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Television

BROADCAST CHANNELS

12/22/21

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4.1 WRC (NBC) ◆ News ◆ Hollywood ◆ Movie: Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch ★★ (2018) ◆ Michael Bublé’s Christ. News ◆ Tonight Show

4.2 WRC (IND) 3rd Rock 3rd Rock Fr asier Fr asier Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne The NannyThe Nanny

5.1 WTTG (Fox) Fox 5 ◆ TMZ ◆ The Masked SingerFox 5 News at 10News The Final

7.1 WJLA (ABC) ◆ Wheel ◆ J’pardy! ◆ Live in Front of a Studio Audience ◆ Home Econ.◆ The Chase News ◆ J. Kimmel

9.1 WUSA (CBS) Open Mic ◆ ET ◆ Price Is Right ◆ The 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors9 News ◆ Late-Colbert

14.1 WFDC (UNI) ◆ ¿Qué le pasa a ◆ La rosa de Guadalupe ◆ Vencer el pasado ◆ La desalmada Noticias ◆ Noticiero

20.1 WDCA (MNTV)◆ Family Feud◆ Family FeudFox 5 News ◆ Family FeudFox 5 News ◆ Family FeudBig BangBig Bang ◆ Dateline

22.1 WMPT (PBS)Milk Street ◆ MotorWeek ◆ Nature ◆ NOVA ◆ Extinction: The Facts ◆ Amanpour-Co

26.1 WETA (PBS) ◆ PBS NewsHour Nature ◆ NOVA Mary Berry’s Country House Amanpour-Co

32.1 WHUT (PBS) DW News School Great Movie: Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (2019) A Classic Christmas (My Music)

50.1 WDCW (CW) ◆ black-ish ◆ black-ish ◆ Grandma Got Run Over ◆ Masters of Illusion ◆ Seinfeld ◆ Seinfeld Two Men Two Men

66.1 WPXW (ION) Blue Bloods Blue Bloods Blue Bloods Blue Bloods Blue Bloods

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A&E The First 48 The First 48 The First 48 (10:01) The First 48 (11:04) The First 48

AMC (6:00) The Polar Express Movie: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation ★★★ (10:15) Movie: Four Christmases ★★ (2008)

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Fox News FOX News Primetime Tucker Carlson Tonight Hannity (Live) The Ingraham Angle Gutfeld!

Freeform (7:15) Movie: The Santa Clause ★★★ (1994) (9:25) Movie: The Santa Clause 2 ★★ (2002)

FX The Secret Life of Pets 2 Movie: Sing ★★★ (2016) Movie: Sing ★★★ (2016)

Hallmark (6:00) A Royal Christmas Movie: Sugar Plum Twist (2021) Movie: ’Tis the Season to Be Merry (2021)

Hallmark M&M (6:00) A Perfect Christmas Movie: Christmas for Keeps (2021) Movie: Christmas in Love (2018)

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History Forged in FireForged in Fire Forged in Fire (11:03) Forged in Fire

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TV HIGHLIGHTS

Moonshiners (Discovery at 8)
Mark and Digger set their sights on
a favorite theme park as the site of a
whiskey-aging machine.

Property Brothers: Forever
Home (HGTV at 8) Two high school
sweethearts, who have moved 14
times in 15 years, enlist the
brothers to spruce up a home where
they hope to lay roots.

The Real Housewives of Orange
County (Bravo at 9) Shane is
celebrated for passing the California
bar, while the women contend with
their own struggles.

Hard Knocks in Season: The
Indianapolis Colts (HBO at 10) The
Colts have the playoffs in mind as
they prepare for the New England
Patriots.

FINALES

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
(FXX at 10) The two-part finale finds
the gang winding down their
adventure in Ireland.

Tyler Perry’s Sistas (BET at 9)
Season 3 of the dramedy
concludes.

SPECIALS

The Price Is Right at Night
(CBS at 8) Drew Carey hosts a
nighttime rendition of the popular
game show.

The LCD Soundsystem Holiday

Special (Prime Video at 9) Indie

rock ensemble LCD Soundsystem

debuts a two-part special featuring

a live performance and a 1990s

sitcom sendup starring the likes of

Eric Wareheim and Macaulay Culkin

as members of LCD.

MINISERIES

WWII in Color: Road to Victory

(Netflix) Restored and colorized

footage accompanies commentary

and insights into World War II.

MOVIES

It Takes a Christmas Village

(Lifetime at 8) The mayor of a small

town wants to make sure the annual

Christmas market goes off without a

hitch, but to do so she must sway

the reclusive mill owner to change

his ways and look past a dormant

family feud.

RETURNING

Emily in Paris (Netflix) Season 2 of

the divisive guilty pleasure of an

American (Lily Collins) who

navigates life in Paris returns.

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44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (CBS at 9) The telecast of the
ceremony whose honorees this year include, from left, Justino Diaz, Lorne
Michaels, Bette Midler, Berry Gordy and, not pictured, Joni Mitchell.

