• At 8, FOX has a new Cops.
• Food Network has Rachael Ray's Open House at 8, followed by Rachael Ray Feeds Your Pets.
• TCM has The Apartment at 8, then How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
• At 9, CBS has a new, two hour 48 Hours Mystery.
• FOX has a new America's Most Wanted at 9.
• CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show at 9.
• Cartoon Network has two new episodes of Naruto at 9, then a new One Piece.
• Also at 9: Sci-Fi has the new movie Ogre.
• At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live, with guests Amy Adams and Vampire Weekend.
• At midnight, FOX has a new Talk Show with Spike Feresten.

Check your local TV listings for more. (And don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour tonight!)

Joining the ranks of Frosty, Rankin-Bass' Rudolph and Charlie Brown's lonely Christmas tree is everyone's favorite ogre Shrek.

DreamWorks Animation SKG will be producing an original half-hour holiday special for ABC. The special Shrek the Halls will feature the voices of the entire original cast - Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas.

We won't be seeing holiday-themed Shrek on the air until 2007. Why? Well, animation done right takes time, but so does building a lasting franchise. According to DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, the events of Shrek the Halls will pick up after the events of the yet-to-be-released third Shrek film.

I'm sure the Shrek special will be great, but can anyone really top a dentist elf, unhappy Yeti and misfit reindeer? Shrek is so postmodern in its sensibility that I'm sure it will be incorporating references to all the classic holiday specials anyway. It's the dawning of a hyper-referential pop culture Christmas.