Daily Best Bets

1) Football, 8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN and ESPN2. By logic, Clemson should be comfy here. It’s in the national championship game for the fourth time in five years. It’s won twice in the past three years and is fresh from a come-from-behind win over powerhouse Ohio State. But this is in the New Orleans Superdome, almost home turf for top-ranked Louisiana State. Facing Oklahoma, Heisman-winner Joe Burrow (show here) tied a bowl record with seven touchdown passes – all in the first half; LSU won, 63-28. Read more…

1) “Masterpiece: Sanditon” debut, 9 and 10 p.m., PBS. Jane Austen had barely started this novel, creating a place (a seaside town, trying to be a resort) and people. Ever since, people have tried to continue it; at least seven versions have been published. Now Andrew Davies has done it perfectly, creating a show with warmth, depth and surprises. Rose Williams is lovable as a smart-and-innocent country kid who meets three brothers – an optimist, a bumbler and a handsome enigma (Theo James, shown here with Williams).. Read more…

1) Football, 4:35 p.m. ET, NBC, and 8:15 p.m., CBS. Fresh from their overtime win (shown here) over the Saints in New Orleans, the Minnesota Vikings face the 49ers in San Francisco. Then the Baltimore Ravens host the Tennessee Titans. There’s more on Sunday, with Houston in Kansas City and Seattle in Green Bay. Read more…

1) “Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For the Bone Collector” debut, 8 p.m. NBC. This started with Jeffrey Deaver’s novel: A paralyzed police detective hires a cop to do his on-scene work. That became a 1999 movie with two Oscar-winners – Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Now it’s a series with Russell Hornsby (shown here in an early scene, before Rhyme’s injury) and Arielle Kebbel. The opening and closing scenes are way too nasty; in between, however, this is a good start, with understated dialog and a solid story. Read more…

1) “New Amsterdam” return, 10 p.m. Tuesday, NBC. After a two-month break, this hospital drama Read more…

1) “The Good Place,” 9 p.m., NBC. One of TV’s best comedies is down to its final four episodes. At times tonight, it does feel like it’s stalled in neutral. Still, the stakes are high: The judge is ready to eliminate all of humanity – as soon as she finds “that clicky people-eliminator thing.” Our heroes (including Ted Danson and Kristen Bell, shown here) need to use brains, passion … and the judge’s obsession with “Justified” and its star, Timothy Olyphant. Read more…

1) “Party of Five” (shown here) debut, 9 and 10 p.m., Freeform, rerunning at midnight, then 9 p.m. Thursday, 2 p.m. Friday. The original “Party” – smartly written, beautifully cast – had young siblings orphaned and on their own. Now, 25 years later, this reboot takes a modern twist: The parents, undocumented, are being sent back to Mexico; their kjds’ lives change instantly. A charismatic singer becomes a weary father figure; an A-student becomes an angry rebel. There’s depth and people we care about. Read more…

1) “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” (shown here) debut, 10 p.m., NBC. Lab accidents used to give a guy spider strength or turn him into a hulk; one even turned him into a car. But this is different: Zoey is listening to music during a brain scan, when an earthquake hits; now she hears people do pop songs that express their emotions. Yes, it’s a silly notion; so were the spider/hulk/car ones. And yes, there’s contrived, too-cute dialog. But the show – which waits until Feb. 16, after tonight – is great fun and Jane Levy is a delight Read more…

1) “The Bachelor” opener, 8-11 p.m., ABC. Following family tradition, Peter Weber is a Delta Airlines pilot: His dad and brother are pilots; his mother is a flight attendant. Now – after finishing third on “The Bachelorette” – Weber, 28, is in control. Among the 30 women (ages 22 to 31) to choose from are three flight attendants, a lawyer, a cattle rancher, a nurse, a radiographer. And, of course, there’s also an NBA dancer, a fashion blogger, Miss Texas USA and Kylie Ramos, an entertainment sales associate, shown here possibly suggesting some entertainment. Read more…

1) Golden Globes build-up, E and NBC. The Globes are all about glitter and starpower … which starts early. E has a preview at 4 p.m. ET and red-carpet coverage from 6-8 p.m., with Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic in charge; it also has an after-show at 11. NBC has its own red-carpet show at 7 p.m. ET… and expects the start of the Globes(at 8) to be fun. Avoiding the dreary, no-host approach of recent Oscars and Emmys, the Globes are bringing back Ricky Gervais (shown here) or his fifth time as host. Read more…