Best-bets for Dec. 22: Holiday brings warmth and Grinch

1) “A Home For the Holidays,” 8 p.m., CBS. Each year, this offers a warm finale to a crowded season of new Christmas specials. It’s the 25th year for “Home,” which has profiles of adoptions, alongside passionate music. This time Katharine McPhee (shown here in aprevious event) hosts and performs with her husbannd, David Foster. Also performing are Pentatonix, Gavin DeGraw, CeCe Winans and Lauren Daigle. Read more…

1) “A Home For the Holidays,” 8 p.m., CBS. Each year, this offers a warm finale to a crowded season of new Christmas specials. It’s the 25th year for “Home,” which has profiles of adoptions, alongside passionate music. This time Katharine McPhee (shown here in aprevious event) hosts and performs with her husbannd, David Foster. Also performing are Pentatonix, Gavin DeGraw, CeCe Winans and Lauren Daigle.

2) “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” 8 and 8:30 p.m., TNT. Here’s another chance – two of them, actually – to see one of the all-time great TV half-hours, blending the brilliance of author Dr. Seuss and animator Chuck Jones. It will also rerun at 8 p.m. Christmas Day on NBC.

3) “Rebel Moon,” Netflix. A week after wrapping “The Crown,” Netflix has a big one-two punch: On Wednesday was Bradley Cooper’s acclaimed “Maestro”; today is this sci-fi epic, with a young woman leading her village’s warriors. (Its story concludes with a second movie in April.) That’s in a big week that had a great start with the finale of “A Murder at the End of the World” on Hulu and the start of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” on Disney+.

4) “Christmas With the Tabernacle Choir,” 9-10:30 p.m., most PBS stations. Here’s another chance to catch this gorgeous special, mixing classical and popular, sacred and secular. Lea Salonga, the star of Broadway (“Miss Saigon”) and Disney (“Aladdin,” “Mulan”) is backed by 500 volunteers in the choir, orchestra and more. Also, David Suchet tells the moving story of a Holocaust hero.

5) More Christmas: Lots of movies rerun. At 8 p.m., the Disney Channel has “The Naughty Nine” (2023) and NBC has “Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love” (2016), with a piece of Dolly Parton’s childhood. (Jennifer Nettles plays Parton’s mom and Parton plays “the painted lady.”) At 9, CBS has “Fit For Christmas,” the weakest of the three movies it debuted last year. Also at 9, CW reruns the animated “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.”

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