1) Chiefs double feature, 6-8 p.m., Hallmark; 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC. The Kansas City Chiefs show up in fiction and fact. Hallmark reruns “Holiday Touchdown,” a romance filmed partly at the Chiefs’ stadium, with players in support. Then the team (shown here) – riding high, with an 11-1 record – faces its closest division rivals, the Los Angeles Chargers, 8-4.
2) “The Equalizer” mid-season finale, 8:30 p.m., CBS. After being pushed back to a 10 p.m. start last week, the show gets an earlier slot for a key episode: When a cartel takes over a hospital, Robyn is hostage, alongside her boyfriend Dante and her ex-husband. That’s followed by reruns of “Tracker” ay 9:30 and “The Neighborhood” at 10:30.
3) Christmas Movies. There are new ones at 7 p.m. ET on UpTV, 8 p.m. ET on Great American Family (starring Candace Cameron Bure) and 9:15 p.m. ET on BYUtv (“The Primrose Railroad Children”). Others are 8 p.m. on Hallmark and Lifetime. And at 7, CW has the animated “Grinch” (2018).
4) “Universal Basic Guys,” 8 p.m., Fox. Mark tries to join the Marines, a mismatch. He is, after all, a chubby dolt, unskilled in anything, including making a bed. That’s the first half of a story that takes some fun, fantasy twists in the second half. “The Simpsons” follows with an unruly plane trip.
5) “The Saints” mid-season finale, Fox Nation. Maximilian Kolbe grew up amid anti-Semitism, some of which he may have embraced. But as a monk, he sheltered Jews, was sent to Auschwitz and took the place of a condemned man. Martin Scorsese narrates the film and produces the series, which previously profiled Joan of Arc, John the Baptist and Sebastian.
— Mike Hughes, TV America