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Chicago Med: Mistaken Doctors Chicago Fire: Short and Fat help patients after shooting. (N) (HD) Patterson steps in as temporary chief. (N) (HD) NCIS: New Orleans: The Insider The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Armed man demands a corpse. (HD) Show Angels’ 20th anniversary fashion show. (N) (HD) The Muppets: Fresh Off the Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Shark Tank Guest shark Troy Carter Single All the Way Boat: The Real Maveth S.H.I.E.L.D & Hydra have in- offers investments to hopeful entre(N) (HD) Santa (N) (HD) tense battle. (N) (HD) preneurs. (HD) Pledge Programming Critically acclaimed and viewer-renowned program- Pledge Programming Critically acclaimed and viewer-renowned program11 14 ming is featured for a membership drive encouraging viewer support ming is featured for a membership drive encouraging viewer support through highlight-worthy segments. through highlight-worthy segments. The Big Bang The Big Bang Scream Queens: Dorkus; The Final Girl(s) Surprising confessions are made; WACH FOX News at 10 Local news 6 6 Theory Date ex- Theory (HD) the Red Devil becomes unmasked and its anonymity comes to an end; the report and weather forecast. periment. (HD) identity of the killer is finally revealed. (N) (HD) Anger Manage- Anger Manage- The Flash: Running to Stand Still iZombie: Cape Town Murder of high The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye 4 22 ment Eccentric ment Eccentric Barry has to stop Weather Wizard. school shop teacher. (N) (HD) World has been ravaged by zombies. therapist. (HD) therapist. (HD) (N) (HD) (HD) 3 10 7:00pm Local
The Voice: Live Semi-Final Results Five performers are eliminated. (N) (HD) NCIS: House Rules Internet shutdown week before Christmas. (HD)
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(:01) Born This Way: Up Syndrome (:02) Married at First Sight: Wedding Preparation Young adults meet. (N) (HD) Meeting the candidates as they prepare. (HD) Scrooged (‘88, Comedy) aaa Bill Murray. A mean TV executive is Miracle on 34th extra nasty on Christmas Eve, but ghosts change his ways. (HD) Street (HD) (:02) To Be Announced (:03) To Be Announced (:04) TBA Being Mary Jane (N) (HD) Being Mary Jane (HD) Wendy Williams Show (N) Vanderpump Rules: Love Bites The Real House wives of Beverly The Real House wives of Beverly Girl friends’ Guide to Di vorce Per What Hap pens The Real House wives of Beverly 181 Hills: Life’s a Pitch Hills: Tuscany! (N) sonal chaos. (N) (N) (HD) Hills: Tuscany! 62 The Profit Burger troubles. Shark Tank Vegan cookies. (HD) Shark Tank (HD) The Profit: Wick’ed (N) Shark Tank New ideas. 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The Red Devil is unmasked on ‘Scream Queens’ finale BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH The Red Devil is revealed on the season and probable series finale of “Scream Queens” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14). Easily the most hyped new series of the fall, “Queens” has to be considered a bit of a letdown for Fox. In any other season, “Queens” would have been canceled already, but this year the networks have simply allowed poorly performing series to limp along and end when their initial 13-episode order ran out. For the networks, it’s a bit like the old movie, “Death Takes a Holiday.” So far, “Wicked City” on ABC has been the one and only network show canceled this fall. Others, including Fox’s “Minority Report,” have simply filled out their severely truncated seasons and have vanished without much fuss. Here’s my unofficial roundup of network shows that would have been euthanized in more “normal” circumstances. CBS keeps “The Good Wife” on the air despite poor ratings because it is a prestige project. The same can’t be said of “CSI: Cyber” or “Hawaii Five-O.” They’re mediocre shows with low ratings. Time to go. On Fox, now that “Queens” has concluded, “Sleepy Hollow” will probably join “Minority Report” on boot hill. And it should. If NBC axed “Truth Be Told,” “Undateable” and “The Mys-
teries of Laura,” would anybody notice? ABC had the courage to ditch “Wicked City”; it should spill “Blood & Oil” as well. “Nashville” has remained a guilty pleasure of mine over the years, but the show has run its course and lost its modest audience. I expect it will have its swan song in May. Nobody should celebrate the cancellation of a series. In addition to the stars we see on the screen, every show represents hundreds of jobs for writers and crew and support staff. But what is the point of a show if few people watch? The makers of the FX series “The Bastard Executioner” recently asked themselves that question. Faced with a small audience that dwindled by the week, creator Kurt Sutter (“Sons of Anarchy”) simply pulled the plug on the series and took out ads in Hollywood trade publications to announce his decision. The best line from his memorable ad read, “The audience has spoken, and unfortunately the word is, ‘meh.’” While it must have been painful, you have to admire this act of self-awareness and self-cancellation. If something isn’t working, it’s time to clear the decks and try something new. That’s the creative process. By failing to cancel floundering series, the networks are avoiding the obvious, cluttering their schedules
with the unwatched and encouraging viewers to look elsewhere. • The new series “Born This Way” (10 p.m., A&E, TV-PG) uses all of the cliches and conventions of the “reality” documentary drama to follow seven young adults born with Down syndrome as they work, play and pursue their dreams of sex, love and fulfillment, just like “normal” people.
TV ON DVD TV-themed DVDs available today include the long-awaited “Doc Martin, Series 7.” This beloved U.K. series is broadcast in many PBS markets.
TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • The top four are revealed on “The Voice” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG). • The morgue becomes a setting for a hostage situation on “NCIS: New Orleans” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14). • Survivors of a cinema shootout fill the wards on “Chicago Med” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14). • CBS steams up the holidays with its annual underwear extravaganza “The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14). • Patterson gets a lukewarm welcome on “Chicago Fire” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14). • African-American women
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attend relationship-counseling sessions on the new reality series “BlackLove” (10:15 FYI, TV-14).
CULT CHOICE Martin Milner (“Route 66”) who died on Sept. 6, starred in two of the most quotable movies of all time, the camp classic “Valley of the Dolls” and the 1957 drama “Sweet Smell of Success” (10:30 p.m., TCM), starring Burt Lancaster as a power-mad columnist and Tony Curtis as the publicist who will do anything to please him.
SERIES NOTES Terror threats don’t take a Christmas break on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) * A pig and a frog walk into some mistletoe on “The Muppets” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * Mark Hamill guest-stars on “The Flash” (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG) * A memorable holiday on “Fresh Off the Boat” (8:30 p.m., ABC,
TV-PG) * Coulson reaches a limit on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (9 p.m., ABC, TVPG) * A vigilante is toe-tagged on “iZombie” (9 p.m., CW, TV14).
LATE NIGHT Thomas Perez is booked on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) * Marion Cotillard, George Saunders and Joanna Newsom are booked on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Sen. Bernie Sanders, John Cena and Troye Sivan on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Jason Schwartzman, Michelle Dockery and Elle King visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Taraji P. Henson and Jermaine Fowler appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS). Copyright 2015, United Feature Syndicate
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