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      Super Bowl LIX, Plus 9 Things to Watch on TV This Week

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      The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs will face off, after the much anticipated Puppy Bowl XXI.Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that air or stream this week, Feb. 3-9. Details and times are subject to change.A Sunday filled with football, puppies and ads.It’s time for the annual Taylor Swift-bowl — oh, sorry, I mean Super Bowl. For the second year in a row, Swift will be rooting on her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and his team, the Kansas City Chiefs, who are facing off against the Philadelphia Eagles at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on Fox.Before the biggest football game of the year, there is a much fiercer competition happening between team ruff and team fluff in their pursuit of the Lombarky trophy at Puppy Bowl XXI. Featuring over 100 puppies from shelters all around the country, it’s an opportunity to see cuteness on the small screen and support their adoptions. Sunday at 2 p.m. on TBS and streaming on Max.However you spend game day, get ready earlier in the week by recalling some of the best advertisements of the past, with “Super Bowl Greatest Commercials.” Wednesday at 9 p.m. on CBS.Puppy Bowl XXI features over 100 puppies from shelters all around the country.Animal Planet, via Associated PressAre you working on the yachts or chartering it?Everybody’s favorite hunky captain is back for a new season of “Below Deck Down Under,” the show that follows the crew of a charter yacht. Sailing around the Seychelles off the coast of Africa, Captain Jason Chambers leads a crew of familiar faces and some new ones — for the first time on the franchise, there is sous chef, which feels long overdue. But who is going to put in Captain Chambers’ contact lens now that his chief stewardess Aesha Scott has moved on to the original “Below Deck”? Monday at 8 p.m. on Bravo.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      ‘Mythic Quest’ Is Only the Start of Her Real-Life Journey

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      Season 4 of the Apple series has Charlotte Nicdao’s character branching out in new directions. The actress is doing likewise, including as a director.Set in a video game studio, the sitcom “Mythic Quest” is full of eccentric workaholics. But none are more frantic, frenzied or anxious than Poppy Li, played by Charlotte Nicdao.A prodigious but petulant engineer, Poppy is given to meltdowns and primal screams, many stemming from a war of wills with her egomaniacal, codependent business partner, Ian Grimm, played by Rob McElhenney. (McElhenney created the show with Charlie Day and Megan Ganz, who also work with him on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”)Over three seasons, Nicdao has viewed her character as everything from a “lovable underdog” to an unprintable descriptor. These days she’s looking favorably upon her geeky, gawky enfant terrible thanks to a paradigm shift in the fourth season, which debuted this week on Apple TV+. (Note the premiere episode is entitled “Boundaries.”)“There’s always this power imbalance between Poppy and Ian — like, who’s the queen, who’s the king?” Nicdao said. “This season, Poppy has got more power, there’s no question. But it’s not in the ways that you’d expect.”“Mythic Quest” is the first major American series for Nicdao, who grew up and still lives in Australia. Previously a classical pianist, singer and orchestral clarinetist, she started acting in high school productions and began her TV career at 17 on an Australian kids’ show. (Her father, Alfred Nicdao, is a well-known actor in Australia.)Nicdao with Rob McElhenney, a creator of the series who also plays her egomaniacal business partner at the video game company where they work.Patrick McElhenneyApple TV+We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      What’s the ‘S.N.L.’ Line That You and Your Friends Use?

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      “Making copies”? “Don’t make me sing”? “Wouldn’t be prudent”? We want to know. Talk amongst yourselves.My earliest memories of “Saturday Night Live” were hearing my parents incorporate catchphrases from Dana Carvey’s Church Lady — “Could it be … Satan?” or “Well isn’t that special?” — into casual conversation.Once I was allowed to stay up late enough to watch, I started doing the same thing — and looking for friends who didn’t think it was weird to respond to someone winning a video game with “We’re not worthy!”For the 50 years it has been on the air, “S.N.L.” has changed how we talk. That was the basis of our roundup of 50 catchphrases the show has popularized.Now we want to hear from you. Is there a catchphrase you’ve found yourself saying? Tell us about it and what your connection to it is.We will read every response and plan to publish a selection of them, but we won’t publish yours without following up with and hearing back from you. We won’t share your contact info outside the Times newsroom, and we won’t use it for any reason other than to get in touch. More

