TV This Week, Nov. 29-Dec. 5: NBC’s ‘The Wiz Live!’ and more

SUNDAY

Teenage do-gooders get their due at “The 2015 Nickelodeon HALO Awards.” Scheduled performers include Justin Bieber and Walk the Moon. 7 p.m. CMT, Nickelodeon, TV Land

All aboard! Boyz II Men, Bobby Brown, Brandy, Cameo, Fantasia and R. Kelly are among the performers at the “2015 Soul Train Awards” hosted by Erykah Badu. 8 p.m. BET

Jennifer Finnigan spreads her wings in the new TV movie “Angel of Christmas.” 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel

Hugh Bonneville, Lord Grantham himself, hosts “A Salute to Downton Abbey.” 9 and 10:30 p.m. KOCE

“Gossip Girl’s” Michelle Trachtenberg unwraps “The Christmas Gift” in this new TV movie. 9 p.m. Lifetime

MONDAY

A screening of all three films in venerable Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s recently restored “Apu Trilogy” gets underway with the 1955 drama “Pather Panchali.” 5 p.m. TCM

Kristen Bell will be working for “Peanuts” when she hosts “It’s Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown,” an all-new salute to a beloved animated holiday classic. 8 p.m. ABC

Come for the low prices, stay for the hilarity in a sneak peek at the new workplace comedy “Superstore.” America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”) and Ben Feldman star. 10 p.m. NBC

“The Great British Bake Off” gets an American makeover, and then Bob’s your uncle, it’s “The Great Holiday Baking Show” hosted by “My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s” Nia Vardalos and her husband Ian Gomez. 10 p.m. ABC

TUESDAY

Can we buy you ladies a drink? “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” are back for a sixth season. 9 p.m. Bravo

The latest developments in the battle against HIV/AIDS are detailed in “VICE Special Report: Countdown to Zero.” 9 p.m. HBO

It’s complicated: Lisa Edelstein returns as not-exactly-single self-help writer Abby McCarthy on the second-season premiere of “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce.” 10 p.m. Bravo

WEDNESDAY

Hark! Sting, James Taylor, Mary J. Blige, Andrea Bocelli, the Band Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen and Pentatonix help celebrate “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” in the 83rd annual tree-lighting ceremony in New York City. 8 p.m. NBC

There’s no country like bro country: Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan and Sam Hunt are honored as the “2015 CMT Artists of the Year” in this new special. 8 p.m. CMT

Animals are passing from our lives, and at an alarming rate, as detailed in the documentary “Racing Extinction.” 9 p.m. Animal Planet, Discovery Channel

THURSDAY

Ease on down the road with “The Wiz Live!” Newcomer Shanice Williams is Dorothy in this star-studded staging of the hit musical inspired by “The Wizard of Oz.” With Queen Latifah, Common, Mary J. Blige, David Alan Grier, Ne-Yo, Stephanie Mills, Amber Riley (“Glee”) and Uzo Aduba (“Orange Is the New Black”). 8 p.m. NBC

Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes, Darius Rucker, Brian Setzer, Jewel, Pentatonix, etc., will twang the halls in the annual special “CMA Country Christmas” hosted by Jennifer Nettles. 9 p.m. ABC

FRIDAY

Have yourself “A Very Murray Christmas.” Bill Murray celebrates the holidays with celebs like George Clooney, Chris Rock and Miley Cyrus in this old-school holiday variety spectacular directed by Sofia Coppola. Any time, Netflix

The demise of “smize”? Perhaps, with the series finale of the Tyra Banks-hosted modeling competition “America’s Next Top Model.” 9 p.m. KTLA

There’ll be sugar cookies and holiday sweaters and a song or two in the new special “Disney Channel Fa-La-La-Lidays Celebrates a Radio Disney Family Holiday.” 9 p.m. Disney Channel

Yeeeaaah! The new concert special “The Who Live in Hyde Park” features original surviving members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey playing a show in London to mark the British band’s 50th anniversary. 9 p.m. Showtime

The new standup special “Marc Maron: More Later” features the comic’s comic and podcaster’s podcaster performing for fans in Chicago. 10 p.m. Epix

SATURDAY

Eloise Mumford gets it together “Just in Time for Christmas” in this new TV movie. Michael Stahl-David, William Shatner and Christoper Lloyd also star. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel

Will Ferrell’s headed to prison, the pen, the hoosegow, the stony lonesome, the gray-bar hotel, in the 2015 comedy “Get Hard.” With Kevin Hart and Alison Brie. 8 p.m. HBO

Twas “The Flight Before Christmas” but it got canceled on account of a snowstorm in this romantic new TV movie starring “Chuck’s” Ryan McPartlin and “The Big Bang Theory’s” Mayim Bialik. 8 p.m. Lifetime

“Nickelodeon Ho Ho Holiday Special” features a gaggle of the network’s young stars showing that they’re not too cool for Yule. 8 p.m. Nickelodeon

They’re still crazy for Korean pop music on the return of the tune-filled tween sitcom “Make It Pop.” 9 p.m. Nickelodeon

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