Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Code Black' on CBS

Wednesday’s TV Highlights: ‘Code Black’ on CBS

Dec. 1, 2015 8 PM PT

SERIES

Jay Leno’s Garage Director Francis Ford Coppola is a guest on the season finale. 7 and 10 p.m. CNBC

Arrow In the conclusion of a crossover story that began on “The Flash,” Malcolm (John Barrowman) injects himself into the conflict between the heroes and Vandal Savage (Casper Crump), with an unfortunate outcome. 8 p.m. KTLA

Rosewood Villa and Rosewood (Jaina Lee Ortiz, Morris Chestnut) enter Miami’s hip art scene as they pursue a serial killer in the fall finale. 8 p.m. Fox

Great Performances Tenor Andrea Bocelli pays tribute to songs from the movies in this new episode, featuring David Foster. 8:30 p.m. KOCE

Supernatural Sam (Jared Padalecki) gets a big surprise with the return of Sully (Nate Torrence), his imaginary friend from childhood. 9 p.m. KTLA

Empire Cookie (Taraji P Henson) plans a concert at the prison where she was incarcerated for 17 years. 9 p.m. Fox

Santas in the Barn In this new unscripted series, 10 Santas compete to be named America’s Best Santa in a Christmas Eve finale. 9 p.m. TRU

Code Black When Jesse (Luis Guzman) suffers a massive heart attack, Leanne (Marcia Gay Harden) leads the ER team that tries to save him in this new episode. 10 p.m. CBS

Nashville Markus Keen (Riley Smith), the new artist on Rayna’s (Connie Britton) label, creates headaches in this new episode. 10 p.m. ABC

Top Chef The cooking competition returns for a new season. 10 p.m. Bravo

Christmas Through the Decades This new episode looks at celebrations of the holidays during “The 70s.” 10 p.m. History

SPECIALS

Christmas in Rockefeller Center Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Natalie Morales (“Today”) host the 83rd annual tree-lighting ceremony. With musical guests Sting, James Taylor (with Chris Botti) and Mary J. Blige. 8 p.m. NBC

CMT Artists of the Year 2015 Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan and Sam Hunt are honored as the top country artists of 2015. 8 p.m. CMT

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas The animated holiday classic, directed by Chuck Jones and narrated by Boris Karloff. 9 p.m. NBC

MOVIES

Frank Sinatra TCM opens an evening of Frank Sinatra with the 1965 TV special “Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music” (5 p.m.). At 6, it’s “Guys and Dolls”; at 8:45 “Pal Joey” (1957) and at 10:45 “Can-Can” (1960).

Racing Extinction Filmmaker Louie Psihoyos recruits a team of activists, artists and scientists for this new documentary about the effort to protect endangered species that seem bound for oblivion. 9 and 10:35 p.m. Animal Planet and Discovery

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Hugh Grant, Monsanto; Carole King. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Ian McKellen; Tom Colicchio and Padma Lakshmi; Rob and Patricia Schneider; “Youth”; Morgan Harris. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Live With Kelly and Michael Mary J. Blige (“The Wiz Live!”); Faith Ford and Ted McGinley (“The Bridge”). (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View (N) 10 a.m. KABC

The Meredith Vieira Show Cheryl Hines (“Christmas Eve”). (N) 11 a.m. KNBC

The Doctors A food that may be addictivefor brides-to-be. (N) 11 a.m. KCAL

The Wendy Williams Show Author Dita Von Teese. (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Morris Chestnut; Lindsay Miller. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show Amy Robach (“Good Morning America”). (N) 2 p.m. KTTV

Dr. Phil Two women say their sister is abusive toward their mother. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS