Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon, Hulu Adding 13 New Releases Thursday – Here Are the 3 to Watch

By Phillip Swann
The TV Answer Man – Buy Me a Coffee!

Netflix, Hulu, Amazon’s Prime Video, HBO Max, Paramount Plus and Peacock are adding 13 new TV shows and movies today (December 18, 2025). Here are the three to watch, in my humble opinion:

Emily In Paris – Season 5 – Netflix
Release Date: Thursday, December 18, 3 a.m. ET
Lily Collins (pictured above) is back as Emily Cooper, the American ingenue who moves to Paris to teach a Parisian marketing firm a few things about American ingenuity. Or so she thinks. Along the way, she encounters irresistible Parisian men, confounding language barriers and other obstacles that only Emily could find. The Netflix original comedy is a feel-good delight with Collins a revelation in the title role; her performance is a throwback to those classic comedic single-woman turns from the 1960s/70s (Mary Tyler Moore in The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Marlo Thomas in That Girl, etc.). In season five (all 10 episodes will debut on Thursday), Emily’s back in Italy adjusting to life in a new city and with a new beau. But is a return to Paris and an old flame far behind?

IHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2025 – Hulu
Release Time: Thursday, December 18, 3 a.m. ET
Hulu is reprising ABC’s Wednesday night broadcast of the live IHeartRadio holiday concert filmed last Friday night from New York’s Madison Square Garden, featuring performances from Alex Warren, Zara Larson, Sean Paul, Ed Sheeran, Nelly, Monsta X and a slew of others. And that’s not all. The show will include special appearances from a motley crew of celebrities such as Robert De Niro, Eli Manning, Kat Dennings, Dylan Efron, and the cast of Hulu’s show, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. (Told you it was a motley crew.)

Thursday Night Football: Rams at Seahawks – Amazon’s Prime Video
Release Date: Thursday, December 18. Pre-game coverage starts at 7 p.m. ET; kickoff around 8:15 p.m. ET
Amazon has a humdinger tonight with the 11-3 Los Angeles Rams battling the 11-3 Seattle Seahawks for the NFC West lead and the first seed in the NFL playoffs. The Rams took the first game between the two teams this year, 21-19, but the home Seahawks are a 1.5-point favorite tonight to get revenge.

Shows & Movies Added Today (December 18, 2025) to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon’s Prime Video, Paramount Plus, HBO Max and Peacock

Netflix
Thursday, December 18
10DANCE
Emily in Paris: Season 5

HBO Max
Thursday, December 18
Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? (HBO Original)
Saving Yellowstone with Dennis Quaid, Season 1 (Animal Planet)

Hulu
Thursday, December 18
The Curse of Oak Island: Complete Season 12
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2025
The Making of a Heart Attack: Complete Season 1
WWE’s Greatest Moments: Complete Season 1
American Sweatshop (2025)

Amazon’s Prime Video
Thursday, December 18
Human Specimens (2025) 
Thursday Night Football

Paramount Plus
Thursday, December 19
Dora (Season 4 premiere)

Peacock
Thursday, December 18
Jimmy Fallon’s Holiday Seasoning Spectacular (NBC)

Disney Plus
No new releases today.

Apple TV
No new releases today.

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