Monday’s TV Highlights: ‘Who’s Still Standing?’ on NBC
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A TRAPDOOR and a sudden drop await contestants who give the wrong answer in the new quiz show “Who’s Still Standing?” at 8 p.m. on NBC. Ben Bailey, left, hosts.
SERIES
Terra Nova: When Lucas, Mira (Ashley Zukerman and Christine Adams) and the mysterious Phoenix group try to pillage the past, Taylor and Jim (Stephen Lang, Jason O’Mara) team to take a stand in the two-hour season finale (8 p.m. Fox).
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: The women debate the challenges and risks that would be involved in turning Taylor away from Kyle’s party after her husband threatens Camille with a lawsuit in this new episode (9 and 10 p.m. Bravo).
The Layover: Tony lands in Hong Kong (9 p.m. Travel).
American Masters: James Franco narrates “Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter,” a profile of the architect husband and painter-sculptor wife who together helped shape the second half of the 20th century and whose work remains exciting and commercially popular today (10 p.m. KOCE).
Ridiculousness: In the season finale, Big Black returns (10 p.m. MTV).
SPECIALS
VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul: From the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, a glittering array of female vocalists — including Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige and Florence + the Machine — performs songs saluting cities that have fostered and sustained soul music in this new special (9 p.m. VH1).
MOVIES
Scrooge: Dickens’ London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and yet to come in this 1970 retelling of the classic (7:15 p.m. TCM).
A Christmas Carol: George C. Scott plays Scrooge in the 1984 version (8 and 10:30 p.m. AMC).
Debbie Macomber’s Trading Christmas: A man and a woman temporarily swap houses in this 2011 TV movie starring Tom Cavanagh and Faith Ford (10 p.m. Hallmark).
SPORTS
Hockey: The Kings visit the Toronto Maple Leafs (4 p.m. FSN); the Ducks visit the Dallas Stars (5 p.m. VS).
Football: The Steelers visit the 49ers (5:30 p.m. ESPN).
Preseason basketball: The Clippers visit the Los Angeles Lakers (7:30 p.m. FSN and FS Prime).