What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Watership Down’ and ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’

A brand new adaptation of the Richard Adams novel “Watership Down” debuts on Netflix. And a Tim Burton film airs on FXX.

What’s Streaming

WATERSHIP DOWN on Netflix. The brutality of Richard Adams’s 1972 novel a few group of rabbits banding collectively to outlive in opposition to harmful predators is toned down on this new computer-animated adaptation, a coproduction of BBC One and Netflix. A roster of celebrities give voices to those creatures (John Boyega, Tom Wilkinson and James McAvoy amongst them, with Ben Kingsley as an evil chief), however, in his evaluate for The New York Times, James Poniewozik lamented that this adaptation is a “blandified” take on the story that’s “less a bittersweet story of survival and freedom and more like a summer family action-pic.” He additionally famous that the rabbits’ “stiff, floaty, uncanny motion looks like something from a ’90s CD-ROM video game.”

THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA on Spco.org. You don’t have to depart your own home to listen to an skilled take on George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah,” the Christmastime favourite. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will carry out that oratorio beneath the baton of Jeannette Sorrell on Sunday; the present might be livestreamed on the Orchestra’s web site starting at three p.m. Eastern Time.

STRUGGLE: THE LIFE AND LOST ART OF SZUKALSKI (2018) on Netflix. The sculptor Stanislaw Szukalski fled Poland during World War II and ended up settling in Burbank, Calif., where he lived in obscurity for years. He eventually befriended George DiCaprio, the father of Leonardo DiCaprio; among the many fans the artist later amassed is the younger DiCaprio, one of the producers of this documentary about Szukalski’s life and work.

MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (2016) 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on FXX. Following in the footsteps of J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts and the “X-Men” franchise’s Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Ransom Riggs’s young adult novel “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” imagines a home for young misfits with supernatural powers. Tim Burton directed this film adaptation, which, like the novel, blends comedy and tragedy. Asa Butterfield stars as Jake, a Florida boy who, after falling into a time loop, meets the leader of the home (Miss Peregrine, played by Eva Green) and is immersed in the weird. “Mr. Burton, whose artistry is at times most evident in its filigree, can be a great collector when given the right box to fill, as is the case here,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. “He revels in the story’s icky, freaky stuff; he’s right at home, which may be why he seems liberated by its labyrinthine turns and why you don’t care if you get a little lost in them.”