SUNDAY
JANUARY 6
2019

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CBS, 1:00 p.m. ET

Today’s AFC Wild Card game features two teams whose franchises have moved from city to city – or whose cities have hosted more than one team throughout FL history. Los Angeles and Baltimore, now the respective homes of the Chargers and Ravens, do battle today. The Chargers have the better record, at 12-4, and also have super-hot quarterback Philip Rivers. But the Ravens, even with a 10-6 record, won their division and are hosting, and have a hot QB of their own: rookie Lamar Jackson.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 4:30 p.m. ET

The last time the Philadelphia Eagles were underdogs in the postseason, they won the Super Bowl. This year, the Eagles barely squeaked into the playoffs: The Chicago Bears have home-field advantage for this NFC wild-card game, and also have the better record: The Bears are 12-4, while the defending Super Bowl champs are a meager 9-7. Still, with Nick Foles at QB, the Eagles have another chance to defy expectations and fully embrace the role of the underdog.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

The hosts this year are Sandra Oh, who’s riding very high thanks to Killing Eve, and Andy Samberg, whose Brooklyn Nine-Nine moves this week from Fox, where it’s been the past five years, to NBC, home of the televised Globes. For full-length Globe stories, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters and Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.
 
  
 
 

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

The new season of Victoria, starring Jenna Coleman as young Queen Victoria, arrives next Sunday on the PBS Masterpiece series – so tonight, as prelude and reminder, PBS presents the final three episodes from last season. These culminate with the “Comfort and Joy” episode, which has a surprising climax for a period drama series: an action sequence involving Prince Albert’s sudden collapse into the thin ice of a lake in winter, with Queen Victoria risking her own life to save him. And according to the real Queen’s royal diary, it really happened – and sets the scene for next week’s new season of shows. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

Okay, I give up. Two Sundays in a row now, I’ve screwed up by misidentifying episodes as finales. Two weeks ago, I called Escape at Dannemora a miniseries finale, when there was still one more episode to go. And last week, I thought it was the season finale of Ray Donovan, when it still had three episodes to go. All I can say is, it’s harder keeping track these days – and it’s far from my all-time journalistic error. That occurred in the late 1970s, when I reviewed an NBC made-for-TV musical sequel to L’il Abner called L’il Abner in Dogpatch Today. I wrote, and the paper printed it, that if Al Capp, the cartoonist creator of L’il Abner, were still alive, this new NBC program would have killed him. Well, he was alive. So I wrote a retraction about his being dead, and the paper printed it the next morning. Except, overnight, he did die – so the day after that, I had to print another retraction, saying that when I had said Capp was dead, he was alive, but when I said the next day he was alive, he was dead. Sigh. So no, Ray Donovan is not presenting its season finale tonight. But even if it is…

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.