What makes this weekend different from all other weekends? It's blurry and has no distinct edges, no set beginning, no set ending. Everything from here forward is amorphous, and unfortunately that's true of our entertainment as well: Slim pickings, throughout the next week. Luckily you also have the Weekend Stream, for things already available, and of course our guides to what's arriving and what's leaving on Netflix at the New Year, so that should help.
FRIDAY
AT 8/7c.
- CBS has the Amazing Race finale, and then everybody takes a shower I presume.
- NBC's airing a two-part special called Caught On Camera With Nick Cannon: Viral in which the recently ex-Mr. Mimi drops a viral load "more real than any reality program," and even more amazingly, "provides first person accounts of what's happening on screen from those who lived it, recorded it and saw it happen." At this point it's like, is there anything that guy can't do?
- And TNT will be showing its annual Christmas in Washington for the last time, after fifteen solid years. The First Family, Rita Ora, Darius Rucker, Hunter Hayes, Christina Perri and Aloe Blacc will all be there and I suppose you should join them, if you love America. Because TNT, after tonight, clearly does not.
AT 9/8c.
- Nicktoons will show the final four episodes of Legend of Korra, including the two-part finale that went online this morning. It's been a long, beautiful road for that show, and it will be missed, but this last season has really been something special. Between Henry Rollins's anarchist coup giving way to Zelda Williams's military takeover, and the gorgeous rebirth of Airbenders setting right the 200-year catastrophe that began before Avatar even started, it's a hell of a way to end this chapter in the saga.
- H2, meanwhile, asks if Ancient Aliens are to blame for the Great Flood in Mesopotamia that has featured in the classic myth cycles of every religion since. My guess: They are not.
- Christmaswise you have a choice: CBS's A Home for the Holidays special, which is about adoption and sponsored by Wendy's, or on PBS, Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir starring soprano Deborah Voigt and Gimli the Dwarf.
- At 10/9c. it's the third season premiere of Myth Hunters on AHC, or a double-shot of TLC's Something Borrowed, Something New titled "My Big Fat Persian Wedding" and "Here Comes The Groom." At 11/10c. you have the season finales of IFC's acquired tastes Comedy Bang! Bang! with Lonely Island and Birthday Boys. And then around 12:30 on CBS, follow up the tearjerking Colbert Report ending with the series finale of Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.
SATURDAY
At 9/8c. Syfy has a TV movie called Christmas Icetastrophe, and Animal Planet's doing a holiday special for Pit Bulls & Parolees. 10/9c. brings us new episodes of ID's I'd Kill for You (that's the one where people kill for other people, to prove a point usually) and TLC's Sex Sent Me to the ER. 10:30 is Black Dynamite on Adult Swim, and at 11:29 it's Saturday Night Live with sprightly monster Amy Adams, who ended her fourth decade on Earth this summer and is now working on her fifth, with obscure indie band One Direction.
SUNDAY
At 8/7c. the Librarians of TNT learn the truth about Santa, and the Real Housewives of Atlanta learn the truth about themselves. Then at 8:30, the Mayor of Pittsburgh goes Undercover Boss on some people to learn more about what a mayor does.
AT 9/8c.
- 90 Day Fiancé is getting close to being over on TLC, which is sad but not that sad.
- On AHC, The Bible's Greatest Secrets are probed, this time uncovering the real "Mission of Jesus," and guess what it's not low holiday prices.
- Food Network pairs with its own magazine to uncover the Top 10 Restaurants, according to Food.
- Scott Disick just keeps revealing more about himself on Kourtney & Khloé Take the Hamptons in this week's episode, "There's No Smoke Without Fire Island."
- On OWN, Oprah looks into the current whereabouts of Natalee Holloway's mom, the original cast of The Real World, and Tiffany. Good episode all around.
- It is also, sadly, time for the finales of Homeland and The Affair, both of which have been renewed.
At 10/9c. it's The Comeback, the House of DVF finale on E!, and My Five Wives on TLC. 11/10c. brings us Phaedra Parks and Faith Evans on Watch What Happens: Live, which is the best version of Phaedra you're ever going to see, so you might as well take advantage.
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