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Christmas comes early on TV with an onslaught of holiday movies in November. But for those of you not ready to celebrate the season so soon, there are other options.

Lisa Kudrow's "The Comeback" makes a comeback, while "The Newsroom" and "White Collar" show their final episodes and BBC America's "Atlantis" begins its second season.

HBO's "Olive Kitteridge" miniseries, BBC America's spy drama "The Game," NBC's "State of Affairs" and Starz'"The Missing" debut. PBS offers up a set of "Worricker" mysteries, a continuation of "Page Eight."

I'll add more premieres, finales and specials as I find them. Happy viewing.

Saturday, Nov. 1
7 | "One Starry Christmas," Hallmark (movie; bus breakdown leads to new path for woman)
7 | "Inside Fame," CMT (special; Hunter Hayes)
8 | "Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet," Nat Geo Wild (season premiere)
8 | "Deion's Family Playbook," OWN (season premiere)
9 | "Flex & Shanice," OWN (reality series premiere; actor and pop singer and their family)

Sunday, Nov. 2
6 | "Skyscraper Live with Nik Wallenda," Discovery (special; daredevil Nik Wallenda walks a wire over the Chicago River, and more)
7 | "King Tut's Final Mystery," Smithsonian Channel (special; new info about ancient Egypt's boy king)
8 | "Olive Kitteridge," HBO (miniseries premiere; illicit affairs in New England town as seen by moral woman)
8 | "2014 BAFTA Los Angeles Jaguar Britannia Awards," BBC America (special)
8 | "Destination Wild: Killer Shrew," Nat Geo Wild (special)
8 | "Kourtney and Khloe Take the Hamptons," E! (season premiere)
9 | "House of DVF," E! (season premiere)
9:30 | "Craft in America: Service," PBS ("Stories of Service" premiere)

Monday, Nov. 3
6 | "Over the Garden Wall," Cartoon Network (10-ep miniseries premiere; 2 brothers lost in forest called the Unknown)
7 | "Vanderpump Rules," Bravo (season premiere)
8 | "K. Michelle: My Life," VH1 (reality series premiere)
8 | "Euros of Hollywood," Bravo (reality series premiere; 6 Europeans living in Hollywood)
8 | "Olive Kitteridge," HBO (miniseries finale)
9 | "Anger Management," FX (season premiere)

Tuesday, Nov. 4
7 | "MasterChef Junior," Fox (season premiere)
8 | "The Curse of Oak Island," History (season 2 premiere)
8 | "Moonshiners," Discovery Channel (season 4 premiere)
8 | "Life Below Zero: The Thaw," NGC (season premiere)
9 | "Search for the Lost Giants," History (series premiere; Stonemasons Jim and Bill Vieira try to prove giants existed)



Wednesday, Nov. 5
7 | "The 48th Annual CMA Awards," ABC (special)
7 | "A Sloth Named Velcro," PBS ("Nature" premiere; check local listings)
8 | "Kitchen Inferno," Food (series premiere; Chicagoan Stephanie Goldfarb battles others in new competition)
9 | "The Game," BBC America (series premiere; Britain's MI5 works to uncover Soviet spy plot in 1972 London)
9 | "Hot in Cleveland," TV Land (season 6 premiere)
9 | "Snookie & JWOWW," MTV (final season premiere)
9 | "The Fashion Fund," Ovation (season 2 premiere)
9 | "Fix My Choir," Oxygen (reality series premiere; gospel star Deitrick Haddon and Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child help choirs)
9 | "The Car Chasers," CNBC (season 3 premiere)



Thursday, Nov. 6
2:01 a.m. | "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," Crackle (season 5 premiere)
2:01 a.m. | "Doug Benson: Doug Dynasty," Netflix (stand-up special)
8 | "White Collar," USA (final season premiere)
9 | "Covert Affairs," USA (season 5 mid-season premiere)
11:15 | "The Eric Andre Show," Adult Swim (season 3 premiere)

Friday, Nov. 7
2:01 a.m. | "Virunga," Netflix (doc; the people who protect Virunga National Park in eastern Congo)
7 | "MasterChef Junior," Fox (season premiere)
8 | "Lance Armstrong: Stop at Nothing," Showtime (doc)
8 | "Mysteries at the White House," Travel (special)
9 | "Snake City: Python Ambush," Nat Geo Wild ("Totally Wild" special)

