Tributes continued to pour in Sunday for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department search and rescue team volunteer who died on the treacherous slopes of Mt. Baldy while taking part in a massive search for a missing hiker.

Tim Staples, 32, a social science and English teacher at Damien High School in La Verne, was found dead Saturday in the ice and snow after becoming separated from his search partner, the Sheriff’s Department reported.

“Hugs and prayers for our SAR volunteers and Tim’s family,” was one of more than 100 comments posted on the Sheriff’s Department’s announcement of the accident on Twitter. “I know how valuable and dedicated these volunteers are. They are our quiet heroes who have dedicated their service to help others.”

“Thank you Timothy,” wrote Karl Hegel, whose post identified him as a 30-year member of the search and rescue community. “I have witnessed heroism at levels most will never know. These unpaid professionals are some of the most highly train[ed] dedicated and skilled people I have ever had the privilege to work along side.”

A notice posted on the Damien High School website said a prayer service will be held Monday for the recently married faculty member who was also a 2006 graduate of the Catholic high school.

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Staples’ Facebook page said he lived in Upland and was married in June to Katie Lee Staples.

“As a faculty member in social science and English, he was a favorite teacher among his students,” the school statement said. “This loss is sure to raise many emotions, concerns, and questions for our entire school family, especially our students. Our school will have a crisis intervention team of clergy and professionals trained to help with the needs of students, parents, and school personnel.”

Staples was part of a 126-member volunteer force drawn from 11 counties participating in the search for Sreenivas “Sree” Mokkapati, who had been missing for nearly one week. After Staples’ death all crew members were recalled and search operations for the missing hiker were suspended.

A spokeswoman for the department said Sunday that the circumstances of Staples’ death are still being investigated.

In announcing Staples’ death Saturday, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said the nine-year veteran of the department’s West Valley Search & Rescue Team was found by a helicopter in what he described as an ice chute.

“An air search located the team member unresponsive on ice and snow,” the department said. “A medic was lowered to the SAR member and discovered him deceased.”

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, and we make sure we do everything in our power to help them through this process, as well as the rest of our volunteers,” San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said.

Other search and rescue members spoke of Staples with reverence.

“As a fellow SAR Operator this hits close to home,” wrote Todd Stewart on the Sheriff’s Department Twitter page. “Rest well my brother. You gave your life #SoOthersMayLive. I didn’t know you but I will honor your life and service.”

“Our search and rescue volunteers, as well as those from throughout the entire state, give of themselves and their time selflessly to try to rescue folks that become lost, and today is an example of what they’re willing to give to try to help save some of the citizens who, unfortunately, get lost or get hurt in some of the most dangerous parts of our state.”

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Monday, Dec. 16, and here’s a quick look at the week ahead:

On Monday, the “Hollywood Black List” — an annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in town, as voted for by more than 250 studio executives — will be released.

On Thursday, the next Democratic presidential debate will be held in Los Angeles. Or will it?

All seven of the Democratic presidential candidates who have qualified for the scheduled debate threatened Friday to skip the event to express support for union workers involved in a contract dispute at Loyola Marymount University.

And this isn’t the first labor issue with the Los Angeles debate: In November, the Democratic National Committee moved the debate to Loyola from UCLA because of a contract dispute at UCLA. The DNC and university learned of the latest issue Friday, committee officials said.

Friday is the deadline for a new funding deal to avert a potential government shutdown.

Hanukkah begins at sundown Sunday.

And if you haven’t already shared, we’d love to hear about your experiences for a year-end feature we’re working on. Use this form to tell us about how a news event or issue affected you, and we’ll share some of the responses in the coming weeks.

And now, here’s what’s happening across California:

TOP STORIES

PG&E’s future remains in doubt: Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected PG&E’s proposal to pull itself out of bankruptcy, saying its reorganization plan falls “woefully short” of safety requirements set under state law and demanded the company make major changes if it wants to access billions of dollars in a fund to pay wildfire claims.

