What to stream Christmas weekend: Wonder Woman 1984, Soul
UPI News Service, 12/24/2020
Gal Gadot is back as Wonder Woman, Jamie Foxx voices the lead in Disney and Pixar s next animated feature and Shonda Rhimes has a new period drama premiering this holiday weekend.
ADVERTISEMENT In addition, Tessa Thompson falls in love with a saxophonist in Sylvie s Love, Letterkenny begins its ninth season and Dave Matthews, Diplo and Foo Fighters will perform during a virtual music festival.
Here s a rundown of some of the films, TV shows and concerts that will be released on Christmas and this weekend.
Films The Midnight Sky Netflix
This Friday s Christmas Day edition of SmackDown was taped at the WWE ThunderDome on Tuesday night.
Like live WWE television episodes, the tapings included a virtual crowd on the screens of the ThunderDome. Three title matches were taped for Friday s show, which will air on Fox at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
Here are the results:
- Universal Champion Roman Reigns defeated Kevin Owens in a steel cage match to retain his title
From outside of the ring, Jey Uso handcuffed Owens to the cage near the finish. Reigns then exited the cage to retain the Universal Championship.
- Women s Tag Team Champions Asuka & Charlotte Flair defeated Sasha Banks & Bianca Belair and Bayley & Carmella in a triple threat elimination match to retain their titles
With this week s SmackDown airing on Christmas Day, the episode was taped in advance on Tuesday night.
The tapings were headlined by Big E defeating Sami Zayn in a lumberjack match to win the Intercontinental Championship. Big E then celebrated with some of the lumberjacks to close the show.
This is the second time Big E has held the Intercontinental title during his career. He previously held the championship from November 2013 to May 2014.
The lumberjack stipulation was due to Zayn winning matches by countout multiple times in recent weeks. When Zayn and Big E faced off in a non-title match on SmackDown earlier this month, Zayn defeated Big E by countout. Zayn had gone under the ring during the match and Big E chased him. Big E held onto Zayn s leg to try and stop him from beating the count, but Zayn broke out and got back into the ring to get the countout win.
Another title match has been added to the Christmas Day edition of WWE SmackDown.
It was announced during Raw tonight that new Women s Tag Team Champions Asuka & Charlotte Flair will make their first title defense on this Friday s Christmas Day episode of SmackDown. Their challengers for the show haven t been revealed.
After six months away from WWE programming, Charlotte returned as Asuka s partner at Sunday s TLC pay-per-view. They defeated Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax to win the Women s Tag Team titles. Lana was originally announced as Asuka s partner for TLC, but there was an angle on Raw last week where it was said that Lana wasn t cleared to compete after being attacked by Baszler & Jax.