1) “Great Performances: Kinky Boots,” 9 p.m., PBS. In a five-Friday stretch, PBS has had a vast range. It’s had a serious drama, a Shakespearean comedy and three musicals – one silly, one heavy and now “Kinky” (shown here), with a shoe company switching to flashy footwear. Onstage, this was a big hit; it won six Tonys, including best musical and score. On TV, Cyndi Lauper’s vibrant music only partly makes up for the cardboard characters, including a central guy who temporarily goes bad, for plot convenience.
2) “Frosty the Snowman,” 8 p.m., CBS. Perpetually pleasant, this one ranks somewhere in the middle. It’s well below the great Christmas cartoons (“Grinch” and “Charlie Brown”), but well above the bad ones (including, oddly, “Frosty Returns” at 8:30). It weaves it catchy song alongside an OK story.
3) More Christmas, everywhere. CW reruns the “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” cartoon at 8 p.m. and has a Penn & Teller holiday special at 9. You’ll also find Christmas movies and two new competitions: “Sugar Rush Christmas” (any time, Netflix) is a confections challenge; “Top Elf” (8 p.m., Nickelodeon) is a four-Friday contest, with kids trying to be Santa’s top helper.
4) More streaming. Most weeks, streamers collide on Fridays. This time, however, they started the weekend early: Netflix launched “The Irishman” (the De Niro/Pacino movie from Martin Scorsese) and “Merry Happy Whatever” (a comedy series with Dennis Quaid). Hulu added the documentary “Mike Wallace is Here”; Apple TV+ had the M. Night Shyamalan thriller “Servant.” Today, Amazon Prime adds a Kacey Musgraves Christmas special and Netflix has the series, “The Movies That Made Us.”
5) “Blue Bloods,” 10 p.m., CBS. As police commissioner, Frank (Tom Selleck) fights a lawsuit that alleges ageism and reverse racism. Also in this rerun, both his sons face troubles. Danny probes the death of a freshman at a fraternity party; Jamie clashes with his fiancee (and now wife) over the failure to intervene in a dispute at a convenience store.