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THE WEEK AHEAD: December 9-15, 2019

Here's a look at this week on TV!

ABC
ABC has plenty of Christmas cheer this week with tons of Christmas episodes and specials capped by the annual airing of The Sound of Music on Sunday night.

 MONDAY
8:00 The Great Christmas Light Fight
10:00 The Good Doctor (Repeat)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Conners (Christmas episode)
8:30 Bless This Mess (Christmas episode)
9:00 Mixed-ish (Christmas episode)
9:30 Black-ish (Christmas episode)
10:00 Emergence

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Goldbergs (Christmas episode)
8:30 Schooled (Christmas episode)
9:00 Modern Family (Christmas episode)
9:30 Single Parents (Christmas episode)
10:00 Stumptown

THURSDAY
8:00 Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Special)
9:00 Toy Story That Time Forgot (Special)
9:00 The Great American Baking Show (Season Premiere)

FRIDAY
8:00 American Housewife (Christmas episode)
8:30 Fresh Off the Boat (Christmas episode)
9:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 Wonderful World of Disney: The Little Mermaid Live (Special - Repeat)
10:00 20/20

SUNDAY
7:00 Movie: The Sound of Music

CBS
CBS is mostly new this week with repeats on Tuesday and the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday. They only have a few Christmas episodes, but one of those is... Evil?

 MONDAY
8:00 The Neighborhood
8:30 Bob Hearts Abishola
9:00 All Rise
10:00 Bull (Repeat)

TUESDAY
8:00 NCIS (Repeat)
9:00 FBI (Repeat)
10:00 NCIS: New Orleans (Repeat)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Survivor
9:00 SEAL Team
10:00 S.W.A.T.

THURSDAY
8:00 Young Sheldon
8:30 The Unicorn
9:00 Mom (Christmas episode)
9:30 Carol's Second Act (Christmas episode)
10:00 Evil (Christmas episode)

FRIDAY
8:00 Hawaii Five-0
9:00 Magnum P.I.
10:00 Blue Bloods

SATURDAY
8:00 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (Special)
9:00 Frosty the Snowman (Special)
9:30 Frosty Returns (Special)
10:00 48 Hours

SUNDAY
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors
10:00 NCIS: Los Angeles (Repeat)

 NBC
NBC's schedule looks the least normal with four more episodes of Making It plus a three day holiday special from Ellen DeGeneres. They do have special Christmas episodes of Superstore and Perfect Harmony airing on Thursday night.

 MONDAY
8:00 The Voice
10:00 Making It

TUESDAY
8:00 Ellen's Greatest Night of Giveaways Night One (Special)
9:00 The Voice
10:00 Making It

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Ellen's Greatest Night of Giveaways Night Two (Special)
9:00 Making It
10:00 Making It (Season Finale)

THURSDAY
8:00 Ellen's Greatest Night of Giveaways Night Three (Special)
9:00 Superstore (Christmas episode)
9:30 Perfect Harmony (Christmas episode)
10:00 A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy (Special)

FRIDAY
8:00 The Blacklist
9:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (Special)
8:30 DreamWorks Trolls Holiday (Special)
9:00 Dateline NBC
10:00 Saturday Night Live (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 Football Night in America
8:30 Sunday Night Football: Buffalo at Pittsburgh

 FOX
With the end drawing near, FOX is double pumping The Masked Singer on Tuesday and Wednesday this week and will also finish off their holiday programming of The Moodys on Tuesday night.

 MONDAY
8:00 Beat Shazam Christmas Special (Special)
9:00 The Moodys

TUESDAY
8:00 The Masked Singer
9:00 The Moodys (Season Finale)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Masked Singer
9:00 Almost Family

THURSDAY
8:00 Thursday Night Football: NY Jets at Baltimore

FRIDAY
8:00 WWE SmackDown

SATURDAY
8:00 The Masked Singer (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 NFL Overrun/The OT
8:00 The Simpsons (Christmas episode)
8:30 Bless the Harts (Christmas episode)
9:00 Bob's Burgers (Christmas episode)
9:30 Family Guy (Christmas episode)

CW
The CW has the Crisis of Infinite Earth crossover event at the beginning of the week, ending on Tuesday night with what will likely be season high numbers for the shows.

 MONDAY
8:00 Batwoman
9:00 Black Lightning

TUESDAY
8:00 The Flash
9:00 Crisis Aftermath (Special)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Riverdale
9:00 Nancy Drew

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatural
9:00 Legacies (Christmas episode)

FRIDAY
8:00 88th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (Special)

SUNDAY
8:00 The Christmas Caroler Challenge (SERIES PREMIERE)
9:00 The Christmas Caroler Challenge

 TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- ABC has handed a full season order to Schooled, the last broadcast network waiting to hear its fate about a back order. The second year comedy will be getting its third showrunner in less than a calendar year as well.

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