What to watch WEDNESDAY
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
Best Leftovers Ever! Netflix New Series
Home cooks compete to find ways of giving old leftovers new life in hopes of winning a $10,000 prize.
Vikings
Amazon Prime Video
Series Finale
Prior to their rollouts on the show’s usual linear home on History, the final 10 episodes of this historical drama’s sixth and final season, including the series finale, will be made available all at once on Prime.
Yearly Departed Amazon Prime Video
A female-led lineup of comedians and actors including Rachel Brosnahan, Tiffany Haddish and more deliver “eulogies” for 2020.
College Football
ESPN, beginning at 11 a.m. Live
ESPN has coverage of Wisconsin vs. Wake Forest in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl in Charlotte, North Carolina; Iowa vs. Missouri in the TransPerfect Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee; and Florida vs. Oklahoma in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic in Arlington, Texas.
The Godfather Marathon AMC, 4:30 p.m.
A marathon of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy? That’s an offer we can’t refuse. Settle in for Al Pacino in his brilliant rise and fall as Michael Corleone in the 1972 original, 1974’s Part II and 1990’s Part III.
The Big Bang Theory TBS, 6 p.m.
Relive the 2007 premiere of the series that signed off 12 years later as TV’s No. 1 sitcom. The episode’s premise is simple — geeky roommates and socially awkward physicists Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) and Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) befriend their hot new neighbor, Penny (Kaley Cuoco) — but the jokes are sharp. The pilot sets up many of the bits that recur throughout the show’s run: Sheldon sharing random facts and always needing to sit in “his spot” on the couch; the apartment building’s broken elevator; the inability of their shy friend Raj (Kunal Nayyar) to talk to girls without being drunk (until Season 6). It also references the Nobel Prize, which Sheldon would go on to win in the series finale (sharing it with his then-wife, Mayim Bialik’s Amy). Perhaps most telling, though, is one of Sheldon’s final lines to his smitten roommate about Penny. “You’re not done with her, are you?” he asks Leonard, setting up one of broadcast TV’s best, and funniest, romances.
Married at First Sight: Season 12 Matchmaking Special
Lifetime, 7 p.m.
Ahead of the reality hit’s Jan. 13 return, learn how the five new couples — including the show’s oldest (38) and first divorced grooms — were cast.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
(2009, Children) Ben Stiller, Robin Williams
6:12 p.m.
Bad Boys
(1995, Action) Martin Lawrence, Will Smith
6:30 p.m.
Deadpool 2
(2018, Action) Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin
Five Star Christmas
(2020, Romance-comedy) Bethany Joy Lenz, Victor Webster
7 p.m.
Rio 2
(2014, Children) Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg
Freeform, 8 p.m.
Paramount,
FX, 7 p.m.
Hallmark,
Dying for a Daughter
(2020, Suspense) Brittany Underwood, Melanie Nelson
Gladiator
(2000, Historical drama) Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix
TNT, 9 p.m.
Insurgent
(2015, Science fiction) Shailene Woodley, Theo James
POP, 9 p.m.
Passenger 57
(1992, Action) Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne
9:05 p.m.
Noah
(2014, Historical drama) Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly
SYFY, 10 p.m.
Starz,
LMN, 9 p.m.
Showtime,