Holiday DVD Shopping? Holiday TV Viewing? TV Worth Watching Has It All, So Please Dive In!

Well, it seems to be time to start thinking about holiday shopping, and holiday viewing -- and here at TV WORTH WATCHING, do we have a gift for you! (Yes, we do. That wasn't a question.)

Newly added to the site, and updated regularly for the rest of the year, is a triple-threat guide to all the Christmas specials, holiday movies and Christmas-themed series episodes on TV between now and 2009 and beyond. Three different lists, all exhaustive, and all searchable.

Want to find out when A Charlie Brown Christmas is showing this year? When White Christmas will be on? Where to find the Seinfeld episode of "Festivus"? Check out the lists: Linus and company will show up Dec. 8 on ABC, White Christmas will be shown on Lifetime Dec. 19, and "Festivus"... you'll just have to keep checking back.

All this work -- all these lists -- are the absurdly time-consuming handiwork of our own Diane Werts, who used to provide them for New York's Newsday. TV WORTH WATCHING is extremely proud to be their new home base. You can find all three lists on the home page, just to the right of Diane's regular FOR BETTER OR WERTS column. Just look beneath BIANCULLI'S BEST BETS.

For today, you can jump to them by linking here for EPISODES, here for SPECIALS, and here for MOVIES. But keep coming, and keep reading. Diane's going to keep updating the lists all year long.

Something else that's being updated all through December: the pair of DVD shopping guides, giving reviews, details and shopping links to the year's best TV-on-DVD releases.

You can find these just below BIANCULLI'S BLOG on the home page -- click on either of the Santa-hatted puppies, and they'll take you there. "Christmas Shows on DVD" takes you to collections of holiday specials on DVD, and "Holiday Shopping Guide," immediately below it, is a giant guided tour of big boxed sets, individual DVDs and everything in between -- anything having to do with TV, which we consider cool.

Again, Diane did most of the work on this year's version, but some of my reviews and recommendations are there, too, and we're both very proud to present these online offerings to you.

We're not too proud, though, to point out the fact that, if you use one of the gift guides to purchase a DVD or two, TV WORTH WATCHING gets a small kickback from Amazon. It costs you nothing extra, but believe me, every little bit definitely helps.

We'll never charge for this site, and we want to make it as good and useful as we can -- adding features and writers when possible, and generally being a reliable, readable guide to quality television.

Let us know what you think of the Christmas TV listings -- and, if you used or looked at the gift guides, what you thought of them, too. Even we worker elves are hungry for feedback from time to time... especially around the holidays.