The NFL championship, overhyped with the now-trademarked name Super Bowl 60 years ago, plays out tonight as New England vs. Seattle (NBC, 6:30 p.m.) with coverage that begins more than six hours earlier, at noon, including a White House interview that may put you in a bad enough mood to destroy the television.
On the other hand, Green Day is to play during the pregame events, following a show Friday in San Francisco in which they called out ICE and inserted Epstein Island into their “Holiday.”
Bad Bunny, the best-selling, Grammy winner from the U.S. possession Puerto Rico, famously performs the halftime show entirely in Spanish. Charlie Puth will sing the national anthem; Brandi Carlile will handle “America the Beautiful”; Coco Jones will do “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” And there will be commercials.
A xenophobic counter halftime show with Kid Rock will run online, but when it comes to sports ball alternatives, we’d prefer Puppy Bowl XXII (Animal Planet, Discovery, TBS, truTV, 2 p.m.) with its own pregame show at 1.
But even that has competition, with the Great American Rescue Bowl 2026 (Great American Family, noon), which also honors rescue pets and advocates adoption of shelter pets.
The Super Bowl puts a pinch on what NBC would usually reserve for “Primetime in Milan: Olympics” (NBC, 10:45 p.m.), so they bump it very late and run highlights through the night , . There are some live events on the broadcast network this morning, but otherwise they’re all on cable: with mixed doubles curling (USA, 5 a.m.), women’s downhill skiing (USA, 5:30 a.m.), men’s cross country skiing (USA, 6:45 a.m.; NBC, 7 a.m.), snowboarding (NBC, 7:30 a.m.), U.S. vs. Estonia (USA, 8:30 a.m.) in mixed doubles skiing, mixed relay biathlon (NBC, 8:45 a.m.), men’s luge (USA, 11 a.m.), figure skating (USA, 1:30 p.m.), Czech Republic vs. Finland (USA, 5 p.m.) in women’s hockey and very, very late tonight, men’s downhill skiing (USA, 4:30 a.m.).
Nearly lost in all this activity is one new series premiering tonight, “The ‘Burbs” (Peacock, streaming) in which Keke Palmer and Jack Whitehall move back to his childhood home, where odd threats begin to occur.
On “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” (HBO, 10 p.m.), Dunk must find six knights to fight by his side. He may even get to joust before the season ends.
Harper is distracted by a personal crisis on “Industry” (HBO, 9 p.m.)
“Miss Scarlet” (PBS, 8 p.m.) deals with a gang leader trying to spring from Scotland Yard.
James becomes an attending veterinarian at a dog track on “All Creatures Great and Small” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings).
“Bookish” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) has a new case: about the poisoning of a captain by a cocktail at a hotel bar. But was he the intended target?
Interesting counter-programming on Bravo are the first two episodes of this season’s “The Traitors” (Bravo, 7 and 8:30 p.m.), migrating from its streaming site.
“Air Disasters” (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.) looks at a crash in the waters off Cape Cod.
The concluding half of a two-week Sunday night salute to director Michael Schultz on Turner Classic Movies has his “Which Way is Up?” (8 p.m.) and “Krush Groove” (10 p.m.). Then comes the silent “Within Our Gates” (midnight) and a documentary about its maker, “Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking” (1:30 a.m.), and two French imports: “Métisse” (3 a.m.) and “Maitresse” (4:45 a.m.).
NBA action includes New York at Boston (ABC, 12:30 p.m.) and Clippers at Minnesota (ESPN, 3 p.m.).
Final rounds are played in the Phoenix Open (Golf, noon; CBS, 3 p.m.).Men’s college basketball includes Tulsa at South Florida (ESPNU, noon), Texas Tech at West Virginia (Fox, 1 p.m.), Michigan at Ohio State (CBS, 1 p.m.), North Carolina Greensboro at Furman (ESPN2, 1 p.m.), UCF at Cincinnati (CBS Sports, 2 p.m.) and Northwestern at Iowa (Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.).
Women’s college basketball include James Madison at Massachusetts (CBS Sports, noon), Louisville at Syracuse (CW, noon), Marquette at Creighton (Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.), SMU at Duke (CW, 2 p.m.), UCLA at Michigan (Fox, 3 p.m.) and Tennessee at South Carolina (ABC, 3 p.m.).
How ridiculous that no game dare cut into the Super Bowl time.
Sunday Talk
ABC: Sen. Adam Schiff, Rep. Mike Lawler. CBS: Sen. Mark Warner, Rep. Tony Gonzales, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, center of election innovation and research executive David Becker. CNN: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, CMS administrator Mehmet Oz. Fox: Sens. Bill Hagerty and Mark Warner.