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The "Kennedy Center Honors" (8 p.m., KRQE News 13) picked some pretty darned remarkable people to celebrate this year, and for once I've actually heard of most of them.

Gold star for me.

Recipients honored at the 30th annual national celebration of the arts are: actor and writer Steve Martin, singer Diana Ross, film director Martin Scorsese, songwriter Brian Wilson and not-famous-to-me pianist Leon Fleisher.

A real highlight is when Hootie and the Blowfish pay tribute to Brian Wilson by performing some of his tunes.

What better way to honor a career than to have a mediocre has-been pop band do it in front of a very small TV audience.

Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to suffer through that?

I generally fast-forward through ads, with the exception of a cell phone commercial that has the cutest pug in it.

The hourlong special "Funniest Commercials of the Year" (7 p.m., TBS) is another exception to my rule.

It must be for a whole bunch of other people as well, because last year more than five million viewers sat through it.

The show spotlights 50 of the most amusing and memorable ads from the past year. Kevin Nealon ("Weeds") hosts from Times Square.

Considering the plethora of reruns out there for the foreseeable future, I'll definitely be watching this. At least it's fresh.

One of the better reruns to be had is "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (8 p.m., KOB-Channel 4), which is airing on a different night than usual.

This show always catches my attention, but this season has made me a little more disgruntled than usual.

There simply has not been enough of dour Detective Munch (Richard Belzer). That's because some nimrod reduced his episode count from 22 to a lousy 13. The 63-year-old's character was pretty much replaced by a boring 35-year-old this season.

I smell ageism. Boo, hiss!

Munch does get a bit of screen time tonight when he's put in charge of the department after the captain is temporarily removed from duty.

Tonight's mystery involves Janis (Cynthia Nixon, "Sex and the City"), a woman with multiple personalities who may have harmed her infant daughter.

As Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Benson (Mariska Hargitay) investigate the case, they discover that Janis may also have been abused as a child, resulting in her fractured psyche.

Now that's what I call uplifting holiday TV.