1) “Henry Mancini: 100,” 9 p.m., PBS. Linking a concert, recording sessions and more, we hear the range of Mancini music, from frisky (“Pink Panther,” “Peter Gunn”) to warm, with “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” done twice. There’s too much bland talk, alongside great vocals — Michael Buble (shown here), Cynthia Erivo, Monica Mancini — and instrumentals.
2) “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” 8 p.m., CW. The Christmas-cartoon season begins with this one, which debuted in 2000. A boy is desperate to find his grandmother on Christmas Eve. That’s followed by the season-openers of the comedy “Children Ruin Everything,” at 9 and 9:30.
3) New Christmas movies. The Hallmark Channel has a double-feature. At 6 p.m., “A ‘90s Christmas” sees a lonely lawyer transported back to 1999; that’s followed at 8 by “Deck the Walls.” And at 8 p.m. ET, Great American Family has Danica McKellar in “A Cinderella Christmas Ball.”
4) “Blue Bloods: Celebrating a Family Legacy,” 9 p.m., CBS. Two weeks from the end of a 14-year run, CBS pauses to celebrate “Blue Bloods.” It surrounds this special with reruns from last month: At 8 p.m., Erin is accused of jury-tampering; at 10, Danny works with a British investigator.
5) Football. The day after Thanksgiving has turned into an extra day of college games. That starts at noon ET on ABC, CBS, Fox and ESPN. It continues all day, including prime time: At 7:30 p.m., Georgia-Georgia Tech on ABC and Iowa-Nebraska on NBC; at 8, Utah-Central Florida on Fox.
— Mike Hughes, TV America