San Francisco Chronicle

DAVID WIEGAND

Media Rays

- David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and the TV critic of The San Francisco Chronicle. Follow him on Facebook. Email: dwiegand@ sfchronicl­e.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV

On TV

Time to bid farewell to “The Fashion Police,” as Melissa Rivers throws in the pashmina on the once must-see dish-fest created and hosted by her late mother, Joan Rivers. The show used to be weekly but then became less frequent, airing only after a major awards or fashion event, such as the Oscars or the Met Ball. It just wasn’t the same without Joan, but Melissa continued it, after a fashion, till now. The final farewell episode airs on E at 8 p.m. ABC gets in the holiday spirit with the tune-filled two-hour “CMA Country Christmas” at 8 p.m. NBC also gets in the spirit with “A Very Pentatonix Christmas Special,” starring the harmonious a cappella singing group, at 10 p.m. Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife, Beth, are the focus in an emotional two-hour A&E special, “Dog & Beth: The Fight of Their Lives,” focusing on Beth’s battle with throat cancer, airing at 9 p.m. Brenda Song stars as Allison Pyke in the TV movie “Angry Angel,” airing on Freeform at9 p.m., about a young woman who has just become an angel but can’t get the bell tone series right to enter the Pearly Gates. Jason Biggs and Ricky Mabe co-star. Starz airs the documentar­y “Woman on Fire,” about Brooke Guinan, the first openly transgende­r New York City firefighte­r, at 9 p.m. A new episode of “Arrow” airs at 9 tonight, a special night, on the CW. It’s the second part of the “Crisis on Earth X” episode. The new season of “Street Outlaws” revs up on the Discovery Channel at 9 p.m. “City of Heroes” is the subject of “Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics” at 10 p.m. on AMC. HBO got unpreceden­ted access to both sides of

“Meth Storm,” a documentar­y about the drug epidemic in rural America, specifical­ly in Arkansas. The film airs at 10 p.m. Ready for some bad behavior on MTV? The channel seeks to replicate the success of “Jersey Shore” by heading south, for the premiere of the “Floribama Shore ” at 10 p.m. Try to picture a Southern-fried version of Snooki. Acorn TV adds episodes three and four of the fifth season of “A Place to Call Home,” with Marta Dusseldorp, to its streaming options today. Also available is the second episode of the exclusive U.S. premiere of “Love, Lies & Records,” starring Ashley Jensen in a show written by Baftawinni­ng writer Kay Mellor. Go to www.acorn.tv for more info.

 ?? Eric S. Swist / Houston Chronicle 2010 ?? With his wife Beth Chapman (left), reality TV star Duane Chapman, a.k.a. Dog the Bounty Hunter, attends a book-signing in the Woodlands, Texas, in 2010.
Eric S. Swist / Houston Chronicle 2010 With his wife Beth Chapman (left), reality TV star Duane Chapman, a.k.a. Dog the Bounty Hunter, attends a book-signing in the Woodlands, Texas, in 2010.

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