1) “The Voice” finale, 9-11 p.m. today, 8-11 p.m. Tuesday, NBC. Four finalists are set — Aubrey Nicole, 19; Aiden Ross, 20; Ralph Edwards, 30; and Jazz McKenzie (shown here), 31. Tonight, the other two will be revealed; then the six each perform a contemporary song and a classic. Those performances will be recapped at 8 p.m. Tuesday; at 9, the finale party begins.
2) “Survivor” finale, 8-11 p.m. Wednesday, CBS. Five people remain. Rizo Velovic, 25, is in tech sales; Sophi Balardi, 27, entrepreneur; Sage Ahrens-Nichols, 30, clinical social worker; Savannah Louie, 31, former reporter; and Kristina Mills, 36, career counselor. One will become the 49th million-dollar winner … and two from this season will join “Survivor 50.”
3) More finales. It’s a big week for winners. “Finding Mr. Christmas” (8-9 p.m. today, Hallmark) has three finalists. “The Floor” (8-10 p.m. Wednesday, Fox) has 16; most don’t have their original categories, so things could shift quickly. “Next Level Baker” (8-10 p.m. Thursday) has five. And “The Road” (9:30 p.m. Sunday, CBS) has three gifted country singers.
4) “FBI,” 8-10 p.m. today, CBS. The other networks are resting most of their scripted shows until January. Not CBS; this week it has 10 “mid-season finales.” That starts here, when a triple-murder is just the prelude for a citywide crisis. It continues through Tuesday, Thursday (see No. 7) and all three hours — including cliffhangers — on Friday.
5) “Tabernacle Choir: Hope For the Season,” 8 p.m. today, PBS, rerunning at 9:30. There are great moments from soprano Ruthie Ann Miles and narrator Dennis Haysbert. But the peak comes when the 360-voice choir goes directly from two “Alleluia” pieces (by Bach and Ginastera) to Handel’s “Hallelujah” chorus. This is splendid, epic-scale music.
6) “iHeartRadio Jingle Ball,” 8-10 p.m. Wednesday, ABC. Now for a different genre of music. This is culled from a holiday mini-tour that included Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll, Olivia Dean, Nelly, Renee Rapp. Alex Warren, Conan Gray, Jessie Murph, Laufey, mgk, Myles Smith, Ravyn Lenae, Zara Larsson, Kid Laroi, Shinedown, BigXthaPlug and Monsta X.
7) “Ghosts,” 9:01-10 p.m. Thursday, CBS. This show thrives on holiday episodes. Now Sam has a Christmastime TV interview to promote her book, a fictionalized version of Isaac’s life; things soon go badly. That’s in a laugh-filled night. CBS has two “Georgie & Mandy” episodes, plus “Elsbeth”; NBC (9-11 p.m.) has ‘Saturday Night Live” Christmas sketches.
8) Football. The playoffs begin at 8 p.m. ET Friday, with Alabama and Oklahoma. There’s more Saturday — ABC has Miami-Texas at noon; TNT has Tulane-Mississippi at 6:30 p.m., James Madison-Oregon at 7:30. Also, bowl games on ESPN (9 p.m., Tuesday; 5 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday; 11 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. Friday) and ESPN2 (9 p.m. Thursday).
9) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m. Saturday, NBC. Here are music mega-stars, two generations apart: Ariana Grande, 32, hosts; Cher, 79, is the music guest. Grande has previously been host twice and music guest three times, Cher’s only time as music guest was in 1987. That was just before she won an Oscar (for “Moonstruck”) … and six years before Grande was born.
10) More Christmas. PBS has the English National Ballet in an elegantly crafted “Nutcracker,” at 8 p.m. Tuesday …. ABC wraps “The Great Christmas Light Fight” at 9 and 10 p.m. Thursday, then has “The Sound of Music,” from 7-11 p.m. Sunday …. Christmas movies abound … And TBS has the brilliant “Grinch” cartoon, at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. Sunday.,