The no-man’s-land toward the end of the year, a few specials and getting into a lot of reruns…

Monday

• Prep & Landing/Naighty vs Nice (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – Ho to the ho.
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (CW, 8pm) – And a ho.
• Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas/Dreamworks Dragons (Fox, 9/9:30pm) – And a ho.
• Lizard Lick Towing (Tru, 9:30pm) Season Premiere – They’re towing it again, and someone goes missing.

Tuesday

• Hardcore Pawn (Tru, 9pm) Season Premiere – Seth returns.

Wednesday

• Home for the Holidays (CBS, 8pm) – Celine Dion raises awareness for adoption.
• The iHeartradio Jingle Ball (CW, 8pm) – Performances from Miley and others.
• The 10 Most Fascinating People (ABC, 9:30pm) – Barbara Walters presents…
• Michael Buble (NBC, 10pm) – Christmas special it up.

Thursday

• A Charlie Brown Christmas (ABC, 8pm) – Charlie Brown music is always a fave.
• SNL (NBC, 9pm) – Christmas best?
• Myth Hunters (Mil, 10pm) Series Premiere – Is there really a military channel?

Friday

• I Love Lucy Christmas Special (CBS, 8pm) – For those who love Lucy.
• Happiness is a Warm Blanket (Fox, 9pm) – Linus without his blanket is like…

Saturday

• I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – Snoopy and Spike to Christmas right.

Sunday

• The Sound of Music (ABC, 7pm) – The 1965 version for those of you who want to continue to critique Carrie Underwood.

The procrastinator lists items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation other than those underlined. Times noted are typically PST.

Monday

• Bakery Boss/Best Funeral Ever (TLC, 6/7pm) Series Premieres – Hungarian improvements and making that special day.
• A Charlie Brown Christmas/CMA Country Christmas (ABC, 8/9pm) – Holiday fun and then Jennifer Nettles, who I assume is a country person, hosts.
• Street Outlaws (Disc, 10pm) Season Premiere – Brawling.
• Rick and Morty (AdSw, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Wacky mad scientist adventures.

Tuesday

• Shipping Wars (A&E, 7pm) Season Premiere – Trouble with a shipment.

Wednesday

• Christmas in Rockefeller Center/SNL Christmas (NBC, 8/9pm) – Lights and laughs.
• Buying and Selling (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Home improvements to sell.
• Mob City (TNT, 9pm) Series Premiere – Time for another film noir-esque mob series?
• Killer Contact (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at hauntings from crimes.
• Kirstie (TVL, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another stab at revisiting sitcom greats, unfortunately Kirstie, Rhea and Michael Richards step into clunky lines and situations.

Thursday

• The Sound of Music Live (NBC, 8pm) – Carrie Underwood steps in.
• Gypsy Sisters (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Brawling?
• The Millionaire Matchmaker/Courtney Loves Dallas (Brav, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Don Swayze gets a hook up and then my least favorite kind of reality show, a spinoff of another reality show, some girl from some show.
• Rent or Buy (HGTV, 9pm) Series Premiere – That is the question.
• Mob Wives (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – Begins with a party.
• Party On (E!, 10pm) Series Premiere – Some chick parties in random places for you to be jealous of, or not, starting with Greece.

Friday

• Frosty the Snowman/Yes, Virginia/Grammy Noms Concert Live (CBS, 8/8:30/10pm) – Seasonal fun and songs.

Saturday

• Holiday parties or catching up on Sons of Anarchy?

Sunday

• Bonnie & Clyde (Life, A&E, Hist, 9pm) – This two part series revisits a famous couple but rumor has it doesn’t offer much new.
• Dude, You’re Screwed (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Watch a Navy SEAL in a reality show about getting out, you know of wherever the put him.

The procrastinator lists items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation other than those underlined. Times noted are typically PST.

Not a lot of note going on this week as we roll into the official holiday season, time for some movies…

Monday

• Generation Cryo (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – A look at a woman whose sperm donor dad had some other offspring.

Tuesday

• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (CBS, 8pm) – This one is jumping the gun with a pre turkey day ho ho ho.
• Boston’s Finest/Marshall Law (TNT, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Real life crime fighters.

Wednesday

• Sound of Music Live: Making Of/SNL Thanksgiving (NBC, 8/9pm) – Behind the scenes of something I’m not interested in and then some of the historical funnies.
• Haunted Highway (Syfy, 10pm) Season Premiere – More ghosts to be found.

Thursday

• Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC/CBS, 9am) – Floats, bands…
• Magnificent Mile Lights (ABC, 11am) – Lighting…
• The National Dog Show (NBC, 12pm) – Woof.
• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving/Lady Gaga and the Muppets Spectacular (ABC, 8/9:30pm) – Charlie and the gang and then some songs and celebrations by celebrities and felted friends.

Friday

• Hoops & Yoyo Ruin Christmas/The Elf on the Shelf/Garth Brooks (CBS, 8/8:30/9pm) – And here they all come.
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas/Shrek the Halls (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – More holiday fare.
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (CW, 8pm) – And yeah more.

Saturday

• The Flight Before Christmas/The Story of Santa Claus (CBS, 8/9pm) – And more…

Sunday

• Christmas in Conway (ABC, 9pm) – Made for TV flick with a dude making a very special Christmas.
• Hawaii Life (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Aloha.
• Treme (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – Yes we can, Obama-style.

The procrastinator lists items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation other than those underlined. Times noted are typically PST.

