2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Airs Next Tuesday on CBS

CBS airs their annual flesh and feathers lingerie extravaganza called "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" next Tuesday at 10/9c. The show features the debut reunion performance of Spice Girls, before they embark on their global tour, and Seal. Check out the amazing images taken at the taping of the show a couple of weeks ago, featuring the likes of international supermodels like Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Heidi Klum and many others.

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Can "Shrek the Halls" Become a New ABC Christmas Classic?

ABC is turning its Wednesday night schedule upside down this week by preempting "Private Practice" and moving "Pushing Daises" into its timeslot to premiere an all-new Shrek Christmas special.


In "Shrek the Halls" the beloved character voiced by Mike Myers tries to achieve Yuletide perfection for Fiona and their children. Things fall apart when unwanted guests arrive at his doorstep on Christmas Eve.

The party crashers include Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas), who disrupt Shrek's by-the-book plans, causing him to react in Scrooge-like fashion.

But in the vein of Scrooge and the Grinch, Shrek learns the true meaning of Christmas, which is clear to everyone but him, of course. The 30-minute special airs this Wednesday at 8/7c on ABC.

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"Ugly Betty" Spoilers #2.09 "Giving Up the Ghost" An "Ugly Betty" Christmas

It appears we're getting Santa Justin and the Christmas episode of "Ugly Betty" on Thanksgiving when ABC scheduled "Giving up the Ghost." In any event, holiday-themed episodes of this quirky comedy have truly been appointment television, so I have no doubts this year will be the same.

According to an official synopsis, A Wilhelmina-induced crisis at Mode finds everyone scrambling to re-create an issue on deadline.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, as Daniel and Betty try to break wild child cover girl (Eliza Dushku as Cameron Ashlock) out of rehab for a re-shoot, and Alexis tries to charm the printer (guest star David J. Steinberg) into extending their time.

Meanwhile, Betty struggles with an unwelcome (and persistent) visitor who hopes to goad her into making good on a promise.

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Christmas TV Ratings

Broadcast networks in the US prefer to air reruns instead of razzle-dazzle Christmas specials during the holidays as television viewing levels have gone down considerably in recent years. Christmas 2006 was no exception.

On Christmas Eve, CBS won the night courtesy of Sunday's top program - NFL Overrun that took a byte of prime-time scoring over 17 million viewers at 7pm. That audience quickly disappeared as only a little over 5 million remained glued to the network by the end of the evening.

In comparison, holiday classic "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946) nabbed 4,89 million viewers for NBC, reruns of "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers and Sisters" scored 3,45 million and 3,12 million viewers respectively (great viewer retention for "Brothers and Sisters", by the way) and "Spiderman" brought 4,19 million to FOX.

Monday night, NBC ruled the roost, as a special two-hour edition of "Deal or No Deal" earned top honors with 16,45 million, while the rerun of ABC's theatrical "Pirates of the Caribbean" scored a modest 8,64 million. Monday night movie "Radio" on FOX and CW comedies were almost invisible.

Finally, on Tuesday night, "Big Day" was a big loser on ABC, as the sitcom that follows a wedding day broken out into a whole season proved it was no "24" scoring less than 4 million viewers for both installments. "The Kennedy Center Honors" telecast on CBS was the evening's top show with 10,85 million.

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ABC Family Stars Celebrate Christmas

Ivan Sergei, Daphne Zuniga and Kyle XY star Matt Dallas helped launch month-long holiday event on basic cable's ABC Family yesterday at the Rock Center Cafe at New York City's Rockefeller center.

The basic cable channel kicked off last Friday their 9th annual 'Winter Wonderland' event with over 200 hours of holiday programming including cable premieres of "The Polar Express" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".

The channel will also air the world premiere of Jenny McCarthy's "Santa Baby", as well as a number of classics including Jim Carrey's "How The Grinch Stole Christmas", the Disney favorite "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and many more.

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