TV picks for Jan. 18: Megyn Kelly's 'Embeds,' 'People's Choice Awards,' Navy SEALs in 'Six'

January 17, 2017 at 11:27PM
FOR USE WITH FYI_TV CONTENT ONLY. Host Joel McHale of the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS 2017 from the Microsoft Theater L.A. Live, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017 (9:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT), scheduled to air on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS
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Joel McHale will host “The People’s Choice Awards.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Joel McHale hosts "The People's Choice Awards," a ceremony that guarantees star power by leaking the list of winners in advance. "Grey's Anatomy" leads all TV series in nominations, evidence of both the soap's lasting appeal and the producers' disinterest in living on the cutting edge. Case in point: Kevin Hart alone has five nominations.

8 p.m., WCCO, Ch. 4

Undercover of the night

Oscar-nominated writer William Broyles Jr. ("Apollo 13") and special-ops veteran David Broyles are the father-son team behind "Six," a long-delayed drama about the effort of a Navy SEAL team to wipe out a Taliban leader in 2014. Based on an idea from über producer Harvey Weinstein, it stars Walton Goggins ("Justified").

9 p.m., History Channel

Kelly's heroes

Megyn Kelly, who's making the jump from Fox News to NBC, is also using her star power behind the scenes. She's one of the producers on "Embeds," a comedy about the misadventures of young reporters covering a presidential campaign. The platform, go90, is fairly obscure — check it out at go90.com — and the cast has no big names, but Kelly's weight and the subject matter could generate some buzz.

Now streaming on go90

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FILE -- Megyn Kelly, a Fox News anchor, at the Peninsula Hotel in New York, Dec. 8, 2016. Kelly, who arrived at Fox News 12 years ago as a television news neophyte but rose to become one of its two biggest stars, will be leaving the network to take on a broad new role at NBC News for an undisclosed amount, people briefed on the negotiations said on Jan. 3, 2017. (Tawni Bannister/The New York Times)
Megyn Kelly (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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