When is a wonderful life on tv 2011

A Polynesian Disney princess answers the call of her elders on land and sea in a joyful rites-of-passage adventure, which reaffirms the key message of female empowerment from Frozen.

So, have yourself a merry little Christmas now. Attaboy, Clarence. A dazzling fantasy sequence involving an antique pop-up book is the icing on the marmalade-filled cake.

What a glorious feeling! The stop-motion claymation wizards at Aardman, creators of Wallace and Gromit, trace the history of the beautiful game to our club-wielding ancestors in this meticulously hand-crafted comedy of sporting errors.

Copious tears will be shed before the tremulous first notes of Oscar-winning ballad Remember Me. Dalton Trumbo blacklisted at the time provides the incendiary words to Kirk Douglas, who spits and snarls them with righteous indignation. KWHY Tues. A New Jersey bartender embarks on his first genuine relationship with a woman, but his constant craving for Internet porn threatens to bring things crashing down.

A Los Angeles writer discovers his new roommate and lover is on the run from her evil ghostly double. Dos charros y una gitana Paquita Rico, Manuel Capetillo. KWHY Fri. Rebecca must throw the company holiday party with her office rival, Chris.

It coincides with Hanukkah, so she must juggle her work, family traditions, and nemesis to make the party a success. While in jail for murdering her husband, a woman discovers he is living under a new identity with their son. A woman starts to have second doubts about her husband after he runs away from an approaching avalanche, leaving her and their two sons behind.

The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the king and queen of England soon unleashes scandal, romance and intrigue -- leaving the future of Downton hanging in the balance.

EPIX Fri. A curmudgeon living atop Mount Crumpit sets out to quash the yuletide preparations of the Christmas-loving Whos of Whoville.

Anthony Hopkins narrates. Freeform Sun. When the Whos decide to make Christmas bigger, louder and brighter, the disgruntled Grinch hatches a scheme to pose as Santa Claus, steal Christmas and silence their holiday cheer once and for all. FS1 Thur. After an ambitious manager gives them a shot at stardom, three singers learn that fame can carry a high personal cost. KDOC Sun. Desperate to reach his pregnant wife, a high-strung architect takes a road trip home with an annoying stranger. TRU Tues.

TRU Wed. TRU Fri. TRU Sat. A plucky cave man and the rest of his tribe face a grave threat when Lord Nooth plans to transform their land into a giant mine. Not ready to go down without a fight, he must unite the clan in an epic quest to defeat a mighty enemy -- the Bronze Age. Disney XD Wed. Disney XD Thur. Facing a crossroads in her life, a divorcee travels to Italy, India and Bali on a quest to change her life and find true happiness.

The comedian does a Bill Cosby impression and discusses life, women and sex in a stand-up show in New York. A young woman embarks on a journey to break the curse of obedience placed upon her by a fairy godmother. Beautiful, smart and wealthy, Emma Woodhouse navigates her way through misguided matches, romantic missteps and the challenges of growing up -- all to finally realize the love that has been there all along.

A peasant comes to the aid of an arrogant ruler after a conspirator turns him into a llama. The members of En Vogue reunite for a Christmas concert to save a nightclub. Nia and Silas begin a forbidden and passionate romance in a futuristic society where emotions have been outlawed, leading them to attempt a dangerous escape.

Six strangers visit a mysterious building to experience the escape room -- a game where players compete to solve a series of puzzles.

A lonely career woman gets a second chance to rethink a fateful decision after she makes a wish upon a Christmas Eve star. A young programmer at an Internet company is chosen to evaluate the capabilities and consciousness of a beautiful and sophisticated robot. Mercenary Barney Ross and his team cut a swath of destruction through opposing forces as they take revenge for the vicious murder of a comrade.

A mercenary and his men learn that their assignment to overthrow a South American dictator is a suicide mission. The owner of a flavor-extract factory suffers a series of personal and professional disasters following a freak workplace accident. When Amber spends the holidays with her Aunt Dora and helps plan a fundraising Christmas Concert, it brings Amber closer to her aunt and a new love into her life.

After an offhand wish to a man playing Santa Claus, a woman wakes up to find herself married to her college sweetheart. A Wall Street playboy wakes to find himself married to the college sweetheart he left in order to pursue a career 13 years earlier.

Everett brings Meredith to meet his bohemian family at Christmas. R 3 hrs. Magizoologist Newt Scamander, two sisters and a No-Maj battle dark forces while tracking down magical creatures set free in the wizarding world of New York.

Reed, Susan, Johnny and Ben face an intergalactic messenger who has arrived to prepare Earth for destruction. Encore Sat. Jack is on his way to grabbing the cash prize for an illegal car race in Mexico to California, when a desperate woman, fleeing from her gangster boyfriend who runs the tournament, jumps into his car pleading for help.

An American street racer in Japan learns an exciting but dangerous new style and goes head-to-head with a local champion who has ties to the Yakuza. USA Wed. USA Thur. KVEA Thur. Members of the globe-trotting crew face an unexpected challenge when a mysterious woman named Cipher forces Dom to betray them all.

Now, they must unite to bring home the man who made them a family and stop her from unleashing chaos. FX Tues. A deranged suitor torments family and friends of a teen girl with whom he is obsessed. A single father finds romance with a musician when his daughter and sister play matchmakers during the holidays. The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Band and a host of other musicians embark on a railway tour of Canada in the summer of AXS Tues. Navy lawyers defend two Marines accused of killing a private at the naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

History Sat. A veterinarian tries to make a woman who has short-term memory loss fall in love with him. Comedy Central Sun. Two young professionals create an underground club where men can compete in hand-to-hand combat.

Having earned a shot at a world championship, boxer Micky Ward reunites with his estranged brother to train for the fight and become the new Pride of Lowell.

Finding Christmas Tricia Helfer, J. As Christmas approaches, a relationship author tests the true love between her soon-to-be ex-husband and his firefighting girlfriend. KPXN Mon. Quasifederal agents hunt a man,who can bend minds, and his daughter,who can start fires by staring. Given up for adoption and placed in foster care at a young age, writer Halle Downing receives the blessing of a lifetime when she is invited to spend Christmas in New Orleans with the biological family she never knew she had.

OWN Tues. OWN Wed. Noon OWN Fri. Bumbling thieves decide to rob a church to raise some much-needed cash, but they discover that someone else has already beaten them to the punch.

Syfy Sat. A hip Chicago teen moves to a Midwestern town where, thanks to a pastor, dancing is outlawed. A once-loving woman loses touch with peace, love and the gift of giving. When a homeless family appears on her doorstep, her heart becomes reacquainted with the true meaning of Christmas. Agent skis the Alps, skin-dives in Greece and hunts spies with the daughter of a slain agent. A teenage fan of Hong Kong cinema finds a Chinese relic and travels back in time to help legendary martial-artists free the Monkey King.

A bridegroom hurries by plane to his wedding, but he and his seatmate must find other modes of travel. When workaholic TV producer Sophie starts working on a holiday reality show about Will, a handsome man who celebrates Christmas every day of the year, she finds herself falling for her mysterious new star. A man seeks immortality by traveling through the past, present and future; along the way he learns about love, death and what it means to be alive.

Diverse siblings reunite for revenge after learning about the murder of their adoptive mother. VH1 Tues. When their plans for a holiday getaway fall apart, a couple must spend Christmas Day trudging to a quartet of family get-togethers.

A nursing-home resident regales a visitor with tales of the close friendship between two women in s Alabama. A high-school student suspects that his charismatic new neighbor is a vampire and, when no one believes him, must try to destroy the bloodsucker himself. From the Rough Taraji P. Henson, Tom Felton. Golf Sat. Golf Sun. Kate, a teacher in a small town, is forced to travel with a stranger named Redford during a blizzard to make it to her wedding in the city.