The move complicates PG&E’s ability to remain in control of the company in a bankruptcy process that has seen financial interests vying to take over and local politicians preparing models for an entirely new utility. Los Angeles Times

L.A. STORIES

Beverly Hills police are investigating vandalism of Nessah Synagogue as a hate crime. Damage inside the synagogue was “ugly,” according to one witness who had conversations with people who saw the damage firsthand, and will require extensive cleanup. Los Angeles Times

Here are some of the best places to drink in Los Angeles, from a mammoth industrial warehouse that’s “peak craft brewery,” to a dark, velvet-trimmed cocktail lounge that aims straight at the hearts of tequila and mezcal lovers. Los Angeles Times

L.A. arts journalist Scott Timberg has died at 50. Timberg was a ferocious listener and reader whose cultural appetites fueled his career as an author and journalist and led him to question the future of the arts in the internet age. Los Angeles Times

[See also: Timberg’s 2015 essay “Leaving Los Angeles” in Los Angeles Magazine]

IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER

It has been almost a year since the federal government began sending asylum seekers back to Mexico, and only 11 people have been granted asylum. That accounts for a grant rate of 0.1%. San Diego Union-Tribune

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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Scuffles broke out Saturday during a Glendale town hall event on the Armenian genocide that was attended by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who is at the center of the effort to impeach President Trump. Los Angeles Times

Sen. Bernie Sanders has retracted his endorsement of Cenk Uygur, a California congressional candidate who defended crude sex ratings of women. Uygur, founder and co-host of “The Young Turks” online talk show, is running to fill the seat of former Rep. Katie Hill of Santa Clarita. Los Angeles Times

Battery dangers got little attention from the Coast Guard despite red flags before the Conception fire. Lithium-ion batteries have been banned from cargo areas of commercial planes and become the subject of tighter regulations by the U.S. Navy, but the U.S. Coast Guard didn’t sound major alarms about the fire risk of the batteries until after the Labor Day fire aboard the Conception, the worst maritime disaster in modern California history. Los Angeles Times

Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) lives on a congressman’s salary. How is he funding so many lawsuits? “Rep. Devin Nunes’ critics have obsessed over how he is paying for the six lawsuits he filed this year, but there are no public records showing how he has paid his Virginia lawyer.” Fresno Bee

Riverside’s mayor spends several nights a week sleeping in an 8-by-8 metal shed outside a local homeless shelter. His goal is to draw attention to the urgency of the city’s homeless crisis and to promote what he sees as one part of the solution — shelters like the one he’s used as a temporary second home. Riverside Press-Enterprise

HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Will California have a white Christmas? Or a wet one? The short answer is that it’s too early to be sure. Los Angeles Times

Kaiser’s 4,000 behavioral health workers are launching a five-day strike statewide. Here’s what to expect. Sacramento Bee

How a Chula Vista doctor spotted a deadly black tar heroin outbreak over lunch. The infectious disease specialist has his own theory about how patients got infected. San Diego Union-Tribune

CALIFORNIA CULTURE

A proposed TV show about the Ghost Ship fire tragedy has been called off, after sparking intense backlash. Berkeley husband-wife author team Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman had announced plans for the show as part of a multi-year production deal they recently inked with CBS Television Studios. KQED

The life and death of Lowrider: How the Chicano car magazine shaped California. Los Angeles Times

You turn 150 only once. Modesto has big plans for its 2020 sesquicentennial. Modesto Bee

Burbank Unified school officials have removed a mural of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi from a local campus, the action coming the same week that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate appeared at the International Court of Justice to denounce genocide charges levied against her country’s military. Los Angeles Times

Two horses died in the first race Saturday at Los Alamitos Race Track in Orange County, adding to a string of fatalities this year at California tracks. Los Angeles Times

The Raiders’ finale in Oakland punctuates an emotional journey for the team and fans. The Raiders plan to move to Las Vegas next season. San Francisco Chronicle

Rosa Porto has died at 89. The baker and Cuban émigré founded the popular Porto’s Bakery & Café chain in Southern California with her family. Los Angeles Times

CALIFORNIA ALMANAC

Los Angeles: sunny, 69. San Diego: sunny, 68. San Francisco: sunny, 56. San Jose: partly sunny, 58. Sacramento: sunny, 52. More weather is here.

AND FINALLY

This week’s birthdays for those who made a mark in California:

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Former Rep. Steve Knight (Dec. 17, 1966), director Steven Spielberg (Dec. 18, 1946), singer Billie Eilish (Dec. 18, 2001), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (Dec. 21, 1947), former L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky (Dec. 21, 1948), producer Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dec. 21, 1950) and former Dodger and Padre Steve Garvey (Dec. 22, 1948).

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She could have picked any number of issues to call California’s most pressing criminal law issue. After all, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye laid out so many concerns during her presentation to a public policy conference in Sacramento last week, from the future of cash bail to adequate funding for the courts and beyond.

