What to Watch Tonight: The Originals, Gotham, Sleepy Hollow, and Jane the Virgin
What to watch on Monday, January 26...
8pm, CBS
Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials 2015
Katharine McPhee takes the night off from overseeing a gaggle of world-saving nerds to join Boomer Esiason in counting down popular TV advertisements of your. The special will also preview this year's Super Bowl interstitial fare.
8pm, Fox
Gotham
In "Welcome Back, Jim Gordon," our hero takes a job teaching wisecracking but good-hearted youngsters at a rundown Brooklyn high school. Wait, I may have mixed up my notes. Ah, here it is. Actually, Gordon probes the killing of a witness that might be an inside job, while Penguin seizes control of something close to Fish Mooney's heart.
8pm, ABC Family
The Fosters
Callie and Stef attempt to help Kiara get out of an unsuitable foster home, but complications arise. Meanwhile in "Stay," Mariana is recruited by a program for gifted students, even as she hides her boffo math scores from Mat.
8pm, The CW
The Originals
Vincent whips up a magic prison for Klaus and Elijah in "Brotherhood of the Damned," which should at least give them plenty of time to catch up on portentous heart-to-hearts about family and honor. In more freewheeling affairs, Hayley and Jackson prepare for some unorthodox pre-wedding rituals, Marcel flashes back to his World War I service, and Davina teams with the Mikaelsons to help Kaleb.
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE, 9pm, HBO
Night Will Fall
A chronicle of a planned 1945 documentary, commissioned by Allied Forces and stewarded by Alfred Hitchcock, that would have cast light on the atrocities of Nazi concentration camps. This feature, narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, includes footage from the unfinished film as well as interviews with the filmmakers and the soldiers who helped liberate the camps.
9pm, ABC Family
Chasing Life
"Guess Who's Coming to Donate?" finds Natalie reluctant to undergo the onerous donor procedure after learning she's a match for April. Meanwhile, Brenna and Natalie bond during a night out, Beth's relationship with Graham complicates things with Dominic, and April takes an inauspicious assignment to begin winning back her boss's trust.
9pm, History
Sons of Liberty
"The Uprising" continues the miniseries with the British posting Gen. Thomas Gage to Boston while Sam Adams and John Hancock muster their own forces.
9pm, The CW
Jane the Virgin
Jane is torn between two job opportunities in "Chapter Eleven"—one a permanent teaching post, the other a writing internship on Rogelio's show. Meanwhile, Alba holds Xo to the deal she struck with the Almighty, and Michael goes rogue to investigate Rafael's connection to Sin Rostro.
9pm, Fox
Sleepy Hollow
Ichabod, Abbie, and Jenny help Hawley battle his childhood caretaker, who, it turns out, is big ol' evil. (Not unlike Nanny from Muppet Babies, who as we all know was a dread emissary of Lovecraftian eldritch horrors.) Elsewhere in "Kali Yuga," Frank gets acclimated to his new post-post-mortem existence.
10pm, MTV
Eye Candy
Lindy's quest to find the killer consumers her in "HBTU," and if a Corkboard of Obsession hasn't already made its first appearance on the show, this seems like the week. In healthier preoccupations, Sophia throws a shindig.
10pm, NBC
State of Affairs
In "The War at Home," Charlie and the team are in a race against time to track down the Ar Rissalah 7's missing bombs. Luckily, one foresighted terrorist linked them all to the handy BombTrackr app, which should make the process a lot easier. Meanwhile, President Payton faces a political challenge from Sen. Burke, and in the Philippines, Nick and Omar Fatah find themselves with uninvited company.
MINISERIES PREMIERE, 10pm, PBS
A Path Appears
This three-part series follows a group of activists, along with journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, as they probe gender oppression, child trafficking, and other human rights abuses around the world. The program comes from the creative team behind Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
LATE-NITE:
– Amanda Peet, Ellar Coltrane, and Jukebox The Ghost on Conan, 11pm, TBS
– Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 11pm, Comedy Central
– Nicholas Irving, Paul Rieckhoff, Matt Taibbi, and Sabrina Jalees on The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, 11:30pm, Comedy Central
– Louis CK and The Lone Bellow on Late Show with David Letterman, 11:35pm, CBS
– Channing Tatum, Houston Texan J.J. Watt, and ZZ Top on Jimmy Kimmel Live, 11:35pm, ABC
– Martin Short, Susan Sarandon, Alan Alda, Tony Danza and guest host Regis Philbin on The Late Late Show, 12:37am, CBS
WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING TONIGHT?
