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    A Double Dose of Cheno

    Kristin Chenoweth pops up twice on WTK tonight. First, she keeps a brave face as Olive the waitress in the continuing Pushing Daisies viking funeral, and then as herself, crooning Christmas songs in Washington.

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    Pushing Daisies [8 PM, ABC] - It's an Office Space supporting cast reunion, as Vivian (Ellen Greene) goes to Emerson's rival (Orlando Jones) after Emerson (Chi McBride) refuses to look into the disappearance of Dwight Dixon (Stephen Root). Naturally, Ned and Chuck's secret could be compromised. We're not even going to talk about how much we're going to miss this show. Is that the denial or the depression stage? Sigh.

    My Shocking Story: World's Smallest Mom [10 PM, Discovery Health] - Some might call the subjects of Discovery Health's My Shocking Stories a freakshow: the wolf children, the half men/half trees, octopus man - but that isn't doing this show justice. Yes, its title is sort of first-drafty, but this is magical television. Tonight's episode features Christianne Ray, who at just over two and a half feet tall, became the smallest living woman to give birth. As your average armchair doctors, we watch a lot of Discovery Health, and we wish every night before bed that we had our own shocking stories. My Shocking Story: We Eat Way Too Much Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal?

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    Stylista [9 PM, CW] - In tonight's season finale, the boring remaining contestants design an Elle cover featuring Eve and have a job interview with editor-in-chief, Roberta Myers. If this is what it takes to get a gig in this rough job market, then we advise all design majors to start being as obnoxious and emotionally vulnerable as possible. It's the only way to get ahead.

    The Hills Spoof'd [10 PM, MTV] - Here's the latest in what we think will be most of TV programming in five years: A show full of videos that should be viewed on the internet with interstitial commentary. Audrina, Whitney, Lo and other second-tier Hills characters watch fan-submitted parody videos. If there's anything better than seeing people whose talent is being a version of themselves laughing at themselves, then it must be hidden in one of those crystalline Mexican caves.

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    Christmas In Washington [8 PM, TNT] - Dr. Phil and his wife Robin host the 27th annual holiday gala from the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. You would think that this would be carried on a network like CBS, especially given its populist appeal and roster of country performers like Julianne Hough and Darius Rucker (and goddess of all that is bright and cheerful, Kristin Chenoweth), but it's relegated to TNT. We watched this last year (while high) and as it drags on, one begins to feel the possibility that a line dance could break out any second.

    Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution [10 PM, Lifetime Movie Network] - It's the freaking holidays, Lifetime! Don't you have dozens and dozens of films about women overcoming terminal diseases, oppressive husbands or dire economic circumstances to get gifts under the tree and a turkey on the table? In case you don't know the story, Amber Frey (Janel Moloney) thinks she has met her dream man, Scott Peterson (Nathan Anderson), until she sees him on television talking about his missing wife. Realizing she's been duped (he said he was single), she takes her story to the police and becomes a witness for the prosecution and then does a million interviews with Gloria Allred and writes a book, currently #149,978 on Amazon.


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