Your Daily TV Cave Guide: What to Watch on December 4
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Welcome back, Cave Dwellers! Grab your remote, your snacks, and maybe a blanket to hide behind—today’s TV lineup serves up juicy reunions, wild premieres, ghostly drama, Hollywood glitz, and one extremely aggressive Secret Santa.
We dug through every streaming service, cable slot, and primetime showdown so you don’t have to. Here’s everything hitting your screen today.
🌅 Late-Night & All-Day Binges (Starting 3:00 AM ET)
Need something to binge before the rest of the world wakes up? We got you.
🎬 The Abandons – Netflix
Series PremiereNetflix drops eight episodes of this gritty frontier saga where misfit families try to stake their claim in 1850s Oregon. If the cast list—Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson—doesn’t get you, the lawless frontier justice will. Check out our review here.
🧁 Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake – HBO Max
Fionna dives into magic for answers while Huntress goes detective mode in her own search. Expect chaos. The good kind.
🚨 Blue Lights – BritBox
Grace opens up about her past, Aisling spirals, and Tommy faces a brutal personal crossroads. Just another calm day in Belfast. Totally fine.
💎 The Kardashians – Hulu
Kim returns to Paris for an emotional confrontation nearly a decade after the infamous robbery. Yes, you’ll need tissues. No, you won’t admit it.
💔 Love After Holidays – BET+ (Movie Premiere)
Trina stars as a talk show host confronting addiction, family fractures, and her own truth. Heavy, heartfelt, and just messy enough for a Thursday binge.
🔥 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – Paramount+
The IMF is back, baby! Ethan Hunt faces off against a globe-hacking AI known as The Entity. Your popcorn will not survive.
🎄 The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives – Season 3 Reunion – Hulu
Stassi Schroeder hosts a holiday reunion that is… less holly, more unholy. Expect receipts, scandals, and festive chaos.
🌟 Primetime Highlights
🕗 8:00 PM ET
🎉 Celebrity Family Feud: The Housemaid vs The Housewives Holiday Showdown – ABC
The cast of The Housemaid takes on an all-star squad of beloved Housewives. Expect yelling, glitter, and Steve Harvey
wondering how he ended up here. Again.
🎁 Do You Fear What I Fear – LMN (Movie Premiere)
A woman’s fresh start is derailed by a Secret Santa who apparently missed the “joy and peace” memo. Featuring messages no one wants and vibes no one needs.
🛞 Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage – CBS
Family feuds heat up when Georgie needs help at the tire shop. Meanwhile, Jim learns the DMV is where youth goes to die.
🔥 Hell’s Kitchen – FOX
It’s Blind Taste Test night! You know what that means: blindfolds, shouting, and at least one meltdown. Chef Ramsay’s holiday spirit? TBD.
😱 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills – Bravo
Season 15 PremiereDorit is newly single and flirting with a summer of freedom. Kyle throws a Summer Solstice party, because of course she does. Rachel Zoe also appears—your fashion levels may spike dangerously.
🏈 8:15 PM ET – Thursday Night Football – Prime Video
Cowboys vs. Lions. Whether you're here for the game, the drama, or the chaos of simultaneous fantasy football heartbreak—enjoy.
👻 8:30 PM ET – Ghosts – CBS
Sam tries to help Eric pop the question, but Sasappis shakes things up. Isaac, meanwhile, attempts to fit in with the basement crew. Good luck with that.
🎄 9:00 PM ET
💡 The Great Christmas Light Fight – ABC
Season 13 Premiere – Two EpisodesThree families battle for $50K and bragging rights as the brightest house on Earth. Sunglasses recommended.
🎤 It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley – HBO
A tender deep-dive into the short, brilliant life of Jeff Buckley. Haunting music, heartbreaking story, beautiful filmmaking.
👩⚖️ Matlock – CBS
Olympia investigates a mysterious new husband while she and Matty stumble on a game-changing reveal. Guest star Vernee Watson joins the fun—and the drama.
🍰 Next Level Baker – FOX (Three-Week Event Premiere)
Gordon Ramsay, Carla Hall, and Candace Nelson mentor elite bakers on the road to Winner Wonderland. Expect sugar highs and emotional lows.
🔍 10:00 PM ET
🕵️ Elsbeth – CBS
A college athletic director turns up dead after a confrontation involving a coach’s twentysomething girlfriend—played by Lana Condor. This case is twisty, messy, and very on-brand.
🍿 That’s Your Day in TV!
Whether you’re craving frontier drama, reality fireworks, holiday sparkle, or a good old-fashioned murder mystery, December 4 has enough content to bury you in your couch.
See you back in The TV Cave tomorrow for another round of What to Watch!