But Cantil-Sakauye, who has presided over the state’s judicial branch since the summer of 2010, didn’t hesitate when she picked one topic above all else: implementation of Proposition 66, the voter mandate to speed up the death penalty process.

FASTER DEATH SENTENCE REVIEW BUT NO EXECUTIONS

The challenge, as explained by the chief justice during an event sponsored by the Public Policy Institute of California, is that Proposition 66 is predicated on something that’s not currently possible. The 2016 ballot measure requires an expedited judicial review of death penalty appeals, generally limiting the period for review to five years.

“So we have to make every best effort to speed up the death penalty so that, theoretically, more people could be on death row and ready for execution,” said Cantil-Sakauye.

But that’s where the process comes to a screeching halt.

“We have a governor who declared a moratorium on death penalty cases and then dismantled the death chamber,” she said, noting Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s decision earlier this year to block any effort to restart executions.

Nor do the challenges end there, given the ongoing federal court fight over the constitutionality of the lethal “cocktail” of drugs California administers to carry out executions. And back in the state courts, the chief justice noted that the extra workload of Proposition 66 came with no additional dollars for the courts to make it all happen.

“So we have a host of problems,” she said.

AND ON HER DECISION TO LEAVE THE GOP…

Cantil-Sakauye, who turned 60 in October, also offered some insight during the event into why she dropped her registration as a Republican last year. The turning point, she said, came during the confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanagh and the reaction by her two daughters.

“It was the atmosphere. It was their reaction,” she said. “And I just felt that I needed to take myself out of that equation.”

Not that Cantil-Sakauye thinks she’s the one who has changed. “I am a Deukmejian Republican,” she said in referring to the late Gov. George Deukmejian, for whom she served as a top aide. “Have been and in spirit, still am.”

NEWSOM SKEWERS PG&E BANKRUPTCY AND SETTLEMENT PLAN

Monday will be a big day for Pacific Gas & Electric, as the company will no doubt seek to minimize the damage inflicted by the scathing rebuke it received late Friday at the hands of California’s governor.

Newsom sent a five-page letter to William Johnson, president of PG&E Corp., offering a stunning rejection to the troubled utility’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy and, by extension, its recently announced $13.5-billion settlement with victims of recent California wildfires.

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“In my judgment, the amended plan and the restructuring transactions do not result in a reorganized company positioned to provide safe, reliable, and affordable service to its customers,” the governor wrote.

And he didn’t quit there. “For too long, PG&E has been mismanaged, failed to make adequate investments in fire safety and fire prevention, and neglected critical infrastructure. PG&E has simply violated the public trust.”

The San Francisco-based company gambled on asking Newsom to weigh in on its plans, something it didn’t have to do. The financial markets may not be kind in reacting to the governor’s scathing criticism. PG&E has until Tuesday to revise its funding proposal.

Newsom’s attack on PG&E’s plans for the future came days after the release of a new poll of California voters, conducted for The Times by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, found most would impose major changes to the operations and control of PG&E.

NATIONAL LIGHTNING ROUND

— As the House prepares to vote this week to impeach President Trump, leaders of the Senate began sparring Sunday over which witnesses each party might call in a trial.

— Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, who has long opposed House Democrats’ impeachment effort, discussed switching parties in a Friday meeting with Trump.

— Scuffles broke out Saturday during a Glendale town hall event on Armenian genocide that was attended by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who is at the center of the effort to impeach the president.

— The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it will consider three cases in which Trump argues the Constitution gives him sweeping immunity to shield his tax returns and business records from being released to House Democrats or prosecutors.

— Billionaire Michael Bloomberg‘s spending on advertising for California’s March 3 election is unprecedented for a Democratic presidential primary.

— All seven of the Democratic presidential candidates who have qualified for this week’s scheduled debate in Los Angeles threatened Friday to skip the event to express support for union workers involved in a contract dispute at Loyola Marymount University.

— Columnist George Skelton says this week’s Democratic presidential debate, to be held in Los Angeles, should include at least a little bit of discussion about California.

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Authorities issued an Amber Alert early Monday after they said a man stabbed his girlfriend and fled with their 2-year-old daughter.

The attack took place about 10 p.m. Sunday in the 500 block of South 11th Street in San Jose, according to a news release from the San Jose Police Department.

Officers responded to a report of a woman screaming and found the victim had been assaulted and stabbed at least once, police said. She was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.

The suspect, Victor Magana, 24, fled with the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, Bethanie Carraza, before officers arrived, police said. They were last seen leaving the area in a light green 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe with California license plate 7XJX025.

The pair had not been found as of Monday morning, and the California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert on behalf of the San Jose Police Department shortly before 4:30 a.m.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911. Those who provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect may be eligible for a cash reward from the Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers, police said.

Anna Karina, the French New Wave actress who became an icon of the cinema in the 1960s and was the muse of Jean-Luc Godard, has died. She was 79.

The French culture minister announced her death on Twitter on Sunday. French media said that the Danish-born Karina had cancer and died Saturday.

“Her look was the look of the New Wave. It will remain so forever,” Culture Minister Franck Riester tweeted.

“Anna Karina radiated. She magnetized the entire world,” Riester said, adding that “French cinema has lost one of its legends.”

Karina made seven films with Godard, her partner at the time, including the 1961 “Une Femme Est Une Femme (A Woman Is a Woman),” in which she played a femme fatale. For that, she received the best actress award at the Berlin Film Festival. Other cult Godard movies starring Karina included the 1962 ”Vivre Sa Vie (Live Your Life)” and the 1965 “Pierrot le Fou.”

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Karina captured filmgoers with her large blue doe eyes and acting and singing talents.

The French New Wave broke with traditional cinematic conventions to create a fresh approach to making movies, in keeping with the free-spirited times.

Godard wasn’t the only director with whom Karina worked. Jacques Rivette’s 1966 film “La Religieuse (The Nun),” adapted from the 18th century French novel by Diderot, was initially banned. The story of a young woman forced into the convent by her mother, who had given birth out of wedlock, was revived in a restored version and presented at the 2018 Cannes film festival.

Born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer in Denmark, she initially modeled and sang in cabarets before coming to France. She was reportedly discovered, and renamed, by Coco Chanel.

Karina also worked, among other illustrious directors, with Luchino Visconti.

In a bold undertaking at the time, the actress later got behind the camera to make her own movie in 1973, “Vivre Ensemble’’ (Living Together).

If Anna Karina had done nothing more than dance on-screen, she would be one of the lasting treasures of the cinema.

Her most famous dance remains as fresh and vivid now as it was 55 years ago. Midway through “Band of Outsiders” (1964), Jean-Luc Godard’s exquisite, movie-mad dream of a youthful crime caper, Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey give themselves over to an impromptu Madison. Commandeering the floor of a crowded café, they snap, clap and turn to the music several times over, with a swinging precision that feels marvelously unrehearsed. The camera watches, unblinking and enraptured: They may be hopelessly lost, these three beautiful young fools, but for now they’re just happily lost in the moment, a fleeting one that will nonetheless ensure their immortality.

Karina, who died Saturday in Paris at age 79, danced her way through a few of the seven films she made with Godard during what became, for many reasons, one of the most storied director-star pairings in cinema history. There was the number she performed while crooning a Michel Legrand song in Godard’s glorious musical-comedy riff “A Woman Is a Woman” (1961), her face bathed in bright, primary-hued projector beams, or her lovely dance in the sunlight with Jean-Paul Belmondo in “Pierrot le Fou” (1965). There was her jukebox-accompanied swirl around a billiard hall in the wrenching “Vivre Sa Vie” (1962), her every carefree move eliciting only annoyance or indifference from the place’s patrons.

She didn’t have to dance, of course, to magnetize the camera’s attention. An avatar of French cool, she had only to light a cigarette. Or brush her hair in front of a mirror, as she does in the famous lover’s interrogation scene in Godard’s “Le Petit Soldat” (the scene that gave us his famous maxim, “Photography is truth, and cinema is truth 24 times per second”). Or she could sit and stare at a movie screen in “Vivre Sa Vie,” blinking back tears as she watched the great Falconetti in “The Passion of Joan of Arc.”

We often speak admiringly of a performer’s screen presence or charisma. Karina possessed something more: flinty intelligence and deadpan wit, dark feline eyes that could project playfulness and melancholy without her saying a word. She incarnated both a matter-of-fact toughness and an expressive glamour worthy of a silent screen star.

The glamour came to her naturally; so did the toughness. Born Hanne Karin Bayer in 1940 in Denmark, where she endured a harsh, neglected childhood, she hitchhiked to Paris as a 17-year-old and lived on the streets before finding work as a model. Her early moments with Godard are well documented: his discovery of her in a series of Palmolive commercials, his attempt to recruit her for “Breathless” (she refused to do a nude scene) and then his decision in 1960 to cast her in “Le Petit Soldat.” By the time shooting wrapped on that film, they had fallen in love, and for the next several years — and their famously tempestuous marriage lasted four of them — she was his partner on the screen and off.

