The holidays dealt a crushing blow to the network schedules last week, leaving only five hours of new scripted programming on all five broadcast networks combined. Over on cable, it was season finale time for ‘American Horror Story’, ‘The League’, ‘Dexter’, and ‘Homeland’.

It wouldn’t be Christmas around the CliqueClack offices without our parody carols. Here’s my humble submission for 2011.

Hopefully you readers will enjoy this poem too. This year Deb and Keith decided to write something rife with some inside humor, in appreciation of our incredible writers (who we’re counting on being thick-skinned).

The last release of the year includes ‘Archer,’ ‘The Borgias,’ ‘Shameless,’ ‘Jersey Shore,’ ’60 Minutes,’ ‘Todd Margaret,’ ‘Himawari,’ ‘Eden of the East,’ ‘Slayers,’ ‘D. Gray-man,’ ‘Heroic Age,’ ‘Dino Dan,’ ‘Peanuts,’ ‘Looney Tunes,’ and ‘Dora.’

Is the current television season halfway through, or does it still have halfway to go? That’s my attempt at applying the glass half full/half empty concept to a television season. But with most shows on hiatus, I figured this was a good time to look back at the half-season that was.

Every week brother and sister team Bob and Debbie take on a new topic. This week before Christmas, we talk about the best ideas for TV themed gifts.

Would we let a year go by without our traditional CliqueClack holiday card? Never! Have a merry Christmas or holiday of your choice, and a happy 2012!