(Note - Due to to a technical glitch, we were not able to post this week's column until today)

It's Monday, so it's time to look ahead at the week in TV as the holiday season brings more specials, another new series and a couple season finales.

VH1 takes a look back at the year in pop culture Monday on VH1 Big in 2015 with Entertainment Weekly. The event celebrates the people who made the year of pop culture great, including Taraji P. Henson, Amy Schumer, Nicki Minaj, Elizabeth Banks and Aziz Ansari.

The event promises to be a little bit awards show and a little bit of a roast as Debbie Allen, Queen Latifah, Aubrey Plaza, Amber Rose and Miss Piggy present the awards.

The ceremony airs on VH1 at 9pm.

Monday also sees NBC debut a new comedy in the enviable spot after The Voice.

Telenovela is a comedy about the backstage shenanigans at a Spanish language soap opera and Eva Longoria's first TV series since Desperate Housewives. Longoria plays a star who takes a role on a Spanish-language soap, joining a cast that includes her ex-husband from a particularly bitter breakup.

Another one of her co-stars is convinced that ripping his shirt open to show off his abs helps with job security. And if you're missing Zachary Levi now that Heroes Reborn and Geeks Who Drink are done, he plays the new network boss.

Keep your fingers crossed this fills the void now that Jane the Virgin is on hiatus.

Telenovela debuts two episodes starting at 10pm on NBC.

Tuesday brings the season finale of Scream Queens as the Red Devil is unmasked.

The finale is titled "The Final Girl(s)," an obvious choice considering Scream Queens' mix of 80s horror fandom and pop culture sociology (plus one of the stars of Scream Queens is Jamie Lee Curtis, the iconic final girl).

The two-hour finale starts at 8PM on Fox and judging from the trailer the season wraps with a whole lot of screaming.

Empire may be on its winter hiatus, but Fox hopes a Christmas special hosted by stars Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard will hold you until new episodes return in March.

Taraji and Terrence's White Hot Holidays will include appearances by John Legend, Jamie Foxx and Mary J. Blige (who already made our holiday with that performance on The Wiz Live!). The festivities begin at 9pm.

MTV's True Life examines straight guys having sex with men for money with "I'm A Gay For Pay Pornstar."

The episode focuses on two guys, Ben and Luke, whose life/work balance is different from the usual battle. True Life has tackled the topic before, but that was one segment among a variety of sex work jobs profiled. This time, the entire episode is dedicated to these gay-for-pay performers.

True Life: I'm A Gay For Pay Pornstar airs at 9:30 pm Wednesday.

NBC dramatizes the childhood of a gay icon with Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors.

The new TV movie stars Ricky Schroder, Jennifer Nettles and Alyvia Alyn Lind as a young Parton. It tells the story behind the song "Coat of Many Colors" as Dolly grew up poor in a rural neighborhood, dealing with a family tragedy and, of course, the patchwork coat of many colors her mother made for Dolly.

The movie starts at 9PM Thursday.

Amazon already gave us the first episode, but Friday the entire second season of Transparent arrives.

This season Cherry Jones and Anjelica Huston join an already-amazing cast as Marua explores gender reassignment surgery. More importantly will she learn to say "Yassss, queen!" properly?

Meanwhile, another great queer series craps up on Friday with a double-feature of Please Like Me.

Things start with the gang awaiting Ben's fate as he heads into surgery and ends with a panic attack for Arnold. Let's hope things calm down in the second half of the finale, when the gang celebrates the holidays with some Christmas trifle.

Please Like Me's finale starts at 10pm on Pivot.

There are plenty of holiday movies this time of year, but only one reunites Meredith Baxter with her Family Ties husband Michael Gross.

Becoming Santa stars Laura Bell Bundy as a woman taking her boyfriend home for the first time. She has a surprise awaiting him, however — they're heading to the North Pole to spend time with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Becoming Santa airs on Lifetime Saturday at 8pm.

Sunday, Logo gets in the holiday spirit and dons its gay apparel with RuPaul's Drag Race: Green Screen Christmas.

It's the first time RuPaul's Drag Race is celebrating the holidays with a special episode that will see past contestants — including Latrice Royale, Raja and Shangela — return to perform Christmas classics and original songs.

RuPaul will also be duet with Big Freedia, Todrick Hall and Michelle Visage and RuPaul's new music video "Merry Christmas, Mary" will debut. That packed special debuts at 8PM Sunday, kicking off Logo's holiday programming that will include holiday movies and holiday episodes of Logo's classic sitcoms.

That's this week's highlights, what are you looking forward to watching this week?