The Monday Help guide to TV: A Vacation Closer, Charlie Brown and much more Country Honours

The Closer Is he a great Santa or perhaps a bad Santa? Seems like a situation for Brenda Leigh Manley (Kyra Sedgwick), and in an exceedingly cheesy Christmas episode of TNT's The Closer (9/8c) - one of several holiday episodes we'll be hitting the scales about this week - the Santa is question (and under questioning) is performed by Fred Willard, so a minimum of you realize you will be entertained. Whenever a fellow Santa is wiped out throughout a sabotaged zip-line stunt in the "North Pole Village" run by Willard, he's introduced to the precinct entirely costume, consuming and smoking and barfing and raving. This will cause great dismay for Christmas-loving Buzz (Phillip P. Keene, resplendent inside a reindeer sweater), who's supported by his mind-turning sister Casey (FlashForward's Christine Forest), an immediate favorite one of the men within the precinct, referred to at some point with a petulant Brenda as searching "like a lot of diabetes sufferers waiting in front of the old fashion candy store." However the greatest gift of for me personally may be the return of Mark Pellegrino in the devilishly funny turn as Brenda's crazy lawyer, who's requesting more income to carry on focusing on her federal suit. Should you request me, he's worth it.The cartoon classic that defines Christmas TV, A Charlie Brown Christmas, returns to ABC (8/7c), and that i can already feel myself dancing round the room to that particular jazzy Vince Guaraldi score. This season, it's combined with the brand new Prep & Landing cartoon Naughty Versus. Nice (8:30/7:30c), by which elves Lanny and Wayne race to save classified North Pole technology from the Naughty Kid hacker.Want more fall TV news? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!Another week, another country-music extravaganza where someone's providing honours. Changing Fox's regular selection for that evening, the 2nd annual American Country Honours allows fans election for his or her faves in a number of groups, including touring. Trace Adkins hosts from Vegas with Kristin Chenoweth, and entertainers include Alabama - champion from the Finest Hits Award - and Toby Keith, whose new hit "Red-colored Solo Cup" may also be featured on Tuesday night's Glee. As you'd expect, last season's The American Idol Show country faves Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina go back to the network that gave them their large break.The CBS comedy watch: When last we left The Way I Met Your Mother (8/7c), Robin had just told Barney she's pregnant. But that is not the final spanner coming their way. ... On 2 Broke Women (8:30/7:30c), the Brooklyn babes plan to locate a project for their old friend Chestnut, the equine that also lives within their backyard, expecting finding him some winter shelter. Because, really, that joke had performed itself by the second episode. ... Walden is caught between two women on 2 . 5 Males (9/8c), when his romancing of recent girlfriend Zoey (Sophie Winkleman) is interrupted through the surprise return of ex-wife Bridget (Judy Greer). I mention this mainly to call your focus on Judy Greer's terrific work in a tiny but pivotal role opposite George Clooney within the terrific new movie The Descendants. Still wishing she lands popular Television show of her very own at some point. Also in this episode: Melanie Lynskey as Rose, who we've not seen since Charley's funeral.Shipper alert: Tonight's Castle (ABC, 10/9c) puts Castle and Beckett in mattress together - there is however a twist. (Is not there always?) They are handcuffed inside a locked room, without any clue concerning the whys and wherefores of the predicament.What exactly else is on? ... Cinemax premieres the Oscar-winning documentary video clip Other people Forget About (6:45/5:45c), about existence inside a public school in Tel Aviv where Jews, Muslims and Christian believers live and focus together, researching tolerance in an element of the world where that may be an issue. ... A&E looks into the search for that New York Murderer inside a two-hour true crime special (9/8c). ... Syfy's directing Peter Pan fantasy Neverland concludes (9/8c), having a test of youthful Peter's loyalty. Should you skipped the very first half Sunday evening, it's repeated at 7/6c. ... NBC's The Sing-Off crowned its champion (Pentatonix) a week ago, and returns for any live Sing-Off Christmas special, with groups all three seasons carrying out holiday music together with the idol judges, together with a duet with Sara Bareilles and Ben Folds. ... On the two-hour American Chopper (Discovery, 9/8c), tabloid terror Jesse James returns towards the network the very first time since 2006 to defend myself against the 2 Paul Teutels (Senior and Junior) inside a motorcycle-building contest. Fans can election for his or her favorite from the three teeth, and also the results is going to be introduced inside a live episode Tuesday. ... In VH1's docu-series T.I. & Small: The Household Hustle (9/8c), cameras follow Grammy-winning rapper T.I. because he reunites together with his wife Tameka ("Small") and family following a 12-month prison sentence. ... In Sundance's The Shocked Periods (8/7c), interviewer David Nadelberg excavates celebrities' childhood photos, journals, letters along with other potentially embarrassing souvenirs to show what built them into who they really are today. First of all at the spine-to-back episodes: Erectile dysfunction Helms, Mo'Nique and Eric Stonestreet.Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!