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      Melissa Rauch, ‘Night Court’ Star, on Her 10 Favorite Things

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      The “Night Court” star loves community theater and the “distilled joy” of watching people who perform just for fun.After almost a decade playing the microbiologist Bernadette on “The Big Bang Theory,” Melissa Rauch knew exactly what she wanted to do when the show ended in 2019.“I just fell in love with the format,” she said of the traditional style of filming in front of an audience. “It was my goal to bring more multicamera sitcoms to the landscape.”Rauch already had a production company at Warner Bros. And she had been a huge fan of the 1980s NBC comedy “Night Court,” starring Harry Anderson as Judge Harry T. Stone. Its irreverence. Its moments of heart. Its cranked-up, almost vaudevillian humor.So she set out to produce what she called a “newboot,” this time about Judge Abby Stone, Harry’s daughter. She just didn’t want to star in it. But the network was asking her to. So was John Larroquette, who was hemming and hawing about reprising his role as the lawyer Dan Fielding.“And I was like, ‘What am I doing?’” Rauch recalled. “If this script came to me, I’d be fighting for it. I’m being such a dummy.”Rauch finally told Larroquette that she was in as Abby.“I believe his words were, ‘Oh [expletive], now we’ve got to do this thing,’” Rauch said. (New episodes from Season 3 began airing last month on NBC.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Best Movies and Shows Streaming in February: ‘The White Lotus,’ ‘Yellowjackets’ and More

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      The third seasons of “Yellowjackets” and “The White Lotus” arrive, along with “Clean Slate” and “Win or Lose.”Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of February’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)New to Amazon Prime Video‘Clean Slate’ Season 1Starts streaming: Feb. 6One of the last projects that Norman Lear worked on before he died in 2023 at age 101, this dramedy follows in the Lear tradition of shows that tackle controversial social issues with frank honesty and snappy humor. George Wallace plays Harry, a carwash owner in Alabama owner whose cheery outlook on life is tested when the child he knew as Desmond, who has been estranged for decades, comes back as Desiree. Laverne Cox (also a co-producer and co-writer on the series with Wallace and the co-creator Dan Ewen) plays Desiree, who comes home looking for some closure with the family and friends in her small town.Also arriving:Feb. 6“Invincible” Season 3Feb. 7“Newtopia” Season 1Feb. 13“My Fault: London”Feb. 20“Reacher” Season 3Feb. 27“House of David”Haley Louise Jones and Şafak Sengul in “Berlin ER.”Apple TV+New to Apple TV+‘Berlin ER’Starts streaming: Feb. 26If telephiles haven’t gotten enough of a vintage “ER” fix from HBO Max’s excellent recent medical drama “The Pitt,” Apple TV+ may fill the need with its latest foreign import. The simply titled “Berlin ER” stars Haley Louise Jones as Dr. Parker, an accomplished young physician who for personal reasons decides to challenge herself by taking over the emergency department in an understaffed, underfunded hospital in one of the German capital’s roughest neighborhoods. The show offers all of the visceral, fast-paced thrills that genre fans have come expect — with lots of gory injuries and life-threatening diseases, treated in seconds under appalling conditions — while also depicting one woman’s attempt to earn the respect of her cynical staff.Also arriving:Feb. 5“Love You to Death”Feb. 14“Goldie” Season 1“The Gorge”Feb. 21“Onside: Major League Soccer”“Surface” Season 2We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      TikTok True Crime to Stream: ‘Dancing for the Devil’ and More

