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THE WEEK AHEAD: December 18-24, 2017

Here's a look at Week #13!

ABC
ABC is filled with specials this week including two year-end reflections and some repeats of Christmas specials. A rare outlier for this week is a normal episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on Friday night. Christmas Eve brings a showing of the animated Beauty and the Beast.

MONDAY
8:00 The Great Christmas Light Fight (Season Finale)
10:00 The Year in Memoriam 2017 (Special)

TUESDAY
8:00 Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Special)
8:30 Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice (Special)
9:00 The Year: 2017 (Special)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Goldbergs (Repeat)
8:30 Speechless (Repeat)
9:00 Modern Family (Repeat)
9:30 American Housewife (Repeat)
10:00 Match Game (Repeat)

THURSDAY
8:00 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Special)
9:00 CMA Country Christmas (Special)

FRIDAY
8:00 Shark Tank (Repeat)
9:00 Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
10:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 The Great Christmas Light Fight (Repeat)
10:00 Ten Days in the Valley

SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos (Repeat)
8:00 Movie: Beauty and the Beast
10:00 Shark Tank (Repeat)

CBS
CBS has the most normal week with their regular Monday and Thursday lineups. Wednesday brings the Survivor finale while Friday has colorized special episodes of I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show.

MONDAY
8:00 Kevin Can Wait (Christmas episode)
8:30 Man with a Plan
9:00 Superior Donuts
9:30 9JKL
10:00 Scorpion (Christmas episode)

TUESDAY
8:00 A Home for the Holidays with Josh Groban (Special)
9:00 NCIS (Repeat)
10:00 NCIS: New Orleans (Repeat)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Survivor (35th Edition Finale)
10:00 Survivor Reunion Special (Special)

THURSDAY
8:00 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
8:30 Young Sheldon
9:00 Mom (Christmas episode)
9:30 Life in Pieces (Christmas episode)
10:00 S.W.A.T. (Christmas episode)

FRIDAY
8:00 I Love Lucy Christmas Special (Special)
9:00 The Dick Van Dyke Show - Now in Living Color (Special)
10:00 Blue Bloods (Repeat)

SATURDAY
8:00 NCIS: New Orleans (Repeat)
9:00 48 Hours (Repeat)
10:00 48 Hours (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Wisdom of the Crowd (Repeat)
9:00 NCIS: Los Angeles (Repeat)
10:00 Madam Secretary (Repeat)

NBC
NBC has the finale of The Voice this week and on Monday, they are using the performance night finale to launch a preview of January's Ellen's Game of Games, which seems like it should get an OK sampling. They are burning off two episodes of Great News on Thursday, including a Christmas episode. As always, Christmas Eve brings It's a Wonderful Life.

MONDAY
8:00 The Voice
10:00 Ellen's Game of Games (SERIES PREMIERE)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Voice Recap
9:00 The Voice (13th Edition Finale)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Will & Grace (Repeat)
8:30 Movie: Pitch Perfect

THURSDAY
8:00 Great News (Christmas episode)
8:30 Great News
9:00 SNL Christmas Special (Special)

FRIDAY
8:00 Blindspot
9:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 Football Night in America
8:20 NFL Football: Minnesota at Green Bay

SUNDAY
7:00 DreamWorks Trolls Holiday (Special)
7:30 How Murray Saved Christmas (Special)
8:00 Movie: It's a Wonderful Life

FOX
FOX has all repeats and specials this week. Yawn.

MONDAY
8:00 Lucifer (Repeat)
9:00 The Gifted (Repeat)

TUESDAY
8:00 Lethal Weapon (Repeat)
9:00 The Mick (Repeat)
9:30 Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (Special)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Empire (Repeat)
9:00 Star (Repeat)

THURSDAY
8:00 Gotham (Repeat)
9:00 The Orville (Repeat)

FRIDAY
8:00 Hell's Kitchen (Repeat)
9:00 Hell's Kitchen (Repeat)

SATURDAY
8:00 The Gifted (Repeat)
9:00 Lethal Weapon (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 NFL Overrun/The OT
8:00 The Simpsons (Repeat)
8:30 Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (Special)
9:00 Family Guy (Repeat)
9:30 Bob's Burgers (Repeat)

CW
The CW has all specials except for Thursday night which has repeats of the regular lineup. The CW specials just never sound that appealing.

MONDAY
8:00 Popstar's Best of 2017 (Special)
9:00 The Hollywood Walk of Fame Honors 2017 (Special)

TUESDAY
8:00 Movie: Big Game

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (Special)
9:00 The Top 12 Greatest Christmas Movies of All Time (Special)

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatural (Repeat)
9:00 Arrow (Repeat)

FRIDAY
8:00 Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic (Special)
9:00 Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown 2017 (Special)

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- ABC announced that the revival of Roseanne will have a one hour premiere on Tuesday, March 27 at 8pm. Roseanne will take over the 8pm slot while the final episodes of The Middle move to 8:30pm as Fresh Off the Boat will be done with its season on March 20. ABC still has many midseason premiere dates left to announce.

- NBC will air a sneak preview of new comedy A.P. Bio on Thursday, February 1 at 9:30pm and it will return to that slot after the Olympics as Great News will have ended its season by then.

- ABC has given a straight to series order for an untitled sitcom from Alec Baldwin, Julie Bean, and black-ish creator Kenya Barris. It is a family comedy about an opinionated TV star who moves in with his liberal daughter. While not an official decision, it could be a show that stars Baldwin.

- ABC has yanked The Great American Baking Show off the schedule after judge Johnny Iuzzini was accused of sexual misconduct. They will air repeats and specials in place of the short holiday run it was scheduled for.

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