Marlon Wayans starring in the Jordan Peele-produced football thriller ''Him'' and the iHeartRadio Z100's Jingle Ball 2025 featuring Conan Gray, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll and Olivia Dean are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists: A second season of ''Fallout'' arrives on Prime Video, Season 5 of ''Emily in Paris'' drops on Netflix and Peter Criss — Kiss' original drummer — will release a brand new, self-titled album.
New movies to stream from Dec. 15-21
— The Jordan Peele-produced ''Him'' (Dec. 19 on Peacock) takes the hard knocks of the gridiron to bloody extremes. It stars Tyriq Withers as an up-and-coming quarterback whose mentorship with the veteran champ (Marlon Wayans) grows increasingly dark and surreal. In my review, I wrote that ''Him'' has a decent point to make about QB hero worship, ''the problem is that has exactly one thing to say, which it does again and again.''
— In David Mackenzie's ''Relay,'' Riz Ahmed plays a fixer who runs a covert service that brokers deals between corrupt companies and potential threats. To preserve anonymity, he uses a ''relay'' telephone service, usually for deaf or speech-impaired people, to disguise identities. This nifty thriller streams Friday, Dec. 12 on Netflix after a late-summer theatrical release. Co-starring Lily James and Sam Worthington.
— For a particularly seductive December, you can spend your holidays with Wong Kar-wai. The Criterion Channel is hosting many of the Hong Kong filmmaker's finest films, including ''Chungking Express,'' ''Fallen Angels'' and ''In the Mood for Love,'' as well as his first TV series, ''Blossoms Shanghai.'' A hit in China, the 30-part series is set amid the 1990s opening of the Chinese economy and the relaunch of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. New episodes debut every Monday.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
New music to stream from Dec. 15-21