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Ambassador Conan O’Brien heads to the African nation of Ghana. Plus: a Jensen Ackles-directed episode of Supernatural, a hypnotic indie film, and a Japanese white-collar crime thriller. Hello! If you’re reading this newsletter, the odds of you or someone you love being a huge Game of Thrones fan are nearly 100 percent. With the holidays just around the corner, you may be thinking about [what to get the Game of Thrones fan]( in your life. We have some suggestions in our [annual TV gift guide](. You could get some Adidas x Game of Thrones Ultraboosts for the extra-nerdy sneakerhead; Fire and Ice whiskey for the drinker who knows things; or a copy of Fire & Blood -- George R.R. Martin’s Targaryen history that’s serving as the source material for the upcoming prequel series House of the Dragon -- for the fan who wants to be prepared. Or you could just get them all for yourself. Take what is yours with fire and blood! Here are tonight’s TV picks - [Liam Mathews]( [Your Watch This Now! newsletter is created by Senior Recommendations and Reviews Editor Tim Surette and more show-obsessed editors at TV Guide!]( WATCH THIS NOW! [Say “medaase” to Conan Without Borders: Ghana]( Thursday at 10/9c on TBS In this latest installment of his terrific Conan Without Borders series of specials, where people make fun of how pale and freckly he is all over the world, Conan O’Brien heads to the West African nation of Ghana. His traveling companion is Veep’s Sam Richardson, whose mother is from Ghana. During the trip, Conan teaches local youth his famous “[string dance]( gets a specialty coffin made in his image, and meets the Queen Mother while wearing a beautiful kente cloth robe that he looks really wild in (see above). He also gets serious and pays a visit to Osu Castle, a fort where slaves were transported from, as part of the Year of Return, Ghana’s commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the transatlantic slave trade. While there, he encounters a group of Ghanian American visitors, and wisely lets them talk about what visiting the site and the country means to them. Aaaand, Ackles-tion! [Dean pulls double duty on Supernatural]( Thursday at 8/7c on The CW Jensen Ackles is back behind the camera for the first time since Season 11 for this episode, directing himself and Jared Padalecki as Sam and Dean investigate the death of a girl and the disappearance of another. Since Supernatural is winding down, he must have decided he wanted to have one last go at directing the show before it’s over. Hopefully this leads to other directing gigs. Maybe on Batwoman? He is [the Batman we deserve]( after all. Give ‘em the boot [Burning Cane is art on Netflix]( Now on Netflix This poetic drama film was a hit at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where director Phillip Youmans won the award for best cinematography, becoming the first black winner as well as the youngest winner of the festival’s Founders Prize. Youmans was born in 2000, and he wrote, directed, shot, and edited Burning Cane when he was just 17 years old. It’s a meditative study of a woman — played by Karen Kaia Livers — and her relationships with a pair of alcoholic men, her son and her preacher, in impoverished rural Louisiana. The preacher is played by Louisiana native Wendell Pierce, who can currently be seen on Amazon’s [Jack Ryan](. It’s not a light watch, but it has a lot of beauty to it, in the vein of Oscar-nominated documentary Hale County, This Morning, This Evening. OK Boomer-san [Summer of SCAMS forever]( Now on Netflix Income inequality is far from a uniquely American problem, as this Japanese crime drama demonstrates. It follows a young man named Makoto, who, unable to make ends meet after losing his corporate job, turns to doing phone scams bilking elderly people out of their money. He has no qualms about doing this, because as he sees it, they stole from him first, by pulling up the ladder to success behind him, leaving his generation nothing but debt and nihilism. It’s sort of like Boiler Room, except you can kinda see where the crooks are coming from, even if what they’re doing is definitely wrong. [Unsubscribe]( | [View online]( ©2019 CBS Interactive | All Rights Reserved. CBS Interactive - [235 2nd St., San Francisco, CA 94105](#) [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms and Conditions](