CBS, 4:30 p.m. ET
The Baltimore Ravens beat the Indianapolis Colts last week to improve their record to 11-6, but that still pales compared to the 13-3 Denver Broncos, who are coming to today’s playoff game with home-field advantage, a week off, and Peyton Manning as QB.
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
The Green Bay Packers faced the San Francisco 49ers in the opening week of the season – and lost, even with home-field advantage. This time the Packers are the visiting team, but they’re coming off last week’s victory against the Minnesota Vikings. The Packers are now 12-5, the 49ers 11-4-1, but each time has a hot QB to watch. The 49ers have off-the-bench hot hand Colin Kaepernick, and the Packers, of course, have the super-impressive Aaron Rodgers, who has averaged a passer rating of nearly 105 in his past four games.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
TCM’s prime-time lineup tonight is a double feature devoted to sibling rivalry, and it’s serving up an entrée that’s as singular as rat on a silver platter. They say revenge is a dish best served cold – but in this 1962 grand guignol thriller (every bit as grand as it is guignol), Bette Davis plays a vengeful sibling who serves her invalid sister, played by Joan Crawford, a vermin that’s not only hot, but served in a covered silver dish. This movie really, really creeped me out when I saw it as a kid, at a drive-in movie – and hasn’t stopped since. Thanks, Dad. Really.
Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET
One of the most sexually suggestive and naughtily entertaining period British films since Tom Jones, this 2011 comedy is a romp based on truth: in the Victorian era, women were diagnosed with “female hysteria,” a catch-all diagnosis that is so widespread that, according to one eager doctor, “half the women in London are affected.” The prescribed treatment for this malady? Bringing the poor, unfortunate women to orgasm -- thanks to a doctor’s new invention, the vibrator. Stars include Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce and Rupert Everett and, as some of the women, Maggie Guyllenhaal and Felicity Jones.
TCM, 10:30 p.m. ET
The second part of tonight’s TCM “sibling rivalry” double feature, this 1951 movie classic features Southern sisters: Blanche, played by Vivien Leigh, and Stella, played by Kim Hunter. Between the two of them, of course, is Marlon Brando’s Stanley, whose performance here, as on Broadway, changed the style of acting for every generation since. Elia Kazan directed this brilliantly sexually charged film version of the Tennessee Williams play.