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Thursday, Jan. 1
College Football Playoff: Quarterfinals
ESPN, beginning at 12pm Live
Three more teams will have their New Year’s celebrations extended after today’s College Football Playoff bowls, with No. 5 Oregon vs. No. 4 Texas Tech in the Capital One Orange Bowl in Miami; No. 9 Alabama vs. No. 1 Indiana in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California; and No. 6 Ole Miss vs. No. 3 Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
ABC, 8pm
ABC presents the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, which took place in November at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles and welcomed a new class of inductees, honoring a diverse group of legendary artists spanning multiple generations and genres. Joining the Hall in the Performer Category were Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Outkast, Soundgarden and the White Stripes. Salt-N-Pepa and Warren Zevon received the Musical Influence Award. The Musical Excellence Award went to Thom Bell, Nicky Hopkins and Carol Kaye. Music executive Lenny Waronker received the Ahmet Ertegun Award for lifetime achievement.
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not
CNN, 8pm
Titled after Chevy Chase’s 2007 memoir, CNN’s new special I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not is a bold and deeply human portrait of the beloved star, who is best known for his role in the National Lampoon’s Vacation movie series. The film charts his rise from breakout Saturday Night Live phenomenon to box office royalty. The film also unpacks how Chase, who was once crowned America’s comedy golden boy, became its favorite cautionary tale.
Hell’s Kitchen: “Battle for Black Jackets”
FOX, 8pm
The last seven chefs fight for one of the five coveted black jackets needed to advance in the competition, and three WWE champions give the chefs their first task of the day in the new episode “Battle for Black Jackets.”
HGTV Dream Home 2026
HGTV, 8pm
Enjoy a tour of the HGTV Dream Home 2026, which is nestled on a secluded peninsula on Lake Wylie in Charlotte, North Carolina. At the heart of the home is a great room with a reclaimed-wood mantel, an inviting dining room with a charming cafe door and a chef-style kitchen with an over-grouted stone backsplash. The winner of the HGTV Dream Home 2026 sweepstakes will be rewarded this 3,000-square-foot, three-bedroom home, plus $100,000 cash. You can enter to win through Friday, Feb. 13 at HGTV.com and FoodNetwork.com.
Great Performances: “From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026”
PBS, 8pm
The Vienna Philharmonic rings in the new year at the Musikverein with the Vienna State Ballet. Hugh Bonneville hosts.
Star of the Month: Jean Arthur
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Jean Arthur, who was once quoted as saying, “I guess I became an actress because I didn’t want to be myself,” plied her talent at pretending under the direction of some of Hollywood’s most notable filmmakers, including John Ford, George Stevens and Frank Capra. TCM features many of Arthur’s finest performances in a retrospective all five Thursday nights this month, beginning on New Year’s Day with an Arthur/Capra film marathon of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and You Can’t Take It With You (1938). Jan. 8’s programming night includes Arthur’s breakthrough role in Ford’s The Whole Town’s Talking (1935). Other highlights include Arthur in the Stevens classics The Talk of the Town (1942) on Jan. 15, The More the Merrier (1943) on the 22nd (for which Arthur received an Oscar nomination) and, on Jan. 29, 1953’s Shane. This was Arthur’s final film, for which she was lured back to acting after a five-year hiatus.
The Cult of the Real Housewife
TLC, 8pm
New Docuseries!
This three-part docuseries investigates The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Mary Cosby and the church she shares with her husband, Robert Cosby Sr., Faith Temple Pentecostal. The series unpacks the allegations behind the headlines and reveals the darker and more unsettling truth.
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Friday, Jan. 2
Land of Sin
Netflix
New Series!
When a teenager is found dead at a farmhouse on Sweden’s Bjäre peninsula, the eccentric but highly intelligent investigator Dani (Krista Kosonen) is teamed up with newly graduated police colleague Malik (Mohammed Nour Oklah) to investigate the case. The search leads them to the center of a dark family feud that has been going on for generations.
College Football
ESPN & FOX, beginning at 1pm Live
College football bowl game action today features Rice at Texas State in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl (ESPN), Navy vs. Cincinnati in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl (ESPN), Arizona at SMU in the Trust & Will Holiday Bowl (FOX) and Wake Forest vs. Mississippi State in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl (ESPN).
RuPaul’s Drag Race
MTV, 8pm
Season Premiere!
In Season 18, 14 new queens compete for the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar,” an official makeup collaboration with Anastasia Beverly Hills Cosmetics and $200,000.
