News & Notes

Tonight, ABC has a Truth and Lies: Monica and Bill special, CBS has the sixth winter season premiere of Mom and the series premiere of Fam, The CW has a Roswell: Mysteries Decoded special, and NBC has the sixth season premiere of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the third winter season premiere of The Good Place and the 20th winter season premiere of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Over on cable, LMN has the TV movie premiere of My Daughter’s Ransom.

On streaming, as of this morning, Netflix drops the complete first season of When Heroes Fly.

Next Thursday, ABC has the 15th winter season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy, the first winter season premiere of A Million Little Things and the fifth winter season premiere of How to Get Away With Murder, CBS All Access has the second season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, The CW has the 14th winter season premiere of Supernatural, and Sundance Now drops the complete first season of A Discovery of Witches.

Prime Picks

The Big Bang Theory (CBS): New. Penny’s ex comes to Leonard for help with something. Runs 31 minutes.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (NBC): Season Premiere. Amy and Jake are on their honeymoon. Capt. Holt learns the result of the new commissioner position.
The Good Place (NBC): Winter Premiere. Michael shows some resolve. Eleanor gets a surprise from Chidi.

S.W.A.T. (CBS): New. Chris and Jessica go undercover without backup in Mexico. Hondo’s mother is worried about him.

Solid Selections

Gotham (FOX): New. Bullock and Gordon look into a bunch of kidnappings at the same location. Bruce is searching for a way to help Selina.

Mom (CBS): Winter Premiere. The gals go on a road trip and Christy’s smoking causes problems. Starts a minute after the hour and runs 29 minutes.
FAM (CBS): Series Premiere. A woman deals with her teenage sister coming to live with her and messing up her perfect engaged life.

Counterpart (Starz): Repeat. This past Sunday night’s episode, “Shadow Puppets,” replays. Plays earlier this evening and later as well.

Other Option

• The Orville (FOX): New. Alara’s home planet is visited.

Sports Notes

• CBS Sports has doubleheader college basketball action tonight with SMU at UConn followed by Robert Morris at St. Francis Brooklyn.
• ESPN has college basketball action tonight with UCLA at Oregon.
• ESPN+ has 24 college basketball games throughout the day via streaming video.
• ESPN2 has tripleheader college basketball action tonight with Cincinnati at Tulsa, Penn State at Nebraska and Pacific at Gonzaga.
• ESPN3 has eight college basketball games throughout the day via streaming video.
• ESPNU has tripleheader college basketball action tonight with Winthrop at Campbell, East Carolina at Memphis and USC at Oregon State.
• FS1 has doubleheader college basketball action tonight with Michigan at Illinois followed by Washington at Utah. #GoDawgs!
• TNT has doubleheader NBA action tonight with the Boston Celtics at the Miami Heat followed by another game.

Thursday TV Marathons

Chicago P.D. (ION): Has 16 episodes today into late night.
Chicago P.D. (Oxygen): Eight episodes play twice.
Law & Order (SundanceTV): Has 13 episodes today into late night.
Las Man Standing (WGN America): Has 10 episodes tonight.
NCIS (USA Network): Has 15 episodes.
The Office (Comedy Central): Has 13 episodes tonight.
The Sopranos (HBO2): The final nine episodes of the sixth season.