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What’s on TV this week: 'The Last of Us,' 'Night Court,' 'That '90s Show' and more

Sunday

“Mayor of Kingstown” (Paramount+): This Michigan-set crime drama starring Jeremy Renner and Dianne Wiest returns for Season 2.

“28th Annual Critics Choice Awards” (The CW, 7 p.m. ET): Chelsea Handler hosts and Jeff Bridges and Janelle Monáe are singled out for special honors.

“Burned by Love” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): Lonely divorcee tries online dating site, scamming and stalking ensue in this new TV movie.

“Godfather of Harlem” (Epix, 9 p.m.): This crime drama starring Forest Whitaker returns for Season 3.

“Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor?” (CNN, 9 and 10 p.m.): This four-part profile of the former New York mayor turned Trump loyalist concludes with back-to-back episodes.

“The Way Home” (Hallmark, 9 p.m.): Andie MacDowell and “Supergirl's” Chyler Leigh play mother and daughter in this new multigenerational family drama.

“The Last of Us” (HBO, 9 p.m.): A smuggler (“Game of Thrones’” Pedro Pascal) treks across a post-apocalyptic America, a teenage girl (“Game of Thrones’” Bella Ramsey) in tow, in this new limited series based on the hit video game.

“Your Honor” (Showtime, 9 p.m.): Bryan Cranston comes off the bench for a second season of this New Orleans-set crime drama.

“MILF Manor” (TLC, 10 p.m.): Women of a certain age engage in what you might call a bit of cradle-robbing in this new competition.

Monday

“The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” (TCM, 5 p.m.): A Martin Luther King Jr. Day marathon includes this Emmy-winning 1974 TV movie starring Cicely Tyson.

“Down Home Fab” (HGTV, 9 p.m.): “Teen Mom 2’s” Chelsea and Cole DeBoer get into the renovation game in this new series.

“The Price of Glee” (Investigation Discovery, 9, 10 and 11 p.m.): This new three-part special rehashes the scandals and tragedies that befell cast members of the hit 2009-15 TV series.

“Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m.): The 2022 documentary “The Big Payback” wades into the controversy over efforts to pay reparations to Black Americans over slavery.

Tuesday

“Night Court” (NBC, 8 and 8:30 p.m.): All rise! A reboot of the 1984-1992 sitcom is now in session. With “The Big Bang Theory’s” Melissa Rauch and original co-star John Larroquette.

“Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” (PBS, 8 p.m.): Carol Burnett and “Reno 911!’s” Niecy Nash-Betts investigate their family histories in this new episode.

“New Amsterdam” (NBC, 9 and 10 p.m.): The NYC-set hospital drama starring Ryan Eggold ends its run after five seasons.

“American Experience” (PBS, 9 p.m.): Zora Neale Hurston, the influential Black writer of the classic novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” is celebrated in this new episode.

Wednesday

“Are You the One?” (Paramount+): There are plenty of fish in the sea as this international dating competition returns with new episodes.

“The Cupcake Guys” (Roku): Former NFL stars Michael Griffin and Brian Orakpo get into the baking game in this new reality series set in Austin, Texas.

“Nature” (PBS, 8 p.m.): The new episode “Wildheart” tells the story of a majestic Scots pine that has stood on a hillside in the Scottish Highlands for five centuries.

“Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller” (Nat Geo, 9 p.m.): The journalist’s investigations into the shadow economy continue for a third season.

“Dirty Old Cars” (History, 10 and 10:30 p.m.): The devil’s in the detailing in this new docuseries that follows three companies in the automobile restoration biz.

Thursday

“Sorry About the Demon” (Shudder): A lonely young man learns he’s not exactly as alone as he thought in this supernatural 2022 comedy.

“That ’90s Show” (Netflix): Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp reprise their parental-unit roles from “That ’70s Show” in this new spinoff of that 1996-08 sitcom.

“Web of Death” (Hulu): Online sleuths use their internet skills to help solve mysteries and murders in this new docuseries.

“Women at War” (Netflix): Return with us now to 1914 France in this new French-language drama set during World War I. With Sandrine Bonnaire and Tcheky Karyo.

Friday

“Bake Squad” (Netflix): They’re getting their just desserts in a second season of this baking competition hosted by Christina Tosi.

“Bling Empire: New York” (Netflix): They’re just as crazy, just as rich and just as Asian in this new reality TV spinoff set in the Big Apple.

“The Cabin Chronicles” (HBO Max, Discovery+): They’re not out of the woods yet in new episodes of this real-estate series.

“One Way” (Hulu): A young hoodlum (Colson Baker, aka rapper Machine Gun Kelly) in a jam turns to his hardened criminal father (Kevin Bacon) for help in this 2022 thriller.

“Truth Be Told” (Apple TV+): Your intrepid true-crime podcaster (Octavia Spencer) is back on the case for a third season. Gabrielle Union and Mekhi Phifer co-star.

“Real Time With Bill Maher” (HBO, 10 p.m.): The veteran comic's late-night current affairs-and-talk show returns for a 21st season.

“Game Theory With Bomani Jones” (HBO, 11 p.m.): The journalist's sports-talk series serves up its sophomore season premiere.

Saturday

“The Wedding Veil Journey” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.): Greece is the word, and the destination, in this new entry in the TV movie franchise. With Alison Sweeney.

“Bad Behind Bars: Jodi Arias” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): This new TV movie sequel continues the saga of the Arizona woman convicted in 2013 for the 2008 murder of her boyfriend.

“Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): "The White Lotus'" Aubrey Plaza hosts and British singer Sam Smith performs in this new episode.

“Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11:30 p.m.): Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada performs on a new installment of the concert series.

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(Los Angeles Times listings editor Matt Cooper compiled this column.)

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