• At 8, CBS has A Home For The Holidays with Faith Hill.
• TNT has the Patrick Stewart A Christmas Carol at 8.
• TCM has To Have and Have Not at 8, then The Big Sleep.
• Lifetime Movie Network has Comfort and Joy at 8, followed by Recipe For a Perfect Christmas.
• At 9, PBS has a new Great Performances.
• A&E has a new Dog The Bounty Hunter at 9, followed by a new Steven Seagal: Lawman.
• Also at 9: Showtime has a new Inside The NFL.
• At 10, NBC has a new Jay Leno Show.
• TLC has the premiere of Accidental Fortune at 10.
• Bravo has a new Launch My Line at 10.
• At 10:30, TBS has a new Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns.

• At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by the season finale of Survivor.
• NBC has a new Football Night in America at 7, then the Vikings vs. the Panthers.
• Lifetime has 12 Men of Christmas at 7, then Eve's Christmas.
• At 8, TNT has Christmas in Washington 2009.
• AMC has the 1984 version of A Christmas Carol at 8, followed by Prancer.
• TCM has a new Night at the Movies at 8.
• At 9, Cartoon Network has How The Grinch Stole Christmas, then A Scooby-Doo Christmas.
• VH-1 has a new Tough Love at 9, followed by Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew.
• Fine Living has Martha Stewart's Christmas Special at 9, then Martha Stewart's Holiday Cookies.
• At 10, A&E has a new The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty.
• VERSUS has Sports Soup at 10.

• TV Land is showing Christmas episodes of various shows all night.
• At 8, ABC has Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
• NBC has It's A Wonderful Life at 8.
• CNN has What Would Jesus Do? Holiday Edition at 8.
• AMC has 1984's A Christmas Carol at 8.
• Also at 8: Great American Country has a Holiday Wrapping Party.
• At 8:30, Nickelodeon has a Christmas episode of Full House, then two Christmas episodes of Home Improvement.
• At 9, Lifetime has the movie Deck the Halls.
• Food Network has the All-Star Holiday Party special at 9, followed by All-Star Holiday Dishes.
• Comedy Central has Bad Santa at 9.
• At 11, Lifetime has two holiday episodes of Will & Grace, then two holiday episodes of Frasier.
• At 11:35, CBS and NBC have Christmas Eve Mass.
• At midnight, TCM has The Bells of St. Mary.
• At 12:15, AMC has the 1947 movie Christmas Eve.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, then new episodes of The Amazing Race, Cold Case, and Shark.
• ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos at 7, then a new Extreme Makeover and the new movie For One More Day.
• NBC has a new Football Night In America at 7, followed by the Colts/Ravens game.
• The CW has a new CW Now at 7.
• At 8, The CW has a new Life is Wild.
• Lifetime has the movie The Christmas Shoes at 8, then the movie An Accidental Christmas.
• Mario Lopez and Melissa Joan Hart spend a a Holiday in Handcuffs, on ABC Family at 8.
• At 8:30, FOX has a new episode of King of the Hill.
• At 9, Showtime has a new Dexter.
• At 9:45, AMC has the excellent 1984 version of A Christmas Carol.
• At 10, HGTV has What's With That Decked Out Christmas House?

Check your local TV listings for more.

Since I dwell at the butt-end of Generation X, the 1962 animated holiday special Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol was never on my holiday TV plate. Perhaps it aired when I was youngster, but damned if I ever saw it. However, I always hear fond memories about the special from folks older than myself, so out of the goodness of my awesome heart I thought I'd let everyone know that the special will air on December 24 at 6:30am on Cartoon Network. That's early, I know, but what can you do? Fly around the Earth and reverse time like Superman? The show would still air at 6:30am even if you did do that, which is why he's Superman and you're not. Superman thinks these things through before he does them.

• At 8, the weeklong debut of Identity continues on NBC. It's followed by a new Dateline.
• The CW has a new, two-hour episode of America's Next Top Model.
• MSNBC has Part 2 of the Best of Oddball at 8.
• ABC Family has the movie Christmas Do-Over, followed by The Year Without A Santa Claus.
• TNT has the Patrick Stewart version of A Christmas Carol, followed by Rob Lowe in A Perfect Day.
• American Life has I Spy at 8, followed by The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.
• At 9, Discovery has a new Mythbusters.
• Lifetime has the movie Home for the Holidays at 9.
• Also at 9: Sundance has One Punk Under God.
• At 10, HBO has a new Inside The NFL.