Look, they don’t have enough time to pay credit to every beloved actor who died this year. It would take a day to do Carrie Fisher, and maybe two to do Debbie Reynolds, just to mention one family that lost two major stars in the last two days. Someone else will probably go today.
But the people they planned to remember on Turner Classic Movies “In Memoriam” evening tonight are George Kennedy in “Cool Hand Luke” (8 p.m.), Gloria DeHaven in “Two Girls and a Sailor” (10:15 p.m.), Alan Rickman, left, in “Sense and Sensibility” (12:30 a.m.), Patty Duke in “The Miracle Worker” (3 a.m.), Marni Nixon in “West Side Story” (5 a.m.) and come tomorrow morning, Nancy Reagan in “Night Into Morning” (7:45 a.m.) back when she was Nancy Davis.
Meanwhile, Carrie Fisher also appears in the 2015 “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (Starz, 9 p.m.).
Elsewhere, “Project Runway” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) has its reunion show. But the kids on “Project Runway: Junior” (Lifetime, 9 p.m.) are still at work, making clothes out of odd materials.
A weird twist on “Biggest Loser” is “Too Fat to Transition” (TLC, 9 p.m.) in which a trans man and woman have to lose a lot of weight in order to get gender-reassignment surgery.
Josh finally pops the question on the finale of “Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles” (Bravo, 9 p.m.).
Manu National Park is explored on “Peru’s Wild Kingdom” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.).
“America’s Got Talent: Holiday Spectacular” (NBC, 9 p.m.) probably won’t be much better than the Christmas a week later.
Everything in prime time is a rerun.
Bowl games include South Florida vs. South Carolina (ESPN, 2 p.m.) in the Birmingham Bowl, Arkansas vs. Virginia (ESPN, 5:30 p.m.) in the Belk Bowl and Oklahoma State vs. Colorado (ESPN, 9 p.m.) in the Alamo Bowl.
College basketball includes Georgia at Auburn (ESPNU, 7 p.m.), Butler at St. John’s (Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.), Kentucky at Mississippi (ESPN2, 8 p.m.), Vanderbilt at LSU (ESPNU, 9 p.m.) and St. Mary’s at Loyola Marymount (ESPNU, 11:30 p.m.).
Women’s games have Connecticut at Maryland (ESPN2, 6 p.m.).
Hockey tonight includes New Jersey at Washington (NBC Sports, 7 p.m.).
NBA action includes Boston at Cleveland (TNT, 8 p.m.) and Dallas at Lakers (TNT, 10:30 p.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly Ripa: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rita Ora, Gabrielle Union, Scott Wolf (rerun). The View: Van Jones (rerun). The Talk: Christel Khalil, Christian LeBlanc, Melody Thomas Scott, Jason Thompson, Scott Clifton, Don Diamond, Katherine Kelly Lang, Jacqueline McInnes Wood, Grant Aleksander, Beth Chamberlin, Robert Newman, Kim Zimmer, Martha Byrne, Ellen Dolan, Elizabeth Hubbard, Colleen Zenk (rerun). Harry Connick: Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross. Ellen DeGeneres: Kendall Jenner, Ricky Martin (rerun). The Real: Jessie T. Usher, Will Packer, Monica (rerun).
Late Talk
All reruns: Stephen Colbert: Vice President Joe Biden, DJ Khaled. Jimmy Kimmel: Jennifer Lawrence, Phantogram. Jimmy Fallon: Nicole Kidman, Michael Shannon, Miranda Lambert. Seth Meyers: Taraji P. Henson, Lola Kirke, Bret Baier, Abe Cunningham. James Corden: Jason Derulo, Ben Schwartz, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Albert Hammond Jr. Carson Daly: Justin Hartley, Mac Demarco, Rip Michaels. Tavis Smiley: Ellis Hall.