1) “The Bachelor” opener, 8-10 p.m., today, ABC. Joey Graziadei (shown here), the “Bachelorette” runner-up, gets his chance to do the choosing. He’s 28 and teaches tennis; he’ll meet four women in their early 30s and 28 in their twenties. There are three nurses, a mental-health therapist and a mental-health counselor. There’s also an actress, an artist, an “esthetician,” a nanny and a pro-football cheerleader.
2) “Hell’s Kitchen” finale (8 p.m. Thursday) and “Next Level Chef” opener (10 p.m. Sunday), Fox. First, the final three compete; the winner becomes head chef at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant. Then Ramsay switches to a show blitzing chefs through awful and great kitchens. The fun opener includes a dancer who was Miss Washington, a father of five, and a rapper who accidentally burned off his fingerprints.
3) “NCIS: Sidney” season-finale, 8 p.m. Tuesday, CBS. This was one of the better experiments during the strikes – an international show that has lots of cliches, but uses them fairly well. An Australian unit has merged with an American one, each with a loose-cannon type leader who is cocky and telegenic. Now the Aussie leader’s son has been kidnapped, in an attempt to free an assassin.
4) Football and figure-skating. The big guys dominate Sunday, with pro-football division championships at 3 p.m. ET on CBS and 6:30 on Fox. But the tiny skaters also have their national championships. The USA Network has the finals for rhythm dance (5 p.m. ET Thursday) and pairs (8 p.m. Saturday). NBC has the finals for women (8 p.m. Friday), dance (2:30 p.m. Saturday) and men (2 p.m. Sunday).
5) “America’s Most Wanted” season-opener, 8 p.m., Fox. In the early days of Fox, this was a mainstay, with John Walsh (whose son had been kidnapped and killed) profiling crime suspects. It ran for 24 years on Fox and Walsh did 11 more (often under different titles) on cable. Fox tried five episodes in 2021 with Elizabeth Vargas hosting; now Walsh, 78, is back, joined by his son Callahan, 38.
6) “Bob (Hearts) Abishola” return, 8:30 p.m. today, CBS. Three weeks before its final season begins, this delight returns with a rerun. It catches Bob’s sister in dismay, after being fired by a competing sock company. That’s surrounded by more reruns: At 8 p.m., “The Neighborhood” finally returns; at 9 and 10 are “Yellowstone” episodes, which were bumped from Sunday by football.
7) “Only Murders in the Builidng,” 9-10 p.m. Tuesday, ABC. Here’s the finale of the terrific first season, which debuted on Hulu. Charles (Steve Martin) loves a bassoonist (Amy Ryan) … but his true-crime podcast colleagues (Martin Short and Selena Gomez) suspect she’s the killer. The result bubbles with humor and surprises, then sets up the next season. There have been three so far.
8) “Nature: Big Little Journeys” finale, 8 p.m. Wednesday, PBS. This three-week gem has followed small animals on big journeys. Now a chameleon in Madagascar and a water vole in Scotland must each find a mate and a place for babies to be born. Skillfully using technology and trickery (several animals merge into one story), this offers a dazzling look at tiny creatures in a big world.
9) “So Help Me Todd” return, 9 p.m. Thursday, CBS. As it nears the week (Feb. 11-17) for season-openers, CBS is finally getting most of its shows back on the line-up via (for now) reruns. This one is the amiable tale of a frequent failure who’s consigned to being a detective for his mom, a top lawyer. Now he’s agreed to help his ex-girlfriend’s
fiance … and stumbles into one of his mom’s cases.
10) “Griselda,” Thursday, Netflix. Americas seem intrigued by stories about female drug kingpins. This one happens to be true, with Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”) as the head of brutal webs in New York and then Miami. More series stream Friday: Nicole Kidman in Hong Kong for Amazon Prime’s “Expats,” Austin Butler (“Elvis”) as a World War II pilot in “Masters of the Air” on Apple TV+.