Monday

• None of the Above/Church Rescue (NGC, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Burning experiments and then what looks like religious Restaurant Impossible.
• Bear Grylls: Escape from Hell (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – I guess he was tired of living in comfort.

Tuesday

• Black Mirror/Secret State (DirTV, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – Two more British imports, an hour long satirical drama on the state of tech today and then a conspiracy thriller, no DTV for me but otherwise would take a gander.
• Lost Survivors (Trav, 11pm) Series Premiere – Married survival experts test their mettle.

Wednesday

• Secrets of the Dead (PBS, 10pm) Season Premiere – George Clooney narrates the premiere on JFK.
• Burning Love (E!, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – The laugher version of the dating shows.

Thursday

• Ground Floor (TBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another dip into the sitcom pool where opposites attract, banker and maintenance together at last.

Friday

• Raising Hope (Fox, 9pm) Season Premiere – The Chance family returns.
• Sweet Home Alabama (CMT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will the latest sweet country girl pick a country boy or a city guy?

Saturday

• Orange County Choppers/Swamp Pawn (CMT, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Bikes and swamp stuff sales.

Sunday

• Almost Human (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – Future cop buddy show, emotionally damaged human working with the emotionally questionable robot is worth a look.
• The Drama Queen (E!, 11pm) Series Premiere – Take a look at a talent manager in action.

The procrastinator lists items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation other than those underlined. Times noted are typically PST.

Monday

• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills/Vanderpump Rules (Brav, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – I don’t know who the Vanderpumps are but they’re combining their shows tonight.
• Mike & Molly (CBS, 9pm) Season Premiere – Molly has a meltdown.
• Bizarre Foods America (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – The Garden State’s treats.
• Love It or List It (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – Growing family needs a bigger house.

Tuesday

• Moonshiners (Disc, 9pm) Season Premiere – Life changing events.
• Shahs of Sunset (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Stuff happens to them or by them or whatever.

Wednesday

• CMA Awards (ABC, 8pm) – Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood host, again.
• Beverly Hills Pawn (Reelz, 9pm) Season Premiere – Stuff.
• Extreme Yachts (Trav, 9pm) Season Premiere – Because if you’re going to have a yacht it should be extreme.
• Guy Court (MTV2, 11pm) Series Premiere – Comedic courtroom rulings of dude behavior.

Thursday

• Urban Suburban/Reno vs. Relocate (Health, 9/10pm) Series Premieres – In the city or in the suburbs and then to move or to move to Reno, ok that’s how I read that but it’s actually move or renovate.

Friday

• The Lylas (WE, 9pm) Series Premiere – Bruno Mars’ sisters are musicians too.
• Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Adrianna Costa a ‘television personality’ looks for a reception dress.

Saturday

• Miss Universe (NBC, 8pm) – Mel B and Thomas Roberts host from Moscow.
• Jobs that Bite! (NGW, 9pm) Series Premiere – Challenging animal jobs like giving a lion a physical

Sunday

• 24/7 (HBO, 12:15am) Season Premiere – Pacquiao/Rios.
• Ax Men/American Jungle (Hist, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premieres – Cutting it down and living off the land in Hawaii.
• Thicker than Water (Brav, 9pm) Series Premiere – A look at the family of former basketball player/gospel-jazz musician Ben Tankard.
• Finding Bigfoot (AnPl, 10pm) Season Premiere – Not only do they have seasons of this but there is also so much to talk about that they have an Untold Stories following it.

The procrastinator lists items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation other than those underlined. Times noted are typically PST.

Monday

• Love & Hip Hop/Chrissy & Mr Jones (VH1, 8/9pm) Season Premieres – Realities continue.

Tuesday

• Restaurant Redemption (Cook, 5pm) Series Premiere – Helping out struggling Asian restaurants.
• Little People, Big World (TLC, 6pm) Season Premiere – More world.
• Naked Vegas (Syfy, 10pm) Series Premiere – Because we haven’t yet focused on artists specializing in body painting.

Wednesday

• The Art Of (Ova, 5pm) Season Premiere – Starting with a look at costume designers.
• Extreme Cheapskates (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – Sharing a toothbrush?
• Girl Code/Ke$ha (MTV, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – More girls and more of that girl.

Thursday

• SNL Halloween/It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (NBC/ABC, 8pm) – Happy Halloween!
• The Returned (Sun, 9pm) Series Premiere – Airing of eight part supernatural French drama, might be worth an all hallows eve look.

Friday

• Time of Death (Show, 9pm) Series Premiere – Profiles of people living out their final days.
• The Dead Files (Trav, 10pm) Season Premiere – On a very different note, paranormal profiles.

Saturday

• 2013 Breeders’ Cup (NBC, 5pm) – The 30th cup concludes.
• Pit Bulls & Parolees (AnPl, 6pm) Season Premiere – More of each?
• Flipping Vegas (A&E, 10pm) Season Premiere – Cat house.
• Houston Beauty (OWN, 10pm) Series Premiere – Beauty schooling.

Sunday

• The Real Housewives of Atlanta/Fashion Queens (Brav, 8/11:30pm) Season Premieres – More of that and then a look at the fashion across the airwaves.
• Restaurant Express (Food, 9pm) Series Premiere – Vegas baby! Nine contestants arrive.
• America Declassified (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – Mysteries and conspiracies across the country.

The procrastinator lists items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation other than those underlined. Times noted are typically PST.