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• Five standout tech gift ideas
  There's so much tech gear to select as gifts that it's hard to know where to start. What makes these picks different? They actually work.
  
• TV talk shows
  Today Bon Jovi. (KARE, Ch. 11)
  
• TV critic's picks: Curious holiday
  Neither Curious George nor the Man With the Yellow Hat can decide what gift would be perfect to exchange in the new animated PBS special "A Very Monkey Christmas" (8 a.m. and 3 p.m., KTCA, Ch. 2).
  
• Critic's picks: Tuesday
  The season premiere of "How the Earth Was Made" (8 p.m., History) explores how the Colorado River and other forces carved the Grand Canyon, which is almost 200 miles long and a mile deep. Other episodes this season cover Vesuvius, Earth's birth, the Sahara and Yosemite.
  
• Donny Osmond wins `Dancing with the Stars'
  Donny Osmond was declared the new champion of "Dancing with Stars" on Tuesday night, taking home the show's mirror ball trophy in the season finale of the ABC contest reality program.
  
• Chef Paula Deen accidentally hit by charity ham
  Celebrity chef Paula Deen got an unexpected serving of ham — across her face. The Food Network star was helping unload 25,000 pounds of donated meat for an Atlanta food bank on Monday when someone threw one of the hams like a football and accidentally smacked her.
  
• Nielsen's top 20 prime-time programs
  Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Co. for Nov. 16-22. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
  
• Regular series key Nielsen win for CBS
  CBS flexed its strength in scripted series to sail to the top of the weekly television standings.
  
• Italian group asks MTV to cancel 'Jersey Shore'
  A national Italian-American organization based in New Jersey says an MTV reality show that depicts Italian-American beachgoers as the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" is offensive and should be scrapped before it airs.
  
• Fox releases January return dates for 'Idol,' '24'
  Fox network is unveiling big plans for January.
  
• 'Good Morning America' cancels Lambert
  Adam Lambert's racy American Music Awards performance cost him a gig on "Good Morning America," but he will perform live instead on ABC's morning rivals at CBS.
  
• A noble tradition: Entertainers misbehaving on TV
  Entertainers have been misbehaving on TV — or accused of it, at least — long before singer Adam Lambert was even born.
  
• ABC: Lambert's performance draws 1,500 complaints
  Complaints poured in Monday about Adam Lambert's sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards, including criticism of his kiss with a male keyboard player that was left out of rehearsals for the show.
  
• Winfrey's mother, retailer settle bill dispute
  A financial dispute between Oprah Winfrey's mother and a high-end fashion store in Wisconsin has been settled.
  
• Bad news for local television stations
  Traditionally ambitious local TV news operations are trying to weather advertising revenue losses that have hit the industry.
  
• TV news shows
  Ch. 9: "Fox News Sunday": Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Kit Bond, R-Mo., Arlen Specter, D-Pa., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health.
  
• Calling it quits after 25 years, Oprah says her decision to end her show in 2011 was guided by prayer and careful thought.
  For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television.
  
• Another anniversary
  The new two-hour documentary "The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination" (8 p.m., National Geographic Channel) presents more news footage of the assassination, providing a time line using local TV reports, audio recordings and home movies.
  
• TV talk
  Today Marlo Thomas, Susan Boyle. (KARE, Ch. 11)
  
• Oprah: An impact felt 'round the world
  It's the talk show talked about around the world.
  
• Report: `Cathouse' star stabbed, slashed, shot
  A preliminary autopsy report for a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse" shows that she was shot, stabbed and slashed multiple times.
  
• Mya close to perfect on 'Dancing' finale
  Mya is poised to take the "Dancing With the Stars" title after finishing three points away from perfect during the final night of competition Monday.
  
• Britain wins 5 International Emmys; 1st for Brazil
  Julie Walters and Ben Whishaw took the top acting awards as British TV productions won five International Emmys on a night that saw Brazil get its first ever for a Bollywood-style telenovela.
  
• Overnight star Susan Boyle focus of TV special
  TV Guide Network says it will air a special program starring singing sensation Susan Boyle next month.
  
• Attorney: Gosselin divorce could be finalized soon
  Jon Gosselin offered his estranged wife a bouquet of red roses at their divorce arbitration hearing over the weekend. She evidently turned them down. Despite the snub, the marathon session went so well that the feuding stars of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" could be divorced by the end of the year, his attorney said Monday.
  

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