TCM Spotlight: Flashback Fridays
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
In a clever take on the Flashback Friday theme, every Friday on TCM in January is devoted to films whose story is told in flashbacks. Tonight, viewers are treated to the tale of Citizen Kane (1941), in which fictional newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s dying word sets a reporter on a search for clues in Kane’s life story that would uncover the word’s meaning. Next is the Japanese classic Rashomon (1950), in which a samurai warrior’s murder is told from different perspectives, including that of his wife, the bandit who likely killed him, and the spirit of the samurai himself. Sophie’s Choice (1982), starring the film’s Oscar winner Meryl Streep, reveals in flashback a heart-wrenching decision forced upon a woman in Nazi Germany. 1952’s The Bad and the Beautiful stars Kirk Douglas as an abusive movie producer who calls back the three people he treated the worst to make one more film. Finally, in Penny Serenade (1941), a woman (Irene Dunne) relives her now-troubled marriage while playing records that remind her of its high- and lowlights.
NHL Hockey: Winter Classic: N.Y. Rangers vs. Florida Panthers
TNT & truTV, 8pm Live
The ice rink chiller will be at full blast for this one. In the first outdoor NHL game played in Florida, Artemi Panarin and the N.Y. Rangers face off against Brad Marchand and the Florida Panthers at Miami’s LoanDepot Park.
Untucked: RuPaul’s Drag Race
MTV, 9:25pm
Season Premiere!
The Emmy Award-winning aftershow gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the backstage drama as the queens anxiously await their fate in the competition.
It’s Florida, Man.
HBO, 10pm
Season Finale!
This comedy series featuring the strangest tales of the Sunshine State — playfully re-created by a rotating cast of actors and comedians — concludes Season 2 with “Crushed.”
MonsterQuest
History, 10pm
Season Premiere!
For centuries, people around the world have reported strange, and sometimes terrifying, encounters with what they describe as monsters. Now, for the first time, some of these witnesses are sharing their experiences. In the season premiere, “Cops vs. Cryptids,” law enforcement officers face monsters no training could ever prepare them for, from the terrifying “Beast of LBL” to Bigfoot encounters in Oklahoma and Washington State, a shadow man in New Jersey, and a bizarre half-man, half-goat in Colorado.
Saturday, Jan. 3
NHL Hockey: Pittsburgh at Detroit
ABC, beginning at 12pm Live
Saturday hockey matinees return to ABC with this matchup between Sidney Crosby’s Pittsburgh Penguins and Dylan Larkin’s Red Wings at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena.
College Basketball
CBS, ESPN, ESPN2 & FOX, beginning at 12pm Live
Premier Saturday college hoops action includes Kentucky at Alabama (ESPN), BYU at Kansas State (CBS), Houston at Cincinnati (FOX), Tennessee at Arkansas (ESPN2) and Duke at Florida State (CBS).
NFL Football
ABC & ESPN, beginning at 4:30pm Live
The final week of the NFL regular season has two Saturday matchups on ABC and ESPN with the Carolina Panthers at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Seattle Seahawks at the San Francisco 49ers.
Lost in Paradise
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
When the founder of a high-end fashion company gets marooned on an “deserted” island with a chef, romance blossoms as they work together to survive. Lacey Chabert and Ian Harding star.
Stolen Girl
Lifetime, 8pm
Original Film!
Based on extraordinary real-life events, Stolen Girl follows the gripping journey of Maureen Danning (Kate Beckinsale), whose life is shattered when her ex-husband, Karim, abducts their young daughter, Amina, and flees to the Middle East. Determined to get her child back, Maureen partners with Robeson (Scott Eastwood), an ex-Marine and child abduction specialist who promises to find Amina.
On Golden Pond
MOVIES!, 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Hollywood legends Katharine Hepburn (Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen) and Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men, The Grapes of Wrath) only made one movie together, and then only in their golden years. But it was worth the wait. Hepburn and Fonda were both in their mid 70s when they shot 1981’s On Golden Pond, director Mark Rydell’s gentle family drama of a married couple (Hepburn and Fonda) dealing with the challenges of aging and an estranged daughter (Fonda’s real-life daughter Jane) during what is likely to be their last summer sojourn at a New England lake cottage. Hepburn and Henry Fonda both earned Academy Awards for their piercingly honest roles. It was a record fourth for her (and her last), and his first and only win.
’50s Sci-Fi
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
It was the Cold War era, and what better way to manage real fears about terrifying objects hurtling out of the skies than to replace them with imaginary fears about space invasions? In tonight’s offering, TCM presents three sci-fi films from the 1950s that are highly reflective of America’s mood and terrors of the time. The evening begins with When Worlds Collide (1951), in which a star and its accompanying habitable planet are on a collision course with Earth. A chosen few are selected to rocket to the new planet to save humanity, but will they make it there before our own terra is blasted to smithereens? 1956’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers features the work of special effects master Ray Harryhausen, whose depictions here of extraterrestrial spacecraft were imitated in even more films and on TV for decades to come. Lastly, brace yourself for The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958). An encounter with aliens allows Nancy (Allison Hayes) to assume gargantuan proportions. In her empowered state, she is now the perfect size for exacting revenge on her no-good husband.
