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What to Watch on Wednesday: Barbara Walters tries to fascinate

Work of Art (9pm, Bravo) - The artists visit an idyllic small town in New York's Hudson Valley and then must create a portrait of a resident. The guest judge is Richard Phillips.

Barbara Walters 10 Most Fascinating People (9:31pm, ABC) - Who does Barbara Walters find fascinating? The Kardashians, Donald Trump, Simon Cowell, and Katy Perry (left), to name a few. And probably not much suspense as to who her secret #1 pick will likely be (cough Gabby Giffords cough). (UPDATE: When I'm wrong, I admit it. Walters picked Steve Jobs as the most fascinating man of the year.)

Psych (10pm, USA) - Shawn and Juliet's romantic getaway doesn't go as planned when their hotel room is robbed and a body turns up at a nearby winery.

American Horror Story (10pm, FX) - Vivien has her mysterious little anti-Christ devil babies, and Tate and Violet attempt to rid the house of some of its ghosts once and for all.

CSI (10pm, CBS) - The CSIs investigate when Dr. Robbins' wife discovers a nude dead man in their master bedroom.

Moonshiners (10pm, Discovery) - Equipment failure and an intruder complicate a moonshining duo's operation, and footage demonstrating Popcorn Sutton's old-fashioned distillery methods.

What to Watch on Tuesday: Buble Christmas and 'Sons of Anarchy' finale

A Michael Bublé Christmas (8pm, NBC) - Singer Michael Bublé presides over a holiday variety show featuring Justin Bieber, Kellie Pickler (left), Thalia, Tracy Morgan, Ed Helms, the Puppini Sisters, and Naturally 7.

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (8pm, Turner Classic Movies) - A look at holiday-themed movies and behind the scenes info and interviews with Chevy Chase, Margaret O'Brien, Chaz Palminteri, Zack Ward, and Brian Henson.

On thin Ice: Into the Arctic (9pm, Animal Planet) - Explorer Bruce Parry examines the lives and cultures of people living above the Arctic Circle in Alaska, Siberia and Greenland, and how they are adapting to a changing world.

New Girl (9pm, Fox) - I'm trying to start a movement to get this show renamed "Schmidt" and the focus of it altered accordingly. Tonight, Schmidt weasels his way into his boss's baby shower to compete with his office female counterpart. This will be way funnier than anything Jess is doing tonight.

Raising Hope (9:30pm, Fox) - Jimmy and his coworker Frank realize they were both bullied by the same guy in high school, but their plot go get revenge on him doesn't work out like they'd hoped.

Sons of Anarchy (10pm, FX) - In the fourth season finale, Jax (Charlie Hunnan, right) must overcome major obstacles to complete the gun deal with the Irish and the cartel.

Covert Affairs (10pm, USA) - In the Season 2 finale, Annie and Danielle's vacation in Stockholm turns dangerous when Danielle is mistaken for a spy, putting her life in jeopardy.

Moonshiners (10pm, Discovery) - The premiere of a new reality series chronicling the adventures of those who illegally distill their own moonshine deep in Appalachia and the local authorities who pursue them. They throw in a little history of the bootleg whiskey tradition from the 1790's through the origins of NASCAR, and the first few episodes feature some clips of Popcorn Sutton (read more about the series). Another episode airs Wednesday night at 10, the regular timeslot for subsequent episodes.

Discovery Channel's 'Moonshiners' series features familiar face

The Discovery Channel's newest reality show, "Moonshiners," follows small group of Virginia men as they go through the motions of creating a batch of illegal whiskey from start to finish, deep in the Appalachian mountains. 

If that sounds a lot like Neal Hutcheson's Emmy-winning documentary "The Last One," chronicling legendary mountain man Popcorn Sutton brewing his supposed last batch of moonshine, then it shouldn't surprise you to see clips from that film sprinkled throughout the first few episodes of the Discovery series.

Hutcheson, a documentary filmmaker at N.C. State, says that some of the film has been licensed to Discovery for use in the series. "Tim," the main character in "Moonshiners," references Popcorn and insinuates that his father perhaps worked with him, but his statements are vague on that point.

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