50 Years of ‘Saturday Night time Stay’ Music, ‘Jeopardy!” Event of Champions, a New ‘Bachelor,’ One other ‘Origins’ Backstory

Women and Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music

Modern hitmaker Olivia Rodrigo calls it “a ceremony of passage,” and so it has been for generations of music stars over the half-century of Saturday Night time Stay. Luminaries from Mick Jagger to Adele replicate on the impression SNL had on their careers in an entertaining three-hour particular directed by Oscar winner Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Emmy winner OuncesRodriguez. Opening with a stunning montage that serves as a time capsule of musical historical past, the particular options musicians, forged members and producers together with SNL boss Lorne Michaels as they replicate on the intersection of music and comedy on the culturally resonant late-night present, presently celebrating its fiftieth 12 months. The musical visitors talk about how nerve-wracking the Studio 8H highlight might be, whereas the particular reveals origin tales of the Blues Brothers and Lonely Island’s Emmy-winning “D**ok in a Field.” To not be missed. (Additionally extremely really useful: Peacock’s four-part SNL50: Past Saturday Night time docuseries.)

Jeopardy!

The Alex Trebek Stage welcomes again 21 of the quiz present’s most achieved latest contestants within the annual Event of Champions, persevering with for 3 weeks. The quarterfinals air by way of subsequent Monday, at which level 15-game champion Adriana Harmeyer, nine-game champion Isaac Hirsch and seven-game champion Drew Basile enter the semifinals. The finals start February 7, and the primary finalist to win three video games will take dwelling the $250,000 grand prize and an invite to this 12 months’s Jeopardy! Masters.

The Bachelor

Grant Ellis got here out smelling like a rose throughout Jenn Tran’s Bachelorette season final 12 months, and he’s again as the thing of 25 single girls’s attentions when Season 29 of the courting recreation will get underway. Can the 31-year-old New Jersey day dealer and former professional basketball participant discover eternal love in entrance of TV cameras? If all else fails, there’s at all times Dancing With the Stars to stay up for.

NCIS: Origins

Seems Gibbs (Austin Stowell) isn’t the one NIS agent with a backstory price exploring within the procedural prequel. The longer term Mark Harmon takes a again seat this week to workforce chief Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid), who appears again on his personal previous in a poignant episode. Whereas investigating the capturing demise of a conflict hero’s son, figuring out whether or not it was foul play or suicide, Franks recollects the occasions that known as him away from his farming household to serve in Vietnam. Preceded by a brand new episode of the mothership NCIS (9/8c), the place the workforce learns about Torres’ (Wilmer Valderrama) secret romance whereas coming to the help of a baker (former CSI: NY star Melina Kanakaredes) who’s being blackmailed.

9-1-1: Lone Star

The sky is falling — or is about to — through the 9-1-1 spinoff’s penultimate episode, which finds the crew of the 126 getting ready for an asteroid crash. (That’s a method for a present to exit with a bang.) In additional private subplots, Owen (Rob Lowe) decides whether or not to return to New York, son T.Okay. (Ronen Rubinstein) and Carlos (Rafael Silva) fret over their adoption and Mateo (Julian Works) has purpose to fret about his immigration standing. Adopted by Rescue: Hello-Surf (9/8c), the place the return of Will’s (Adam Demos) fiancé threatens his relationship with Em (Arielle Kebbel), and the lifeguard workforce dives in to avoid wasting locals injured whereas using an inflatable Supsquatch.

INSIDE MONDAY TV:

• The Neighborhood (8/7c, CBS): There goes the … you recognize the remaining. The Butlers and Johnsons are shedding sleep due to their new neighbors’ pickleball obsession. Adopted by Poppa’s Home (8:30/7:30c), the place Junior (Damon Wayans Jr.) suspects Poppa (Damon Wayans) was faking a canine allergy throughout his childhood. Again dwelling, he takes a vow of celibacy with spouse Nina (Tetona Jackson).
• The Fall of Diddy (9/8c, Investigation Discovery): A four-part docuseries (persevering with Tuesday) explores the scandalous allegations that led to the music mogul’s 2024 arrest.
• Historical past’s Best Mysteries (9/8c, Historical past Channel): The docuseries returns for a sixth season with an investigation into the enigma of what crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Adopted by the collection premiere of Historical past’s Most Surprising (10/9c), with host Tony Harris analyzing excessive occasions caught on digicam.
• Resistance: They Fought Again (10/9c, PBS): In recognition of Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day, a stirring documentary depicts incidents of Jewish resistance and revolts towards the Nazis in ghettos, forests and demise camps.
• The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (10/9c, ABC): Beforehand proven on Hulu, a docuseries depicts the fallout from a bunch of Utah-based Mormon mothers and social influencers whose #MomTok movies revealed naughty secrets and techniques.
• Tribunal Justice (streaming on Prime Video): The each day courtroom collection returns for a second season.
• Ms. Rachel (streaming on Netflix): YouTube educator Rachel Accurso’s fashionable interactive movies educating letters, numbers, shapes, colours and extra to toddlers turns into a four-part streaming collection, with extra episodes to come back.