Oh, please! You wouldn't think the raunchiest hour of the holiday season revolves around fashion -- until I told you that Joan Rivers was at the wheel. "Fashion Police's 2012 Year End Special" (9 p.m. Friday, E!) is supposed to be a roundup of celebrities' clothing choices, but it's really just a reminder that Rivers can still give you a shock to the system.
So they think they can dance Did you know one of America's premier dance troupes got its start touring in a borrowed station wagon? That factoid is part of "Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance" (9 p.m. Friday, KTCA, Ch. 2), an "American Masters" special hosted by Mandy Patinkin that takes an in-depth look at the Joffrey Ballet.
Bringing home the bacon Watching Todd Fisher go stark raving mad every time he spies a bacon strip is what it must be like when Cookie Monster stumbles across a box of Thin Mints. In "United States of Bacon" (9 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Destination America), the chef goes overboard in his praise for everything pork in Milwaukee and Chicago.
Growin' up Josh Shipp had it tough as a child, abused, addicted and suicidal. He uses his own hard-knocks life to inform his advice to others in "Teen Trouble" (9 p.m. Friday, Lifetime), a wakeup series for families on the road to disaster.
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