Dr. Scrooge to Tiny Tim: "Stop complaining": It may seem incongruous for a show like House, which is about a genuine misanthrope, to get into the holiday spirit, but tonight is the show's Christmas episode. Collapsing teenagers, special gifts, the continuing story of Thirteen's degenerative disease...what could be more festive? (Fox, 8 p.m.)

Purely aesthetic appeal: I don't recommend you watch it, I don't even recommend you pay attention to it beyond this paragraph, but once a year, I pause to salute the best name of a Christmas special in history: Olive, The Other Reindeer. (My Network TV, 8 p.m.)

Terrifying economic coverage and the even more terrifying Jim Belushi, after the jump...

AIIIIEEEEE...: If you can handle one more thing sure to send you whimpering off into the corner, PBS is re-airing its Frontline report, "Can You Afford To Retire?" (PBS, 9 p.m. or check local listings)

Take that, Belushi-haters: According To Jim brings you back-to-back episodes tonight, which is two more episodes of According To Jim than anyone needs to see in an entire lifetime. But of course, my thinking that only makes me one of the silly doubters Alan Sepinwall noted in his recent column simultaneously marveling at and lamenting the show's extraordinary longevity in the face of near-universal disdain. (ABC, 9:00 and -- if that's not enough -- 9:30 p.m.)

A prayer for the dying...drama: Seal (that's Mr. Heidi Klum to you) guest-stars on a new Eli Stone, as the ABC Interesting Show Deathwatch continues and Eli Stone plays out its last few episodes.

categories: Television

1:26 - December 9, 2008

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