.m.
This highly ambitious series is set 200 years in the future and follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective (played by Thomas Jane) and a rogue ship’s captain (played by Steven Strait) together in a race across the solar system that will expose the greatest conspiracy in human history. Wes Chatham and Shohreh Aghdashloo also star, rounding out a very strong cast.
Hallmark Channel will premiere its movie “On the Twelfth Day of Christmas,” starring Brooke Nevin and Robin Dunne, on Saturday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. Mitch O’Grady was the Christmas romance that never was for Maggie Chalke. After he helped her have Christmas when Maggie was certain she was going to miss it, Mitch disappeared.
When Mitch returns ten years later as the local DJ, Maggie returns the favor by helping him learn to love Christmas again by sending him twelve Secret Santa gifts of things she knows he loves to do at Christmas.
NBC will air a special episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls” on Thursday, Dec. 17 at 10 p.m. Grylls and President Obama relish the great outdoors in an intimate and freewheeling discussion deep in the Alaskan wilderness. In this unprecedented telecast, famed survivalist Grylls and the President sojourn across the beautiful Alaskan countryside with the commander-in-chief revealing off-the-script stories.
In their intimate conversation, President Obama chats about what it means to be a father who happens to be President, his relationship with his wife and children and, like all parents, balancing time between work and home. No subject is off limits in this one-on-one interview.