1) “Happy’s Place,” 8 p.m., NBC. Let’s at least credit this show for being one of the first with a new episode after the holidays: Competing with Gabby to be a comedy emcee Bobbie (Reba McEntire) gets coaching from her half-sister. (They’re show here.) The story requires four characters to be wildly overwrought. The others, Takoda and Emmett, provide enough laughs to make it sort of fun.
2) “Greatest @Home Videos,” 8 p.m., CBS. This wraps a two-Friday stretch for this amiable special. Tonight, Cedric the Entertainer has his annual “Cedie Awards” for his favorite at-home videos.
3) “SWAT,” 10 p.m., CBS. Now that “Blue Bloods” is gone, “SWAT” slides back to the 10 p.m. slot. Tonight, it has a rerun (students and their bus driver are missing); so does “Fire Country” (an inmate escapes) at 9. Both will have new episodes next week, when “NCIS: Sydney” takes the 8 p.m. spot.
4) “The Way Home” season-opener, 9 p.m., Hallmark. It’s the third season for this show, set in a farm that has a time-travel pond. As last season ended, Kat finally found the brother who vanished (time traveling, it turns out) decades ago. This season was originally planned to be on Hallmark+ first; now, instead, each episode goes there the next day.
5) ALSO: ESPN has a bowl-game doubleheader, at 4 and 7:30 p.m. ET. ABC has a “High Potential” rerun (the precinct is held hostage) at 8 p.m. … just before including the show in a new Tuesday line-up with “Will Trent” and “The Rookie.” And Freeform has Tim Burton’s brilliant “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005), at 8:20 p.m.
— Mike Hughes, TV America