1) Football championships, today and Sunday. There are three big ones this week. First, the college title game, at 7:30 p.m. ET today on ESPN. Top-ranked Indiana (shown here) — fresh from 38-3 and 56-22 wins — faces 10th-ranked Miami. Then, on Sunday, the pros decide the conference champions (and Super Bowl teams). It’s the AFC at 3 on CBS and NFC at 6:30 on Fox.
2) “Memory of a Killer,” about 10 p.m. ET (after football) Sunday, Fox. Fractured memory has a potent effect in Fox’s dramas. That’s key to “Doc” and to this show: Patrick Dempsey plays a suburbanite who’s a big-time hitman. Now early-onset Alzheimer’s complicates his double life. Michael Imperioli plays his friend, also juggling lives.
3) “Nova” season-opener, 9 p.m. Wednesday, PBS. Asteroids get a bad rap, what with bringing death, destruction and the end of dinosaurs. But this asks the flip side: Did they bring the elements that were needed to create life on Earth? Deep, detailed (and sometimes a bit dry), this starts a season that soon re-examines the first mammals and civilizations.
4) “I Am MLK Jr.” (2018), 8-10 p.m. today, CW. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, this film has comments from John Lewis, Jesse Jackson, Van Jones and more. Two more documentaries are on Turner Classic Movies: “King: A Film Record — Montgomery to Memphis” (1970) at 4:30 p.m. ET; and James Baldwin’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1982), at 8.
5) “Harlan Coben’s Final Twist,” 8 p.m. Tuesday and 10 p.m. Wednesday, CBS. In a change, CBS runs each true-crime tale twice. (“NCIS” and “NCIS: Origins” move to 9 and 10 p.m. Tuesdays, bumping “NCIS: Sydney.”) This is a compelling one: Nancy Woodrum vanished on the night her sprawling San Luis Obisbo property was rented for a wedding reception.
6) “Doc,” 9 p.m. Tuesday, Fox. A young doctor and her brother schemed to destroy Amy. Their plan imploded and he’s in the hospital with an overdose. Also, there’s a probe of Amy’s dealings with their late father. This is heavy turf, following a light “Best Medicine”: In a fairly good hour, we find that the doctor’s assistant is living in his waiting room.
7) “Star Search,” 9 p.m. ET, Tuesday and Wednesday, Netflix. This launched a 12-year run in 1983 and did another year in 2003. Now it’s back, hosted by Anthony Anderson; viewers can vote if they watch live and have a smart-TV or the right remote. Also streaming: “Steal” (crime mini-series), Wednesday, Amazon Prime; Dwayne Johnson’s “Smashing Machine,” Friday, HBO Max.
8) “The Beauty,” 9-11:45 p.m. Wednesday, FX. The first six minutes are sensational, with a lethal fashion model, a wild motorcycle ride and an implosion. Then this 10-parter settles into an odd brew: Brilliant dialog and sharp commentary (about the quest for beauty) entwine with sex, high-octane action and an excessive amount of gore.
9) “Hell’s Kitchen” finale, 8 p.m. Thursday, Fox. The 24th season is down to Jada Vidal and Ellie Parker. Now they’ve drafted the other chefs for their teams and they prepare fancy dinners — one a Cuban-Asian fusion, the other steakhouse-style. That’s followed by an “Animal Control” that starts (Rob Gronkowski is back) and ends with some great moments.
10) ALSO: At 8 p.m. Thursday, Mel Brooks will be profiled on HBO, preceded by some of his best films. At 8 p.m. Saturday, David Attenborough narrates the opener of BBC America’s “Kingdom,” a beautifully filmed six-parter following families of lions, leopards, hyenas and dogs in Zambia. Soon (June 28 and May 8, respectively), both men will turn 100.