The word “muse,” with its sexist implications of control and subservience, is often frowned upon now, especially when applied to an actor who became a French New Wave icon in her own right. But Karina herself didn’t always reject the term out of hand, to judge by some of the interviews she gave later in life. Whether you think of her as a muse, a collaborator, a fellow auteur or a partner in aesthetic crime, her style emerged and evolved alongside his. She stepped in just as Godard was starting to reach into his bottomless bag of tricks, to discover and push past the boundaries of the medium. In film after film, Karina held the center of a frame that was always shifting, lending style, beauty and emotional gravity to his restless play with form and ideas.

Endless scrutiny of their movies has not diluted their pleasures — or dispelled their mysteries. Is their shared oeuvre an enigmatic fun house of meta-mirrors or a straightforward record of a doomed love story playing out behind the scenes and in front of the camera? “A Woman Is a Woman” is an unabashedly besotted valentine from a filmmaker to his star; their last film together, “Made in U.S.A.” (1966), with its innumerable yearning closeups of Karina, has the bitter finality of a farewell. Real-life heartache seems to blur into doomy romanticism in “Alphaville,” the 1965 science-fiction drama Godard made shortly after their divorce; in it, Karina plays the prisoner of a mind-controlling dystopia, a state that has rendered her unable to love.

The movie that may tell us the most, at least insofar as it is widely assumed to be about their marriage, is “Contempt,” from which Karina herself is pointedly absent. But in an interview with The Times’ Mark Olsen in 2016, when she visited Los Angeles to attend retrospective screenings of her films with Godard, the actor gently pushed back against the idea that you could read their relationship like a book simply by watching their films. “Our personal life never went into when he was doing his films,” she said. “When we were doing the films, we were not together that much. He wanted to be alone to write.”

She also seemed to accept, with equanimity and gratitude, the undying popularity of those films, even when they couldn’t help but overshadow her own impressive later career. Karina went on to direct two films of her own, “Vivre Ensemble” (1973) and “Victoria” (2008). She continued singing and wrote four novels. As an actor, she worked with filmmakers including Jacques Rivette (“La Religieuse”), Luchino Visconti (“The Stranger”), Roger Vadim (“La Ronde”) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (“Chinese Roulette”).

The last time I saw her on the big screen was in “La Religieuse,” Rivette’s brilliant, controversial 1966 adaptation of Denis Diderot’s novel, on the occasion of its reissue earlier this year. In the film, banned from cinemas for years for its blood-boiling indictment of religious totalitarianism, Karina stars as a young 18th-century woman forced into a Catholic convent against her will. She is brutalized, condemned as a heretic and sexually preyed upon, and she suffers horribly — and beautifully — from start to finish. She isn’t the first Anna Karina character you think of, which only makes her all the more extraordinary. But the performance she gives may be its own mesmerizing rejoinder to Falconetti in “Joan of Arc,” the one that leaves you not just blissed out or transported but devastated, awestruck, in the dark.

“Quezon’s Game” may be inspired by true events, but it proves under-inspired in its recounting of how, just before World War II, then-president of the Philippines Manuel Quezon battled critics and anti-Semitic forces to provide refuge for European Jews facing Nazi persecution when the United States and other countries had closed their doors to them.

This brave, little-known feat by Quezon, whose apparent decency stands in stark contrast to his homeland’s controversial current leader, is certainly worth committing to film. But Matthew Rosen, who directed and shot from a script by Janice Y. Perez and “Game’s” composer Dean Rosen, takes a stagy, unsubtle approach to the stiff material, relying on “telling” over “showing” despite occasional efforts to open up the action, such as it is. (Budget constraints are evident.)

Set mainly in Manila in 1938 (there’s an effective, 1944-set framing device), the movie tracks in earnest, if plodding, detail the process by which Quezon (Raymond Bagatsing), aided by High Commissioner to the Philippines Paul McNutt (James Paoleli), Jewish American businessman Alex Frieder (Billy Ray Gallion) and military advisor — and future U.S. president — Dwight Eisenhower (David Bianco), attempted to secure visas for 10,000 Jews trapped in German and Austrian ghettos.