Saturday, Nov. 8
7 | "Dead on Campus," Lifetime (movie; hazing)
7 | "The Nine Lives of Christmas," Hallmark (movie)
8 | "Doctor Who," BBC America (season finale)
8 | "Mutant World," Syfy (movie; world overrun by mutants)
8 | "Hell on Wheels," AMC (final 3 season 4 episodes begin)
9 | "The Chair," Starz (season finale; directorial competition concludes)
9 | "Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER: Kink-achoo!" Nat Geo Wild (season finale)

Sunday, Nov. 9
6 | "Pants on Fire," Disney XD (movie)
7 | "A Cookie Cutter Christmas," Hallmark (movie)
7 | "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," Bravo (season premiere)
7 | "NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage," Ovation (doc; Kevin Spacey and director Sam Mendes stage "Richard III")
7 | "Tanks of Fury," Smithsonian Channel (special; real struggles of WW II tank crews)
7 | "Holiday Baking Championship," Food (series premiere; competition)
8 | "Worricker: Turks & Caicos," PBS ("Masterpiece" premiere, check local listings; Bill Nighy reprises his role as MI5 spy Johnny Worricker in a follow-up to "Page Eight")
8 | "The Newsroom," HBO (final season premiere)
8 | "Extreme Houseboats," Travel (special)
9 | "The Comeback," HBO (premiere; Lisa Kurdrow plays Valerie Cherish again)
9:40 | "Getting On," HBO (season 2 premiere; comedy about goings-on at elder care center)
10:30 | "Fashion Queens," Bravo (season 2 premiere)

Monday, Nov. 10
8 | "The Last Patrol," HBO (doc premiere; follows 4 men linked by combat as the honor a fallen peer)
9 | "Ice Warriors-USA Sled Hockey," PBS ("Stories of Service" doc premiere; 2014 U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team)

Tuesday, Nov. 11
6 | "The Concert for Valor," HBO (special)
8 | "The Real Death Valley," The Weather Channel (special)
8 | "Navy SEALS: Their Untold Story," PBS ("Stories of Service" premiere)
9 | "Song by Song: Blondie," Ovation (season premiere; Blondie's hits "One Way Or Another,""Heart of Glass,""Call Me,""Rapture" examined)
9 | "A Crime to Remember," Investigation Discovery (season premiere)
9 | "Dogs of War," A&E (series premiere; Paws and Stripes pairs PTSD veterans with adopted dogs)
10 | "A Hero's Welcome," Travel (special)

Wednesday, Nov. 12
7 | "Penguin Post Office," PBS ("Nature" premiere)
8 | "Emperor's Ghost Army," PBS ("NOVA" premiere)
9 | "Down East Dickering, " History (season premiere)

Friday, Nov. 14
2:01 a.m. | "Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats," Netflix (stand-up special)
7 p.m. | "The Hollywood Film Awards," CBS (special)
8 | "The Hitmakers," PBS (PBS Arts Fall Festival doc; look at the music industry's resilience in the digital age)
9 | "Snake City: Spitting Mad Cobra," Nat Geo Wild ("Totally Wild" special)



Saturday, Nov. 15
4 | "The American Veterans Center Honors," Reelz (awards special)
7 | "Northpole," Hallmark (movie)
8 | "The Missing," Starz (miniseries premiere; fallout after child goes missing)
8 | "Atlantis," BBC America (season 2 premiere)
8 | "Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B," Lifetime (movie; biopic)

Sunday, Nov. 16
7 | "Destination Wild: The Nile," Nat Geo Wild (3 specials)
7 | "Angels and Ornaments," Hallmark (movie)
8 | "Worricker: Salting the Battlefield," PBS ("Masterpiece" premiere)
8 | "Tricked Out Trains: Trains Styles of the Rich and Famous," Travel (special)
9 | "Tricked Out Trains: Beauty Back on Track," Travel (special)



Monday, Nov. 17
8 | "Banksy Does New York," HBO (doc premiere)
9 | "State of Affairs," NBC (series premiere; CIA analyst who briefs president is also the former fiancé of president's murdered son)
9 | "Happiness," PBS ("Independent Lens" premiere; check local listings)
 
