What to Watch on Sunday: Jason Bateman in a terrifying Stephen King adaptation
25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards (8 p.m., The CW) - If you love an award show but without a snarky host, this one will recognize the finest in cinematic and television treatment. Taye Diggs will be your guide.
A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery (8 p.m., Hallmark and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) - In this new movie, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha’s Vineyard after being forced into early retirement. But it’s not quiet for long. When a body washes up on the beach, Jeff is drawn back into crime solving.
Psycho Party Planner (8 p.m., Lifetime) - In this new Lifetime movie, an art gallery owner hires a party planner to organize her daughter’s 16th birthday party, but the planner becomes obsessed with the teen and tries to become her mother.
The Outsider (9 p.m., HBO) - This new series is adapted from the 2018 Stephen King horror novel about a small town teacher and Little League baseball coach accused of the gruesome murder of a young boy. People witness him with the boy just before the murder and witness him leaving the murder scene covered in blood, but he also has a solid alibi in a town miles away. What is going on? The book is terrifying and the adaptation (by Richard Price) does it justice. Jason Bateman plays the accused coach and Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo are the investigators.
Sanditon (9 p.m., PBS / UNC-TV) - The latest Masterpiece offering comes from Jane Austen’s last, fragmentary work, which is filled out by screenwriter Andrew Davies. Rose Williams stars as Austen’s heroine, and Theo James plays her romantic foil. The first two episodes air tonight and the show continues on Sundays through February 23.
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