What to Watch Friday: ‘Dateline’ has ‘tale of lust’ and murder in small NC town
Here’s what’s on TV tonight.
Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas begins
It’s not even Halloween, but it’s time for romantic Christmas movies. Sorry/not sorry. Here’s what’s coming:
Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas officially starts on Friday, Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. with “Noel Next Door,” about a single mom who gets into a war of words with her Grinchy neighbor, who ends up stealing her heart. There are also new Christmas movies airing Saturday and Sunday night this weekend, with new movies every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from now until Christmas (download the full schedule here).
Looking ahead to tomorrow night, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel launches its Miracles of Christmas slate of movies on Saturday, Oct. 22. We’ll get new movies there every Saturday until Christmas (full schedule here).
And while we’re at it, Lifetime’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” schedule of Christmas movies starts on Saturday, Nov. 5, with new movies every Saturday and Sunday. You can see their schedule here.
‘Dateline: Righteous Obsession’ (9 p.m., NBC)
This week’s “Dateline” gets a little local, with correspondent Dennis Murphy reporting on the August 2018 murder of antiques store owner Milton Henry Sawyer Jr. in the “sleepy waterfront North Carolina community” of Elizabeth City.
Murphy describes the case as a tale of “lust, obsession and manipulation,” with attorney Kim Pellini telling “Dateline” that the story “sounds like a Lifetime movie.” The episode will detail what investigators and prosecutors know about the case, including suspects, motive, trial and convictions. Interviews include: Milton Sawyer’s son Caleb Sawyer, Oregon dairy farmer and former youth pastor Louie Kazemier, state homicide investigator Steven Norman, Pasquotank County investigator Major Aaron Wallio and others.
20/20 (9 p.m., ABC)
This week’s case: an international search for millionaire suspected in wife’s murder takes a shocking twist.
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