As year piles upon year, and massive piles of thousands of hours of television nights fly by in a kaleidoscopic maelstrom, there are few rock solid mainstays that we can look to year after year. That are worth looking to.

All religious attachments aside, Charlie Brown visiting us in the United States when Christmas time comes around is a national tradition.
And as everything – work, television, technology, life – moves faster and faster, it’s nice to have some things that simply stay the same, eternal.
With that, here’s tonight’s TV:
Premieres & Returning
Minute to Win It – NBC, 8:00
Ramsay’s Best Restaurant – BBC America, 9:00
Cupcake Wars – Food Network, 9:00
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys – Sundance, 10:00
Significant and Notable
A Charlie Brown Christmas – ABC, 8:00
Glee – FOX, 8:00
Inside the Actors Studio (James Franco) – Bravo, 8:00
In Treatment – HBO, 9:00 and 9:30
Anyone Watching?
One Tree Hill – CW, 8:00
No Ordinary Family – ABC, 9:00
Life Unexpected – CW, 9:00
Detroit 1-8-7 – ABC, 10:00
Do We Care?
Raising Hope – FOX, 9:00
Running Wilde – FOX, 9:30
Category of Mystery
Eureka – SyFy, 9:00
Glory Daze – TBS, 10:00
Weird & Wonderful
The Biggest Loser – NBC, 9:00
Billy the Exterminator – A&E, 9:00
Strange Days With Bob Saget – A&E, 10:00 & 10:30
16 & Pregnant – MTV, 10:00
Running Russel Simmons – Oxygen, 10:00
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