It's Christmas and Thanksgiving on TV
Off the Wall is feeling doubly festive this week.
CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE Stop with the shocked act. Christmas creep is nothing new. The Valerie Bertinelli-Peter Falk flick "Finding John Christmas" (Saturday at 6 a.m., Hallmark) kicks off Hallmark's full-weekend festival of holiday films that includes the premiere of Catherine Bell's yule wedding saga "The Good Witch's Gift" (Saturday at 8, Hallmark). Daily Christmas movies start Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Hallmark Movie Channel. Vintage TV episodes pop up, too, including a musical Christmas party on "Ally McBeal" (Monday at 4 p.m., Reelz) and a cranky Dr. Angry Head on "Becker" (Monday at 6:30 p.m., Reelz). Best of all: Here come the classics, with the 1966 Dr. Seuss-Chuck Jones cartoon collaboration "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (Friday at 8 p.m., TBS).
THANKSGIVING EPISODES Among those taking note of Turkey Day: "Desperate Housewives" (Sunday at 9 p.m., ABC/7), "One Tree Hill" (Tuesday at 8 p.m., CW/11), "The Office" (Thursday at 9 p.m., NBC/4), and, of course, "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (Thursday at 8 p.m., ABC/7).
MUSIC MAKERS After CMT celebrates "40 Greatest Songs of the Decade" (Saturday 8-10, CMT), it hosts a Rascal Flatts concert that's "Invitation Only" (Monday at 9 p.m., CMT). Then, Bruce Springsteen performs and discusses the retro return of "The Promise" on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" (late Tuesday at 12:35 a.m., NBC/4). Enter to win a Rascal Flatts guitar at cmt.com.
SHOW-BIZ SALUTES Chris Rock, Denis Leary, Richard Belzer, Lewis Black and other comics pay tribute to their late colleague in "Back From Hell: A Tribute to Sam Kinison" (Saturday at 10, Comedy Central). Friends and co-stars tell all in "Betty White: America's Golden Girl" (Sunday at 8 p.m., TV Guide Network). TV's current comic queenpin is honored in "Tina Fey: The Mark Twain Prize" (Sunday at 9 p.m., PBS/13; Thursday at 9 p.m., WLIW/21). And Hollywood's biggest-ever child star is newly profiled in "The Shirley Temple Story" (Friday at 8 p.m., Fox Movie Channel), before screenings of 1940s "The Blue Bird" and 1938's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (Friday at 8:30 and 10 p.m., FMC). Tina Fey answers fans' questions at pbs.org/marktwainprize.
ZOMBIE CATCHUP If you're wondering what all the fuss is about, find out in a three-episode dose of the graphic adult chiller "The Walking Dead" (Sunday 8-11 p.m., AMC). The series' first two hours encore with limited commercial breaks before the third debuts at its regular time of 10 p.m. All things "Dead" at amctv.com/originals/The- Walking-Dead.
SERIES PREMIERES You know the biggie: "Sarah Palin'sAlaska" (Sunday at 9 p.m., TLC). But there's also the weeknight radio-highlights hour "The Steve Harvey Show" (Monday-Friday 9 p.m., Centric), the global influences foodfest "United Tastes of America" (Tuesday at 9:30 p.m., Cooking Channel), and the '80s-set college-com "Glory Daze" (Tuesday at 10 p.m., TBS). Preview at tbs.com/shows/glorydaze.
WRESTLING FLASHBACK Do these names ring a bell? Sgt. Slaughter, The Iron Sheik, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, "Mean" Gene Okerlund? This week's "WWE Monday Night Raw" (Monday 8-11 p.m., USA) goes old school, welcoming the stars who made '80s wrestling pop-culture cool. But the biggest name is on another network. "Finding Hulk Hogan" (Wednesday at 10 p.m., A&E) spends an hour catching up with the Hulkster after his ugly divorce, his son's auto smashup and his financial ruin. At least he's found God. More at usanetwork.com/raw.
LIers missing in Nepal ... Dolly Parton light show... LI's Greenway project... Dom's Famous Chicken Fingers
LIers missing in Nepal ... Dolly Parton light show... LI's Greenway project... Dom's Famous Chicken Fingers