1) “Greatest Home Videos,” 8 p.m., CBS. This began as an amiable look at people who found clever things to post during the pandemci. Now it has occasional specials. This one focuses on Christmas; Cedric the Entertainetr hosts, with a visit by JB Smoove (shown here) as a stylish Santa.
2) Broadway, 9 p.m., PBS (check local listings). To celebrate its 50th anniversary, “Great Performances” looked at 50 years of musicals. Sutton Foster hosted and sang beautifully. This rerun includes zesty dancing from Corbin Bleu and others, plus some great voices, old (Norm Lewis, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Raul Esparza) and new (Ledisi, Solea Pfeiffer, Mamie Parris, more). There’s also an impressive verbal blitz from Rob McClure.
3) College football. This looks suspiciously like a Saturday, starting with games at noon ET – Iowa-Nebraska on CBS, Miami-Boston on ABC, Texas Christian-Oklahoma on Fox, and more. In primetime, the best match-up has Oregon State (ranked No. 11) and Oregon (No. 6) at 8:30 p.m. ET on Fox; at 7:30, ABC has Texas Tech-Texas and NBC has Penn State-Michigan State.
4) Christmas movies. Over the next three days, 13 new films will arrive – including two each day from Hallmark. Today, that’s “Letters to Santa” (kids hope a magic pen can bring their parents back together) at 6 p.m. and “Holiday Road” (based on a true story of people stranded at an airport) at 8. Great American Family has “My Christmas Hero” at 8 p.m. ET, with Candace Cameron Bure as an Army Reserve doctor, tracking her family’s military history.
5) ALSO: There’s one Christmas cartoon today (“Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer,” 8 p.m., CW). Another (“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”) was scheduled for today, then moved to 8 p.m. Monday (Nov. 27). It’s a fairly quiet week for streaming, but Disney+ added “The Naughty Nine” Christmas film on Thursday and has “Christmas With Walt Disney” today, with a new “Doctor Who” (with David Tennant) on Saturday.