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"Duel" (7 p.m., KOAT-Channel 7) is ABC's new six-episode game show.

Thanks again to the writers strike for making this kind of stuff appear on my screen.

It's not like I didn't get enough of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" when ABC aired it 70 times a week. I'm still not recovered from that debacle, and I fear that if this show does well the network will bring it back and shove it down our throats, much like it did with "Millionaire."

For now, though, I guess I'll just have to deal with watching 24 players compete one-on-one in a series of trivia challenges. When only four know-it-alls are left standing, a final showdown will determine the winner of the jackpot, which could be $1.5 million or more.

Some of the contestants include the Marine Alligator Wrestler, the Lunch Lady, the Used Car Salesman and the Funeral Home Director — the key being that not everything will be revealed about contestants' backgrounds before they choose their opponents in a duel.

My money is so on the Marine Alligator Wrestler. Ooh-rah!

("Duel" airs daily through Sunday, except Saturday.)

In honor of the holidays, there's the two-hour movie "Snowglobe" (6 p.m., ABC Family).

It centers around Angela (Christina Milian, "Man of the House"), who longs for the perfect Christmas away from her obnoxious, interfering family.

How handy, then, that just as a mysterious package arrives for Angela, her family invades her apartment for yet another family dinner with elbows on the table and constant squabbles.

After her family leaves, Angela opens the package and discovers inside a snow globe that transports her into an idyllic winter wonderland where the people are boring with a capital B.

During her time away from the real world she meets the perfectly pleasant Douglas (Matt Keeslar, "Rose Red").

Angela begins traveling back to Boringville all the time as the Christmas world becomes more important to her than her real life, which ticks off her mama something fierce.

If you're going to enrage the family, at least go somewhere interesting, instead of a village where the big excitement is cooked geese randomly popping up in an oven.

Angela's worlds collide when Douglas follows her into the real world, just as she is developing a kinda sweet relationship with her new neighbor, Eddie (Josh Cooke, "Committed").

"Snowglobe" is 20 times better than ABC Family's other movie offering this Christmas, "Holiday in Handcuffs," but that still doesn't make it good.

Just call me the mean TV grinch.