Sunday, Jan. 4
NFL Football
CBS, FOX & NBC, beginning at 1pm Live
It’s the final day of the NFL regular season and every game is a divisional rivalry matchup. FOX and CBS air afternoon regional games, and the Baltimore Ravens take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in primetime on NBC.
America’s Funniest Home Videos
ABC, 7pm
Midseason Premiere!
Alfonso Ribeiro hosts the winter season premiere episode “The Animals Being Jerks, Name That Sound, and What Are the Odds?”
31st Annual Critics Choice Awards
E!, 7pm Live
Host Chelsea Handler returns for the fourth consecutive year, and director Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie Sinners leads the pack with 17 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Black Panther’s Michael B. Jordan).
Best Medicine
FOX, 8pm
Sneak Preview!
Catch a special advance premiere of this new medical drama following FOX’s NFL game coverage. Brilliant and brusque surgeon Martin Best (Josh Charles) leaves his lucrative career in Boston to become the general practitioner in the small seaside village of Port Wenn, Maine. Martin quickly gets annoyed by the antics of the townspeople, and one local teacher, Louisa Gavin (Abigail Spencer), questions his harsh demeanor. Imagine if she found out he has a debilitating aversion to blood. The series begins in its regular night and time on Tuesday.
When Calls the Heart
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Season 13 finds a dangerous wildfire bringing the citizens of Hope Valley together as they face one of their greatest challenges yet, which leads to an investigation that could implicate some surprising suspects. Meanwhile, Elizabeth (Erin Krakow) and Nathan (Kevin McGarry) reaffirm their commitment to each other and their blended family, as love continues to blossom between some of Hope Valley’s most beloved residents.
Home Town
HGTV, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Small-town sweethearts Ben and Erin Napier return in 16 new episodes of the popular series set in their beloved Laurel, Mississippi. In the season opener, the Napiers will take on their largest Home Town overhaul yet by fixing up one of Laurel’s most well-known abodes for the homeowner who has lived there for over five decades. The gigantic transformation, which unfolds across two episodes, will bring much-needed updates to the historic property, while preserving the house’s original features.
Barry Levinson Double Feature
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
The film that did much to raise public consciousness about a then-little-known condition called autism, Rain Man (1988) is the first of two features by Oscar-winning director and writer Barry Levinson presented by TCM tonight. The story of two brothers who barely knew each other growing up — one a much older autistic savant (Dustin Hoffman), the other a young and unscrupulous financial wheeler-dealer (Tom Cruise) — who embark on a life-changing road trip garnered four Oscar wins. More dear to his heart than big projects like Rain Man, however, is Baltimore-born Levinson’s lesser-known semiautobiographical films about his home city. One of these, Avalon (1990), the second of tonight’s films, relates the generational tale of a Polish-Jewish immigrant family from the arrival of several brothers in Baltimore in the early 20th century through to the lives of their children and grandchildren in the 1940s. Stars Armin Mueller-Stahl as the family patriarch, Aidan Quinn as his son, Jules, and Elijah Wood as grandson Michael (aka the young Barry Levinson).
Krapopolis
FOX, 9pm
Season Finale!
In the Season 3 finale “Weekend at Zeusie’s,” Krapopolis is invaded and the gods call Deliria’s (voice of Hannah Waddingham) bluff. Krapopolis has been renewed through Season 5.
The Simpsons: “Seperance”
FOX, 9:30pm
In the new episode “Seperance,” airing at a special time, Homer’s (voice of Dan Castellaneta) enthusiasm lands him a job at a secretive company with a mind-altering agenda. Julianne Moore and Zach Cherry provide guest voices.
Monday, Jan. 5
Baking Championship: Next Gen
Food Network, 8pm
New Series!
Hosts and judges Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown put 12 sibling teams through two rounds of skills challenges to assess which 10 teams will move on. The teams make their best cupcake for the first test and must create a pie from scratch in the second test.
Name That Tune
FOX, 8pm
Season Finale!
Join host Jane Krakowski and bandleader Randy Jackson for one more musical note challenge as contestants race against the clock to test their knowledge of songs performed by the live band.
St. Denis Medical
NBC, 8pm
Midseason Premiere!
Ron and Matt (David Alan Grier and Mekki Leeper) try to convince a child to get his shot in the midseason premiere “You’re in His Bubble Space.”
