What’s on TV This Week: ‘Special Forces’ and ‘Selena + Chef’

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Nov. 27-Dec. 3. Details and times are subject to change.

Monday

SPECIAL FORCES 9 p.m. on Fox. This show takes a bunch of celebrities and puts them through a modified version of Special Forces selection training, led by former operatives — and this season (and training camp) is wrapping up this week. Challenges are both physical and mental: plunging into freezing water, or writing “death letters” to family members back home. There are no winners or losers, per se; everyone is just working to finish the training, and the only way people go home is through voluntary withdrawal. The season started with 14 recruits, but only Tyler Cameron, Erin Jackson, Tom Sandoval, JoJo Siwa and Nick Viall remain.

THE WEAKEST LINK: HOW JANE LYNCH STOLE CHRISTMAS 10 p.m. on NBC. This trivia game show is getting a little Grinch-y on this holiday special. Like other episodes, contestants will play rounds of trivia games and each round “the weakest link” will be eliminated — but this time the contestants are a Santa, an elf, a caroler and more.

Tuesday

SOUTH TO BLACK POWER (2023) 10 p.m. on HBO. Charles Blow, the New York Times opinion columnist and author, has shared both his political and personal insights through his books “The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto” and “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” This documentary combines both aspects of Blow’s work by exploring his “reverse Great Migration” philosophy and his background.

Wednesday

91ST ANNUAL CHRISTMAS IN ROCKEFELLER CENTER 8 p.m. on NBC. An 80-foot-tall Norway spruce was transported from Vestal, N.Y., to the center of Manhattan, and the time has come to light it. Shortly before 10 p.m., the 50,000 multicolored lights will turn on for the first time of the season, and Kelly Clarkson, Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and others will be there to host to the festivities.

Thursday

THE GOLDEN BACHELOR 8 p.m. on ABC. It’s no secret that viewership for “Bachelor” franchise shows has steadily been decreasing — but if you have continued to power through some real flops, this season was like a sweet, emotional and heartfelt reward. The 72-year-old Bachelor, Gerry Turner, has handled this season and his relationships with such love and grace that I have my fingers crossed that he is going to get his second chance at a happy ending.

SELENA + CHEF: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS 8 p.m. on Food. This is the first of four Selena Gomez cooking specials this holiday season. The show brings Gomez together with chefs so that she can brush up on her cooking skills, and for these specials she has invited Eric Adjepong, Alex Guarnaschelli, Michael Symon and Claudette Zepeda to her kitchen to make holiday recipes.

Friday

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FOOTBALL 8 p.m. on Showtime. This series isn’t about the sport they play on Thanksgiving or at the Super Bowl: it’s about soccer. This five-part documentary, narrated and produced by Trevor Noah, focuses each episode on a country (Brazil, the United States, Britain, France and Qatar) and discusses the issues of women’s rights, income inequality, racism and more in the microcosm of the sport as well as on a larger level.

Saturday

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989) 5 p.m. on Bravo. Because this movie takes place over a couple of years in all different seasons, I would happily make the argument that this is a Thanksgiving and Christmas film as much as it is anything else. The story follows Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) in a enemies-to-friends-to-lovers arc. Though “I’ll have what she’s having” is probably the most famous line of the movie, for me I’ll take “when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” Swoon.

A STAR IS BORN (2018) 5 p.m. on Paramount. If you aren’t in the mood to swoon or see a happy rom-com type ending, you can tune into this remake of the 1937, 1954 and 1976 movies of the same name. This version stars Lady Gaga as Ally and Bradley Cooper as Jackson. Though the acting and the storytelling is beautiful, Cooper and Gaga’s performance of “Shallow” is reason enough to watch.

Sunday

AGATHA CHRISTIE: LUCY WORSLEY ON THE MYSTERY QUEEN 8 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Before there was “Verity” by Colleen Hoover or “The Paris Apartment” by Lucy Foley, there were Agatha Christie novels. It’s been over 100 years since her first book was released, and the historian Lucy Worsley is exploring what circumstances in Christie’s life allowed her to write so vividly about murder and mystery.

CHOWCHILLA 9 p.m. on CNN. On July 15, 1976, two masked gunmen boarded a school bus and kidnapped the driver and 26 children on board. They drove them more than 100 miles away before hiding them underground in a buried trailer; after 16 hours, they escaped. This documentary tells the strange story of one of the biggest mass kidnappings in the United States and the emotional turmoil that ensued for the survivors.