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Time-Sensitive PERIODICALS Channel Guide SPECIAL HOLIDAY CALENDAR Class Publication Postmaster please deliver by the 1st of the month NAT magazine December 2017 • $7.99 BEST & WORST Of 2017! channelguidemag.com REUNION The Original Cast Returns We’re In Kenya For PSYCH: With The People THE MOVIE And Creatures Of BIG CAT KNIGHTFALL WEEK History’s Edgy Tale Of The Knights Templar A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! “Funny December 2017 December Is Funny” Carol Burnett On Her 50th Anniversary Party, The Surprising Guest List, Mrs. Wiggins, Eunice & More! For MORE HOLIDAY SHORT LIST PROGRAMMING See Page 21 We Break Down The Month’s Biggest And Best Programming So Dec. You Never Miss A Must-See Minute. 1 10 23 Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., ABC Revenge Body With Khloé Kardashian, College Basketball: CBS Sports — Season Premiere E! — Season Premiere Classic, CBS Figure Skating: ISU Grand Prix Final, NFL Football: Minnesota at Green 2 NBC Bay, NBC Christmas in Evergreen, Outlander, Starz — Season Finale Hallmark Channel — Original Film 24 Four Christmases and a Wedding, 11 It’s a Wonderful Life, NBC Lifetime — Original Film A Gray State, A&E — Original Film 24 Hours of “A Christmas Story,” NFL Football: New England at Miami, TNT & TBS 3 ESPN The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Man Among Cheetahs, Nat Geo Wild 25 Special, CBS NBA Basketball, ABC, ESPN & TNT College Football Playoff Selection 13 Doctor Who: “Twice Upon a Time,” Show, ESPN BBC America 4 26 The Great Christmas Light Fight, ABC The 40th Annual Kennedy Center — Season Premiere Honors, CBS 95th Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting From President’s Park, 27 Hallmark Channel NOVA: “Day the Dinosaurs Died,” PBS 6 The Librarians, TNT — Season Premiere < 28 Knightfall, History — New Series The Menendez Murders: Erik Tells All, Shut Eye, Hulu — Season Premiere A&E — Series Finale Law & Order: SVU, NBC — Midseason 15 College Football: Valero Alamo Bowl, Christmas With the Mormon Finale ESPN Happy!, Syfy — New Series Tabernacle Choir Featuring Rolando Villazón, PBS 29 7 College Football: Hyundai Sun Bowl, The Great American Baking Show, 16 CBS NFL Football: L.A. Chargers at Kansas ABC — Season Premiere College Football: Goodyear Cotton City, NFL Network Top Chef, Bravo — Season Premiere Bowl Classic, ESPN A Nashville Christmas, getTV American Masters: This Is Bob Psych: The Movie, USA Network 17 Hope…, PBS — Original Film A Christmas Story Live!, FOX 30 8 19 College Basketball: Florida State at The Crown, Netfl ix — Season Premiere Who Killed Tupac?, A&E — Series Finale Duke, CBS The Interrogation Room, College Football: Capital One Orange 9 Discovery Channel — New Series Bowl, ESPN 2017 Heisman Trophy Presentation, College Football: PlayStation Fiesta ESPN 22 Bowl, ESPN Live PD: Police Patrol, A&E Blindspot, NBC — Midseason Finale 31 Eric Idle’s The Entire Universe, PBS “Nashville” Marathon, CMT The Librarians: © 2017 Turner Entertainment Riggs Company. Credit: Allyson Ward Networks, Warner Inc. A Time Turner Librarians: © 2017 The N Not all networks available in all areas. PBS programming varies regionally. Channel Guide Magazine 251 CONTENTS 12.17 CHANNELGUIDEMAG.COM ON THE COVER 10 Best & Worst of 2017 12 Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special 14 Psych: The Movie 16 Knightfall 18 Big Cat Week 20 A Christmas Story Live! 21 Holiday Calendar In one of TV’s most graphically 17 bizarre, dark yet FAVORITES hilarious series (that’s defi nitely 4 News & Views not for children), a blue horse 6 Hype named Happy 7 5 Questions With ... clippity clops in and out of the 7 Renewed Shows life of a hardened ex-cop, played 12 What’s New by Christopher 23 Sports Meloni 24 On Demand Premieres Ratings Report Remembrances NEXT MONTH 6 What were some of 8 Mary Tyler Moore. It’s midseason in the TV RESOURCES the top-watched TV Jerry Lewis. Adam world, so a whole new crop 27 Best Bets shows of the year? West. A look at of shows is on the horizon. We detail out the some of the Find out what’s new and 36 Streaming rankings. entertainers we what’s worth watching. 40 Program Listings lost this year. THE SOURCE 184 Series 186 Premium Profiler CHANNEL GUIDE’S 188 Movies, Specials, Sports & More READER REWARDS Cozy up on the couch this winter On The Cover: Carol Burnett: © 2011 Silver Screen Collection. Credit: Silver Screen Collection/ with one of our plush blankets. Getty Images. Happy: Credit: Syfy 4 Readers Will Win! Rules are simple: No purchase necessary to enter or win. Complete and mail form by Dec. 29, 2017. See official Get More Online! rules at channelguidemag.com/rules channelguidemag.com Follow us on Name: Address: City: FREE DIGITAL ISSUE! Go to: State: Zip: Phone: channelguidemag.com/all-access/ Mail this entry to: Channel Guide December Reader Rewards, 9275 N. 49th Street, Suite 100, Brown Deer, WI 53223 N Not all services are available in all areas. Channel Guide Magazine 3 NEWS & VIEWS Editor’s Note Meet Oh, The Fun Of The Holidays ... THE CREW I’ve never seen our executive art director get giddy over an upcoming TV show, but when I showed him the gallery photos BARB for FOX’s A Christmas Story Live! he was like a kid all over again. First on my list to “Oh, they got the lamp! Maya Rudolph is in it?! When’s this on?” DVR: Happy! on Syfy (outrageously dark and He was hooked, as I’m sure many of you will be. FOX’s three- bloody-violent, but oh hour live event is based, of course, on the so bizarre) beloved 1983 film that shared the humorous holiday recollections of growing up in 1940s I still laugh every holiday Indiana. Read more about it in our special watching: Elf and A Christmas holiday section beginning on page 20. Story And speaking of classics, inside is our exclusive interview with the legendary Carol JEFF Burnett, who brings together a slew of First on my list to DVR: comedy’s best for The Carol Burnett 50th Happy! on Syfy Anniversary Special. “Funny is funny,” Carol Childhood Christmas tells us about her show’s lasting appeal, and gift I wanted but never we couldn’t agree more. got: Talking View-Master While on the topic of funny, PBS’ American Masters takes a long and loving look at another legend in This Is Bob Hope… (see our PBS page), and Christopher Meloni stars in Syfy’s dark comedy Happy! (page LORI First on my list to DVR: 17). The Carol Burnett 50th Lastly, History introduces the riveting new period drama Anniversary Special Knightfall, which follows the bloody story of the Holy Grail and on CBS. More Carol. the men — the Knights Templar — who devoted their lives to Always more Carol. protecting it. Lots to enjoy this month! 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It was the fi rst time my favorite fi lms: The Divorcee (1930), that Charles Laughton directed a movie, Night Nurse (1931), The Women which, unfortunately, was not received (1939), Double Indemnity (1944), well by the public.