TV highlights
SUNDAY
8 p.m. on MTV
MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time
Actress-singer Vanessa Hudgens hosts this new 90-minute special, a first-of-its-kind event that takes a year-end look back at the biggest and best moments in film and television from the 1980s up to today.
MONDAY 7:13 p.m. on TCM Movie: Blotto
Airing as part of a marathon tribute to comedy greats Laurel & Hardy, who share Star of the Month status for December, this 1930 short finds the boys scheming to sneak out during Prohibition for a wild night at the Rainbow Club.
TUESDAY
9 p.m. on HBO Movie: 40 Years a Prisoner
Using eyewitness accounts and archival footage, this documentary chronicles the 1978 Philadelphia Police raid in which thousands of rounds of ammunition were fired into the West Philadelphia home of the radical group MOVE. WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. on WPXI
Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical! Filmed in London, this tuneful new two-hour live-action special offers a new take on the beloved Dr. Seuss yarn about a cantankerous grouch (Matthew Morrison, “Glee”) who creeps down from his reclusive lair atop Mt. Crumpit to steal the Christmas gifts, decorations and festive foods from the residents of Whoville below. Their response gives the Grinch a lifechanging lesson in the true meaning of Christmas. Joining Morrison are Denis O’Hare as Old Max, the Grinch’s dog; BooBoo Stewart as Young Max; and newcomer Amelia Minto as Cindy-Lou Who.
THURSDAY
8 p.m. on WPXI
One Night Only:
The Best of Broadway
Tina Fey hosts this two-hour music special benefiting members of the Broadway community as they struggle to cope with a pandemic that has shut down their industry for more than a year.
FRIDAY
8 p.m. on DIS
Disney Channel Holiday House Party
Miranda May (“Bunk’d”) hosts this new special in which popular Disney Channel stars perform (remotely, from their own homes) a half-hour of holiday sketch comedy.
SATURDAY
10 p.m. on SYFY Movie: Toys of Terror
It’s definitely not the most wonderful time of the year for the Cashman family when they move into a crumbling former orphanage in Washington state just before Christmas in this 2020 horror comedy.