It's Time To Get Real With The 21 Best TV Premieres of November

The man behind the music of the movies you love gets the documentary treatment with this Steven Spielberg-produced film. From "Star Wars" to "Jaws," "Home Alone" to "Harry Potter," is there nothing this man can’t do?

Salma Hayek Pinault executive produces this adaptation of the Mexican novel of the same name, previously adapted into a film in 1992. In it, Tita is denied from marrying her love Pedro, so she channels her passion into food, yielding delicious and, at times, emotional results.

Gamers and nostalgia buffs will enjoy this limited series on how classic video games were made. "Sonic the Hedgehog," "Minecraft," "World of Warcraft," "Call of Duty," and "Pac-Man" are some of the games the series dig-dugs into.

Boy bands galore fill the screen in this musical documentary tracing their rise from the Beatles to the current K-Pop trend. Interviews in the film include members of New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, N*SYNC, The BackStreet Boys, Hanson, and more.

From "Superstore" creator Justin Spitzer and "American Auto" writer-producer Eric Ledgin comes a new workplace sitcom about an Oregon hospital. The cast includes Wendi McLendon-Covey, David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman, and Josh Lawson.

This foreign musical-comedy-thriller was the talk at this year’s Cannes. Zoe Saldana stars as an attorney who helps a cartel boss transition, in more ways than one. Selena Gomez gets gritty as the boss’s wife.

Priscilla Presley, Billy Corgan, and Bruce Springsteen are some of the talking heads in this new documentary film about the making of "The Elvis Presley Comeback Special.” In 1968, the singer was at a crossroads in his career and this special is considered a highlight.

Everything you learned in your Psych 101 class was wrong according to this documentary, which explores the true story behind the Stanford Prison experiment. With interviews from the participants, the layered truth is much different than we were all lead to believe.

James Patterson's Alex Cross hits the small screen in this new series starring Aldis Hodge as a D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychologist tracking down a serial killer.

The Jackal, an assassin (Eddie Redmayne), and a British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch) play cat and mouse across Europe in this new series, based on the novel of the same name and previously adapted into two films. Critics are calling it “perfectly crafted.”

Taika Waititi directs the first episode in this action / comedy about a background actor on a police procedural who becomes part of a real-life crime conspiracy in Chinatown. Jimmy O. Yang stars with supporting co-stars Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet, and Lisa Gilroy.

Before you hit the stores for Black Friday, watch this documentary about how brands trick us into buying and buying and what consumerism is doing to our planet.

They say there’s a whole world beneath the ocean and this documentary series, made by the team behind “Planet Earth,” shows some of the weird and wonderful creatures that lurk below. Barack Obama narrates, making fish seem even cooler.

Ted Danson and “The Good Place” creator Mike Schur reteam for a new comedy based on an unbelievable true story. Adapted from the Oscar-nominated “The Mole Agent,” Danson plays an elderly man recruited to be a spy in a nursing home. Stephanie Beatriz, Sally Struthers, and Susan Ruttan co-star.

Academy-award winning British director Steve McQueen tells this story of a London mother (Saoirse Ronan) who sends her son away to keep him safe during World War II, only for him to fight his way back home.

A nurse, a scientist, and a surgeon work together in 1978 England to create the world’s test tube baby. The film stars Bill Nighy, James Norton, and Thomasin McKenzie as the real-life trio.

Denzel Washington brings a third August Wilson play to the screen with this family story about a piano. Denzel produces, his son Malcolm directs, and son John David stars alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Danielle Deadwyler, Corey Hawkins, and Erykah Badu. November 22, Netflix

Netflix has the magic touch for true crime, often yielding new developments in the cases with their documentaries. This time, the focus is on the cold JonBenet Ramsey case, which peels back the layers created by the sensational tabloids. Will the killer finally be caught?

Lindsay Lohan may become the new queen of Christmas with this holiday rom-com, her second. In this one, she plays a woman who bumps into her old fiancé at her new flame’s holiday gathering. Kristin Chenoweth, Tim Meadows, and Ian Harding also appear.

Fixing the issue of too many Christmas movies, not enough Thanksgiving, is this rom-com starring Kiernan Shipka and Nico Hiraga as a pair of best friends who head home together over college break to breakup with their respective high school sweethearts, paving the way for their friendship to evolve.

This English-language spy series is adapted from a French show and here, Michael Fassbender takes over the lead role as a spy who needs to ditch his secret identity for a new mission. His co-stars include Richard Gere, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, Hugh Bonneville, and John Magaro.