By Rick Gables
Adrian Grenier and Kaitlin Doubleday bring the holiday spirit to rock legend Elvis Presley’s famed estate as they star in Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays, a new, original movie premiering Saturday, Nov. 23, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Hallmark Channel as part of the network’s annual Countdown to Christmas programming event. Entertainment industry legend and Graceland steward Priscilla Presley makes a special appearance in this Hallmark holiday romance, shot on location at Graceland Mansion in Memphis. World-traveler Harper Ellis (Doubleday) returns to Memphis for the holidays to stay with her family and interview for an overseas position at a museum. While there, she takes an au pair position for wealthy widow Owen Reed (Grenier) while she awaits news about the museum job. Romantic feelings between Harper and Owen develop and Harper realizes how much she enjoys living close to family. Will she decide to make her home for the holidays her forever home?
SHOWTIME will premiere season seven of Ray Donovan on Sunday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m. ET/PT (a new time slot). This season finds Ray (Liev Schreiber) working to be the man his family needs him to be. While he makes progress with Dr. Amiot (Alan Alda), there are dangers from the past that require the Ray Donovan of old. Between NYC mayor Ed Feratti (Zach Grenier), an unrelenting NYPD officer hunting for the truth and clients old and new, Ray struggles to find the balance between fixing for clients and fixing himself. And when Feratti’s corruption brings a piece of Mickey’s past (Jon Voight) back to New York, Ray is forced to seek answers to long-buried questions.
Season three of the hit series America in Color will premiere Sunday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel. This season transforms decades of black and white, bringing figures like Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria and Frank Sinatra, along with events like the Hindenburg disaster into the full-color world they lived. Six new episodes will explore rich themes. The immigration-themed season premiere includes rare footage of world-renowned physicist Albert Einstein’s journey from Nazi-era Germany to American citizenship.