Sammy Cahn — Part 1
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
“Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” “Love and Marriage.” “High Hopes.” These are a few of the many memorable songs by prolific lyricist, musician and Songwriters Hall of Fame member Sammy Cahn. He was nominated for a record 26 Oscars for Original Song, winning four. For the next two Mondays, TCM honors Cahn with movies featuring many of his timeless classics, beginning tonight with those showcasing the actor/singer Cahn is most closely associated with: Frank Sinatra. Enjoy Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), The Tender Trap (1955), 1964’s Robin and the 7 Hoods (showcasing “My Kind of Town” and a Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen Grammy-nominated film score), 1945’s Anchors Aweigh (“I Fall in Love Too Easily”) and 1947’s It Happened in Brooklyn (“Time After Time”).
The Wall
NBC, 9pm
Season Premiere!
With the show’s 40-foot wall offering a chance at big wins or losses, host Chris Hardwick welcomes as a contestant a heroic person who helped evacuate the Pentagon during 9/11.
Brilliant Minds
NBC, 10pm
Midseason Premiere!
Tonight’s episode will pick up directly where December’s cliffhanger left off with Van’s (Alex MacNicoll) ex-wife Michelle’s (Stacey Farber) car accident and the ripple effect it has on everyone. At the same time, we’ll learn some much-anticipated intel on these flash-forwards to a very out-of-his-element Dr. Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto) in the Hudson Oaks psychiatric facility.
Tuesday, Jan. 6
Homegrown
Gathr
Original Film!
What begins as activism quickly escalates as three conservatives join a widening conflict over identity, power, and the future of American democracy. With a patient and unflinching approach, Homegrown follows a father-to-be in New Jersey, an Air Force veteran in New York City and a charismatic activist from Texas crisscrossing the country during a period of profound national fracture from the summer of 2020 through the spring of 2025. As the country accelerates toward political crisis, we witness democratic norms crumbling not through a single event, but from hundreds of personal choices made by ordinary people. Directed by Michael Premo, Homegrown brings raw intimacy and unprecedented access to a political moment still unfolding. Shot across battleground communities and key flashpoints of national tension, the documentary reveals the lived experiences of people whose determination to turn their beliefs into action places them on the front lines of America’s political divide. The film was an official selection of the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where it won Best Technical Contribution. Homegrown has since garnered top honors on the global festival circuit, and was nominated for the 2025 Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight Award, recognizing exceptional independent nonfiction filmmaking. It has screened at nearly 50 top-tier film festivals worldwide.
College Basketball
ESPN & FS1, beginning at 7pm Live
Catch Duke at Louisville on ESPN, and Michigan State at Penn State and Texas Tech at Houston on FS1.
NHL Hockey: Florida at Toronto
TNT, 7:30pm Live
Sam Reinhart and the Florida Panthers claw their way north to skate against William Nylander and the Maple Leafs at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena.
Will Trent
ABC, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Ramón Rodríguez returns as Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations as the drama is back for Season 4 with “… Speaking of Sharks.”
Moonshiners
Discovery Channel, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Appalachia’s colorful moonshiners invent new ways to meet demand for tax-free booze when trade wars start to cripple the liquor market. And when Canada calls for tariff-free liquor, even legal distillers return to the outlaw side in a cross-border bootlegging operation.
Best Medicine
FOX, 8pm
New Series!
Catch an encore of the pilot of this new medical series centering on Dr. Martin Best (The Good Wife’s Josh Charles), a brilliant Boston surgeon who abruptly leaves to become the general practitioner in an East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child.
NBA Basketball
NBC, 8pm Live
NBA Coast 2 Coast Tuesday presents Eastern viewers with the Miami Heat at the Minnesota Timberwolves, while fans out West get a clash between the Dallas Mavericks and Kings in Sacramento.
Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.
PBS, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is back for Season 12 of this genealogy series, which uncovers stories of resilience, love and sacrifice, revealing how diverse histories intertwine to shape America’s shared identity. America Ferrera, Wiz Khalifa, Liza Colón-Zayas, Hasan Minhaj, Brittney Griner, Kristin Chenoweth and Flea are among this season’s guests.
TCM Special Theme: The Working Class: True Stories
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
They work hard for their money and TCM treats them right every Tuesday in January with films saluting the working class. Tonight, what better way to begin this tribute than with stories about real-life working-class heroes? The courageous women who took a stand against worker safety violations at a plutonium plant are portrayed in Oscar-nominated performances by Meryl Streep and Cher in Silkwood (1983) and, in the TCM premiere North Country (2005), Charlize Theron gives an inspiring portrayal of the miner who won America’s first major sexual harassment case against her employer. Working in a mine remains the theme when workers daring to strike against their companies are shown in Salt of the Earth (1954) and Harlan County U.S.A. (1976). Unionization is the struggle of 1920s West Virginia mine laborers in Matewan (1987), as it is in Sally Field’s Oscar-winning depiction of textile worker Norma Rae (1979), the opening film of this programming theme. Union!
