Today on TV

• Horatio Hornblower: Duty (6 and 8 p.m., A&E): Hornblower gets married, then sets out after the French fleet.

• NBA basketball (6:30 p.m., FSN): Utah Jazz at Houston Rockets

• 60 Minutes II (7 p.m., Ch. 2): Interviews with U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq and actor Sean Penn.

• Christmas in Rockefeller Center (7 p.m., Ch. 5): The tree-lighting ceremony. (Tape-delayed)

• That '70s Show (7 p.m., Ch. 13): Eric and Kelso compete for a job waiting tables.

• College basketball (7 p.m., Ch. 14): It's the 216th meeting between the Utah State Aggies and the Utah Runnin' Utes.

• The Simple Life (7:30 p.m., Ch. 13): Surprise, surprise! Paris and Nicole don't cotton to chores on a dairy farm.

• The West Wing (8 p.m., Ch. 5): The Bartlets gather at the White House for the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, but a crisis interrupts.

• The O.C. (8 p.m., Ch. 13): Seth tries to blend Christmas and Hanukkah; Marissa tries to drown her sorrows.

• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (9 p.m., Ch. 4): This show is nowhere near as scary as the title seems to indicate — no one is performing plastic surgery on themselves at home. (Whew!) It's really a big rip-off of "Trading Spaces," complete with hunky carpenter Ty Pennington from that TLC show.

• Law & Order (9 p.m., Ch. 5): A sweatshop boss is murdered.

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