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10 Best Things Coming to Amazon's Prime Video in December 2024

The holidays bring a spiky new series with Jamie Lee Curtis and a pop culture-centric version 'Jeopardy!'


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Jamie Lee Curtis in 'The Sticky'
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Things are changing in Amazon’s streaming world. The e-retailer just announced that it’s shutting down its free, ad-supported streamer Freevee, with shows like Judy Justice and the Australian soap Neighbours migrating to its main service, Prime Video. And Prime is continuing to stream lots of interesting fare, including holiday favorites like It’s a Wonderful Life and Love Actually. There are also new shows, including a Colin Jost-hosted version of Jeopardy! featuring teams answering (or asking) questions exclusively about pop culture. Even sweeter may be a new series, The Sticky, starring Emmy winner Margo Martindale, 73, and Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis, 65, based on the real-life heist of thousands of barrels of Canadian maple syrup. Plan to swap the microwave popcorn for some flapjacks and enjoy.

Here are our picks for Prime’s best new offerings.

Coming December 1

Holiday Inn (1942)

The classic Hollywood musical starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire continues to charm with its let’s-put-on-a-show spirt and a host of Irving Berlin songs, including a standard that was introduced with this film: “White Christmas.”

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Frank Capra’s sentimental tale about a small-town boy in a moment of holiday-season depression was a box office flop, but it may be Hollywood’s biggest cult hit – charming millions of viewers each December with its life-affirming message about how everybody can make a difference in this old world.

Scrooged (1988)

In this updated version of A Christmas Carol, Bill Murray, 74, plays a Scroogey television network executive bent on holiday ratings domination at all cost – until a series of ghostly visitors reminds him of the true spirit of the season. The film works better as biting media-world satire than warm-hearted transformation story, but Carol Kane, 72, is a hoot as the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Coming December 3

Jack in Time for Christmas (2024)

In this feature-length blend of scripted comedy and unscripted travelogue, British comedian Jack Whitehall finds himself stranded in the U.S. with just four days to make it home to London for Christmas. His journey includes planes, trains, huskies and bobsleighs – as well as cameo assists from the likes of Jimmy Fallon, Rebel Wilson, Dave Bautista, and Michael Bublé. Fans of Whitehall’s hilarious Travels With My Father will relish this one – even if the star’s beloved dad, Michael, appears to be MIA.

Coming December 4

Pop Culture Jeopardy! (Season 1)

SNL star Colin Jost hosts this all-new version of the classic game show, which borrows from traditional pub quizzes by pitting teams of three against each other to answer questions covering a broad range of pop culture, from alternative rock to Zendaya. Teams face off in a tournament-style competition with a lucrative result: What is a $300,000 grand prize?

Coming December 5

The Red Virgin (2024)

Paul Ortiz’s biopic of Hildegart Rodríguez, an advocate for socialism and sexual freedom in early-20th-century Spain, garnered critical acclaim when it hit theaters in Spain earlier this year. Rodríguez was a child prodigy who faced down not only a chauvinistic society but also her hard-charging mother who had her own ideas about how Hildegart should use her gifts.

Coming December 6

The Sticky (Season 1)

Who doesn’t love a good heist story, the quirkier the better? Emmy winner Margo Martindale, 73 (Justified), stars as a financially strapped maple syrup farmer who teams up with a Boston mobster (Chris Diamantopoulos) and a sweet-natured security guard (Guillaume Cyr) to rob Quebec’s maple syrup reserve. In the true story that inspired the show, a gang swiped 9,571 barrels of the sweet stuff, worth more than 18 million Canadian dollars. But that actual criminal enterprise didn’t include this show's role for Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis, 65, as a trash-talking gunwoman.

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Coming December 10

Secret Level (Season 1)

Gamers will love this one. Tim Miller, the 60-year-old director of Deadpool and creator of the animated Netflix hit Love Death + Robots, is launching a new 15-episode anthology series telling brand-new stories set in the world of beloved video games. Each installment takes on a different look and feel, whether it’s re-creating the eight-bit mazes of Pac-Man or the stylized landscape of Mega Man or the more photorealistic setting of New World: Aeternum.

Coming December 19

Beast Games (Season 1)

Mr. Beast (né James Stephen Donaldson) has nabbed 330 million subscribers to his YouTube channel for videos showing elaborate challenges and lucrative giveaways. Now he’s snagged Amazon to bankroll a competition series with a $5 million cash prize and an eye-popping 1,000 contestants – all put through a series of televised trials testing their physical, mental, and social abilities. 

Coming December 27

Your Fault (2024)

Last year’s glossy Spanish-language movie My Fault — about a young woman who unexpectedly falls for the playboy son of her mother’s new millionaire husband — now gets a sequel. Actually, this is the first of two follow-ups that continue the star-crossed romance of college student Noah (Nicole Wallace) and her forbidden beau Nick (Gabriel Guevara). The obstacles include their parents, Nick’s vengeful ex-girlfriend, and no doubt the fickleness of youth.

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