High Potential
ABC, 9pm
Midseason Premiere!
Season 2 resumes with “The One That Got Away: Part Two,” in which Morgan’s (Kaitlin Olson) suspicions of Rhys (guest star Aiden Turner) grow deeper as the case of the missing Rembrandt artwork continues.
Wildcard Kitchen
Food Network, 9pm
Season Premiere!
After midnight, Eric Adjepong invites top chefs to bring $5,000 of their own money and play his culinary card game. Eric deals out the dish, time allotted and mandatory ingredients, but it’s each chef’s secret wildcard that makes or breaks the game. In the season premiere “Alex vs America’s Champs,” Alex Guarnaschelli faces off against two of her fiercest rivals from Alex vs. America, Kevin Lee and Arnold Myint.
Doc
FOX, 9pm
Midseason Premiere!
Westside Hospital launches an investigation to discover the truth about Amy’s (Molly Parker) hacked accounts in the midseason premiere “Chief.”
American Experience: “Bombshell”
PBS, 9pm
Eighty years after two atomic bombs ended World War II and ushered in the nuclear age, this documentary explores how the U.S. government manipulated the narrative about what happened to the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the bombings’ aftermath. Through propaganda, censorship and the co-opting of the press, the government presented a benevolent picture of atomic power and minimized the horrific human toll.
1000-lb. Sisters
TLC, 9pm
Season Premiere!
In the new season, Amy is deep in wedding-planning mode as she prepares to marry Brian in a Halloween celebration. Tammy is officially “adulting” — taking on a volunteer position at an animal shelter and more responsibilities than ever at nearly 40.
The Rookie
ABC, 10pm
Season Premiere!
The police drama starring Nathan Fillion as LAPD officer John Nolan returns for Season 8 with “Czech Mate.”
Wednesday, Jan. 7
Shifting Gears
ABC, 8pm
Midseason Premiere!
The sitcom returns with the new episode “Dog,” in which Matt’s (Tim Allen) refusal to allow a dog in the house leads Riley (Kat Dennings) to wonder if it’s time for her and the kids to find their own place.
Hollywood Squares
CBS, 8pm
Season Premiere!
The game show reboot returns for Season 2 on CBS with two episodes. Anthony Anderson, Glenn Close, Whitney Cummings, Pete Holmes, Lil Rel Howery, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Leslie Jones and Ross Mathews are the celebs in “I Will Not Be Ignored, Glenn!” Then, Cummings, Holmes, Kat Dennings, Fortune Feimster, Tiffany Haddish, Padma Lakshmi, Joel McHale and RuPaul are guest squares in “Between a Cardigan Sandwich.” Nate Burleson hosts with center square Drew Barrymore.
The Masked Singer
FOX, 8pm
Season Premiere!
The costumed singing competition is back for Season 14, taking its themed episodes to new heights. Special nights include Star Trek, Clueless, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Twilight saga. There are also celebrations of the Spice Girls and Care Bears, and “Fear Night” featuring special guest Johnny Knoxville. There’s also a special tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, including an appearance by Kelly Osbourne (formerly the Ladybug). Characters this time around include Eggplant, Pugcasso, Queen Corgi, Scarab and the Croissants. Nick Cannon hosts with returning panelists Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke and Rita Ora.
Ugliest House in America
HGTV, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Good Girls actress, comedian and home design enthusiast Retta continues her quest to find the country’s undiscovered ugliest house over the course of six episodes where she will visit 15 new shockingly bad designs, cringe-worthy layouts and grossly outdated styles. This season — which spotlights Retta’s hundredth hideous house tour — will kick off in the Great Plains, where she’ll explore an off-the-grid mishmash house, a man-made metal monstrosity and a Rocky Mountain home at 7,100 feet overtaken by unexplained light switches. In the end, one house will be crowned the “ugliest house in America” by HGTV, and the network will award its owners a showstopping $150,000 renovation completed by designer Alison Victoria during a special one-hour finale episode.
Swamp People
History, 8pm
Season Premiere!
In Season 17, dawn breaks on a new, 30-day alligator season and the swamp itself becomes the hunters’ greatest enemy. Unprecedented flash floods from thousands of miles north surge into southern Louisiana, turning gator country into a volatile battleground.
Chicago Med
NBC, 8pm
Midseason Premiere!
The doctors deal with the fallout from the choices made during a power outage in the winter premiere “Triple Threat.”
