Best-bets for Jan. 26: football (twice) and “Watson”

1) Football, 3 p.m. ET Fox; 6:30, CBS. It’s the season’s third game between the Eagles (16-3) and Commanders (14-5). They’ve split two; this time, the winner goes to the Super Bowl. At night, the Chiefs (shown here, 16-2) host the Bills, 15-4. The Chiefs have two straight Super Bowl titles; the Bills lost four straight Super games in the early ‘90s and haven’t been back. Read more…

1) Football, 3 p.m. ET Fox; 6:30, CBS. It’s the season’s third game between the Eagles (16-3) and Commanders (14-5). They’ve split two; this time, the winner goes to the Super Bowl. At night, the Chiefs (shown here, 16-2) host the Bills, 15-4. The Chiefs have two straight Super Bowl titles; the Bills lost four straight Super games in the early ‘90s and haven’t been back.

2) “Watson,” after football (about 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT), CBS. For this one, we imagine Sherlock Holmes died in modern times. Dr. Watson (Morris Chestnut), his friend, inherited a fortune and hired brilliant doctors to solve medical enigmas. That sounds good, but most characters and scenes seem cold, distant and sort of identical.

3) “All Creatures Great and Small,” 9 p.m., PBS. It’s a doubly joyous hour, with a baptism and the return of a very welcome character. That’s followed by the “Vienna Blood” season-finale. And at 8, “Miss Scarlet” meets a handsome newspaper reporter (no, that’s not an oxymoron) and solves a clever case involving a serial killer.

4) Paul Newman films, Turner Classic Movies. At noon ET, Newman directs his wife, Joanne Woodward, in “Rachel, Rachel.” Then he stars (often brilliantly) in “Somebody Up There Likes Me” (2 p.m.), the superb “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (4), “Hud” (6) and “Cool Hand Luke” (8).

5) More movies. Two Sandra Bullock comedies overlap. It’s “Two Weeks Notice” (2002) from 7-9 p.m. on CW and “The Proposal” (2009) at 8:30 on ABC. Also, the animated “How To Train Your Dragon” (2010) is 7 p.m. on NBC; a new version (not animated) is expected to reach theaters in June.

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