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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

The Good Wife: CBS offers three repeat episodes of the Julianna Margulies legal drama (8, 9 and 10 p.m. CBS).

Fringe: The team seeks Nina’s (Blair Brown) assistance on a new episode of the sci-fi drama (9 p.m. Fox).

Haven: Audrey (Emily Rose) confronts a killer on the supernatural drama’s third-season finale (10 p.m. Syfy).

SPECIALS

The Brit List: The Doctor Who Ultimate List of Lists: Memorable moments, characters, etc., from the venerable sci-fi series are ranked in this new special (7 and 11 p.m. BBC America).

Country Stars at Home: Naomi Judd, George Jones, Trace Atkins, Leann Rimes and Amy Grant are among the celebs featured in this new special (8 p.m. HGTV).

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer: The animated tale based on the holiday novelty tune returns (8:59 p.m. KTLA).

Back to the Beginning With Christiane Amanpour: The journalist explores the origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in this new two-part special; concludes next Friday (9 p.m. ABC).

MOVIES

Armageddon: It looks like the end of the world for Bruce Willis and everyone else in Michael Bay’s effect-laden 1998 disaster flick (5 p.m. FX).

2012: It looks like the end of the world for John Cusack and everyone else in Roland Emmerich’s effects-laden 2009 disaster flick (8 p.m. FX).

Apocalypto: It looks like the end of Mayan civilization in director Mel Gibson’s 2006 adventure tale (9 p.m. Reelz).

SPORTS

College basketball: Florida Atlantic at Indiana (4 p.m. ESPN2); Western Carolina at Tennessee (4 p.m. FS Prime); Ohio at Oklahoma (5 p.m. FSN); BYU at Baylor (6 p.m. ESPN2).

College football: Ball State battles Central Florida in the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla. (4:30 p.m. ESPN).

Basketball: The Clippers face the Kings (7:30 p.m. FS Prime).