‘Creatures’ in Wartime, ‘Miss Scarlet’ Minus the Duke, NFL Wild Card Weekend, Down Underneath on the Australian Open and With Hallmark

All Creatures Nice and Small

SUNDAY: The beloved adaptation of James Herriot’s books continues to regulate to wartime in 1941 because the fifth season will get underway on a poignant word. Whereas James (Nicholas Ralph) serves as a Royal Air Pressure pilot, although by no means far-off from a veterinary disaster, again on the Yorkshire homefront of Darrowby, the often crusty Siegfried (Samuel West) dotes on child Jimmy, to the delight of his mom Helen (Rachel Shenton), who pines for James’ return. Ted Lasso’s Jeremy Swift joins the solid as officious air-raid warden Mr. Bosworth, who makes the grievous error of assuming housekeeper Mrs. Corridor (Anna Madeley) isn’t appropriate for service due to her gender. And it wouldn’t be Creatures with out a terrific animal story, this time involving a housecat who has a stunning purpose for enjoying useless.

Miss Scarlet

SUNDAY: The Duke (Stuart Martin) has left Scotland Yard for the New York Police Division, which brings a brand new problem to pioneering feminine personal detective Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips), who’s going to spend a lot of the fifth season of this charming Victorian thriller attempting to win over a brand new skilled associate. Tom Durant Pritchard joins the collection because the Yard’s stern new detective inspector Alexander Blake, a former soldier who’s adamant about refusing the assistance of impartial contractors like Miss Scarlet. That clearly gained’t final. Their meet-cute happens over a useless physique, with Scarlet as traditional a step forward of the authorities.

NFL Playoffs

SATURDAY: The opening spherical of the NFL playoffs is a bonanza for soccer followers, with two video games Saturday, three on Sunday and a last wildcard recreation on Monday (relocated from California to Arizona due to the wildfires). The motion begins Saturday on CBS (4:30 pm/ET) with the No. 5 Los Angeles Chargers at No. 4 Houston Texans, with Prime Video streaming the night match between No. 6 Pittsburgh Steelers at No. 3 Baltimore Ravens (8 pm/ET). Sunday’s all-day lineup kicks off on CBS (1 pm/ET) with No. 7 Denver Broncos at No. 2 Buffalo Payments, strikes to Fox (4:30 pm/ET) for the conflict of No. 7 Inexperienced Bay Packers vs. No. 2 Philadelphia Eagles and ends in primetime on NBC (8 pm/ET) with No. 6 Washington Commanders at No. 3 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Australian Open

SATURDAY: The primary of the yr’s Grand Slam tennis tournaments kicks off with day matches airing in prime time (night matches air reside within the wee hours at 3 am/ET). World No. 1 gamers Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka are reigning champs hoping for repeats. For a full schedule, go to espn.com.

Polar Opposites

SATURDAY: For these viewers caught within the grip of winter, Hallmark reminds you there are even colder climes on the market within the story of Emma (Rhiannon Fish), whose journey to achieve her father takes her to Antarctica. However first, she has to discover a vessel to take her there, and when she misses a ship in South America, she sneaks onto a cruise ship, the place an engineer (Markian Tarasiuk) supplies distraction from her quest.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• StuGo (Saturday, 8/7c, Disney Channel): A family-friendly animated collection, which can air recurrently on Sunday mornings at 9 am/8c, depicts the misadventures of six center schoolers tricked by a mad scientist into attending a tutorial summer time camp within the Florida wilds that’s a entrance for wilder experiments. The voice solid consists of Women’s Zosia Mamet, Empire’s Gabourey Sidibe, and The Equalizer’s Lorraine Toussaint.
• A Snapshot of Endlessly (Saturday, 8/7c, Nice American Household): A marriage photographer (Natalie Dreyfuss) loses focus when a well-known Hollywood star (Anthony Konechny) attends his sister’s small-town lakeside winery marriage ceremony.
• Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Orange Is the New Black’s Dascha Polanco stars in a fact-based thriller as a pregnant mother defending her household from masked gunmen who invade their Florida residence and demand $200,000 which they don’t have.
• 60 Minutes (Sunday, 7/6c, CBS): Invoice Whitaker reviews from the location of the Los Angeles wildfires, Scott Pelley interviews outgoing FBI director Christopher Wray, and Cecilia Vega debriefs former State Division officers who left their jobs over the Biden administration’s dealing with of the Israel-Gaza battle.
• The Complete Story with Anderson Cooper (Sunday, 8/7c, CNN): Anderson Cooper reviews from fire-ravaged Los Angeles for “LA Burning,” exploring the situations that led to the devastating wildfires and interviewing survivors who misplaced every thing.
• Heartland (Sunday, 7/6c, UPtv): The long-running Canadian household drama opens its seventeenth season with Amy (Amber Marshall) welcoming her very pregnant neighbor Mallory (Jessica Amlee) to the ranch with a wild horse. Elsewhere, her older sister Lou (Michelle Morgan) faces a well-recognized foe in her mayoral reelection bid.
• Anne Rice’s The Mayfair Witches (Sunday, 9/8c, AMC): Whereas Rowan (Alexandra Daddario) confronts Lasher (Jack Huston) to attempt to halt his Mayfair killing spree, the supernatural collection goes for baroque when trapped-in-stone Cortland (Harry Hamlin) encounters the spirit of his malicious and ravenous father, Julien (Ted Levine).
• Rogue Heroes (Sunday, 9/8c, MGM+): The WWII motion drama from Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight returns for a second season, with Particular Air Service (SAS) chief David Stirling a prisoner of battle, leaving hotheaded Paddy (Jack O’Connell) to maintain the unit from shutting down because the invasion of Europe looms.
• Landman (Sunday, 9 pm/ET, streaming on Paramount+): In mild of alarming current occasions, Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) consults with Cami (Demi Moore) whereas the cartel makes its transfer within the Season 1 finale of Taylor Sheridan’s Texas oil drama.