TV special airs tonight
One elf’s adventures are chronicled in The Elf on the Shelf: An Elf’s Story, an animated special airing at 9:31 tonight on CBS.
The program is based on the children’s book The Elf on the Shelf by Carol Aebersold and Chanda Bell. It focuses on an elf named Chippey whose human charge, Taylor McTuttle, doubts the magic of Christmas.
The show originally aired in 2011. It’s also available on DVD and Blu-ray.