Ultimately, only 1,200 or so refugees were allowed into the Philippines at the time due to the restrictive immigration quota system imposed by the U.S. on the island nation, then an American commonwealth. Parallels to present-day anti-immigrant sentiments won’t be lost on viewers.

That so many endangered Jews would be left behind to face what were becoming increasingly evident horrors infuses the stodgy narrative with some personal drama, as does Quezon’s debilitating struggle with tuberculosis (it led to his 1944 death). Unfortunately, much of the acting (save by Bagatsing and Rachel Alejandro as Quezon’s vigilant wife, Aurora) is so spotty that it undermines the story’s potential tension and emotional heft.

Most affecting are the brief, end-credit clips featuring testimony from several of the actual surviving Jewish émigrés who made it to the Philippines as children.

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SERIES

The Neighborhood When the Johnsons’ Christmas present for Grover (Hank Greenspan) is stolen, Calvin and Dave (Cedric the Entertainer, Max Greenfield) team up to recover the gift in time for the holiday. Also Tina (Tichina Arnold) tries to get into the Christmas spirit by reviving traditions from when Malcolm and Marty (Sheaun McKinney, Marcel Spears) were kids. 8 p.m. CBS

The Voice The final four artists perform live as the finals begin. 8 p.m. NBC

The Great Christmas Light Fight The season finale of the unscripted series features holiday displays in Edmond, Okla.; Milton, Fla.; Moreno Valley, Calif.; Rossville, Ind.; Mechanicsville, Va.; Novato, Calif.; Boerne, Texas; and Las Vegas. 8 p.m. ABC

Bob Hearts Abishola Bob, Douglas and Christina (Billy Gardell, Matt Jones and Maribeth Monroe) try to get Dottie (Christine Ebersole) to make a will. Also, Abishola and Kemi’s (Folake Olowofoyeku, Gina Yashere) friendship is tested by a lie in this new episode of the romantic comedy. 8:30 p.m. CBS

All Rise With her schedule packed with holiday parties, Lola (Simone Missick) is called to appear before the Commission on Judicial Performance and defend herself against a formal bias complaint. Also, Judge Benner (Marg Helgenberger) recruits Sara, Emily and Luke (Lindsay Mendez, Jessica Camacho, J. Alex Brinson) to stage a “Wizard of Oz”-themed mock trial in which Dorothy is accused of killing the Wicked Witch of the West in this new episode of the courtroom drama. 9 p.m. CBS

Holiday Baking Championship Host Jesse Palmer challenges the four remaining bakers to give gold-covered chocolate coins, a Hanukkah classic, a new twist. 9 p.m. Food Network

Good Trouble When the Fosters visit the Coterie for Christmas, Callie (Maia Mitchell) struggles to tell her moms (Sherri Saum and Teri Polo) about quitting her clerkship. Also, Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) agrees to volunteer for a festival for the underprivileged in this two-hour holiday episode of the spinoff drama. 9 p.m. Freeform

His Dark Materials Lyra (Dafne Keen) must use her methods of deception to outwit a formidable foe in this new episode of the fantasy drama. 9 p.m. HBO

Bull Bull (Michael Weatherly) and the team take a difficult pro bono murder case before the holidays and soon realize it will take a Christmas miracle to win. Geneva Carr and MacKenzie Meehan also star. 10 p.m. CBS

Independent Lens The new episode “Attla” profiles Alaskan native and dogsled champion George Attla, focusing on his ability to identify and train exceptional dogs. 10 p.m. KOCE

Christmas Cookie Challenge Host Eddie Jackson challenges bakers to use classic cookie cutters to create dazzling designs that have nothing to do with the cutters’ original shapes. 10 p.m. Food Network

SPECIALS

Christmas With the Tabernacle Choir Featuring Kristin Chenoweth Chenoweth is the featured soloist for this musical special that has become a seasonal tradition. Highlights include “We Need a Little Christmas,” “O Holy Night,” “Angels Among Us,” “What Child Is This?” and “Somewhere in My Memory.” 9 p.m. KOCE

Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown 2019 Kevin Frazier and Keltie Knight (“Entertainment Tonight”) anchor this annual special, which counts down the 12 best holiday TV commercials. 9 p.m. The CW

Holidays With the Houghs Choreographers Derek and Julianne Hough team up for their first holiday special, a festive hour that will spotlight the pair together and individually in a series of elaborate show-stoppers, as they put their own spin on beloved Christmas classics and share their family’s favorite holiday tradition. 10 p.m. NBC