TCM Spotlight: Starring Louis Hayward
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
On film, he was a pirate, a saint and a criminal. Actor Louis Hayward, known for his roles in swashbuckler adventure films and crime drama movies, is featured tonight in a tribute that includes both genres. Born in 1909 and raised in South Africa, Hayward began his stage and screen career in England by working with playwright Noël Coward, first there and subsequently on Broadway. Hollywood beckoned with an MGM contract for Hayward in 1935. Notably, the actor was the first Simon Templar of The Saint film series with The Saint in New York (1938), shown tonight, though other film commitments prevented him from continuing in the role until 1953. In between, he starred in period swashbuckler dramas (airing tonight) such as The Man in the Iron Mask (1939); Captain Pirate (1952), the second of two films where he played author Rafael Sabatini’s Capt. Blood character; and, in a TCM premiere, The Black Arrow (1948). In this film, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same name, Hayward plays a 15th century nobleman fighting against his ambitious and cruel uncle. The evening rounds out with two of the actor’s crime films, Repeat Performance (1947) and Duffy of San Quentin (1954), making it a noir late night with Louis Hayward.
Figure Skating: Prevagen U.S. Championships
USA Network, 8pm Live
Olympic dreams could crystallize or evaporate on the ice at Enterprise Center in St. Louis as America’s best figure skaters and ice dancers compete for the national championship and a spot in U.S. Figure Skating’s contingent at the Winter Olympics next month. USA Network and NBC share coverage through Sunday.
Abbott Elementary
ABC, 8:30pm
Midseason Premiere!
Abbott Elementary returns from winter break with “Mall,” which finds the staff dealing with unique challenges that come from teaching in a new temporary location: an abandoned mall.
Expedition X
Discovery Channel, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Adventurer Josh Gates teams up with paranormal investigator Heather Amaro and scientist Phil Torres for more spine-tingling quests that push the boundaries of the strange and supernatural. In the season premiere, special guest and paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne works with Amaro at an old gold mining village in Vulture City, Arizona, which is rife with paranormal phenomena. There they uncover bone-chilling activity indicative of the town’s horrendous history, and an ancient legend surrounding the land unveils another layer of fear.
Chicago Fire
NBC, 9pm
Midseason Premiere!
When an act of arson harms someone close to the 51 family, Severide (Taylor Kinney) must track down the perpetrator as Season 14 resumes with the new episode “A Man Possessed.”
Neighborhood Watch
HGTV, 9:30pm
New Series!
These days, it seems like everyone has either a security camera or Ring doorbell to survey their property, and these videos — often hilarious and sometimes even scary — are showing up on plenty of social channels. HGTV turns its attention to revealing raw, unfiltered and sometimes shocking footage straight from security cameras, smart doorbells and nanny cams across America in its new series Neighborhood Watch. From neighbors and postal workers to uninvited guests and animal visitors, the network will tap into the most embarrassing, hilarious, outrageous and downright bizarre moments caught on home surveillance video.
Pawn Stars
History, 9:30pm
Season Premiere!
Rick, Corey and Chum are back for Season 24, dealing movie posters, model F1 cars, music memorabilia and more.
Shark Tank
ABC, 10pm
Midseason Premiere!
As Season 17 returns, entrepreneurs pitch their one-of-a-kind ideas to the Sharks, including a portable relief bottle, precision golf tees, a trusted nosebleed solution and digital windows that improve your health. Michael Strahan returns as Guest Shark.
Harlan Coben’s Final Twist
CBS, 10pm
New Series!
With over 90 million books sold globally and multiple scripted series, Harlan Coben is set to take on his first true-crime series. In each one-hour episode, Coben will guide audiences through gripping tales of murder, high-profile crimes and life-altering surprises, each meticulously unraveled to reveal hidden truths, deceptions and lies. The premiere episode will feature the harrowing case of Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth, who were found shot to death in their Tennessee home, while their infant son was discovered still alive in his mother’s arms. Detectives had no initial leads as to who would want the couple dead, pushing the investigation toward social media, where they uncovered a cyberbullying feud with neighbors and the involvement of a CIA agent driven by a personal vendetta.
Chicago P.D.
NBC, 10pm
Midseason Premiere!
In “Born Screaming,” the Season 13 winter premiere, Voight (Jason Beghe) and the team work together to uncover the truth of the Bell case before more lives are lost.
Weathered: After the LA Firestorm
PBS, 10pm
One year after the devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires, survivors race to rebuild stronger. This episode follows residents and fire officials uniting to make L.A. a model for recovery and a blueprint for communities facing future disasters.
Thursday, Jan. 8
His & Hers
Netflix
New Series!
There are two sides to every story, which means someone is always lying. This twisty, psychological thriller is set in the sweltering heat of Atlanta, where Anna (Tessa Thompson) lives as a recluse, fading away from her friends and career as a news anchor. But when she overhears about a murder in Dahlonega — the sleepy town where she grew up — Anna is snapped back to life, pouncing on the case and searching for answers. Detective Jack Harper (Jon Bernthal) is strangely suspicious of her involvement, chasing her into the crosshairs of his own investigation.
