A Princess for Christmas (8pm, Hallmark) - A new Hallmark holiday movie in which a woman and her niece and nephew spend Christmas with a wealthy duke (Roger Moore, aka James Bond), the children's grandfather. Though the down-and-out trio feel out of place among royalty at first, they soon begin to settle in and connect as a family. Sparks also begin to fly between the woman and the duke's son. Also tars Katie McGrath and Sam Heughan. Adrienne has a review.  

It's a Wonderful Life (8pm, NBC) - No holiday season is complete without at least one viewing of this wildly dark and yet wildly uplifting tale of a man who is faced with the failure of his family-owned bank, tries to commit suicide, and is shown the value of his life by a bumbling angel named Clarence. Stars Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, and Henry Travers.

Welcome to Sweetie Pie's (9pm, OWN) - In the Season 1 finale, Robbie finally gets the loan to enable her to start construction on her dream restaurant, and Lil' Charles plans for college.

Pit Bulls and Parolees (10pm, Animal Planet) - A difficult rescue mission might make Tia miss Armando's wedding.

Saturday Night Live (11:29pm, NBC) - Steve Buscemi ("Boardwalk Empire," "Fargo") hosts for the first time since 1998. Can't wait. Hopes are high. The musical guest is The Black Keys.

Nucky Thompson is facing a decidedly less rosey outlook in tonight's "Boardwalk Empire" Season 2 premiere than we saw in the opening of Season 1. Instead of gleefully anticipating the windfall of Prohibition, this season Nucky is neck deep in the betrayals and complications that come from controlling Atlantic City and the illegal booze flowing into it.

Nucky (Steve Buscemi) finds himself suddenly caught between the KKK and some of his most powerful friends; he's still a target of certain snoopy federal agent; and he's made enemies of most of those previously closest too him. And of course, there's trouble at home.

But much of tonight's episode will focus on Chalky White's deadly clash with the Klan and the repurcussions of that encounter. Any storyline where we get to see more of Michael K. Williams is a good one, and Williams looks to figure prominently in the action this season.

Dabney Coleman, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald, Jack Huston and Michael Shannon all return this season, and the show is also adding Michael Zegan as Bugsy Segal.

Here's a recap of Season 1 if you need a refresher, and there's a clip below of the Commodore, Jimmy and Eli plotting Nucky's demise.

NCAA Tournament (7pm, CBS and TBS) - The Sweet 16 tourney games continue. Of local interest, UNC plays Marquette at 7pm on CBS and Florida State takes on Virginia Commonwealth on TBS around 10pm.

Who Do You Think You Are (8pm, NBC) - Actor Steve Buscemi ('Boardwalk Empire') investigates his family tree to unearth information about possible rogues and rebels in his genealogy. He travels to Philadelphia and Virginia looking into secrets about his great-great-grandfather.

Shark Tank (8pm, ABC) - ABC calls this the second season premiere, but there was a new episode on Sunday night too, so color me confused. Billionaire Mark Cuban joins the sharks (he joined them on Sunday, too!) and there's an update on Season 1's granola gourmet.

Fringe (9pm, Fox) - Not to give too much away, but life in the alternate universe gets difficult for Olivia.

Real Time with Bill Maher (10pm, HBO) - Bill's guests are actress Ellen Page, NYT columnist David Brooks, Daily Beast editor Tina Brown, and former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell.

Here's a look inside this past weekend's episode of "Boardwalk Empire," and one of the most powerful scenes from the series to date. Chalky White (played by "The Wire's" Michael Kenneth Williams) interrogates the Grand Cyclops of the Atlantic City KKK to find out who lynched a young man who worked for him. Chalky tells the Cyclops a story about his father, a carpenter.
 

Click below for other scenes from Episode 4.

It's not exactly going out on a limb to proclaim an HBO series executive-produced by Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter ("The Sopranos") and starring Steve Buscemi to be "wonderful." But really, it is. It is so wonderful.

The Academy Award-winning Scorsese even directed the first episode of "Boardwalk Empire," which premieres tonight, and you can tell. I've watched the first several episodes and the show so far feels like one long, delicious Scorsese film in serial form. There's beautiful cinematography, superb performances, and brutal, unflinching violence.

It's perhaps inevitable that "Boardwalk" be compared to "The Sopranos," given all the production and casting connections, plus the subject matter of New Jersey gangsters. But it has a decidedly more epic feel, in part because the backdrop --  Prohibition -- is the genesis of organized crime as we came to know it in movies like "Godfather" and "Goodfellas," and yes, in "The Sopranos."