After her time with Redford, Kate begins to question her future plans. A fearless young princess sets out with a mountaineer to find her sister, whose icy powers have trapped their kingdom in eternal winter. A Marine and his companions endure basic training under a sadistic drill sergeant and fight in the Tet offensive. A gravely ill comic takes a struggling performer under his wing, then gets a chance to re-evaluate his life when his disease goes into remission.

Aliens, believing actors to be real heroes, enlist cast members of a sci-fi TV series to help save their people. TRU Mon. Noon TBS Sat. Un hombre apodado Gatillo Veloz lucha contra una banda de criminales que intenta tener el control de una mina de plata. KWHY Thur. Henry Brogan is an elite assassin who becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move.

KWHY Mon. Mickey Pearson is an American expatriate who became rich by building a marijuana empire in London. The prison-bound manager of a hedge fund asks a black businessman -- who has never been to jail -- to prepare him for life behind bars.

Comedy Central Sat. James Brown rises from extreme poverty, abuse and jail to become the Godfather of Soul and one of the most-influential musicians in history. A film-loving loan shark teams with a B-movie producer to become a Hollywood mogul. A slain Manhattan yuppie reaches out to his lover, with a medium as his middlewoman. WE Fri. Armed with proton packs, four paranormal investigators battle mischievous ghouls in New York.

Now the parapsychologists are trying to rid New York of stress-related pink slime. A hopeless romantic, Darcy, insists on being swept off her feet. One day, while bicycling to work, Darcy crashes into a sharply dressed man walking his dog.

He falls into a coma; she takes the dog home, waiting to reunite him with his owner. An architect begins to find herself longing for a place to call her own as she works alongside a baker to win a gingerbead house contest. A disgraced journalist and an investigator for a security firm probe a year-old murder. As Christmas nears, heiress Jessica Morgan seizes what seems like her last chance to experience a relaxed Christmas and heads off to the small town of Glenbrooke, where she meets a handsome fireman.

After 15 years, a single father moves home from Hawaii with his two sons and, through a series of coincidences -- or Godwinks, ends up stuck in traffic next to his high school sweetheart. As Christmas approaches, Paula reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend. When her Aunt Jane invites Paula to her Nantucket home, she bonds with a charming inn owner. Two private investigators tread dangerous ground as they scour the Boston underworld for a kidnapped child. Two lifelong friends have disastrous misadventures after winning a fishing trip to the Everglades.

A former thief must agree to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother from being killed by a vehicle smuggler. When Max loses the drone, he skips school with his two best friends and hatches a plan to get it back before his dad finds out. KVEA Sat. Chaos strikes when a woman and her daughter get separated from their family during the holidays.

Disney Thur. Disney Fri. Good Morning Christmas! Two squabbling TV hosts travel to a small town over Christmas, and while pretending to get along for the sake of appearances, they slowly discover there is more to each other than they thought.

A do-gooder frustrates his wife by lending their car, their money and their time to anyone who asks. Goodbye, Mr. Charles Edward Chipping imposes strict discipline on his young charges, but the love of spirited young suffragette Katherine Ellis brings the Latin instructor out of his shell and makes him a beloved campus institution. In the s an Irish-Italian hoodlum joins the New York Mafia, but his mob career is not what he expected.

Coastal Oregon kids follow the treasure map of pirate One-Eyed Willie past his deadly traps to gold. Nice Sandy and greaser Danny try to be like each other in their s high school. MTV Tues. Featuring musical numbers, exotic performers and daring feats, the mesmerizing spectacle takes the world by storm to become the greatest show on Earth. ABC Thur. KEYT Thur. A test pilot becomes the first human to join a band of warriors sworn to preserve peace and justice throughout the universe.

In a head prison guard realizes a man on death row may be innocent and have a supernatural ability to heal others. An inventor gives his son an odd little creature which multiplies into monsters which wreck the town. Frances strikes up a seemingly harmless friendship with Greta, a lonely and kindly widow who enjoys her company. A con man makes a no-win triangle with his mother and his girlfriend.

