THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
Either you’ve gone on every step of this J.R.R. Tolkien cinematic journey, or you’ve stayed away deliberately. If it’s the latter, there’s no real reason to check in to this latest, separate installment of the Rings cycle – but if it’s the former, you’ve found already that these movies can be Hobbit-forming. Martin Freeman plays young Bilbo Baggins, and Ian Holm reprises his role, from the early films, as the more mature version.