BY AMY B WANG

There’s a new “first dog” in the
White House.
President Biden announced
Monday that he and first lady Jill
Biden have a new puppy.
“Welcome to the White House,
Commander,” Biden tweeted,
along with a photo of a German
shepherd puppy bounding in the
grass.
The puppy’s presence was first
reported by CNN’s Kate Bennett,
who said the dog was spotted play-
ing on the South Lawn of the
White House earlier Monday. Mi-

chael LaRosa, a spokesman for Jill

Biden, said Commander was a gift

from Biden’s brother and sister-in-

law, James and Sara Biden, to the

president.

President Biden later shared a

short video of Commander adjust-

ing to his surroundings: greeting

the president with a tail wag,

walking into the White House, sit-

ting down by a fireplace decorated

for the holidays and catching a

tennis ball thrown by the nation’s

actual commander in chief.

The Bidens brought two other

German shepherds to the White

House this year: The older one,

Champ, died in June at age 13. The

younger one, Major, has been

spending most of his time in Dela-

ware after biting at least two peo-

ple in the White House.

“After consulting with dog

trainers, animal behaviorists, and

veterinarians, the First Family has

decided to follow the experts’ col-

lective recommendation that it

would be safest for Major to live in

a quieter environment with family

friends,” LaRosa told The Wash-

ington Post.

He added that it was not in

reaction to any new or specific

incident, but a decision reached

“after several months of delibera-

tion as a family and discussions

with experts.”

The Bidens also had indicated

early on that they had plans to

adopt a cat, with Jill Biden going

so far as to say that one — an

apparent female — was “waiting

in the wings.” However, no White

House cat has yet materialized,

much to the chagrin of the presi-

dent’s feline-loving constituency.

LaRosa confirmed Monday that

the new cat is a female and said

she will join the Bidens in the

White House in January.

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Meet Commander, the new ‘first dog’ in town

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“Welcome to the White House, Commander,” President Biden

tweeted Monday, with this photo of a German shepherd puppy.

Biden also outlined outreach

programs intended to combat the

omicron variant more systemati-

cally. It glossed over all the logisti-

cal challenges and bureaucratic

hurdles that have resulted in re-

cent headlines: the disparities in

covid concern and response

across the country, the delays in

vaccine appointments, the diffi-

culty of obtaining at-home tests,

the exorbitant costs of said tests.

(The distribution of half a billion

tests is a key component of Biden’s

new plan.)

But longer-lasting than those

tests may be the common-sense,

can-do-it optimism with which

Biden unfurled the next phase of

his administration’s fight against

the coronavirus. The science is

here, and it has spoken. It’s up to

the rest of us to listen.

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own c ustomers and their own sup-

porters,” he said, his previously

sluggish delivery growing em-

phatic. “It’s wrong. It’s immoral. I

call on the purveyors of these lies

and misinformation to stop it.

Stop it now.”

Biden’s opponents surely bris-

tled against such accusations. But

they weren’t his target audience;

they couldn’t be won over anyway.

The president was talking to the

persuadable, especially those who

might find higher meaning in

public health measures. Calling

getting vaccinated a “patriotic

duty,” Biden did what presidents

try to do: unify (as much as is

possible in our tribalistic political

climate). Recalling that the United

States was one of the first coun-

tries to get the vaccine, he prom-

ised, “There is no challenge too big

for America.”

news junkies, a group that prob-

ably knew much of this already,

but for casual news consumers

who may be unsure which infor-

mation sources are reliable. Even

for a political speech, Biden’s ad-

dress was repetitive, hammering

home again and again, in increas-

ingly unvarnished language, the

necessity of immunization. “If

you’re unvaccinated,” he intoned,

“you are at a higher risk of getting

severely ill from covid-19, getting

hospitalized and even dying.”

But Biden reserved his harshest

language for those profiting off

anti-vaccine messaging. His voice

grew stern as he slammed those

spreading “dangerous misinfor-

mation on cable TV and social

media.” “These companies and

personalities are making money

by peddling lies and allowing mis-

information that can kill their

many of you,” he continued, “this
will be the first, or even the second
Christmas, we look across the ta-
ble to see an empty kitchen chair.”
In the first section of his ad-
dress, he opted for a Q&A format
that he hoped would lay to rest
much of the confusion that omi-
cron has reintroduced to our lives.
Yes, we should feel okay celebrat-
ing the holidays with our families.
Yes, there’s reason to feel safe with
the new variant’s proliferation, as
long as we get all of our shots.
(“Just last week,” he noted, “for-
mer president Trump announced
he had gotten his booster shot.”)
No, this isn’t a return to March
2020, he asserted, adding later
that there is no intention to shut
down schools or businesses again.
The address wasn’t aimed at

NOTEBOOK FROM C1

Biden swerves between empathy, uplift and straight-talking frustration

DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST

P resident Biden delivers a progress report on the omicron variant.

His message: Getting vaccinated is Americans’ patriotic duty.

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