Love Is Blind: Germany
Netflix
Season Premiere!
The Love Is Blind experiment returns to Germany as local singles seek true love and a commitment that lasts a lifetime, all before meeting each other in person.
CFP Semifinal: Vrbo Fiesta Bowl
ESPN, 7:30pm Live
A berth in the national championship game is on the line in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl semifinal matchup at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
9-1-1
ABC, 8pm
Midseason Premiere!
Hen’s (Aisha Hinds) attempts at keeping her mysterious health issues private are starting to impact more than just her physical well-being in the midseason premiere “Secrets.”
Golden Eve
CBS, 8pm
Sarah Jessica Parker is presented with the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award and Dame Helen Mirren receives the Cecil B. DeMille Award in this new hourlong special. Golden Eve offers viewers an unprecedented insider’s look at the honorees’ legacy, personal stories, unforgettable Golden Globes moments and curated career retrospectives.
Hell’s Kitchen
FOX, 8pm
The culinary competition nears the season finale with the new episodes “Queens of the Kitchen” and “Who’s the Boss.” The final four chefs are given only 10 minutes and $25 to grocery shop for their first challenge’s dish. Later, they’re tasked with making an aesthetically pleasing dish for Gordon Ramsay’s social media followers who will help decide which chef survives the challenge.
Law & Order
NBC, 8pm
Midseason Premiere!
An injured woman’s sudden disappearance from the hospital leads to a murder investigation in the midseason premiere “Snowflakes.”
Star of the Month: Jean Arthur
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Turner Classic Movies’ Thursday night salute to the froggy-voiced Jean Arthur continues tonight. The Academy Award nominee was known for several comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, a few of which start the evening, including 1937’s Easy Living and the more darker buddy comedy History is Made at Night. Immediately following is Arthur’s breakthrough role: at age 34, she starred in John Ford’s The Whole Town’s Talking (1935), a gangster farce where she portrayed a coworker of Edward G. Robinson, who appears in dual roles as a mild-mannered clerk and the gangster he closely resembles. Her film marathon continues late into the evening with Too Many Husbands (1940) and Public Hero No. 1 (1935).
9-1-1: Nashville
ABC, 9pm
Midseason Premiere!
Season 1 of the procedural drama continues with “You’ve Been Boarded.” Nashville is under siege, and each missed ransom escalates the stakes and descends the city deeper into chaos.
The Valley: Persian Style
Bravo, 9pm
New Series!
This spinoff of The Valley follows a tightknit group of Persian friends who have traded Beverly Hills for suburban life in the Valley. As they juggle marriages, parenthood and thriving careers, cracks in their relationships — both between lovers and friends — begin to emerge.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
NBC, 9pm
Midseason Premiere!
Season 27 resumes with “Purity,” in which the hunt for a murder suspect uncovers a crime with shocking legal and ethical implications.
Grey’s Anatomy
ABC, 10pm
Midseason Premiere!
Season 22 of the medical drama continues with the winter premiere “Skyfall.”
The Hunting Party
NBC, 10pm
Season Premiere!
The high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators led by former FBI profiler Rebecca “Bex” Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) assigned to track down some of the most dangerous fugitives is back for Season 2. This season’s guest stars include Eric McCormack, Finnigan McCormack, Kelsey Grammer, Niecy Nash-Betts, Elizabeth Gillies and Jefferson White.
Friday, Jan. 9
Alpha Males
Netflix
Season Premiere!
Heartwarming, hilarious, ironic and incisive, the ensemble comedy series returns for Season 4 and continues to follow four men in their 40s adjusting to the new world of gender equality.
People We Meet on Vacation
Netflix
Original Film!
Based on Emily Henry’s bestselling rom-com novel, the film follows free-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and routine-planner Alex (Tom Blyth), who have been unlikely best friends (they live in different cities but spend every summer vacation together) for a decade and are now wondering if they could be a perfect romantic match.
CFP Semifinal: Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
ESPN, 7:30pm Live
And then there were two. The remaining participant for the Jan. 19 title game is determined at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl semifinal tilt in Atlanta.
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
ABC, 8pm
Midseason Premiere!
Max Greenfield, D’Arcy Carden and Timothy Simons are the celebrity contestants spinning the world’s most famous wheel to solve puzzles for a chance to win $1 million for the charity of their choice.
Figure Skating: Prevagen U.S. Championships
NBC, 8pm Live
Coverage of the Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships from St. Louis continues with the pairs and women’s free skates.
