Dear newsletter subscribers,

We've made it to the end of the month: one more day and one more month to go in 2020. And now that December is (almost) here, so are even more Christmas and holiday-themed shows. Another half-dozen of them premiere this week alone.

So do a lot of other shows. I'll be publishing my latest quarterly guide to reality TV premieres tomorrow, but here are the wide range of reality shows, nonfiction specials, and televised documentaries premiering this week, from Christmas trees attached to rockets to murder to nighttime nature to RHOA.

First, it's been a decade since "a wretched documentary: visually and narratively sloppy; coy about its motives; slipshod in its adherence to basic ethical norms" was released.