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• At 7, CBS has 60 Minutes.
• NBC has a new Football Night In America at 7, followed by It's A Wonderful Life.
• Lifetime has All She Wants For Christmas at 7, followed by Holiday Wishes.
• ABC Family has Frosty's Winter Wonderland at 7, then 'Twas The Night Before Christmas, Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town, The Year Without A Santa Claus and Rudolph's Shiny New Year.
• There's an Xmas episode of The Honeymooners on American Life at 7.
• Nickelodeon and Food Network are running holiday programming all night.
• AMC is running Miracle on 34th Street all night.
• TBS has A Christmas Story all day and night.
• Nickelodeon is showing Xmas eps of many shows, including Fairly Odd Parents, Full House, and The Cosby Show.
• TV Land is doing the same, with The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company, Little House on the Prairie, Good Times, All in the Family, and others.
• Also: Hallmark has various holiday movies all night.
• At 9, CBS has A Very Married Christmas.
• Comedy Central has Bad Santa at 9.
• At 10:30, TCM has Christmas In Connecticut.
• At 11:30, ABC, CBS, and NBC have Christmas Eve services from Rome and other places around the world.

Family Circus is widely considered to be one of the more lame comic strips. I've always found it more innocuous than irritating, though I will admit I don't think I've ever even cracked a smile after reading one of them. Some people downright hate the thing. I just can't muster the energy to care that much about it.

But that doesn't mean I can't enjoy this, A Family Circus Christmas. I don't remember the special at all (it was first shown in 1979 but I don't remember seeing it then or since then), but thankfully we have the cool folks over at X-Entertainment to guide us through it scene by scene. The reviewer (Matt) says it's a lot more heavy-handed than most Xmas shows, and deals with "death and loss and God and big pointy momma tits." It also has an invisible Santa Claus.

At the end of the review are four videos from the special.

• At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by the season finale of Survivor and the reunion show.
• ABC has A Charlie Brown Christmas at 7, followed by The Santa Clause 2.
• NBC has a new Football Night In America at 7, then the Chiefs vs. the Chargers.
• Also at 7: Food Network has the Nigella Bites Christmas Special, followed by Emeril's Happy Happy Holidays.
• At 7:30, The CW has a new Reba.
• At 8, FOX has a new Simpsons, followed by new epsisodes of American Dad and Family Guy, then a repeat Family Guy.
• How The Grinch Stole Christmas (the Jim Carrey version) airs on ABC Family at 8.
• TBS is showing National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation all night.
• At 9, Discovery has Holiday Mythbusters.
• Hallmark has A Boyfriend For Christmas at 9.
• At 10, Showtime has a new Dexter.

This is my favorite movie of all-time. It's really a perfect film, not just in the quality but in the way it's the ultimate slice of Americana.

You know the story by now. George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) longs to get out of his small hometown of Bedford Falls and see the world. He's been striving for it since he was a kid. But through a series of events, he's forced to stay in Bedford Falls, and when a financial mistake puts him on the brink of going to jail, he decides to end his life. But an angel steps in to show him what life would be like if he had never been born.

(S01E11) I've never understood how people can celebrate Christmas in California (or Florida or Texas, for that matter). I grew up and live in New England, and I don't understand how you can have Christmas without the cold air and the possibility of snow. I mean, it just doesn't seem right, roaring down the 405 with the top down as the temp hovers around 78 degrees, with no Jack Frost nipping at your nose (job). But that's just me.

But it's also Matt Albie, who wants to bring a little Christmas spirit to Los Angeles and the set of Studio 60...