What to Watch Tonight: Chuck, The Take, Sanctuary & More

News & Notes

On cable tonight, BBC America has a Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! special, Encore has the miniseries finale of The Take, History has the first season finale of Invention USA, TBS has the first season finale of Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, and TLC has a Top 10 Weddings of 2011 special.

Prime Picks

Chuck (NBC): New. Chuck and Sarah find out who is after them. Ellie’s plans for Christmas are not turn out the way she hoped.

The Take (Encore): Miniseries Finale. Freddie is caught between all the people he has done wrong. Part four of four.

Sanctuary (Syfy): New. Part one of the two-part season finale has Magnus being asked by Caleb to broker a peace treaty. Tesla reappears. Will gets his federal commission reactivated. Plays again later. Part two plays next Friday.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has college basketball action with Baylor at West Virginia.
• ESPN2 has college basketball action with Western Kentucky at Louisville and later a semifinal game from the Diamond Head Classic.

Late Night

• Eureka (Syfy): Repeat. This year’s holiday episode, “Do You See What I See,” replays.
• Haven (Syfy): Repeat. This year’s holiday special episode, “Silent Night,” replays.
• Warehouse 13 (Syfy): Repeat. This year’s holiday episode, “The Greatest Gift,” replays.

TV Marathons

A&E has 10 episodes of The First 48 followed by six episodes of Beyond Scared Straight.
Bravo has 10 episodes of The Millionaire Matchmaker early.
Discovery Channel has 13 episodes of Gold Rush.
Oxygen has 13 episodes of Roseanne.
USA Network has five episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit followed by seven episodes of NCIS tonight.