1) Grammys, 8 p.m. ET, CBS (5 p.m. PT, rerunning at 8:30). Trevor Noah hosts for the fifth straight year and Beyonce leads with 11 nominations. Her “Cowboy Carter” (shown here is up for best album, along with albums by Charli xcs (7 nominations), Billie Eilish (7), Taylor Swift (6), Sabrina Carpenter (6), Chappell Roan (6), Jacob Collier (3) and Andre 3000 (3).
2) “Matlock” and more, CBS. After a winter nap, CBS is back. Reruns are gone (Saturdays excluded) and 16 shows have new episodes, including strong ones on Thursday: At 9 p.m.. “Matlock” tackles a wrongful-termination case and cements a key friendship. At 10,“Elsbeth” probes a murder linked to a wellness center, with Eric McCormack as its sleazy founder.
3) “The Bachelor” opener, 8-10 p.m. today, ABC. The mid-season ABC line-up is heavy on reality shows, starting here. Grant Ellis is a 6-foot-5 stock trader and former basketball player (college reserve and a few Dominican Republic games). He meets 25 women, including two lawyers, two nurses, two interior designers, a pediatrician and a luxury travel host.
4) “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” opener, 10 p.m. today, ABC. The reality push at ABC borrows two shows from Hulu. This views influencers who were linked to sexual swinging; “Perfect Wife” (10 p.m. Thursday) meets Sherri Papini, a purported kidnap victim. Also: “Scamanda” — a true- crime tale, previously slated and delayed — is 9 p.m. Thursday.
5) “Great Migrations” opener, 9-10 p.m. Tuesday, PBS. Amid hard-scrabble lives in the South, this was alluring: The Chicago Defender and other Black newspapers urged people to move North. Millions did, finding jobs, freedom and hope – plus fierce weather, crowded cities and new forms of bias. Over three Tuesdays, Henry Louis Gates tells the massive story.
6) “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago P.D.,” 8-11 p.m. Wednesday, NBC. Switching their order, the shows tell one sprawling story. It starts with a gas-main explosion, causing cave-ins. Soon, doctors are with firefighters at the site … then treating victims (including firefighters) at the hospital. At 10, rescues continue and police scramble to find who’s responsible.
7) “Hollywood Squares,” 8 p.m. Wednesday, CBS. This is one of two changes to CBS’ mid-season plan: “Squares,” originally slated for 10 p.m., moves to 8, nudging the others back an hour; it also has reruns at 2 p.m. daily this week. The other change is at 8 p.m. Friday: “NCIS: Sydney” will wait a week; instead, CBS has a Grammy preview, with interviews.
8) “All American” season-opener, 8 p.m. Wednesday, CW. A lot happened in the first six years. Spencer is a pro football player … Jordan, a former college star, is quarterback coach … His wife Layla runs a upscale nightclub and her friend Coop prepares for law school. Arriving is a likable player and his troubled dad. It’s a solid start, before the show moves to Mondays.
9) “Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story,” 8-10 p.m. Saturday, Lifetime. This network savors movies about real-life music stars. Coming on Feb. 8 is Gloria Gaynor. First, here’s the story of Lisa Velez, a Hell’s Kitichen teen. The real Velez, now 59, plays her own mother, a Puerto Rican native, diligently raising 10 children on her own
10) ALSO: From 8-10 p.m. Wednesday, “The Flip Off” debuts on HGTV; Christina Haack and ex-husband Tarek El Moussa compete at renovating and flipping houses. At 10 p.m. Sunday, PBS starts the second “Funny Woman” season. An accidental star in early TV, Sophie faces contractual and romantic dilemmas. The opener is a fun trifle with a surprising ending,