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Globe Staff / November 24, 2007

ERNEST ENTERTAINMENT
A Grandpa for Christmas
9 p.m., Hallmark
If you still have Thanksgiving dinner in your system, you might want to avoid this one. It sounds a little bit . . . too sweet. Ernest Borgnine, who is 90, plays an elderly actor who is estranged from his daughter. Turns out he has a granddaughter he didn't know about, and it also turns out he has to take care of her. Awww.

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
7 p.m., VH1
How does the PBS documentary feeeel . . . with commercials?

Mad TV
11 p.m., Channel 25
Kathy Griffin is very sick. And she will appear tonight.

A Christmas Carol
Tomorrow at 8 p.m., AMC
The George C. Scott version. He's no Magoo, but he'll do.

CHASING VIEWERS
Brothers & Sisters
Tomorrow at 10 p.m., Channel 5
Chevy Chase guest stars this week, which I believe is supposed to be an incentive to watch. His guest appearance delivering the fake news on "Saturday Night Live" earlier this season reminded me of how off-puttingly inflated he can be. On "Brothers & Sisters," he plays an old friend of Nora who has a mind for romance. Also guesting this week: Lyle Lovett.

Family Guy
Tomorrow at 9 p.m., Channel 25
Meg is preg.

A Christmas Caper
Tomorrow at 8 p.m., ABC Family
Shannen Doherty plans to steal the movie.

ON DEMAND
Gracie
Comcast
An inspirational sports movie, soccer subdivision, and it stops at every expected station of the cross on its way to the triumphant against-all-odds finale. Yet it also feels appealingly handmade in a way most jock dramas don't. The striking Carly Schroeder is a 16-year-old pushing to play on the boy's varsity team after her brother dies in a car wreck. With Dermot Mulroney and Elisabeth Shue. (PG-13; runs through Dec. 20) - Ty Burr

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