Yes, it’s a big day. And by that I mean college football’s National Championship Game, which has Ohio State vs. Notre Dame (ESPN, 7 p.m.) from Atlanta.
Whether you want to witness the spectacle or prefer to avoid it entirely, know that The Presidential Inauguration (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, 10 a.m.) will dominate daytime programming, occurring in the very building his followers desecrated four years ago. Because they feared the cold. Well, maybe you’ll see some big stars celebrating, like Kid Rock or Lee Greenwood.
ABC and CBS have 10 p.m. specials summarizing the day’s events, but NBC has some amusingly titled counter-programming, “The Traitors” (NBC, 8 p.m.). It’s the third season start of the entertaining reality competition usually streaming on Peacock, and now sneaking onto primetime broadcast TV with its first two episodes.
Richard Flood stars as an Irish detective teamed with a New Zealand cop to find an Irish couple that go missing from a small New Zealand town in the new series “The Gone” (AcornTV, streaming).
“9-1-1: Lone Star” (Fox, 8 p.m.) responds to a fire at an armory.
An ATV accident gets the attention of “Rescue: Hi-Surf” (Fox, 9 p.m.).
“Antiques Roadshow” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) wraps up its visit to Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas.
Capt. Glenn lays down the law on “Below Deck Sailing Yacht” (Bravo, 8 p.m.).
“Making Manson” (Oxygen, 8 p.m.), the Peacock documentary series on Charles Manson, has all three episodes play on cable tonight — until after midnight.
Mammoth island is one of the “Mysteries of the Unknown” (Travel. 8 p.m.).
On “Contraband: Seized at the Airport” (Discovery, 9 p.m.) an agriculture dog sniffs a suitcase from Ethiopia.
Turner Classic Movies pays tribute to Martin Luther King all day with “A Patch of Blue” (6 a.m.), “The Learning Tree” (8 a.m.), “Sounder” (10 a.m.), “Lost Boundaries” (noon), “Intruder in the Dust” (2 p.m.), “A Raisin in the Sun” (3:30 p.m.), “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” (5:45 p.m.), “Boycott” (10:15 p.m.), “In the Heat of the Night” (12:15 a.m.) and “Malcolm X” (5:15 a.m.) as well as the documentaries “Nationtime” (8 p.m.), “I Am Somebody” (9:30 p.m.), “Freedom on My Mind” (2:15 a.m.) and “Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment” (4:15 a.m.).
Basketball includes Dallas at Charlotte (NBA, noon), Minnesota at Memphis (TNT, truTV, 2:30 p.m.), and Boston at Golden State (TNT, truTV, 5 p.m.).
Hockey has Tampa Bay at Toronto (NHL, 7:30 p.m.).
Men’s college basketball includes William & Mary at UNC Wilmington (CBS Sports, 1 p.m.), Hofstra at Drexel (CBS Sports, 3 p.m.), Georgetown at Villanova (Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.), Rutgers at Penn State (Peacock, 6:30 p.m.), Bucknell at Colgate (CBS Sports, 7 p.m.), and Hampton at North Carolina A&T (CBS Sports, 9 p.m.).
Women’s games include Toledo at Ball State (CBS Sports, 11 a.m.), Baylor at UCLA (Fox, 3 p.m.) and Texas at Maryland (Fox, 5:30 p.m.),
Daytime Talk
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos: Lucy Liu, Omari Hardwick. Kelly Clarkson: Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Gilbert, Jordan Davis (rerun). Drew Barrymore: Rosie Perez, Nichelle Turner (rerun). Tamron Hall: Jaleel White, Rain and Richard Pryor Jr. (rerun).
Late Talk
Stephen Colbert: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor, Jalen Ngonda. Jimmy Kimmel: Don Cheadle, Leanne Morgan, Pete Yorn. Jimmy Fallon: Colin Jost, David Alan Grier, Dorinda Medley, Stereo MC’s. Seth Meyers: Christian Slater, Zosia Mamet. Taylor Tomlinson: Guy Branym, Laura Peek, Zach Noe Towers (rerun).