TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
7 PM G 26th Annual Critics’
Choice Awards A pair of Netflix streaming dramas, “The Crown” and “Ozark,” lead the field of TV nominees with six nominations each as Taye Diggs makes his third consecutive appearance as host of this year’s awards ceremonies. TV shows earning at least five nods include HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “What We Do in the Shadows.” The Netflix biopic “Mank” dominates the film categories with 12 nods, followed by “Minari” with 10 and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” with eight.
8 PM ( FOOD) Tournament of Cham
pions Guy Fieri returns as host for a new season of this bracketstyle culinary competition series wherein 16 of the best chefs from the East and West Coasts go head-to-head in sudden death cooking battles. Chefs representing the East Coast include Madison Cowan, Maneet Chauhan, Darnell Ferguson, Amanda Freitag, Marc Murphy and Bryan Voltaggio; West Coast chefs include Cat Cora, Antonia Lofaso, Brian Malarkey, Jet Tila, Michael Voltaggio and last year’s winner, Brooke Williamson. The rotating
panel of judges includes Giada De Laurentiis, Scott Conant, Rocco DiSpirito, Marcus Samuelsson and Ming Tsai.
8 PM ( LIFE) MOVIE Desperate
Widows A recent widow takes several members of her family to check out a commune designed to offer grieving women a shot at a new beginning in this 2021 drama. Once at this “Mommune,” however, she discovers to her horror the operation is a front for a black market human trafficking ring, and the widow and her daughter will become the next victims unless they find a way to
escape. Justine Eyre, Olivia St Allison McAtee, Jake B. Miller Kate Bond star.
10 PM & Good Girls As this cr dramedy opens Season 4, the Secret Service is closing in on suburban moms turned counterfeiters Beth, Ruby and Ann (Christina Hendricks, Retta, Ma Whitman). Beth has been stru gling to carve out her own life crime using Boland Bubbles, h husband’s (Matthew Lillard) s company, as a front. Ruby, me while, hopes she’s finally got h marriage back on track, while Annie takes a journey to reass her own independence.