SUNDAY’S BEST PICKS
9:30 AM (NFL) NFL Football Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London is the scene today as Kirk Cousins leads the Minnesota Vikings against Jameis Winston and the New Orleans Saints. The Vikings have a new coach in former Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell, hoping he can unlock big play potential in Cousins and Justin Jefferson the way he did in LA with Matthew Stafford and Cooper Kupp. As for the Saints, they too have a new head man on the sidelines, Dennis Allen, and a new starter under center in Winston, a year removed from a torn ACL.
7:57 PM (AMC) The Walking Dead A “Bonus Edition” kicks things off tonight as things are ramping up again inside the Commonwealth. Immediately following, the new episode “Lockdown,” sees Daryl (Norman Reedus) and
Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) rush to the Commonwealth to stop Hornsby (Josh Hamilton) from going after their families. Pamela (Laila Robins) deals with protestors demanding justice for Sebastian’s (Teo Rapp-Olsson) crimes. Mercer (Michael James Shaw) needs Rosita’s (Christian Serratos) help to fight a swarm.
8PM G Family Law High-paid personal-injury lawyer Abigail Bianchi (Jewel Staite) is good at blaming others — particularly when it comes to her own problems. After Abby is punished by the court because of her drinking, she ends up working for her estranged father (Victor Garber) and with her halfsiblings. While desperately trying to reclaim the life she had, she must prove herself in a new area of law and work under the thumb of the man she grew up resenting in the series premiere “Sins of the Fathers.”
8PM (DSC) Alaskan Bush People
It’s been one year since the death of family patriarch, Bill Brown, and the Wolfpack must figure out how to navigate their own lives while still fulfilling their father’s dreams. In the Season 14 premiere episode “Brave New World,” Noah stuns the clan with the news he plans to head back to Alaska and look for property along the southeast coast. Meanwhile, Bear and his family are challenged by life on the mountain. And a health scare forces Bird to reevaluate her plans.
8:15 PM & NFL Football Super Bowl LV rematch, anyone? Two teams with championship hopes come to loggerheads tonight at Raymond James Stadium, where Tom Brady will lead his homestanding Tampa Bay Buccaneers against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. The last time these teams met, of course, was in the February 2021 title game, when game MVP Brady threw for three touchdowns and the Bucs defense stymied Mahomes on their way to a 31-9 victory at — wait for it — Raymond James Stadium.
8:30 PM $ The Equalizer In the aftermath of her abduction, the walls between Robyn McCall’s (Queen Latifah) family and vigilante life continue to crumble as those closest to her must now come together for the first time to save her from an uncertain fate in the Season 3 premiere “Boom.” Tory Kittles, Laya DeLeon Hayes, Lorraine Toussaint, Liza Lapira and Adam Goldberg also star.
9PM G Coroner To cope with her grief, Jenny (Serinda Swan) buries herself in her work but a new face in the office causes her to re-examine her relationship with life and death. At home, Jenny is dealing with the return of the mother who abandoned her as a child. Meanwhile detective Donovan McAvoy (Roger Cross), fresh from recovery, seeks to prove he’s fit to be back on the job and unintentionally finds himself in a situation that creates a rift between him and partner Malik Abed (Andy McQueen) in the Season 4 premiere “Emerge.”
9:30 PM $ East New York Deputy
Inspector Regina Haywood (Amanda Warren) is the newly promoted boss of the 74th Precinct in East New York — a working-class neighborhood in the midst of social upheaval. She is determined to deploy creative methods to protect her beloved community. But first, she has the daunting task of getting them on board, as some are skeptical of her promotion, and others resist the changes she is desperate to make in this series premiere. Jimmy Smits, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Kevin Rankin also star.
10:06 PM (AMC) Interview With the Vampire This reinvention of Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Chafing at the limitations of life as a Black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion in the series premiere episode “In Throes of Increasing Wonder ... . ”