February 2nd keeps repeating for a cynical TV weatherman sent to watch the groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pa. Friends and former teammates learn that age does not, necessarily, equal maturity when they reunite to honor the memory of their basketball coach. A boxing promoter offers two rival boxers the chance to come out of retirement for one final bout. A trainer in a Coast Guard program for rescue swimmers turns a cocky recruit into his protege and takes him on a mission to the Bering Strait.

White liberals must overcome their own latent racism when their strong-willed daughter announces her intention to marry a distinguished black physician.

Potheads sell marijuana to raise bail for a fellow stoner who accidentally killed a horse. A Brooklyn teacher struggles with drug addiction while trying to serve as a father figure for a youngster whose brother is in jail for dealing. Two men get permission from their wives to spend one week doing whatever they please, without fear of consequences.

Hampstead Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson. An American widow living in the London suburb of Hampstead and a man who lives on the Heath form an unlikely alliance against unscrupulous property developers in the neighborhood. To carry out her plan of revenge, an unhinged woman charms a Seattle couple into hiring her as a nanny. An innocent rancher is saved from the noose and deputized to hunt down the men who tried to hang him. College student Tree Gelbman becomes the target of a masked killer when she wakes up in an alternate reality.

When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save her friends.

Born without the ability to sing, a young emperor penguin expresses himself and hopes to attract a mate through his amazing dancing talent. A sports junkie agrees to coach Little League Baseball in Chicago in order to pay his gambling debts. After smoking marijuana, two roommates scour New Jersey to satisfy their hunger for hamburgers. From her escape from slavery through the dangerous missions she led to liberate hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad, the story of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman is told.

The young wizard and his best friends investigate a dark force that is terrorizing their school, Hogwarts. As his showdown with Lord Voldemort nears, Harry may have to make the ultimate sacrifice. Dumbledore tries to prepare Harry for the final battle with Voldemort, while Death Eaters wreak havoc in both Muggle and Wizard worlds, and tragedy looms on the horizon. A career-driven woman reunites with her high school boyfriend after returning home for the holidays. A veteran Marine sergeant keeps in touch with his ex-wife while beating a platoon into shape for Grenada.

Determined to become a writer, a s Mississippi society girl turns her small town on its ear by interviewing black women who work for prominent white families. Flashbacks reveal how a warrior stopped the elusive assassins who tried to kill the emperor of China.

When hip hop diva Leesa J rekindles an old friendship over Christmas, her walk down memory lane causes her to shed her prima donna persona, and soon opens her heart to receive love.

Two journalists write a Christmas column for rival newspapers in the same city. Ovation Tues. A smooth-talking man falls for a hardened columnist while helping a shy accountant woo a beautiful heiress. As the dragon Smaug rains fire on the citizens of Lake-town, Sauron sends legions of Orcs to attack the Lonely Mountain.

Men, Dwarves and Elves must decide whether to unite and prevail -- or be destroyed -- and Middle Earth hangs in the balance. A war widow has a 6-year-old son, and two men who want to marry her for Christmas. A woman hires a man to pose as her fiance when she returns home for the holidays. He does everything he can to save the store, the Holiday family and his newfound love. To fool her parents, a waitress kidnaps a customer and forces him to pretend to be her beau.

KWHY Wed. Accidentally left by his Paris-bound family, an 8-year-old makes mincemeat of two burglars in the house. Once again left behind by his family, the boy hero lands in Manhattan and battles two burglars he faced before.

KCOP Sun. A loving aunt struggles to adopt her young relatives after their parents die in a car accident. A woman must choose between two men during the holidays. A troubled but gifted dancer prepares to compete on a talent show.

Horton Hears a Who! A British constable feels certain foul play is afoot when a series of grisly accidents rocks his quiet village. Following a night of drinking in a ski-resort hot tub, four pals awake in , getting a chance to rewrite the past.

