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It鈥檚 the last weekend before Christmas, meaning you鈥檙e either running around the malls scrambling to find the perfect 鈥� albeit last-minute 鈥� gifts or you鈥檙e curling up on the couch to watch some holiday specials. Hopefully for your sake it鈥檚 the latter.
The networks have plenty of Yuletide goodies planned from now through the new year. In fact, that鈥檚 about all they have planned from now through the new year.
CTV, for one, has a trio of heartstring-tuggers on hand for Saturday. The Man Who Saved Christmas (2002) stars Seinfeld鈥檚 Jason Alexander (George) as Alfred Carlton Gilbert, a real-life toymaker who rebelled against the government鈥檚 request to produce goods for the First World War at his factory during the holidays.
7 p.m., CTV2
The hour-long film is followed by an encore of The Christmas Song, in which two talent show types, Diana (Natasha Henstridge) and Ken (Gabriel Hogan), accidentally fall in love while competing to win a $10,000 prize (don鈥檛 you just hate it when that happens?).
8 p.m., CTV
Last in the CTV lineup is Christmas Magic (2011), where successful New York event planner Carrie Bishop (Oakville, Ont., native Lindy Booth) finds herself taking on angelic duties after a tragic car accident claims her life.
Under the orders of a spirit guide (Little Mosque on the Prairie鈥檚 Derek McGrath), Carrie must help a struggling widow (Paul McGillion) turn his restaurant around before the clock strikes midnight on Christmas Eve.
Her prize? Romance with the chef and, most likely, a pair of wings. Hmm, this plot has a familiar ring to it 鈥� didn鈥檛 Dolly Parton do that already?
9 p.m., CTV2
Speaking of familiar, it just doesn鈥檛 feel like Christmas without the sound of Adam Sandler鈥檚 cartoon-baby voice going on about the celebrities who celebrate Hanukkah. Slightly less entertaining than The Chanukah Song 鈥� but still a seasonal staple 鈥� is Sandler鈥檚 Eight Crazy Nights (2002), in which he lends his voice to alcoholic criminal Davey Stone (among other characters). Stone is sentenced to community service as a referee for a youth basketball league and winds up befriending an elderly volunteer, Whitey (also voiced by Sandler). There鈥檚 very little Hanukkah in this Hanukkah flick, but the (somewhat booze-soaked) spirit is there.
9 p.m., MuchMusic
