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TV This Week, Dec. 11-17: Netflix’s Obama bio-drama ‘Barry’ and more

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SUNDAY

Watch out for that ottoman! The new special “The Dick Van Dyke Show – Now in Living Color!” presents two episodes of the classic 1960s sitcom, colorized for your viewing pleasure. With Mary Tyler Moore. 8 p.m. CBS

Let it go? Unlikely. The broadcast premiere of Disney’s “Frozen” is followed by “The Making of Frozen: A Return to Arendelle.” 8 and 10 p.m. ABC

The new Ryan Gosling-Emma Stone musical “La La Land” is the flick to beat at “The 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards.” “Silicon Valley’s” T.J. Miller hosts. 8 p.m. A&E

It must be the mistletoe in the new TV movie “Love You Like Christmas.” With Bonnie Somerville. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel

Kids lip-sync the darndest things in the new spin-off special “Lip Sync Battle Shorties.” “Modern Family’s” Sarah Hyland hosts. 8 p.m. Nickelodeon

Uneasy lies the head that wears “The Hollow Crown.” Airing on “Great Performances,” this series of adaptations of Shakespeare’s historical dramas continues with “The Wars of the Roses: Henry VI, Part I.” With Tom Sturridge, Sophie Okonedo and “Downton Abbey’s” Hugh Bonneville. 9 p.m. KOCE

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MONDAY

It’s all over but the singing on the two-night season finale of “The Voice.” 8 p.m. NBC; also 9 p.m. Tue.

It’s jingles all the way in the new special “Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown 2016.” Kevin Frazier and Keltie Knight host. 9 p.m. KTLA

What do you get for the Material Girl who has everything? Madonna collects Billboard’s Woman of the Year award in the new special “Billboard Women in Music 2016.” Halsey, Andra Day and Shania Twain are also feted. 9 p.m. Lifetime

Host Jack Maxwell is south of the border, down Mexico way, on the return of “Booze Traveler.” 10 p.m. Travel Channel

May the fierce be with you: “America’s Next Top Model” is reborn with a new host, British singer-actress Rita Ora, and new judges including supermodel Ashley Graham. 10 p.m. VH1

TUESDAY

The new series “Catholicism: The Pivotal Players” profiles such key figures in church history as Michelangelo, Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi. 8 and 9 p.m. KOCE

Here’s hoping Darlene Love favors us with a rendition of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” when she guest stars on a new “New Girl.” 8:30 p.m. Fox

Brooke Shields is not a TV doctor, but she plays one on TV when she guest stars on a new “Scream Queens.” 9 p.m. Fox

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is gonna “Rock the Troops” with a little help from folks like Kevin Hart, Terry Crews, Nick Jonas, Tenacious D and Lynyrd Skynyrd in a concert special filmed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu. 9 p.m. CMT, Comedy Central, Spike, VH1

WEDNESDAY

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Does everyone get a trophy? The Millennials vs. Gen X edition of “Survivor” concludes, followed by the usual reunion special. 8 and 10 p.m. CBS

Reba McEntire and holiday-special MVP Kelly Clarkson join everyone’s favorite a cappella group in “A Pentatonix Christmas Special.” 8 p.m. NBC

Host Dean Cain counts down the “Top 12 Greatest Christmas Movies of All Time” in this new special. And “Die Hard” had better make the list. Do not disappoint me. 8 p.m. KTLA

Pro wrestling’s fighting men and women salute America’s fighting men and women in the 14th annual “WWE Tribute to the Troops.” From Washington, D.C. 8 p.m. USA

“Saturday Night Live” is here to stuff your stocking with classic sketches in the special “SNL Christmas 2016.” 9 p.m. NBC

A talented trio shoots for pop-music stardom in the new drama “Star.” With Queen Latifah and newcomers Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny and Brittany O’Grady. 9 p.m. Fox

What? The sorry story of painter Vincent van Gogh’s severed ear is retold on a new “Secrets of the Dead.” 10 p.m. KOCE

After four seasons, the Southern-set drama “Rectify” ends its run. Aden Young stars. 10 p.m. SundanceTV

THURSDAY

Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Meghan Trainor, Ellie Goulding, Diplo, Charlie Puth, Lukas Graham, Daya and Niall Horan — OK, we know two of those names — are among the performers for the “iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2016.” 8 p.m. KTLA

“Project Runway” airs Part 1 of its two-part season finale. So you’ll still have to wait another week to find out who wins. 9 p.m. Lifetime; next Thu.

They’re gonna find out who’s naughty and nice in a special holiday-themed edition of the hidden-camera show “What Would You Do?” 10 p.m. ABC

FRIDAY

Of presidents and popes: Devon Terrell plays a college-age Barack Obama in the new biographical drama “Barry,” and Rodrigo de la Serna portrays the Argentine archbishop who ascended to the Holy See in the new miniseries “Call Me Francis.” Any time, Netflix

Obergruppenführer Smith (Rufus Sewell) and all your other Axis favorites are back in a second season of the what-if-America-lost-WWII drama “The Man in the High Castle.” Based on the Philip K. Dick novel. Any time, Amazon

The tinsel’s up in Tinseltown for “The 85th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade.” With hosts Erik Estrada, Laura McKenzie, Dean Cain and Montel Williams, grand marshal Olivia Newton-John, and performers including Cyndi Lauper and sax-man Kenny G. 8 p.m. KTLA

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The new special “Joshua Bell’s Seasons of Cuba” finds the violinist making beautiful music with musicians from the communist island nation. 9 p.m. KOCE

The new sports doc “Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story” retells the tragic tale of the troubled former football star. 9 p.m. Showtime

Chef Lidia Bastianich’s “Lidia Celebrates America” launches a new season with an episode dedicated to our nation’s veterans and their families. 10 p.m. KOCE

SATURDAY

“Everybody Wants Some!!” so badly that it takes two exclamation points to convey just how badly in Richard Linklater’s 2016 comedy about rowdy and randy college kids in 1980s Texas. With Will Brittain and Zoey Deutch. 8 p.m. Epix

It could also be the mistletoe in the new TV movie “My Christmas Love.” With Meredith Hagner and Bobby Campo. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel

The truth is out there: A father and son are on the run from the feds as well as some end-of-days types in Jeff Nichols’ moody 2016 sci-fi thriller “Midnight Special.” With Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton and Kirsten Dunst. 8 p.m. HBO

Blowing his own horn: Don Cheadle portrays legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in the 2015 bio-flick “Miles Ahead.” With Ewan McGregor. 9 p.m. Starz


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