Jimmy Kimmel Live After Darth: A Star Wars Special This new special features the director and cast members of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” Guests include J.J. Abrams, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Kelly Marie Tran and Keri Russell. 10 p.m. ABC

A Very Brady Renovation In this festive new “Holiday Edition” of the home makeover series, Ree Drummond (“Pioneer Woman”) and Jasmine Roth (“Hidden Potential”) team up with “The Brady Bunch” cast members — Barry Williams (Greg), Maureen McCormick (Marcia), Christopher Knight (Peter), Eve Plumb (Jan), Mike Lookinland (Bobby) and Susan Olsen (Cindy) — to whip up ’70s-era treats and retro Christmas decorations. 10 p.m. HGTV

MOVIES

This Changes Everything Oscar winner Geena Davis is an executive producer on this critically acclaimed documentary, which examines the under-representation of women in many facets of the entertainment industry. The film includes interviews with a number of Hollywood power players including Davis, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rashida Jones, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Oh, Jessica Chastain, Tiffany Haddish, Taraji P. Henson and Shonda Rhimes. 9 p.m. Starz

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Sally Field; Sam Mendes; George MacKay; Gretchen Rubin. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Jennifer Hudson (“Cats”); Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser (“Mad About You”); Charlotte Nebres; Brett Eldredge performs. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America Charlize Theron; Brie Larson. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Sheriff Alex Villanueva; Maria Menounos; David Kessler. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Ryan Jennifer Hudson (“Cats”); author Thomas Schumacher. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Robert De Niro (“The Irishman”). (N) 10 a.m. KABC

Rachael Ray Lea Michele; chef Andrew Zimmern and Adeev and Ezra Potash. (N) 10 a.m. KTTV

The Wendy Williams Show (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Sebastian Maniscalco; Paul Wesley. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

Tamron Hall (N) 1 p.m. KABC

The Dr. Oz Show Romaine lettuce recalls; a lettuce substitute; the cheese wars. (N) 1 p.m. KTTV

The Kelly Clarkson Show Julianne and Derek Hough; Christian Siriano. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

Dr. Phil An 11-month-old girl suffocates while sleeping in the same bed with her parents. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Adam Sandler (“Uncut Gems”); Billy Crudup. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

The Real Kristin Chenoweth (“Christmas With the Tabernacle Choir”). (N) 3 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors (N) 3 p.m. KCOP

To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbé “The Jessicas Are Turning 30.” (N) 6 p.m. KVCR

Amanpour and Company (N) 11 p.m. KCET; midnight KVCR; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Daily Show With Trevor Noah (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central

Conan Ron Funches. (N) 11 p.m. TBS

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Michael B. Jordan; Sam Heughan; Lea Michele; Jonathan Groff. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel Live! 11:35 p.m. KABC

The Late Late Show With James Corden Chance the Rapper guest hosts; Taraji P. Henson; Lil Nas X. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Late Night With Seth Meyers Adam Schiff; Bowen Yang; Tyler Childers performs. (N) 12:37 a.m. KNBC

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC

A Little Late With Lilly Singh Daisy Ridley. (N) 1:38 a.m. KNBC

SPORTS

College Basketball Southern Mississippi visits Texas Tech, 4 p.m. ESPN2

NFL Football The Indianapolis Colts visit the New Orleans Saints, 5 p.m. ESPN

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“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” began when Noah was trying to parent his extremely stubborn 2-year-old. One day, in desperation, he pulled up a YouTube clip of Fred Rogers. His daughter turned to the screen and was transfixed — listening to Mister Rogers more intently than she had ever, and would ever, listen to her dad. The next day, Noah walked into our office — by which we mean a coffee shop where we could steal WiFi — and said, “Micah, I’ve discovered a warlock who speaks toddler and we need to write about him.”

That was 10 years ago. We had no idea that it would be a full decade until we would see this movie in a theater. That stubborn toddler is now in middle school. Now Micah has a toddler of his own.

When we set out to write a movie about Fred Rogers, we realized fairly quickly that he was not an ideal subject for a conventional biopic. Honestly, he was too unwavering, too steady, too emotionally healthy. An amazing human being does not necessarily make an amazing movie.

But Fred involved himself in the lives of the people around him. He was compulsively intimate, an emotional archaeologist, and a Presbyterian minister. There were dozens of stories of people who found Fred at a low point in their life — and he helped them put the pieces back together. Tim Madigan, François Clemmons, Benjamin Wagner and, of course, Tom Junod.

