If you missed it before, Charlie Brown Christmas is on at 8pm on ABC.

Biggest Loser: Families (8pm, NBC) - Tune in to see if Raleigh couple Ed and Heba Brantley win the $250k grand prize in tonight's live finale.

Mary Poppins (8pm, ABC Family) - The 1964 Disney classic starring Julie Andrews as the ultimate nanny, and Dick Van Dyke as Mary's lovable best friend Bert (and also an elderly bank manager). This movie is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. And we don't mean the "communicable disease" SNL definition of that word. We mean it's awesome. Andrews won her first Academy Award for this role.

Eli Stone (10pm, ABC) - This show is winding down, so if you're a fan, watch it while you can.

RALEIGH — Biggest Loser 6 wraps up tonight with the finale at 8 on NBC. North Carolina natives and Raleigh residents Heba Salama and Ed Brantly are still on the show. One will get voted off tonight.

They'd been home in Raleigh since late August, as episodes aired. The N&O caught up with Salama late last week as she drove home from a nail appointment at Primp in Raleigh in preparation for the finale. We talked food cravings, crazy bloggers, and why Salama feels Oprah's pain.

Q: What’s something you had to give up eating but still would kill a small animal in order to eat?

A: There’s one thing proud to say I did not give up the whole time — full fat salad dressing. This whole time, I never sacrificed that. So it can be done. Cheeseburgers, sadly, are still a weakness but I try to be more vegetarian and follow Bob’s lead. Ed’s would be Chinese food. ... He sees menus or ads on TV and you can see him still salivating.

Q: What has been difficult for you to do to keep the weight off since you came home (late August) and have been away from the Biggest Loser ranch?

A: The difficult thing has been the way the weight has come off slower at home than it did at the ranch. When you’re at the ranch, you walked 100 yards from the gym to the kitchen that was only stocked with healthy food. But, here at home, from the gym (Gold's Gym at North Hills) to our house, we pass all kinds of signs and restaurants.

But I think we’ve done a really good job. We try to have kind of a high calorie meal every three or four days. Nothing ridiculous, maybe 500 calories more but it’s just something to splurge on so we both feel like normal people.

Q: Can you relate to what Oprah is going through right now after 20 years battling her weight?

A: Absolutely. I was on treadmill when I heard the announcement that she was back up to 200 pounds. It was good for me to see that because I don’t want to go back there. She carries her weight so well and she always looks amazing. But it’s also hard to recommit yourself to this process over and over again. We plan to weigh ourselves once every 10 days and to try to stay healthy, like 5-10 pounds within our range. If it creeps up, we’ll stop it before it gets out of control.

Q: I’ve read some blog posts and some folks don’t seem to like you and Vicky. I understand how blogs can go viral but how have you dealt with that? Are you able to insulate yourself from it?

A: Well, first of all, I do avoid it. I do feel like there are more positive than negative people out there. Second, it’s all editing and it’s not real and I know the truth behind all of it. Everyone on the show is friends behind the scenes. I also think out of all the things that are written, it’s a small percentage of the population that takes the time and effort to write bad things.

We have a fan page on Facebook with 500-plus people. That’s more than (trainer) Jillian (Michaels) We have far more supporters than not. I just don’t even acknowledge [the criticism0. I’m above it. People go on Biggest Loser to get healthy and lose weight. People who commend us for that get it.

It’s crazy to me that people have that much time on their hands. I didn’t even know that world existed. At one point at the beginning I did read some stuff and they were saying terrible things about the people from last season. It’s just a lot of jealous people. Otherwise, why throw stones at people from your computer? It’s ugly.

TV comedy writer Ken Levine has figured out the real reason NBC is moving Jay Leno to primetime...

Often when I watch a reality show, I think "They must be faking, there can't really be people like this."

And then I see a documentary like "Cat Dancers," which airs tonight on HBO, and I know it could all be true because there are some freaky people out there.

"Cat Dancers" is the story of one of the world's first exotic-animal entertainment acts. It starts with Ron and Joy Holiday, a couple who met as kids in dancing school in Maine. They eventually married and become well-known as an adagio ballet team (it's a kind of acrobatic ballet typically performed by a man and a woman).

Later, after Ron has a dream about their stage act and sees his wife in a cage, changing into a cat, actor/animal lover William Holden gives the pair a leopard cub. That launches them into a wild animal act. They get so big they need a partner, and so in the late 80s, add Chuck Lizza, turning the Cat Dancers into a trio.

20/20: Drama High: The Making of a High School Musical (9pm, ABC) - A real life Virginia high school puts on a production of The Wiz and use video diaries to chronicle the dramatic ups and downs of the intense competition. 100 teens audition for 4 roles -- Dorothy, Tin Man, Lion, and Scarecrow. I predict both tears and high-pitched squeals. 

