Your advent calendars are almost tapped out, but the sweetness is just beginning. TBS & PBS have some excellent offerings for you, while ABC lets the fall custodial interns program tonight's lineup.

WATCH

Funniest Commercials of the Year: 2008 [9 PM, TBS] - Let's get this straight before we digress: This is a bullshit show. Kevin Nealon reads some snappy copy from various NYC locations, tape rolls, Nealon reads some more copy, tape rolls, etc. But there's something very Media Studies 101 (but not quite as scholarly as Postmodern Culture) about a show that features commercials. At its scariest, this is a commentary on the nature of all television as being a mere function of advertiser expenditures (the commercials are the show or, frighteningly, we are the commercials), but at its most benign, this is a few good laughs while you're packing up to catch the red-eye flight to your childhood home.

Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway [10 PM, PBS] - If you haven't seen the original 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles about the crazy aunt and cousin of Jackie Onassis, then shame on you and we hate you and you're not invited to our birthday party. But a lot of people saw the Broadway musical based on that doc, and this edition of Independent Lens takes us down that road of adaptation.

TiVo

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas [8 PM, ABC] - Yeah, yeah, an easy choice, but it's that time of year and this story can teach all of us a lesson: Robbing a town full of nice people, though easy, never pans out. 1994's Trapped in Paradise also taught us this lesson, but with the conceit that Nicolas Cage, Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz were related. We have an easier time believing that a Grinch could own a small dog without eating him at some point.

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Rediscovered [9 PM, ABC] - Donnie and Marie Osmond host this bizarre special centered around a trove of tapes from an old casting agent who saw eventually famous (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) and never famous kids come through his office. Five of those unsuccessful aspiring child performers are then chosen by their original casting tapes and put onstage to perform and the winner receives $50,000. Then everyone goes through an aquatic obstacle course and has to dance the quickstep with Tim Conway. More is less, ABC.

The List [10 PM, ABC] - Just don't go near ABC after 9 PM. On The List, Rove McManus explores this year's top pop culture moments while Julianne Hough and Hal Rubenstein check out fashion trends and Perez Hilton talks about what celebrities were up to in 2008. One might refer to this as niche programming, specifically the niche of people who do not have internet or magazines and just bought a television yesterday.