News & Notes

On cable tonight, Discovery Channel has the series premiere of Lone Target, Lifetime Movie Network has the TV movie premiere of House of Secrets, and Travel Channel has a Food Paradise: Sturgis’ Most Tasty special.

Shows returning with new episodes next Wednesday, January 8th, are ABC’s The Middle, Modern Family and Super Fun Night, FX’s American Horror Story: Coven, and NBC’s Revolution and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Returning shows premiering next Wednesday are USA Network’s Psych.

New shows premiering next Wednesday are NBC’s Chicago PD.

Prime Picks

Arrow (The CW): Repeat. The “League of Assassins” episode from earlier this season replays. New episodes return January 15th with a pretty darn good one.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX): Repeats. The “Halloween” and “Thanksgiving” episodes replays, the latter being the best episode of the first half of the season.

The Soup (E!): Repeat. The annual “Clipdown” episode replays. Runs 30 minutes. Plays twice and again later twice.

Sports Notes

• ABC has college football action with the Capital One Bowl with South Carolina vs. Wisconsin.
• ESPN has three college football games today with the Outback Bowl with Iowa vs. LSU, the Rose Bowl with Stanford vs. Michigan State and the Fiesta Bowl with Central Florida vs. Baylor.
• ESPN2 has college football action with the Gator Bowl with Nebraska vs. Georgia.
• NBC has NHL action with the NHL Winter Classic with the Toronto Maple Leafs vs. the Detroit Red Wings.

New Year’s Day TV Marathons

Big Break NFL (Golf Channel): All 11 episodes replay.
Bring It On (MTV): The four sequels replay today.
Burn Notice (ION): Has 13 episodes.
Everybody Hates Chris/Love That Girl! (TV One): Has an episode of one and then the other alternating all day for a total of 14 episodes of each.
Futurama (Comedy Central): Has 13 episodes today.
Girlfriends (Centric): Has 28 episodes.
Girls (HBO): Has 10 episodes very early this morning.
Happy Endings (VH1): Has episodes all day.
House of Lies (Showtime): Has 13 episodes starting off with the “House of Lies Live” episode from last night, which also replays two more times tonight.
Law & Order (WEtv): Has 15 episodes.
The Lord of the Rings (TNT): The trilogy replays today.
NCIS (USA Network): Has 20 episodes.
Ravenswood (ABC Family): Has five episodes today.
Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network): Has seven episodes tonight.
Suits (Cloo): Has episodes all day.
Tosh.0 (Comedy Central): Has 14 episodes tonight.
The Tudors (BBC America): Has 20 episodes.
The Twilight Zone (Syfy): Has episodes all day.
The Walking Dead (AMC): Has episodes all day.