SUNDAY
JANUARY 6
2019

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

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…

 
  
 
 
 
 
Read and add comments HERE for today's Best Bets!
 
 
 
 
Leave a Comment: (No HTML, 1000 chars max)
 
 Name (required)
 
 Email (required) (will not be published)
 
MPENU
Type in the verification word shown on the image.
 
 
 Page: 1 of 190  | Go to page: 
3793 Comments
 
 
Sialan para penipu ini karena telah mencuri uang dan kepercayaan orang lain.
Apr 20, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Situs web ini benar-benar penipuan, jangan percayai mereka.
Apr 20, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Perilaku penipuan murni. Bajingan-bajingan ini tidak punya moral dan tidak ragu-ragu menipu orang lain.
Apr 20, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Hanya sekelompok penipu lain yang melakukan bisnis kotor secara online.
Apr 20, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Sialan para penipu ini karena telah mencuri uang dan kepercayaan orang lain.
Apr 20, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Ini adalah halaman penipuan lain yang dijalankan oleh manusia-manusia serakah, pembohong, dan sampah masyarakat. Hindari dengan segala cara.
Apr 20, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Manusia yang menyedihkan, mencari uang dengan menipu orang jujur. Persetan dengan sampah ini.
Apr 20, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Penipuan murahan yang berpura-pura sah. Jangan sampai tertipu.
Apr 20, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Practical stream
I should say this is impressive. The blog shares valuable and clear information. Really enjoyed reading this and also found (music license for business)[https://practical.stream/] helpful for business music solutions.
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
I truly like you're composing style, incredible data, thankyou for posting
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
This is a great article and great read for me. It's my first visit to your blog, and I have found it so useful and informative especially this article
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
I should assert barely that its astounding! The blog is informational also always fabricate amazing entitys.
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
You have a good point here!I totally agree with what you have said!!Thanks for sharing your views...hope more people will read this article!!!
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Excellent .. Amazing .. I’ll bookmark your blog and take the feeds also…I’m happy to find so many useful info here in the post, we need work out more techniques in this regard, thanks for sharing.
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
This is a great inspiring article.I am pretty much pleased with your good work.You put really very helpful information..
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Glad to chat your blog, I seem to be forward to more reliable articles and I think we all wish to thank so many good articles, blog to share with us
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Trying to say thank you won't simply be adequate, for the astonishing lucidity in your article. I will legitimately get your RSS to remain educated regarding any updates. Wonderful work and much accomplishment in your business endeavors
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
I am genuinely thankful to the holder of this web page who has shared this wonderful paragraph at at this place
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Really a great addition. I have read this marvelous post. Thanks for sharing information about it. I really like that
Apr 18, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
I’ve read some good stuff here. Definitely worth bookmarking for revisiting. I surprise how much effort you put to create such a great informative website.
Apr 16, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
 
 Page: 1 of 190  | Go to page: 
 
 

David Bianculli

Founder / Editor

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.