This week’s new entertainment releases include a Christmas album from Norah Jones and the return of "Succession,” with the wealthy, dysfunctional Roy family up to more power-grab shenanigans.

This time, Barry Manilow didn’t make it through the rain.

(CNN) - A long time ago (well, Friday), Hulu released a new season of "Veronica Mars," creator Rob Thomas' genre-bending, pop-culture loving drama centered around Kristen Bell's titular fearless, and reckless, private investigator. My thinking is that, if we want to do more 'Veronica Mars,' I need Veronica as a single woman. I think Season 4 was the bridge that took us from being the show that it was, which was the soap of Veronica's life and a detective show. With this one, I wanted the people involved in this murder mystery to be a new set of characters." I do wonder if, in the current environment, I would have been brave enough to write Veronica as a rape victim in the original pilot.