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      Across television, film and social media itself, here are four picks that explore crime stories associated in some way with the imperiled app.TikTok continues to be on shaky ground in the United States. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld a law passed by Congress last year that required a ban of the Chinese-owned app unless it was sold to a government-approved buyer.Hours before the law took effect, TikTok went dark briefly, then flickered back to life when President Trump, a day before his inauguration, indicated support for the app. He then signed an executive order stalling the ban for 75 days.Whether the app will disappear for good is unclear, but in the meantime, here are four true-crime stories associated with TikTok — the most downloaded app in the United States and the world in 2020, 2021 and 2022 — that captured broader attention.Documentary Series“Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult”It’s of course no secret that the glossy dance videos that have populated TikTok since its inception, along with much online content, is more fantasy than reality. But that’s little comfort to the revelations uncovered in this 2024 Netflix series.“Dancing for the Devil” primarily spends time with dancers who were managed by the talent company 7M Films and were members of Shekinah Church — both entities founded and led by Pastor Robert Shinn — as well as desperate family members of those still involved with 7M. These families claim that their loved ones are essentially trapped.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Michael Palin on His Diaries and Adventurous Life

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      In 1969, the British comedy writer and performer Michael Palin, then building a career out of being extremely silly, did something utterly sensible: He quit his 40-cigarettes-a-day smoking habit and began keeping a diary instead.Over the years, his meticulously maintained journals captured the rise of Monty Python — the hallowed sketch troupe he formed with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Terry Jones — including the creation of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “Life of Brian.” Later, they chronicled a surprising career development, when Palin reinvented himself as an amiable presenter of travel documentaries, crossing the globe for acclaimed series like “Around the World in 80 Days.”The first volume of his diaries, “The Python Years,” was published in 2006. The fourth, “There and Back,” will be released in the United States on Tuesday. In a video interview from his home in northwest London, Palin, 81, fielded questions about the four decades’ worth of life covered in his diaries and more. He’s come to expect this sort of inquisition.“That’s the thing about publishing your diaries,” Palin said. “I have to be able to justify my behavior in my life in a way.” These are edited excerpts from the conversation.How did quitting smoking lead you to start keeping a diary?When I gave up smoking — it was virtually overnight — it was a quite extraordinary feeling of effective use of willpower. In the back of my mind, I thought, how else can I use this newly enlivened willpower? Keeping a diary must have been the first thing that came into my head.Palin started keeping a diary in 1969, the same year Monty Python began. “The diaries constantly surprise me, how I completely contradict myself,” he said.Max Miechowski for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Review: In ‘Common Side Effects,’ It’s Fungus vs. Them

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      A weird, deadpan animated thriller finds a new timeliness in ancient medicine.From “The Last of Us” to athlete’s foot commercials, fungus does not have the best of reputations on television. But what if it could save us all?“Common Side Effects,” a wryly funny animated conspiracy thriller beginning Sunday on Adult Swim, suggests that not everybody would be pleased.Marshall Cuso (Dave King), an eccentric environmentalist and self-employed scientist, discovers a rare mushroom on an expedition to Peru. The fungus, a ghostly specimen called the Blue Angel, can cure almost any illness and heal seemingly fatal injuries — including the ones Marshall sustains when he is attacked by gunmen immediately after making his discovery.Back in the States, pursued by the Drug Enforcement Administration and other, more mysterious figures, Marshall runs into Frances Applewhite (Emily Pendergast), his former school lab partner who is now unhappily working for a pharmaceutical giant. Together, they make a pact to bring the magic mushroom to the people and protect it from the forces who would like to erase all traces of its existence.Who are those forces? Them. And who’s them? “Big Pharma, the insurance companies, the government,” Marshall explains. “All the people who make tons of money just from keeping us sick.”A figure like Marshall — nerdy, neckbearded, with a prominent belly hanging from his Hawaiian shirt and one big theory that explains it all — would usually be portrayed on TV as, at best, a well-meaning kook, a side character who exists for laughs and exposition. Even in the conspiracy-riddled world of “The X-Files,” he would be more of a Lone Gunman than a Fox Mulder.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More