An exiled Playboy bunny tries to help socially clueless sorority sisters attract pledges and keep their house by teaching them about makeup and men. CMT Mon. NBC Fri. A columnist tries to make a man dump her, but he bets his boss that she will fall in love. Scientist Bruce Banner transforms into a powerful brute after his experiment goes awry. Directed by Ang Lee. In the near future, a government agency exiles unproductive members of American society to a colony known as New Eden.

In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, some ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal, turns the tables on her pursuers.

A pimp in Memphis, Tenn. Ramona shows Destiny how to finagle her way around the Wall Street clientele who frequent their strip club. But when the economic collapse cuts into their profits, the gals and two other dancers devise a daring scheme to take their lives back. Agnew, Mark Arm.

Pearl Jam and Nirvana are among the bands profiled in this look at the rise and influence of the Seattle music scene. A middle-aged New York professor loses his mother and reaches out to his bitter father.

KCET Fri. A successful author finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of a group of college students after being asked to speak at her alma mater. A woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger and a sloth find a human baby and try to reunite him with his tribe. Two truckers drive a cargo of explosives and scientists across ice roads to a mine in the Arctic.

When they arrive, they discover the miners have unearthed a prehistoric predator that was frozen in the ice. Scientists fights for their lives when aggressive, ravenous sharks break through the ice at their Arctic research station. A cheerful publicist teams up with a cynical business owner to help a charity in need at Christmastime.

The more co-workers fight in a Chicago music store, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals. Indy and a young adventurer must ferret out a powerful artifact and keep it out of the hands of a deadly Soviet agent.

Archaeologist Jones rescues his kidnapped father, and the two race the Nazis to find the Holy Grail. In archaeologist Jones, a lounge singer and a Chinese orphan search for mystical stones stolen from an Indian tribe. An Allied officer and his team of Jewish soldiers join forces with a German actress and undercover agent to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. A successful young woman living in Miami is climbing her way up the corporate ladder in the hotel industry.

An enigmatic woman threatens to push past the breaking point a volatile game between a bank robber and a detective. A Los Angeles detective plays a cat-and-mouse game with a murder suspect in a remote Alaskan town.

A couple buy their dream home from a lonely widower in the California countryside. When he starts to interfere in their daily lives, they soon find themselves caught up in a violent confrontation that threatens to destroy everything they hold dear.

Invasion U. Slavic mercenaries with bazookas hit Florida at Christmas, drawing an agent out of retirement. Natalie is a New York architect who works hard at her job while remaining cynical about love. Following a strange sexual encounter, a teenager has disturbing visions and the inescapable feeling that someone -- or something -- is stalking her.

A hobo shares a New York mansion with a veteran and others who need a wintertime place to stay. Ruined by a miser on Christmas Eve, a suicidal family man sees life anew thanks to his guardian angel. NBC Thur. When a New England Christmas decorating competition searches for the town with the most Christmas spirit, the mayors of East and West Riverton go all out to get their towns to the top of the holiday heap.

A restaurateur falls into an affair with her remarried ex-husband, while an architect that she hired to refurbish her kitchen falls in love with her. A master thief and his crew plan to steal back a fortune in gold bullion after they lose it to a double-crossing gang member.

The life of a successful, happy ad executive descends into chaos when his needy, passive-aggressive twin sister also Sandler makes her annual Thanksgiving visit. A man who died on Christmas Eve returns to his wife and son one year later in the form of a snowman.

Living off the grid for 10 years, former CIA operative Jason Bourne finds himself back in action battling a sinister network that utilizes terror and technology to maintain unchecked power. FXX Sat. A young woman changes the life of a single father who used to be a successful New York music publicist. GALA Sun. Freeform Mon. Elle decides to reunite her friends for Christmas, but her plans are thwarted by an opportunity at work.

As they work together, they find themselves falling for each other. A wedding planner finds romance with a handsome local after traveling to a remote town in Alaska to find a rare flower for a celebrity client. New York City becomes the bullet-riddled playground of a former assassin as he hunts down the Russian mobsters who destroyed everything he held dear. Syfy Sun. Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Two strong-willed singers must learn to work in harmony if their Georgia church choir is to stay together and win a national competition.

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