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By Staff Reporter
The Boston Globe

Nov 25, 2011 19:00 EST

RADIO HIGHLIGHTS

Innovation Hub 7 a.m. WGBH-FM (89.7) Sustainable cooking, restaurants, and agriculture.

Only a Game 7 a.m. WBUR-FM (90.9) Remembering the glory days of the New York Knicks.

A Celtic Sojourn 3 p.m. WGBH-FM (89.7) Uileann piper Kieran O'Hare.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 7 p.m. Classical New England (99.5) Ludovic Morlot returns to Symphony Hall.

BSO on Record 10 p.m. Classical New England (99.5)

MOVIES

Dear Santa 8 p.m. (LIFE) A girl asks Santa to send her daddy (David Haydn-Jones) a new wife for Christmas. NR (2011)

Debbie Macomber's Trading Christmas 8 p.m. (HALMRK) A widow (Faith Ford) and a writer (Tom Cavanagh) swap homes for the holidays. NR (2011)

Dodsworth 8 p.m. (TCM) Sinclair Lewis's story of a tycoon (Walter Huston) whose life is changed on a European vacation. NR (1936)

Elf 8 p.m. (USA) A human (Will Ferrell) raised by elves searches for his birth father. Charming holiday fantasy. PG (2003)

Geek Charming 8 p.m. (DISN) A snobbish girl (Sarah Hyland) is the subject of a film geek's documentary. NR (2011)

Get Rich or Die Tryin' 8 p.m. (MTV) So-so saga loosely based on the life of rapper Curtis ``50 Cent'' Jackson, who stars. R (2005)

Gnomeo & Juliet 8 p.m. (STARZ) William Shakespeare's tragic romance gets a garden-gnome twist in this computer-animated musical. G (2011)

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 8 p.m., 10 p.m., midnight (ESPNC) A chronicle of the 1968 Ivy League football matchup. NR (2008)

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 8 p.m. (FAM) The sequel finds Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) facing familiar foes. PG (1992)

Knocked Up 8 p.m., midnight (E) Raucous romp about a slacker (Seth Rogen) impregnating a TV personality. R (2007)

Lackawanna Blues 8 p.m. (TV1) Drama about the eclectic residents of a N.Y. boardinghouse in the '50s and '60s. Jimmy Smits. NR (2004)

Saw 8 p.m., 10:15 p.m. (IFC) Two men are held captive by a sadistic killer in this gruesome thriller. Leigh Whannell. R (2004)

Scream 2 8 p.m. (FLIX) Another killer is on a rampage. Sly but inferior sequel to the original. Courteney Cox. R (1997)

The Stepfather 8 p.m., midnight (LMN) Michael (Penn Badgley) suspects his stepfather is a serial killer who preys on broken families. PG-13 (2009)

A Time to Kill 8 p.m. (TNT) Absorbing but slow drama about a white lawyer defending a black man for murder. Matthew McConaughey. R (1996)

The Twilight Saga: New Moon 8 p.m. (SHO) Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) copes with the absence of her vampire boyfriend (Robert Pattinson). PG-13 (2009)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 9 p.m. (ENCR) Frodo (Elijah Wood) is tempted by the power of the ring in the Oscar-winning finale. PG-13 (2003)

Meet the Parents 9 p.m., 11 p.m. (BRAVO) Fun fluff about a nurse (Ben Stiller) trying to impress his girlfriend's family. Robert De Niro. PG-13 (2000)

Piranha 9 p.m. (TMC) Small-town cop Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) battles prehistoric piranhas during spring break. R (2010)

Restrepo: Outpost Afghanistan 9 p.m., midnight (NATGEO) Filmmakers visit Afghanistan's Korengal Valley to spend time with a platoon of US soldiers. R (2010)

Storm Wars 9 p.m. (SYFY) A deranged scientist uses weather weapons against his enemies and the city of Washington, D.C. NR (2011)

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son 10 p.m. (MAX) An FBI agent (Martin Lawrence) goes undercover as an obese woman in order to catch a killer. PG-13 (2011)

Land of the Lost 10 p.m. (USA) Scientist Dr. Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell) gets stranded in a strange world. PG-13 (2009)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 10 p.m. (TCM) Story of the life of a British officer. Roger Livesey. NR (1943)

Mama Flora's Family 10 p.m. (TV1) Saga of a 20th-century black family. Cicely Tyson. NR (1998)

(1997)

Untraceable 10 p.m. (LMN) An FBI agent hunts a serial killer who uses his Web site to torture his victims. Diane Lane. R (2008)

River's Edge 10:05 p.m. (FLIX) Teens are apathetic when one commits murder. Crispin Glover. R (1986)

Love Actually 10:30 p.m. (FAM) Charming romantic comedy about several London couples. Hugh Grant. R (2003)

The Reef 10:30 p.m. (TMC) Zoe Naylor stars in this thriller following a group of friends at the mercy of a hungry shark. R (2010)

Source: The Boston Globe

 

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