Weekly TV Picks

All times Eastern

Sunday, Jan. 14

National Football League Conference Championships AFC, CBS, 12:30 p.m., and NFC, Fox, 4 p.m. Game times might change due to matchups; check local listings.

These games – the championships of the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference — will decide which two teams go to the NFL's title game, the Super Bowl, on Jan. 28.

SUNDAY, JAN. 14

The Holy Cities, Part III

EWTN, 8 p.m.

This final installment (after tours of Rome and Jerusalem) tours Assisi, the home of St. Francis and St. Clare. This town of 25,000 in Umbria, central Italy, contains historic sites from the Etruscan epoch onward, including the holy places associated with the beloved founders of the Franciscans and the Poor Clares.

To be rebroadcast on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 1 p.m. and on Friday, Jan. 19, at 3 a.m. and 10 p.m.

SUNDAY, JAN. 14

Raising the Mammoth

Discovery, 9 p.m.

Expedition leader Bernard Buigues and his team perform the first-ever complete removal of a Pleistocene animal from the permafrost in Siberia. The Jarkov Mammoth – named after the family of reindeer herders who found his tusks protruding from the ice on the Taimyr Peninsula in 1997 — died around age 47 some 20,000 winters ago. This show features exciting computer recreations of the mammoth's life.

THURSDAY, JAN. 18

Mission Possible: The Shuttle Astronauts

A&E, 10 p.m.

For this report on the space station shuttle astronauts, Bill Kurtis got “unprecedented access” to NASA's Houston headquarters, to our launch site in Florida, and to Russia's Star City complex outside Moscow.

FRIDAY, JAN. 19

The Competition: Jack Russell Terrier Trials

A&E, 9 p.m.

The energetic short-haired terriers perform marvels during this international meet.

SATURDAY, JAN. 20

The Presidential Inauguration

Most networks, 10:30 a.m.; check local listings.

The eyes of all America will be upon Texan George W. Bush when Chief Justice William Rehnquist swears him in as the 43rd President of the United States. The west front of the Capitol is the setting for the ceremonies.

10:30 am: Pre-inaugural music starts.

11:30 am: The official swearing-in begins.

11:50 am: Richard Cheney takes the Vice Presidential oath.

Noon: Bush makes his Presidential oath and then delivers his Inaugural Address.

2 pm: The Inaugural parade sets off.

SATURDAYS

Sunday Dinner

Odyssey, 6 p.m.

This show gives us a look at Sunday dinners at the homes of celebrities such as pro-lifer Kathy Ireland, Sheree Wilson and Susan Egan.