HOLIDAY PROGRAMS and SPECIALS
Chopped It’s holiday time and the chefs open up
different baskets to discover ingredients for their
holiday-inspired dishes. FOOD 9 pm
Holidays Unwrapped Candy canes; whipped-
cream dollop; Santa Claus’ image; the Butterball
hotline. COOK 10 pm
Chopped Teri Hatcher, Anthony Anderson,
Dawn Wells and Antonio Sabato, Jr. compete in
the Chopped Kitchen for a favorite charity. FOOD
10 pm
DEC. 18
Christmas at Bobby’s It’s Christmas at Bobby
Flay’s house and he invites his friends, Sunny
Anderson, Anne Burrell, Scott Conant, Alex Guar-
naschelli, Eddie Jackson, Katie Lee, and Geoffrey
Zakarian to crash at his place and partake in some
holiday festivities. COOK 8 pm
Toy Story That Time Forgot While at a post-
Christmas play date, the gang finds itself in un-
charted territory after some cool new action figures
turn out to be delusional, leaving it up to Trixie to
save the day. DISNEY 8:30 pm
Perry Como’s Christmas in the Holy Land Perry
Como visits Jerusalem and Bethlehem; with Rich-
ard Chamberlain. GET TV 10 pm
DEC. 19
The Great Christmas Light Fight (N) Twenty
families compete for a $50,000 prize by transform-
ing their homes for the holidays. ABC 8 pm
America’s Got Talent (N) Nick Cannon hosts as
the judges and former contestants come together to
celebrate the holidays; featured performers include
Grace VanderWaal, The Clairvoyants, Mat Franco,
Piff the Magic Dragon, Olate Dogs, The Regurgi-
tator and more. NBC 8 pm
The Simpsons Marge has to spend all the fam-
ily’s Christmas present money getting Bart’s tattoo
removed, so Homer gets a job as Santa but bets all
his wages on a dog with a festive name. FXX 8 pm
The Simpsons When the Simpsons’ Christmas
presents are stolen, the residents of Springfield rally
to the aid of Homer and his family. FXX 8:30 pm
Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Featuring Laura Osnes and Martin Jarvis (N)
The annual concert features Broadway performer
Laura Osnes, British actor Martin Jarvis, and four
Metropolitan Opera soloists. PBS 9 pm
Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Featuring Laura Osnes and Martin Jarvis (N)
The annual concert features Broadway performer
Laura Osnes, British actor Martin Jarvis, and four
Metropolitan Opera soloists. PBS HD 9 pm
The Judy Garland Show Jack Jones, Mel Tormé
and dancer Tracy Everitt join Judy and her kids;
musical numbers include “Have Yourself a Merry
Little Christmas,” “The Christmas Song” and a
holiday medley. GET TV 9 pm
Chopped It’s holiday time and the chefs open up
different baskets to discover ingredients for their
holiday-inspired dishes. FOOD 10 pm
Family Guy Peter fills Lois’ dad with holiday
spirit; Stewie tries to get the only thing he wants for
Christmas. TBS 10 pm
The Simpsons Homer sells a Joe DiMaggio card
for a pile of cash, then fritters it all away on himself
before being roused by Charles Dickens’ “A Christ-
mas Carol.” FXX 10:30 pm
DEC. 20
Chopped It’s holiday time and the chefs open up
different baskets to discover ingredients for their
holiday-inspired dishes. FOOD 7 pm
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas When Manny
convinces Sid that he is on the naughty list, Sid,
Crash, Eddie and Peaches head to the North Pole
to explain themselves to Santa Claus. FOX 8 pm
Michael Bublé Special (N) NBC 8 pm
The Simpsons Bart is accused of shoplifting and
panics when Marge plans a family portrait at the
same store. FXX 8 pm
The Simpsons The Simpsons re-enact the Nativ-
ity; a World War II tale stars Grampa, Mr. Burns
and Santa; a musical features “The Nutcracker
Suite.” FXX 8:30 pm
Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown
2016 Kevin Frazier and Keltie Knight host a
countdown of the world’s best holiday commercials
— one for each of the 12 days of Christmas. CW
9 pm
Untold Stories of the E.R.: Holiday ER A man
dressed as Santa is near death; a man swallows
something strange at a party; a woman dressed as
an elf passes out; a blue leg. DLC 9 pm
The Jeff Foxworthy Show Jeff and Big Jim are
arrested after taking the children into the woods to
chop down a Christmas tree. GET TV 9 pm
The Simpsons When the rest of the family seems
to lack Christmas spirit, Marge contacts Martha
Clause (guest voice Martha Stewart). FXX 9:30 pm
Sugar Showdown (N) Bakers must create deli-
cious treats in this cooking competition. COOK
10 pm
The Simpsons When a leak at the power plant
causes snowfall in Springfield, tourists inundate the
town; Marge takes on boarders to raise cash for the
holidays. FXX 10 pm
The Johnny Cash Christmas Show In this musi-
cal holiday special from 1977, Johnny Cash, Roy
Clark, June Carter Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy
Orbison, Carl Perkins and the Statler Brothers
perform; with a special tribute to Elvis Presley, who
had tragically died earlier that year. GET TV 10
pm
The Simpsons When Homer stays out drinking
with Moe on Christmas Eve, Marge tells him not
to come home, leaving him to make a sad trek
through the town. FXX 10:30 pm
DEC. 21
Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas Santa Claus tells
the story of Buddy’s trip to New York to meet the
father he never knew he had — and how Buddy
transforms the lives of everyone he meets. NBC 8
pm
Doctor Who As the newly regenerated Doc-
tor drifts in and out of consciousness, Christmas
becomes a time of terror on planet Earth with the
whole of mankind falling under the shadow of the
sinister alien Sycorax. BBC-A 8 pm
Doctor Who A bride mysteriously vanishes as she
prepares to marry her boyfriend. BBC-A 9 pm
Doctor Who The Doctor tries to save the lives
of the passengers on an orbiting cruise ship called
Titanic. BBC-A 10 pm
Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas Mary
Costa, Robert Goulet, Mitchell Singing Boys and
the Crosby family. GET TV 10 pm
DEC. 22
Mac Davis Special: The Music of Christmas
Singer-songwriter Mac Davis hosts a holiday special
featuring a blend of soul, pop and country music
with performances by Gladys Knight & the Pips,
Barbara Mandrell and Ronnie Milsap. GET TV
8 pm
A Chef’s Life Holiday Special Chef Vivian How-
ard’s holiday celebration features Southern cooking
and Hanukkah traditions; recipes include corned
ham, oyster dressing, hoppin’ john and red-velvet
cake. PBS 9 pm
A Chef’s Life Holiday Special Chef Vivian How-
ard’s holiday celebration features Southern cooking
and Hanukkah traditions; recipes include corned
ham, oyster dressing, hoppin’ john and red-velvet
cake. PBS HD 9 pm
DEC. 23
Doctor Who In order to save Amy and Rory, who
are trapped on a crashing space liner, The Doctor
must save the soul of a lonely miser. BBC-A 7 pm
Holiday Baking Championship Thanksgiving-in-
spired desserts; in the first round, canned cranberry
sauce; in the main heat, the bakers must invent a
dessert highlighting their assigned harvest ingredi-
ent. COOK 7 pm
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