Various Networks, 1:00 p.m. ET
What sort of a postseason is 2020 going to be for pro football? Well, the first two games were held yesterday – wild-card games for the American Football Conference, where the competition and results were wild indeed. In the first game, the Houston Texans beat the Buffalo Bills in a game that extended to most of an additional quarter of overtime. In the second game, the Tennessee Titans ended the decade-plus postseason dominance of the New England Patriots in a game that was intense, and somewhat in doubt, until the very last play. Amazing day of football. And today, two more potentially exciting matchups are on the schedule. At 1 p.m. ET, Fox presents the Minnesota Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints, in the first of two National Football Conference wild-card games. The second is held at 4:30 p.m. ET, when NBC presents the Seattle Seahawks vs. Philadelphia Eagles.
BBC America, 8:00 p.m. ET
In “Spyfall, Part 1,” the Doctor Who season opener presented last week, The Doctor’s dilemma was dire: the scheming antagonist was revealed to be a new incarnation of the arch-nemesis The Master, the climax had The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) sucked into another universe – and beings from that universe were conspiring with The Master to destroy this one. Presumably, the good Doctor will prevail in tonight’s “Spyfall, Part 2” – but how, Who?
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 1971 Norman Jewison movie version of the endearing Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick musical, starring Topol as Jewish patriarch Tevye, is televised by TCM on the very day the current Broadway production, performed and sung in Yiddish, presents its final matinee and evening performances. Sunrise, sunset…
NBC, 8:30 p.m. ET
Ricky Gervais hosts. Movie and TV artists mingle. Alcohol flows. The awards themselves are all but meaningless – yet by the end of the evening, thanks to the imbibing and to Gervais’ cheekiness, something very quotable is bound to be said by someone on this live awards show telecast.
CNN, 9:00 p.m. ET
This CNN documentary special looks back at the last time the United States held an impeachment trial in the U,S. Senate against a sitting President. It was 1998, when the House voted to impeach Bill Clinton, and the Senate held a trial in which the majority party, then the Democrats, voted in unity not to impeach. The obvious and potential parallels are familiar, and so are some of the players. Hey, look – over in the House, voting for impeachment, there’s Lindsay Graham! And also in the House, voting against it, there’s Jerry Nadler!