TCM Spotlight: Flashback Fridays
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
In this edition of TCM’s Flashback Fridays, where the film’s stories are told through flashbacks, the network concentrates on some of the best films from the 1940s. Indulge in Double Indemnity (1944), nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Billy Wilder and Best Actress for Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck’s performance as a scheming seductress who convinces an insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) to do away with her husband after the latter signs a double indemnity clause in his life insurance policy is a must-see. Next is The Killers (1946), starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in another Oscar-nominated tale, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, of murder and treachery involving a beautiful woman. Then get lost in 1945’s Mildred Pierce, starring Joan Crawford in an Oscar-winning performance as a mother who, despite her best efforts to support a spoiled, selfish daughter, eventually gets caught up in a complex web of murder and intrigue. The evening’s other “flashback” films are The Locket (1946), starring Robert Mitchum, and 1949’s D.O.A., with Edmond O’Brien.
Masters of Illusion: “Blades, Fire and Random Risks”
The CW, 9pm
Magicians featured in the new episode “Blades, Fire and Random Risks” include Adam Wylie, Ed Alonzo, Scott Pepper, My Uyen, Jeki Yoo, Joel Meyers, Eric Eaton, Ivan Amodei, Trino, David Goldrake, Eric Jones and Jarol Martin.
Saturday, Jan. 10
College Basketball
The CW, ESPN, ESPN2, FOX, FS1 & TNT/truTV, beginning at 12pm Live
A full slate of college basketball today features Boston College at Louisville (The CW), DePaul at UConn (TNT/truTV), SMU at Duke (ESPN), St. John’s at Creighton (FOX), Georgia at South Carolina (ESPN2), Stanford at Virginia (The CW), Villanova at Marquette (TNT/truTV), Providence at Xavier (FS1), Seton Hall at Georgetown (FS1), Clemson at Notre Dame (ESPN2), Texas at Alabama (ESPN) and BYU at Utah (ESPN).
TCM Musical Matinee: Double Trouble
TCM, 12pm
Catch a Classic!
In this frothy, formulaic but fun 1967 Elvis Presley movie, the King, as singer Guy Lambert, gets to tour Europe and, while there, becomes the love interest of two beautiful women (the aforementioned “double trouble”), one a teenage heiress (Annette Day), the other a sophisticated socialite (Yvonne Romain). Along the way, he gets mixed up with some bumbling jewel thieves (would there be any other kind?), and sings “Long Legged Girl (With the Short Dress On)” and, unbelievably, “Old MacDonald.” It’s ’60s swing with the King!
NHL Hockey: N.Y. Rangers at Boston
ABC, 1pm Live
The good ol’ New York vs. Boston rivalry is renewed at Beantown’s TD Garden as Artemi Panarin and the N.Y. Rangers battle David Pastrnak and the Bruins.
NFL Playoffs: Wild Card
CBS & FOX, beginning at 4pm Live
The opening round of the NFL postseason has seeds 2-7 in action (No. 1 seeds get the weekend off) with games today, tomorrow and Monday. Winners advance to next weekend’s divisional playoffs.
Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Watchmaker
Great American Family, 8pm
Original Film!
The latest adventure for Ainsley McGregor (Candace Cameron Bure) is centered around a timeless object — a watch, which becomes the heart of a modern whodunit when a local woman raises a cold case involving her late husband, who was found murdered over his rare antique watch. Ainsley springs into action to untangle a web of small-town secrets before the killer winds the clock down on the next victim, proving once again that it isn’t the weapon or the motive but the story behind it that makes a smart mystery unforgettable.
A Melbourne Match
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
Georgie (Mallory Jansen), a travel writer, ventures to Melbourne for an assignment where she meets Zach (Ryan Corr), an Australian ex-footballer who agrees to be her tour guide and shows her that there’s more to life than work.
Accused: The Karen Read Story
Lifetime, 8pm
Original Film!
When Boston police officer John O’Keefe (Luke Humphrey, I Was Lorena Bobbitt) is found dead in a snowbank outside a friend’s home, his girlfriend Karen Read (Katie Cassidy, Arrow) is arrested in connection with his death. What begins as a shocking tragedy quickly ignites a firestorm that captures national attention. Based on a true story, Accused: The Karen Read Story is an unrelenting pursuit of justice in order to clear Karen’s name as the trials fracture the tightknit Massachusetts town of Canton. Karen’s story is one of resilience, integrity and the growing movement of supporters rallying behind her.
House Hunters
HGTV, 10pm
Two new back-to-back episodes air tonight. First up, a young investor is ready to build his real estate portfolio with a second property in Houston. To keep it affordable, he plans on having two roommates, but finding a place he likes while keeping his tenants happy may be a challenge. Next, a family’s ready to trade their St. Thomas condo for a paradise home with more privacy but are conflicted on what’s more important for their new abode — pool and kid space or an amazing view.