NFL Divisional Playoffs, ‘SNL’s First Present of 2025, ‘Mayfair Witches’ Powwow, ‘Creatures’ Child on Board

NFL Playoffs

SATURDAY: Eight groups take a step nearer to subsequent month’s Tremendous Bowl after they face off in pivotal video games organising subsequent weekend’s NFC and AFC Championships. The motion begins Saturday (4:30 pm/ET) on ABC and ESPN, with the AFC’s No. 1 group Kansas Metropolis Chiefs taking up No. 4 Houston Texans, adopted on Fox (8 pm/ET) with the NFC’s No. 1 Detroit Lions battling No. 6 Washington Commanders. On Sunday, NBC broadcasts a uncommon afternoon match (3 pm/ET) with NFC’s No. 2 Philadelphia Eagles going through No. 4 Los Angeles Rams, adopted on CBS (6:30 pm/ET) with the AFC’s No. 2 Baltimore Ravens up in opposition to No. 3 Buffalo Payments.

Saturday Evening Stay

SATURDAY: As a brand new/previous administration prepares for inauguration, the irreverent late-night sketch comedy returns for its first present of the brand new 12 months, persevering with a Fiftieth-anniversary celebration that culminates in a three-hour prime-time blowout subsequent month. (Extremely really helpful: Peacock’s new four-part docuseries SNL50: Past Saturday Evening.) Comic Dave Chappelle makes his fourth look as visitor host, with GloRilla the first-time musical visitor.

Mayfair Witches

SUNDAY: Having taken human type, the mysterious Lasher (Jack Huston) has a peculiar urge for food for milk, and in addition a style for New Orleans’ most prevalent witches, leaving a path of useless Mayfairs behind. His organic mom Rowan (Alexandra Daddario), decided to cease him, convenes a gathering of the household beneath her roof with the assistance of Cortland (Harry Hamlin), laying a lure for the hungry demon. However will Sip (Tongayi Chirisa) and the Talamasca, eternally watching and ready, get to him first?

All Creatures Nice and Small

SUNDAY: “Infants are a legislation unto themselves,” warns housekeeper Mrs. Corridor (Anna Madeley) within the charming Masterpiece drama. Now carrying an air warden’s uniform, she advises James (Nicholas Ralph), just lately returned from the service, on his new parental duties. The vet takes it a step too far when he bundles up the wee lad and takes the toddler on his rounds, together with tending to a calf that retains kicking the literal bucket. Mrs. Corridor is caught in a home struggle of her personal when Siegfried (Samuel West) clashes with officious air warden Mr. Bosworth (Ted Lasso’s Jeremy Swift), who reveals his poignant human facet in a subplot involving, what else, an animal.

The Searching Get together

SUNDAY: Realizing that soccer is a good launching pad, particularly for high-concept motion sequence, NBC offers its newest thriller an early preview, two weeks earlier than its initially scheduled Feb. 3 premiere date. Manifest’s Melissa Roxburgh stars as sidelined FBI profiler Bex Henderson, introduced again onto the entrance strains after a mysterious explosion releases an unknown amount of “essentially the most violent and harmful criminals the world has ever identified” from a secret underground jail. Sure, there’s a brand new and really hush-hush blacklist in play, and within the premiere, Bex groups with jail guard Shane Florence (La Brea’s Josh McKenzie) and CIA agent Jacob Hassani (Patrick Sabongui) to trace down a very harmful madman.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• My Argentine Coronary heart (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): The “Winter Escape” film sequence heads to South America, the place Abril (Julie Gonzalo) hopes to maintain the household ranch in Argentina from being offered to her ex (Juan Pablo Di Tempo), however when one other purchaser emerges, they mix forces, with love conquering all.
• A Priceless Love (Saturday, 8/7c, Nice American Household): Secondhand retailer proprietor Rose (Erin Agostino) discovers a priceless classic teapot on her shelf however gained’t promote to an keen antiques dealer (Luke Humphrey) till she tracks down its unique proprietor.
• Woman within the Storage: The Laura Cowan Story (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): A fact-based drama stars Paige Audrey-Marie Hurd as Laura, whose nightmare begins when she strikes her household in with a pal (Stephen Bishop) after her husband is arrested, solely to be made prisoner in a storage, the place she’s subjected to psychological and sexual abuse.
• Heartland (Sunday, 8/7c, UPtv): Whereas Lou (Michelle Morgan) sweats out election evening, Amy (Amber Marshall) and Edwin (René Escobar Jr.) turn out to be nearer when she and Jack (Shaun Johnston) retrain his horse for carriage racing. Adopted by the Season 3 premiere of the New Zealand household fantasy drama Mystic (9/8c).
• True Crime Watch: On 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c), Erin Moriarty returns to a case she has coated for greater than a decade, with new particulars suggesting key proof might have been manipulated to convict daycare employee Melissa Calusinksi of murdering 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan in a suburban Chicago facility. On a particular version of Dateline NBC (Sunday, 9/8c), bumped Jan. 10 by protection of the L.A. wildfires, Josh Mankiewicz reveals particulars in regards to the 2014 homicide of Rob Limon, the topic of the Dateline podcast “Lethal Mirage.”