What to watch SUNDAY
February 12, 2023
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
Great American Rescue Bowl
Great American Family, 9:30 a.m.
Author and animal advocate Beth Stern, along with pet-rescue expert Larissa Wohl, hosts this two-hour special that presents emotional behind-the-scenes stories of animal rescue, fostering and adoption. It also takes an in-depth look at the adoption process and steps that families can take if they are interested in rescuing an animal. The special will re-air later this afternoon.
To the Rescue Pup-a-Thon 2023
Great American Family, 11 a.m. Live
Great American Family and the producers of the syndicated series To the Rescue are teaming up for this four-hour telethon to raise money for animal rescue organizations via the nonprofit Forever Family Rescue Foundation. Hosted by To the Rescue’s Tommy Habeeb, Mariel Hemingway and Scott Baio, the event features dogs that are available for adoption around the country that have been waiting for their forever homes. Celebrities making guest appearances include John O’Hurley, Alison Eastwood, Roger Clemens and more. See pupathon.tv for more details.
Puppy Bowl XIX
Animal Planet, Discovery Channel & TBS, 1 p.m.; pregame show at Noon
Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl returns for its 19th year as a Super Bowl programming alternative, with 122 adoptable puppies from 67 shelters and rescues across 34 states taking to the gridiron in the three-hour special. During the game, audiences will also meet 11 special-needs puppy players looking for their forever homes. Referee Dan Schachner is back for his 12th year of calling the puppy penalties and touchdowns, and sportscasters Steve Levy and Taylor Rooks return to provide the play-by-play.
Super Bowl LVII FOX, 5:30 p.m. Live
The AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs and the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles battle in the big game, Super Bowl LVII, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Play-by-play man Kevin Burkhardt and analyst Greg Olsen are in the FOX broadcast booth, with Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi reporting. Rihanna performs at halftime.
Luckless in Love
UPtv, 6 p.m. Original Film
Winnie (Paniz Zade), a dating blogger who
anonymously writes under the pen name Luckless, goes viral for a post about a disastrous date with Holden (Brett Donahue), a perpetually single sports agent who refuses to settle. But things get complicated when feelings develop and Winnie learns that Holden has a teenage son.
Miss Scarlet and the Duke Season Finale
PBS, 7 p.m.
Season 3 comes to an explosive climax in “The Jewel of the North” when Eliza (Kate Phillips) receives a bomb in the mail. Who sent it, and why? She teams up with Duke (Stuart Martin), Moses (Ansu Kabia) and her old enemy, Patrick Nash (Felix Scott), to find out who is behind the deadly delivery.
Vienna Blood
PBS, 9 p.m. Season Finale
In “Death Is Now a Welcome Guest, Part
2,” the Season 3 finale, the search for the killer of a screen star continues to confound Max (Matthew Beard) and Oskar (Juergen Maurer). Was it an obsessive fan, a rival actress or an American politician pushing a pro-German, anti-immigrant and nationalist agenda in Austria?
Next Level Chef
FOX, 9:30 p.m. Season Premiere
The Season 2 premiere of Next Level Chef follows FOX’s coverage of Super Bowl LVII. Chef Gordon Ramsay scours the country for the very best line cooks, home chefs, social media stars, food-truck owners and everything in between to compete for a $250,000 grand prize and the title of Next Level Chef.