What's On This Week

SUNDAY, DEC. 9

NEW SEASON!

HAIR TRAUMA
10 P.M. | WE
Back to the salon chair with celebrity stylist Ellin LaVar and her charging energy. In the premiere the big tizzy is over trying out applicants for assistant. Their test is to do LaVar's hair.

WHAT'S WITH THAT REALLY DECKED-OUT CHRISTMAS HOUSE?
9 P.M. | HGTV
Ho-ho-h-over-the-top decorations! Still, if Santa cared about style, wouldn't he make his list the tacky-or-tasteful, not the naughty-or-nice?

MONDAY, DEC. 10

SEASON FINALE!

THE HILLS
10 P.M. | MTV
Lauren gets an offer to go to Paris! Would MTV call the show Les Monts, then? Meanwhile Heidi and Spencer's wedding plans may kill their relationship. If so, America will not mourn.

TUESDAY, DEC. 11

THE BIGGEST LOSER
9 P.M. | NBC
With one week to go, the five finalists look back over their pound-shedding progress. Then they're trimmed to four for the finale.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12

PUSHING DAISIES
8 P.M. | ABC
An olfactory genius (Paul Reubens) tries to define the strange fragrance of Chuck (Anna Friel). Is it her state of life-in-death? The show is envelope-pushing brilliant.

SEASON FINALE!

KID NATION
8 P.M. | CBS
What a fracas when this reality show premiered! The young pioneers finish up creating their own society in Bonanza City. We look forward to Kid U.N.

FRIDAY, DEC. 14

MOONLIGHT
9 P.M. | CBS
When you're a vampire, sometimes life gives you nothing but garlic. Mick's bud (Jason Dohring) gets attacked.

• The ex-TV mobster, 41, stars as a former baseball player magically granted more time with the mom he lost in Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day, on ABC Dec. 9.

WHY CHOOSE THIS ROLE? It's very juicy, a guy struggling with his fallibility. And he's much less on the fringes of society than some characters I've played.

YOUR SON VADIM IS IN THE MOVIE TOO! He got to play my character at 9. I was proud of him. He's very natural. But this industry puts you on a pedestal. Being the center of all that attention is probably not the healthiest thing for a child, so I'm wary. I'm trying to find a balance.

DO YOU MISS THE SOPRANOS? How much people were invested in the show really sunk in when people were so obsessed with the ending. The only thing I miss is the people. But Jim Gandolfini and Edie Falco live in my neighborhood. And John Ventimiglia and I have been friends since we were teenagers. So I still see a number of them; we remain close.

WHAT'S NEXT? I just started The Lovely Bones[a film based on the bestselling book about the murder of a little girl]. I'm the detective in charge of the investigation. The cast is great: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Stanley Tucci. They're really heavy scenes. But I'm used to that.