News & Notes

Tonight, CBS has the Grammys Greatest Stories: A 60th Anniversary Special, The CW has the iHeartRadio Music Festival Night 2 special, and NBC has the Dreamworks Trolls Holiday special.

Over on cable, Food Network has a Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives: Northeast Feast special, Hallmark Channel has the TV movie premiere of Finding Santa, LMN has the TV movie premiere of Framed by My Fiancé, and truTV has an Impractical Jokers: Humiliation for the Holidays special.

In late night, HBO has the second season finale of Tracey Ullman’s Show.

On streaming, as of this morning, Netflix drops the complete second season of Frontier and the complete first season of Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park: USA.

Next Friday, ABC has the fifth season premiere of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., HBO has the series premiere of All Def Comedy, Hulu has the series finale of East Los High, and Netflix drops the complete first season of The Dark and the complete second season of Easy.

Check out today’s Black Friday Deals on Amazon Devices including the Fire TV Stick.

Prime Picks

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (NBC): Repeat Special. The animated classic Dr. Seuss holiday tale.
Dreamworks Trolls Holiday (NBC): New Special. The Queen of the Trolls tries to help the Bergens after learning they don’t have any holidays in this new animated holiday special.

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network): New Special. It’s a “Northeast Feast” for Guy in this compilation episode. Plays again later.

Happy! (Syfy): Special Preview. It looks like the first episode plays with special behind-the-scenes footage. This is a weird show about a former detective, played by Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), down on his luck and working as a hitman that almost dies and comes back seeing a very happy winged blue horse that follows him around. Based on the graphic novel. Runs 49 minutes. The show officially premieres on Wednesday, December 6th.

Solid Selections

Frosty the Snowman (CBS): Repeat Special. The classic animated holiday special.
Frosty Returns (CBS): Repeat Special. The follow-up to the classic animated holiday special.

White Famous (SHO2): Repeat. This past Sunday night’s episode, “Duality,” replays. Runs 30 minutes.
SMILF (SHO2): Repeat. This past Sunday night’s episode, “Half a Sheet Cake & a Blue-Raspberry Slushie,” replays. Runs 30 minutes. Plays earlier this evening on Showtime.

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network): Repeat Special. Guy checks out some “Amazing Appetizers” in this compilation episode. Plays again later.

Other Option

• Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (ABC): Repeat Special. The classic animated holiday special.

Sports Notes

• ABC has doubleheader college football action with Miami at Pittsburgh followed by South Florida at Central Florida.
• CBS had college football action today with Missouri at Arkansas.
• CBS Sports has doubleheader college football action today with Northern Illinois at Central Michigan followed by New Mexico at San Diego State and then later tonight has doubleheader college basketball action with New Mexico vs. TCU followed by Maryland at St. Bonaventure.
• ESPN has college football action today with Army at Houston followed by doubleheader college basketball action and then tonight has college football action with Virginia Tech at Virginia and then another college basketball game.
• ESPN2 has six college basketball games.
• ESPNU has college football action today with Western Michigan at Toledo and then three college basketball games tonight.
• ESPNEWS has doubleheader college basketball action today and another game tonight.
• FOX has college basketball action with the Las Vegas Invitational championship game followed by college football action tonight with Texas Tech at Texas.
• FS1 has doubleheader college football action today with Baylor at TCU followed by Iowa at Nebraska then college basketball action and more college football action with California at UCLA closing out the night.
• NBA TV has doubleheader action tonight with the Charlotte Hornets at the Cleveland Cavaliers followed by the Chicago Bulls at the Golden State Warriors.

Friday TV Marathons

Black Sails (Starz Edge): Has episodes all day into tomorrow afternoon.
A Different World (TV One): Has 16 episodes tonight.
Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network): Has 10 compilation special episodes.
Friends (Spike): Has 20 episodes tonight into late night.
Gilmore Girls (UP): Has episodes all day today, tomorrow and into Sunday afternoon.
Impractical Jokers (truTV): Has 33 episodes.
Law & Order (ION): Has 10 episodes.
Law & Order (SundanceTV): Has 21 episodes.
Living Single (TV One): Has 22 episodes early.
Malcolm & Eddie (MTV2): Has 10 episodes early.
M*A*S*H (TV Land): Has 11 episodes tonight.
M*A*S*H (WGN America): Has 10 episodes tonight.
Mom (FXX): Has 12 episodes today.
The Simpsons (FXX): Has 12 episodes tonight.
Star Trek (BBC America): Eight episodes early.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (BBC America): Has 11 episodes.
That ’70s Show (Comedy Central): Has 14 episodes today.
The Wayans Bros. (MTV2): Has 24 episodes tonight into late night.
Weeds (Showtime Showcase): Has 28 episodes today, 26 tomorrow and 26 Sunday.
Westworld (HBO2): Has all 10 first season episodes.
Z Nation (SYFY): Has nine season early.