Tuesday, Nov. 18
7 | "Living with the Jacksons," Reelz (special; look at Jacksons)
8 | "Cold War Roadshow," PBS ("American Experience" premiere)
9 | "Risking It All," TLC (series premiere; members of 3 families go off the grid to reconnect with each other)

Wednesday, Nov. 19
7 | "Invasion of the Killer Whales," PBS ("Nature" premiere)
8 | "Landslide," PBS ("NOVA" premiere)
8 | "Duck Dynasty," A&E (season premiere)
9 | "Country Buck$," A&E (series premiere; Busbice family's 55,000-acre Louisiana ranch)

Thursday, Nov. 20
7 | "Party Down South: Drunksgiving," CMT (special)

Friday, Nov. 21
2:01 a.m. | "Lilyhammer," Netflix (season 3 premiere)
2:01 a.m. | "Veggie Tales in the House," Netflix (children's special)
2:01 a.m. | "Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street," Amazon Prime (live-action kids' show; coming-of-age tale)
8 | "Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued," Showtime (doc premiere; recording of new music from long-lost lyrics penned by legendary songwriter Bob Dylan)
8 | "Cats," PBS ("Great Performances" premiere)
8 | "EAT: The Story of Food," NGC (6-hour miniseries; evolution of food over the course of humankind)
9 | "Snake City: Attack of the Black Mambas," Nat Geo Wild ("Totally Wild" special)

Saturday, Nov. 22
7 | "A Royal Christmas," Hallmark (movie)
7 | "An En Vogue Christmas," Lifetime (movie; music group reunites for concert in fictional story)
9 | "Hello Ladies: The Movie," HBO (movie; wraps up the comedy series)
9 | "Dead Files Revisited: Never Alone & Spellbound," Travel (special)

Sunday, Nov. 23
6 | "Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy," Disney Junior (special; kid summons evil princess)
7 | "American Music Awards," ABC (special)
7 | "Africa's Deadly Eden," Nat Geo Wild ("Destination Wild" special)
7 | "The Mark Twain Prize," PBS (special; Jay Leno gets the prize)
7 | "The Christmas Shepherd," Hallmark (movie)
7 | "Austin & Aly," Disney (season finale)
8 | "Seasons of Love," Lifetime (movie; couple face challenges at holiday)
8 | "Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas," Hallmark Movie Channel (movie; girl writes to God)
8 | "Alaska Starts Here," Travel (special)
9 | "Extreme RVs," Travel (special)

Monday, Nov. 24
8 | "Major Crimes," TNT (winter season premiere)
9 | "Eric Greenspan is Hungry," NGC (Chef Eric Greenspan takes meaty road trip)
9 | "Booze Traveler," Travel (series premiere; world's most interesting beverages and people who drink them)¿¿

Tuesday, Nov. 25
9 | "The Sisterhood," Lifetime (docu-series premiere; 5 women consider becoming Catholic nuns)¿¿

Thursday, Nov. 27
noon | "The National Dog Show Presented by Purina," NBC (special)



Friday, Nov. 28
8 | "Kristin Chenoweth: Coming Home," PBS (special)
8 | "Man v. Lion," Nat Geo Wild (Big Cat Week special; tracker Boone Smith locked up with lions)

Saturday, Nov. 29
7 | "Christmas Under Wraps," Hallmark (movie; unexpected detour helps doctor find joy)
8 | "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever," Lifetime (movie; Grumpy Cat lonely in pet shop)
8 | "Leopard: Ultimate Survivor," Nat Geo Wild (Big Cat Week special; filming leopard family for 2 years)
9 | "Dead Files Revisited: Tortured Souls and Evil Within," Travel (special)



Sunday, Nov. 30
7 | "Sleepless in America," NGC (special)
7 | "Soul Train Awards," BET, Centric (special)
7 | "One Christmas Eve," Hallmark (movie; recently divorced mom wants kids' 1st Christmas without dad to be perfect)
7 | "Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink," Smithsonian Channel (special; is Earth on track for a 6th mass extinction)
8 | "Future Cat," Nat Geo Wild (Big Cat Week special; big cat evolution)
8 | "A Christmas Mystery," ION (movie; woman finds love while working to unravel family mystery)
8 | "Ax Men," History (season 8 premiere)
8 | "Only Happens in Alaska," Travel (special)
9 | "Only Happens in Japan," Travel (special)
9 | "Alaska Off Road Warriors," History (series premiere; off-road competition)

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