Dec. 1 — The CW airs the series finale of “Superman & Lois,” which also wraps up the network’s DC Arrowverse, launched 12 years ago when “Arrow” led to “The Flash,” “Supergirl,” “Legends of Tomorrow,” “Black Lightning” and “Batwoman,” plus a few web-only series. “S&L” leads Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch first appeared as the characters in Arrowverse crossover shows.
Dec. 3 — Jude Law stars in “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” about a group of kids in the New Republic era of the “Star Wars” saga trying to get home. The eight-part live-action series airs on Disney+.
Dec. 6 — Hakuna matata! The CGI live-action “Mufasa” is a prequel to 2019’s “Lion King,” as Rafiki (John Kani) narrates a series of flashbacks about the rise of a king — with Mufasa and a gang of misfits banding together to seek their destiny and defend themselves against a dangerous enemy. Aaron Pierre, Seth Rogan and Keith David are featured. In movie theaters.
Dec. 7 — ABC-TV presents four college football conference championship games on this Saturday: the SEC, the ACC, the Big 12, and the Big Ten.
Dec. 8 — The long, love/hate relationship between writer Arthur Conan Doyle and his creation Sherlock Holmes is examined by British historian Lucy Worsley in the three-part program, which continues on Dec. 15 and Dec. 22. The author and his detective in more than 60 stories, movies, radio and TV shows coexisted from Victorian England through World War I. Doyle became rich and famous, then resented Holmes, but finally reconciled with the detective’s return as Doyle’s own life darkened. PBS.
Dec. 20 — Based on a true story overlooked for decades, “Six Triple Eight” stars Kerry Washington, Tyler Perry, Sam Waterston and Susan Sarandon in an inspiring tale about 855 Black women in the all-female 6888th Central Postal Delivery Battalion, assigned to organize and deliver a huge backlog of military mail. Netflix.
Dec. 25 — Actor Timothee Chalamet seems ever-present in filmdom; who’d be surprised if he starred in a remake of “Citizen Kane” or “Shane”? In “A Complete Unknown,” Chalamet (who turns 29 two days after the film opens) portrays teenage Minnesota singer-songwriter Bobby Zimmerman as he becomes Bob Dylan in New York, the music industry and pop culture, from a Next Generation icon in folk music to a “traitor,” electrifying his music (and audience) with a set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival backed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. In theaters, the 135-minute biopic co-stars Ed Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie — plus Will Price as Butterfield and Eli Brown as Butterfield’s lead guitarist Mike Bloomfield.