What to Watch Tonight: Castle's Return as a P.I., the Series Premiere of MTV's Eye Candy, and the College Football National Championship

What to watch on Monday, January 12...

CATCH-UP, 8pm & 9pm, The CW
Jane the Virgin
If you haven't yet checked out the thoroughly delightful rookie comedy-drama starring Gina Rodriguez—now a Golden Globe winner—you can begin your catch-up with tonight's encore airing of the series' first two episodes.

8pm, NBC
The Celebrity Apprentice
The Celebrity Apprenti must slap together an advertorial for a fitness magazine, in case you've ever wondered exactly how much disingenuousness a single sentence can contain without collapsing in on itself. Later in "A Family Affair," the teams sell wedding dresses for charity.

LIVE, 8:30pm Eastern, ESPN
College Football Playoff National Championship
The Pac-12 champ Oregon Ducks and the Big Ten-winning Ohio State Buckeyes throw down for all the Tostitos at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, in the first-ever Playoff National Championship game.

8:30pm, CBS
Mike & Molly
Mike's harmless flirting with a rookie cop comes back to haunt him when she returns the attention in "The Last Temptation of Mike."

SEASON 3 FINALE, 9pm & 10pm, TNT
Major Crimes
"Special Master, Parts One and Two" find Philip Stroh rearing his homicidal head once more, offering to help the squad stop future killings in exchange for a better deal from the D.A. With three women's lives on the line, the team pulls out all the stops, including enlisting a consultant (Annie Potts).

SERIES PREMIERE, 10pm, MTV
Eye Candy
Victoria Justice stars in this thriller, adapted from the novel by R.L. Stine, about a hacker on the hunt for a lethal stalker. "K3U" opens the cat and mouse game with Lindy signing up for a dating app and landing in the crosshairs of her predator/prey.

10pm, NBC
State of Affairs
After Colombia's FARC abducts Jack Dawkins from a Panamanian prison, the team must race the clock to track him down. Elsewhere in "Ghosts," a mysterious package appears at the Washington Monument, and Nick is run through the wringer en route to meet Fatah.

10pm, PBS
Independent Lens
Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe chronicles his larcenous past in "Evolution of a Criminal." Monroe, who robbed a bank as a teenager, interviews his loved ones, police officials, and those present at the scene of the crime to glean insights.

WINTER PREMIERE, 10pm, ABC
Castle
Now persona non grata around the 12th Precinct, Castle turns gumshoe in "Castle, P.I." He arrives at Beckett's latest crime scene hoping to investigate alongside her, but naturally his plans go a bit awry.

LATE-NITE:
– Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein, Blake Anderson, and Wade Bowen on Conan, 11pm, TBS
– Former President Jimmy Carter on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 11pm, Comedy Central
– Charlie Day, Jeff Musial, and Darius Rucker on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, 11:35pm, NBC
– Chef Gordon Ramsay, Adam Devine, and St. Paul & the Broken Bones on Late Show with David Letterman, 11:35pm, CBS
– Kristin Chenoweth, Casey Wilson, and Brandy Clark on Late Night with Seth Meyers, 12:35am, NBC
– Ozzy Osbourne, Retta, and Linda Perry on The Talk, 12:37am, CBS

WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING TONIGHT?