My Kitchen Rules, on Fox
Australian chef Curtis Stone and Iron Chef Cat Cora preside as Andrew Dice Clay ("Dice") and his wife, Valerie Silverstein, take turns hosting a top-notch dinner party in this new episode. The pressure is on in this final first-round matchup.
Q: Soap operas have a distinct, softer look to them. How do they get such a different look?
There are a lot of reasons why soap operas look the way they do, partly to do with ingenuity and partly with economics.
Vikings, on History
King Ecbert (Linus Roache) and Aethelwulf (Moe Dunford) make plans to defend the realm as the Viking army incites panic throughout the English countryside in this new episode. This drama chronicles the adventures of Viking hero Ragnar (Travis Fimmel).
NCIS: New Orleans, on CBS
New Orleans may be known as a party town, but Special Agent Dwayne Pride (Scott Bakula) and his team take their work very seriously. This popular drama follows a team of experts as they investigate crimes involving military personnel.
Q: Can you tell me who plays Valerie in "Berlin Station" and why I might know her?
I can tell you that when I first saw her in the Epix drama "Berlin Station," I said: "Hey, that's Ensign Ro from 'Star Trek,'" but that might be because I'm a great big nerd. There are cooler reasons to know Michelle Forbes.
"The Killing" is a pretty cool reason -- Forbes was praised for her performance in the first season of the AMC crime drama, which Variety critic Brian Lowry called a "grim, absorbing show," adding that Forbes's performance was "especially good."
Riverdale revamped: The long-running comic book series gets a live-action facelift
Marisol Nichols and Camila Mendes in a scene from "Riverdale"
Step aside, superheroes! A different type of comic book character is coming to prime time, and if you live and breathe, chances are you're familiar with him.
The Bachelor, on ABC
Former "The Bachelorette" runner-up Nick Viall gets another shot at finding true love in prime time in this new episode. In this romance reality TV series, he gets to know a number of women from across the U.S. in the hopes of finding a future wife.
Hunted, on CBS
Nine teams of two attempt to stay off the grid and out of sight while skilled investigators use state-of-the-art and traditional methods to find them. As field agents coordinate with command center workers, the teams try to evade capture in the hopes of winning $250,000.
New Releases for the week of January 22 - 28
The Light Between Oceans
After suffering through several miscarriages, lighthouse keeper Tom (Fassbender) and his wife, Isabel (Vikander), face a moral dilemma when a rowboat containing an infant girl and a dead man washes up on the shore of their rocky island. In their grief, they decide to raise the girl as their own, telling no one the truth about her discovery. As baby Lucy (Clery) grows up, though, Tom uncovers who her birth mother is. In his guilt, he contacts her anonymously, risking exposing the truth about the daughter that he and Isabel loved and raised.
Director: Derek Cianfrance. Stars: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Florence Clery, Jack Thompson. 2016. 133 min. Drama.
Inferno
After waking up in a Florence hospital with no memories of recent events in his life, Robert Langdon (Hanks) is forced to flee with the help of Dr. Sienna Brooks (Jones) when an assassin makes an attempt on his life. While going through his personal belongings to try to reconstruct the holes in his memories, Langdon comes across a clue that leads him to believe that a dead billionaire has created a virus that, if released, would wipe out much of the Earth's population. With the assassin still on their trail, Langdon and Brooks set out to follow the clues through the streets of Florence and Venice to find the virus before it can be released.
Director: Ron Howard. Stars: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ana Ularu, Omar Sy. 2016. 121 min. Action.
The Monster
Kathy (Kazan) is a mother, but she is also an addict who has done some terrible things, often in ways that haven't been kind to her only child, Lizzy (Ballentine). Late at night, while driving her daughter to live a new life with her father, Kathy's car strikes a wild animal on a lonely stretch of road deep in the woods, doing heavy damage to the car. While they wait for a tow truck to arrive, mother and daughter begin to realize that there's something monstrous lurking in the woods around them.
Director: Bryan Bertino. Stars: Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine, Scott Speedman. 2016. 91 min. Horror.
Late Laughs for the week of January 22 - 28, 2017
Late Night With Seth Meyers
A recent poll found that 58 percent of Americans believe Donald Trump will try to work with Democrats. Oh, Russia has Democrats?
A company has developed a new bedspread that can make itself every morning. How it works is, you live with your mom.
Conan
