It’s the night before Thanksgiving, time for “Madonna: The Confessions Tour – Live from London” (7 p.m., NBC). Wow, a live show from England the night before Thanksgiving? Wouldn’t that make it like 2 a.m. in the United Kingdom? Who is preparing the big Butterball in Madonna’s baronial estate?

OK. It’s not live. It was taped last summer at Wembley Stadium in London. So why call it “Live”? Sure, it was live then. But this is now. Everything on television was “live” at one point, usually the point when it was taped. But it is not passed off as live, like sports telecasts or “Dancing with the Stars,” unless it airs live.

But let’s not accuse Madonna of trying to pass off something phony. She was born with that British accent!

¢ “The Real World” (7 p.m., MTV) has not been around as long as Madonna. It only seems that way. To be fair, cable seasons, like cats and dogs, seem to age faster than human beings, so “The Real World,” which premiered 16 years ago, is now in its 18th season.

This new 28-episode experiment is set in Denver. But don’t expect the gaggle of youth to stay housebound. Some will leave for the great outdoors and work at a Rocky Mountain outward-bound program helping kids displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

For reasons not quite explained, “The Real World: Denver” will spend time in Thailand. Look for bickering and flirting and even hook-ups. In a shocking turn of events that has taken place in practically every previous “Real World” house, one or more of the housemates will be gay. And some will have a problem with that.

¢ Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt star in the 2003 adaptation of the beloved novel “Cheaper by the Dozen” (7 p.m., Fox).

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, co-author of “Dozen,” died recently at age 98. Her 1948 novel, set in the 1920s, was popular in the 1950s. This 21st-century adaptation seems more inspired by “The Brady Bunch,” a popular show from the 1970s revived in the 1990s. Some notions transcend the decades.

Tonight’s other family fare

¢ A divorced father (Robin Williams) poses as a female domestic to remain close to his family in the 1993 comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” (7 p.m., Family).

¢ “Yours, Mine and Ours” (7 p.m., TCM). Rene Russo and Dennis Quaid reprise the Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda roles in this 2005 remake of the 1968 comedy.

¢ In the 2001 comedy “Beethoven’s 4th” (7 p.m., Disney), Judge Reinhold and Julia Sweeney compete for screen time with a St. Bernard. Not dissimilar to the 1997 fantasy “Men In Black” (6:30 p.m., Cartoon Network), in which Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are upstaged by a pug.

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ Citizens express joy and concern when supplies arrive from out of the blue on “Jericho” (7 p.m., CBS). The folks on “Lost” had the same reaction to booty from the hatch.

¢ Hopper discovers a friend’s betrayal on “Day Break” (8 p.m., ABC).

¢ Allison relives a horrible day repeatedly, learning something new every “day” on “Medium” (9 p.m., NBC), an experience not unlike Hopper’s on “Day Break.”