SUNDAY
JANUARY 5
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CBS, 1:00 p.m. ET

Forecasts call for this to be a cool contest – but I’m talking about meteorologists, not sportscasters. The low for the day is predicted to be minus-6 degrees, which may be a stiff breeze indeed for the warm-weather Chargers. (The predicted high, though, is almost above freezing.) But Chargers QB Philip Rivers is enjoying his best season ever, and leads the league in completions. And even if he can’t throw, running back Ryan Mathews sure can run.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 4:30 p.m. ET

The first postseason game played today may be a cold one, but this second game will be. At kickoff, the expected temperature – the temperature, not the wind chill – is minus-2 degrees, making it potentially one of the coldest games in NFL history. The Packers’ Lambeau Field already was the site of the infamous Ice Bowl in 1967, in which the Packers and the Dallas Cowboys played in temperatures dipping as low as minus-13 degrees, with a wind chill of minus-46. And while watching the weather, pay close attention to how the quarterbacks adjust: Packers QB Aaron Rodgers returned late in the season to lead his team to key victories, while 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick can do as much damage with his legs as with his arm – which, in this weather, could well be the difference in the game.

 
  
 
 

ABC Family, 8:00 p.m. ET

Considering how Amy Adams is decked out (and popping out) in the current movie American Hustle, this 2011 family comedy gives ample evidence of her range. Here, she plays Mary, the ultra-sweet companion of Jason Segel’s Gary, as the two of them try to save the old Muppets theater. It’s a fun little movie musical, with cameos from such fun folks as Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman, Emily Blunt, James Carville, Jim Parsons and Alan Arkin.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: The new season begins with a two-hour installment, picking up the action a few months after last season’s shocker of a finale. It’s no shocker, though, that Downton Abbey returns with flair to spare, and with a new set of subplots that unravel slowly, but very, very surely. For a full review, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Now that NBC no longer has Sunday Night Football, its top-rated series, it has to fill the Sunday time slot with something. Tonight, it begins with a two-hour special presenting a compilation of some of Late Night host Jimmy Fallon’s best bits – a month before he takes over as the new host of The Tonight Show. One highlight that better be included: Fallon (as Neil Young) and Bruce Springsteen (as a younger version of himself) doing a cover of  Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair.”

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.