The List for Tuesday, January 4th 2021

Welcome to The List,

Have you seen the new show 1883?  Just two episodes in and it looks pretty good…the prequel to the highly rated “Yellowstone” Starring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill…. Tim Says He Got Valuable Acting Advice from Billy Bob Thornton On The Set… ” He was like the angel on my shoulder. The best advice he ever gave me is, if you think you’re not doing enough, you’re probably still doing too much.” ”1883” is currently streaming on Paramount +

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The final season of “This Is Us” returns tonight, Sterling K. Brown who plays Randal explains with all the emotional ups and down his character has faced what a “happy ending” for Randal would look like on the show. “He fights so much within himself, is he enough. Is he black enough, does he fit in this family does he fit in the black community? I just want him to know he belongs wherever he is, is what I call ‘happiness for Randal’ “This Is Us” returns for it’s final season tonight on NBC

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NBC says the ‘Betty White Challenge’ is trending online. The challenge calls for people to donate $5 to animal shelters on what would have been White’s 100th birthday on January 17th. The challenge reads: “Make her 100th birthday the movement she deserves.”

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First kisses remember yours?  Was it everything you thought it would be?  Sometimes it doesn’t go as planned…Thomas Rhett’s First Kiss Wasn’t Memorable … “First kiss was 15 on my parents’ trampoline. And we literally clanked teeth. Have you ever clanked teeth? It’s horrible. I mean, there is no recovering from that. But somehow, someway it did.” Location,  location location…You never want to have your first kiss while trying to do summersaults on a…did he say his PARENTS trampoline??

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We Got This Covered says plans for a Knight Rider movie are on hold due to time constraints. Director James Gunn tweeted “My friend David Hasselhoff and I have discussed doing a modern continuation of Knight Rider many times. The primary hurdle has been there aren’t enough hours in the day to do all the cool things I want to do!”

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