by Linda Holmes

• You can have your Rudolph and your Frosty; I wait for one Christmas special per year, and that's The Year Without A Santa Claus. Why? Because, in case all the Claymation blends together in your head, this is where you find the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser. That's good stuff. (ABC Family, 8 p.m.)

• This season of Survivor has turned into something of a free-for-all among those who would have been picked last early in the season: it's down to scrawny Kenny, the video gamer; Sugar, the pin-up model who may or may not be smarter than she seems; Susie, who got on everyone's nerves in the first week; Matty, the only young and athletic guy left; Crystal, the surprisingly ungraceful former Olympian; and Bob, the physics teacher, who sometimes seems extremely sharp and sometimes seems to gravely misunderstand the fundamentally mercenary nature of the game. Tonight's final regular episode will be followed by Sunday night's two-hour finale. (CBS, 8 p.m.)

• Tonight's episode of CSI introduces Laurence Fishburne as the new main character who will take over from the departing William Petersen (Gil Grissom). See CBS's "extended preview" at the top of the post. (CBS, 9 p.m.)

• Over on The Office, the party gets complicated after Meredith's hair catches fire. Doesn't that sound like every episode of The Office? (NBC, 9 p.m.)

• It's another appearance by Jack's mother (Elaine Stritch) on 30 Rock, and that's a merry Christmas for everyone.

categories: The Discerning Viewer

12:00 - December 11, 2008

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