‘Lone Star’s Fiery Return, Faculty Soccer Championship, ‘Traitors’ in Prime Time, ‘Gone’ to New Zealand

9-1-1: Lone Star

The primary-responder spinoff resumes its closing season with a final batch of episodes (the sequence finale is scheduled for February 3), by which Capt. Owen (Rob Lowe) questions Judd’s (Jim Parrack) sobriety after his buddy walks into hazard whereas bullets fly in an armory on fireplace. In a much less alarming subplot, Marjan (Natacha Karam) introduces her dad and mom to her boyfriend (John Clarence Stewart) over dinner, leaving a bitter aftertaste. Adopted by Rescue: Hello-Surf (9/8c), with an undercurrent of romantic stress on the Hawaiian lifeguard squad, who reply to an ATV accident.

Faculty Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship

The inaugural 12-team playoffs have led to an thrilling championship match-up between No. 8 Ohio State and No. 7 Notre Dame. The sport, from Atlanta’s Mercedez-Benz Stadium, is enhanced by almost 100 cameras and new expertise, together with MindFly physique cams on three of the officers on the sector — umpire, heart choose, head linesman — providing close-up photographs of decisive performs. Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit name their eleventh championship recreation as a staff, with Holly Rowe and Molly McGrath reporting from the groups’ sidelines.

The Traitors

No, Peacock’s Emmy-winning actuality competitors hasn’t made the soar from streaming to broadcast TV. (If solely.) Because the networks love to do on occasion, the programmers are teasing viewers with a style of one in every of their signature streaming hits in hopes of luring extra eyeballs to the platform. NBC turns over the whole evening to the primary two episodes (airing back-to-back beginning at 8/7c) from the present Season 3 of the cheeky mock murder-mystery recreation, with Emmy-winning host Alan Cumming impishly internet hosting the devious shenanigans from a distant Scottish citadel. The premise, for the uninitiated: Clandestine “traitors” plot in opposition to “trustworthy” recreation gamers who hope to show the schemers earlier than they’re “murrrdered.” This season’s reality-starry solid options two-time Survivor champ Tony Vlachos, Vanderpump Guidelines’ infamous Tom Sandoval, WWE Corridor of Famer Nikki Garcia, numerous Bachelor/Bachelorette and Actual Housewives alums, Massive Brother veterans, and at the least two Bobs, The Largest Loser’s Bob Harper and RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen.

The Gone

Gray’s Anatomy alum Richard Flood (Dr. Cormac Hayes from 2019-22) stars in an unique thriller sequence as Theo Richter, an Irish detective transplanted to New Zealand, the place he groups with an area Kiwi cop, detective sergeant Diana Huia (Acushla-Tara Kupe), after a younger Irish couple disappears from a rural North Island city. With an area reporter (Carolyn Bracken) following their each transfer, the investigation finds connections to a sequence of murders from the neighborhood’s darkish previous.

Murdoch Mysteries

Milestone alert: The interval thriller marks its three hundredth episode, with Detective Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) and Ogden (Hélène Pleasure) reunited at a chic inn within the British countryside the place a gathering of businessmen gives a wealth of suspects when a flirty gold-digger is discovered lifeless in a pond. Murdoch is intrigued by an American detective who denies his identification whereas Ogden encounters a philanthropist she nannied throughout her med faculty days.

INSIDE MONDAY TV:

• I Am MLK Jr.: Celebrating a Chief and a Legacy (8/7c, The CW): In acknowledgment of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day vacation, a repeat of final yr’s biographical profile of the late civil-rights chief, with interviews and pictures filmed within the church buildings the place he famously preached.
• Children Baking Championship (8/7c, Meals Community): In a tie-in with the upcoming animated movie Canine Man, the younger bakers staff as much as make two-tiered muffins—one tier for the canine head, one for the human backside — with bacon because the particular ingredient.
• Antiques Roadshow (8/7c, PBS): The appraisers wrap up their go to on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artwork in Bentonville, Arkansas. Subsequent cease: Las Vegas.
• The Curious Case of … (10/9c, Investigation Discovery): “The Lady Who Died Twice” relates the lacking individuals case of 13-year-old Mary Day, who vanished in 1981 and was presumed murdered till a girl who says she’s Mary emerges a long time later, prompting suspicion that she might be an imposter.