1) “Same Time, Next Christmas,” 8-10 p.m., ABC. As Olivia (Lea Michele) sees it, “White Christmases are for suckers.” Ever since childhood, she’s has Hawaiian holidays; that’s where she had her first kiss, as a teen, with Jeff. Now he (Charles Michael Davis of “The Originals”) is back; they’re grown-ups, with complicated lives. Making its broadcast debut after airing on Freeform, this has a predictable story, but is gorgeous enough to have us re-examine our holiday plans and/or our lives.
2) “Christmas at Belmont,” 9 p.m., PBS. This is music on an epic scale. It has 800 singers and musicians from Belmont University, plus guest stars. Michael W. Smith sings his “The Promise,” CeCe Winans does “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” and they link with the Nashville Children’s Choir for his “Christmas Day.” Many stations will repeat it Tuesday, along with other holiday concerts.
3) More Christmas, everywhere. “Christmas Caroler Challenge” concludes on CW. That starts at 8 p.m. with the top six, before the final four meet at 9. There’s also a new “Price is Right” holiday special at 8 on CBS, plus some reruns: NBC has “Holidays With the Houghs” – with siblings Julianne and Derek – at 8 p.m. and “A Saturday Night Live Christmas” at 9; others have Christmas movies, led by the delightful “Christmas Vacation” (1989) at 8 and 10:15 p.m. on AMC.
4) “The Shop Around the Corner” (1940), 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. Here is an eternal idea – people correspond with strangers, unaware they’re talking to each other. It’s been a 1937 Hungarian play … this James Stewart movie … the 1949 Judy Garland musical “In the Good Old Summertime” (10 p.m. ET on TCM) … the 1963 Broadway musical “She Loves Me” … and the 1998 “You’ve Got Mail.” Other movies: “Shazam” (2019), 6:45 p.m., HBO; “Wonder Woman” (2017), 9 p.m., TNT.
5) “The Incredible Dr. Pol,” 7 a.m. ET, Nat Geo Wild. It’s a 12-day marathon (really), viewing this rural-Michigan vet. Each day’s 9 p.m. episode propels the Christmas song; tonight, it’s “12 Turkeys Trotting.” If you prefer football? ESPN’s owl week starts at 2:30 p.m. ET in Tampa, with Marshall and Central Florida in the Gasparilla Bowl. And at 8, the season finale of ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” has the Packers visiting the Vikings … who trail them by one game, for the division title.