Must See HDTV (December 17th - 23rd)
Nearly every show still on is preparing for a winter or season break, but there's still plenty of football to watch including the season finale of Monday Night Football... on a Saturday. Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.
The League
Just as our fantasy football seasons are coming to an end, so is this season of FX's comedy series. Whether or not this year's season finale lives up to last year's probably depends on how much Rafi plays into it, but we'll be watching The League to see who wins the Shiva all the same.
(December 20th, FX, 10:30 & 11PM)
49ers/Seahawks Sunday Night Football
Wait, is this an exciting late season game in the NFC West? Apparently so, since young QBs Colin Kaepernick and Russell Wilson have shown this season that they're more than deserving of the "must-see" tag. After beating the Patriots and destroying the Buffalo Bills they come head to head, it should be an excellent matchup to watch while wrapping gifts Sunday night.
(December 23rd, NBC, 8:20PM)
Blu-ray & Games
Pitch Perfect
Total Recall
Trouble with the Curve
Futurama Vol. 7
Shameless (S2)
Premium Rush
Arbitrage
Resident Evil: Retribution (3D)
Monday
Jets/Titans Monday Night Football, ESPN, 8:30PM
1600 Penn (series premiere), NBC, 9:30PM
Rockets/Knicks, NBA TV, 7:30PM
Dreamworks Dragons, Fox, 8PM
How I Met Your Mother (fall finale), CBS, 8PM
Gossip Girl (series finale), CW, 8PM
American Chopper (series finale), Discovery, 9PM
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States, Showtime, 8PM
WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
2 Broke Girls (fall finale), CBS, 9PM
Picture Paris, HBO, 9PM
Mike & Molly (fall finale), CBS, 9:30PM
Hawaii Five-0, CBS (fall finale), 10PM
Take It All (season finale), NBC, 10PM
Catfish, MTV, 11PM
Tuesday
NCIS (fall finale), CBS, 8PM
WWE SmackDown, USA, 8PM
Happy Endings (fall finale), ABC, 9PM
Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, 9PM
NCIS: LA (fall finale), CBS, 9PM
Call Me Fitz (season finale), DirecTV, 9PM
The Voice (season finale), NBC, 9PM
Mankind: The Story of All of Us, History, 9PM
Take It All, NBC, 9PM
Less Than Kind (fall finale), DirecTV, 9:30 & 10PM
Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 (fall finale), ABC, 9:30PM
Private Practice (fall finale), ABC, 10PM
Leverage, TNT, 10PM
Vegas (fall finale), CBS, 10PM
Underemployed, MTV, 10PM
Flashpoint, Ion, 11PM
Wednesday
Nets/Knicks, ESPN, 7PM
A Football Life: The Immaculate Reception (season finale), NFL Network, 8PM
Miss Universe Pageant, NBC, 8PM
WWE Main Event, Ion, 8PM
The X Factor, Fox, 8PM
The Hour, BBC America, 9PM
Inside the NFL, Showtime, 9PM
WWE Tribute to the Troops, USA, 9PM
Bucks/Grizzlies, ESPN, 9:30PM
Suburgatory, ABC, 9:30PM
Chicago Fire (fall finale), NBC, 10PM
Jim Rome on Showtime, Showtime, 10PM
NFL Turning Point, NBC Sports Network, 10PM
Thursday
Thunder/Timberwolves, TNT, 7PM
Heat/Mavericks, TNT, 9:30PM
S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl: BYU/San Diego State, ESPN, 8PM
The X Factor (season finale), Fox, 8PM
Impact Wrestling, Spike TV, 8PM
A White House Christmas, NBC, 8PM
CMA Country Christmas, ABC, 9PM
Burn Notice (season finale), USA, 9PM
Project Nim, HBO, 9PM
2012 The End Is Now, History, 9PM
Rock Center with Brian Williams, NBC, 10PM
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (season finale), FX, 10PM
The League (season finale), FX, 10:30 & 11PM
Unsupervised (series finale), FX, 11:30PM
Friday
WWE SmackDown, Syfy, 8PM
Fringe (fall finale), Fox, 9PM
Haven (season finale), Syfy, 10PM
St Petersburg Bowl: Ball State/UCF, ESPN, 7:30PM
Saturday
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: East Carolina/Louisiana-Lafayette, ESPN, 12PM
Maaco Las Vegas Bowl: Washington/Boise State, ESPN, 3:30PM
Falcons/Lions Monday Night Football (season finale), ESPN, 8:30PM
Frozen Planet: Edge of the Earth (special presentation), Discovery, 9PM
Cops, Fox, 8PM
Sunday
49ers/Seahawks Sunday Night Football, NBC, 8:20PM
60 Minutes, CBS, 7PM