Arizona Public Media will air a one-hour special looking back at how the community has responded to the Jan. 8 shootings tonight at 8 p.m. The description from AZPM:

Jan. 8, 2012 will mark the anniversary of the tragic shooting of 19 people at a Congress on Your Corner event in Tucson.

Arizona Public Media will present a one-hour special documentary, Together We Heal, that explores healing in the aftermath, both individually and as a community, over the past year. For many, grieving and healing have become on-going and consequential parts of their lives.

The program features in-depth interviews with victims and their families, members of Congresswoman Giffords’ staff and the doctors and nurses who treated them.

More details here.

I really feel like I grew to love some of those buildings. Title sequences used to mean something, now it's all just corporate garbage.

[Aziz is Bored]

Looks like we have an early contender for the worst show of 2012, with the cooking competition show, Rachael Vs. Guy Celebrity Cookoff. Food Network Humor's review is particularly brutal, making it seem like the "Food" part of the Food Network is going to disappear like the "Music" did from MTV:

It was no surprise that Rachael’s team lost, and Taylor Dayne/Aaron Carter were the bottom performers. They had to do a 10-minute cookoff with a secret ingredient: shrimp. Rachael and Guy then tasted the dishes in a blind taste test.

This was basically just food poisoning waiting to happen. These 2 clowns had no clue what they were doing. Aaron Carter dumped 12 tablespoons of garlic powder over a stick of butter. Taylor Dayne sauteed her shrimp and threw breadcrumbs at them while they were simmering in the pan. It was ridiculous.

In the end, Aaron Carter was eliminated from the show. Did anyone care? No.

I’m going to be blunt here: this show is HORRIBLE. It’s not entertaining, it’s not funny, it’s not educational. It’s not engaging, quirky, or memorable. it’s just AWFUL. I could barely get through the entire hour. I’m predicting horribly low ratings, virtually no press, and a bunch of people just not giving a shit.

Justin Fenton, a crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun, noted this strange (and sad) intersection of reality and television last night. He reached out to Wire creator David Simon, who called the incident "coincidence, completely", so this Omar Little probably doesn't have a "get-out-of-jail-free" card from testifying in Bird's murder trial.

I had Friday off, so it's only just and fair that I work today, but surely there are some Range readers out there cruelly oppressed by "The Man" who are forced to sit a computer all day and "be productive" and such. For you, I offer the first episode of season two of Portlandia, which airs this Friday on IFC. What you do with the rest of your day is up to you.

Is 2012 the year of the Great Kardashian Backlash? One can only hope, right?

There's too much great television to watch. I can't keep up. I'll show you: Here's the AV Club's list of The top 30 shows on television this year. This list does not include shows like South Park or The Colbert Report or The Office, all of which have been pretty terrific over the last 12 months. I mean, South Park, one of the most influential and groundbreaking shows in television history, possibly had its best season ever this year. Not on the list.

Of those 30 shows, I am up-to-date—meaning I've seen every episode—with eight of them. I'm behind on three (Boardwalk Empire, Homeland, and Treme), and there are nine others (including a widely-praised season of Justified), I'd love to watch, but haven't even started.

A look back at 2011 and a look ahead to 2012, courtesy of Arizona Public Media reporters Andrea Kelly and Christopher and your Political Roundtable host, Tucson Weekly senior writer Jim Nintzel.

I actually enjoy my employment here at the Tucson Weekly, so this isn't entirely helpful for me, but if you're thinking of starting 2012 anew without the oppressive yoke of your crappy job, perhaps this montage of bombastic exits from work might be of some assistance.

Not that any human being should be watching Next Great Baker on TLC, which is a reality contest connected to a reality show about a guy making cakes, but if you were watching last night, you were in for an unpleasant surprise at the end of the show. Turns out the guy who was eliminated, Wesley Durden, committed suicide back in October.

So, TLC, seemingly because they didn't want to scrap a season of the show or otherwise acknowledge in any way that their program was heading towards a very dark and terrible place, ran promos featuring a guy who had already committed suicide. They did throw a card up at the end, but this still seems like a series of bad decisions to me and wildly insensitive to the guy's family and friends, but maybe we're still all supposed to be upset that the same network runs a show about Muslims or something.

And this isn't the first time even this year that a cable network has had to deal with a reality show suicide. Bravo's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills possibly managed to show a bit more delicacy with the death of Russell Armstrong, the husband of one of the "housewives", at least acknowledging what happened at the beginning of the season, but every other episode or so, there's Russell discussing his personal woes. It's almost like the people in charge of the show were secretly happy that the suicide could eventually become the end of season cliffhanger.

I understand that a lot goes into putting these shows together, but there has to be a better way to deal with actual reality when it creeps into our reality programs.