We settled on our story. After a brutal negotiation, we hired ourselves to write the first draft for zero dollars. We wanted the movie to feel like an episode of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” for grown-ups, about a journalist on assignment to profile Fred Rogers. We sent it to producers Youree Henley, Leah Holzer and Peter Saraf, who helped bring a director on board. It was a dream scenario. The only problem was that we didn’t have the rights.

So we all went to Pittsburgh, Fred’s home base, and sat down with Bill Isler, who ran Fred’s company for decades. He shook our hands, smiled and said that he was happy to hear what we were thinking, but that there would never, ever be a Fred Rogers movie.

We left Pittsburgh empty-handed but we didn’t give up. We stayed in contact with Bill. We begged, we cajoled, we embarrassed ourselves. And finally, he agreed. Not to give us the rights. No, he wasn’t ready to do that yet. He agreed to let us return to Pennsylvania and meet Joanne Rogers, Fred’s widow.

She was generous with her time and spirit and answered, honestly, every question we asked. That day, for whatever reason, she agreed to trust us with her husband’s legacy. She had only one demand — that we not portray Fred as a saint. He was a real human, who struggled like we all do. His life of listening and helping others was a practice, and he worked at it every day. To think otherwise meant that his way of life was unattainable.

From there, Bill and Joanne gave us access to the Fred Rogers Archive at St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe, Pa. If we were ever going to make a Fred Rogers movie, we needed to get closer to the man himself.

It was in the archive that we found a box labeled “Tom Junod.” We knew that Tom got to know Fred over the course of writing his profile. We didn’t know that their relationship extended for many years. In the 200-plus letters they exchanged, we realized what our movie must be.

We wrote up a quick and dirty outline and sent it to Bill and Joanne. They gave us the thumbs-up. We reworked the script until we thought it was ready to go … and then we lost our directors!

We had worked with Marielle Heller on “Transparent” and deeply loved her two features. We sent her the script. We got lucky. She came on and asked us who our ideal actor was to play Fred. Sheepishly, we said Tom Hanks. We had sent him the script before and he passed, but Marielle said, “Let me give it a shot.” She sent him the script. They spoke. As you do. To Tom Hanks.

And then, Tom Hanks was in our movie, and we lost our minds.

Ten years later, Fred has become part of our lives, not merely as the subject of our movie but a guide along the way. He helped us to be better fathers to our children. He taught us how to slow down, and be kind to others and ourselves.

But perhaps more than anything, Fred has served as a rare beacon of light in a dark time. An antiseptic for cynicism. A role model when there aren’t many to go around these days. We never expected this film to take as long as it did to come to fruition. We thought we were waiting for this moment. Maybe this moment was waiting for Fred Rogers.

SEATTLE — 

Boeing may cut production of the grounded 737 Max jet or temporarily stop making it after being told that its timetable for a return to the skies was not realistic, according to a published report Sunday.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Boeing’s board would consider the moves at a meeting that began Sunday and would run into Monday. The newspaper, citing people it did not identify, said management is increasingly seeing production cuts as a viable option.

Boeing wouldn’t comment to the Associated Press on Sunday night, but the company repeated a previous statement that it continues to work with the Federal Aviation Administration and global regulators on the Max, which was grounded in March after deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.

“We will continue to assess production decisions based on the timing and conditions of return to service, which will be based on regulatory approvals,” the statement said.

The report came just days after a senior FAA official told legislators that Boeing is pushing for an unrealistically quick return of the Max and that there is a perception the company is pressuring the regulator.

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In an email Thursday to key congressional committees, Philip Newman, FAA assistant administrator for government and industry affairs, said Administrator Stephen Dickson “is concerned that Boeing continues to pursue a return-to-service schedule that is not realistic” because of various delays. Newman wrote that Dickson is clear that FAA and Boeing “must take the time to get this process right.”

The grounding of the Max is costing Boeing and airlines billions. Boeing has been eager to signal that the plane could soon fly again. Recently, the company said it expected the FAA to permit shipments of new Max jets in December and approval of a pilot-training program for airlines in January.

Boeing is waiting for the FAA and other regulators to sign off on changes to flight control software that was a major factor in the two crashes.

Boeing said in October that production cuts may be needed if a decision on letting the plane fly again is delayed into next year.

Production cuts could result in layoffs at the plant near Seattle that could help Boeing control its expenses as it waits for the FAA and other regulators to let the Max back into the air. Companies that supply parts to the plane also may have to cut production.