1) “Encanto” (2021), 8 p.m., Disney Channel, or “Soul” (2020), 9 p.m., ABC. These films have much in common. Each streamed at Christmas, rippling with music and ethnic flavor; each won the Oscar for best animated picture. But “Soul” (with a jazzy sound) hit the pandemic and skipped theaters in the U.S.; “Encanto” (shown here), with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Latino sound, had better luck a year later.
2) Football. Here’s the second half of the pro play-offs, deciding which teams will collide next week for spots in the Super Bowl. It’s the Bucs and Lions at 3 p.m. ET on NBC, then the Chiefs and Bills at 6:30 on CBS, pushing “Yellowstone” back.
3) “Miss Scarlet and the Duke,” 8 p.m., PBS. After a weak start this season, the show has a strong third episode. It’s a flashback, showing when Miss Scarlet – a cop’s teen daughter – met the wayward lad who would later be called the Duke. That’s followed by good episodes of “All Creatures Great and Small” (troubles with the new veterinarian) and “Funny Woman” (stardom overwhelms Barbara).
4) “The Woman in the Wall” opener, 9 p.m., Showtime. This six-parter plays like a darkly involving horror fiim, with Ruth Wilson as an ax-wielding sleepwalker in small-town Ireland. But it’s also based on a real scandal involving church-run institutions for unwed mothers and others.
5) ALSO: This is a night for old detectives. In the second episode of the sharply written “Monsieur Spade” (9-10 p.m., AMC), Sam Spade (Clive Owen) tries to learn who did a mass murder at a church school, in search of a young boy. In a rerun of the “Grimsburg” pilot (9:30, Fox), a weary ex-cop (Jon Hamm) gets one more channce; the result has funny moments, but strains too hard to seem outrageous.
— Mike Hughes, TV America