I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (8pm, CBS) - This is a 2003 Peanuts holiday special prominently featuring Snoopy's older brother, Spike, and Linus and Lucy's little brother ReRun.

Chuck (9pm, NBC) - A criminal raids the Buy More and takes the whole gang hostage.

Heroes (9pm, NBC) - Is anyone watching this? If so, Peter and Nathan face off after battling their father, and Sylar is holding Claire, HRG, Meredith, and Angela hostage.

Turner Classic Movies is doing the Disney family classics marathon again today, starting at noon. Today's lineup includes the The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Strongest Man in the World, Absent- Minded Professor,  Son of Fubber, and both Apple Dumpling Gang movies. Plus a special documentary, The Age of Believing, featuring interviews with Kurt Russell, Dean Jones, Dick Van Dyke, Lesley Ann Warren, Michelle Lee, and more at 7pm. Looking at December's schedule I'm a little shocked and disappointed that they won't be showing That Darn Cat, but you can't have everything.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular (8pm, WE) - Live reindeer, nutcrackers, Santa, and the Rockettes.

Miser Brothers Christmas (8pm, ABC Family) - New show: Heat Miser and Snow Miser join forces to save Christmas. The Misers have never been my favorite characters in the these Christmas shows, so I'm not so sure about this...

Saturday Night Live (11:30, NBC) - Hugh Laurie from House is the host, and he was pretty funny last time he hosted. Kanye West is the musical guest.

Hugh Jackman might be an unconventional choice to host the Academy Awards show this year, but he has at least one advantage: as the first non-comedian in recent years to host the show, Jackman won't be under the intense pressure "to kill," the way Jon Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres and Chris Rock were. 

Jackman, who will also be the first "Sexiest Man Alive" to host the Oscars, has already hosted a few Tony Awards Shows. He is an accomplished Broadway performer, so those big song and dance numbers will likely make a comeback this year, replacing the usual stand-up monologue.

Maybe you think "Wolverine" when you think of Jackman, but remember he also played the flamboyant Peter Allen in "The Boy From Oz" on Broadway, and he proved he can strut around on stage:

Even with all that holiday shopping and planning you have to do this weekend, you still need to scratch your Lost itch. I know you do and I'm here to help.

Here's a site with a bunch of Lost trivia quizzes you can take — testing the depth of your knowledge on stuff like Sawyer nicknames, Lost music and Lost character connections — without setting off pop-up ads or nefarious forced downloads in the process.

(FYI - I deftly handled the nicknames and clumsily stumbled on the character connections.)

RALEIGH — Raleigh's own Ed Brantley won't know if a 2-pound weight gain last week will get him ousted from NBC weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser until Tuesday's finale. But his wife Heba Salama, another BL contestant, told the N&O on Thursday that Biggest Loser viewers didn't see him receiving IV fluids in a hospital the day before the weigh-in after suffering a ruptured hernia.

"He didn't throw the weigh-in," Salama said. "He was in the hospital the day before the weigh-in and when you're having saline pumped into you it doesn't help you lose weight. [The ruptured hernia] was really bad timing. He had surgery two days after the weigh-in. They didn't show that but that's what happened."

Biggest Loser trainer Bob Harper accused Brantley of throwing the weigh-in on the show.

The North Carolina natives are two of the four final contestants on the current season of The Biggest Loser, which wraps up Tuesday in a live finale starting at 8 p.m. Both went on the chopping block following the most recent episode when Ed gained 2 pounds and Heba lost 7, though percentage-wise, it was not enough to rank above other finalists Vicky and Michelle.

After Ed stepped off the scale, Harper accused the Raleigh residents of "obvious" game-playing to get Heba into the final. "Ed is going to do whatever he needs to do to give Heba whatever she wants," Harper said.

Salama said that's not what happened, though she knew her husband would tell America to send him home and to save her during a public plea after the weigh-in. At stake is the $250,000 grand prize. Brantley, if he is voted off, can still win the $100,000 that goes to the show's "fan favorite."

"I never would have thought I would have gained weight at the weigh-in," Brantley told the N&O on Thursday. "There were things involved a couple of days before and affected how it played out. ... I'm glad to take the fall if it means Heba didn't have have to worry about it, if it gives her another shot at being above the yellow line. That's what [Biggest Loser] was about for me, about supporting each other."

Through the most recent episode, Brantley had lost 83 pounds and Heba had lost 84. Tune in to HWTV for a Q&A from Heba and Ed later today and look for a feature on the couple in The N&O on Tuesday.