Another entry in tonight’s TCM salute to Neil Simon, this 1970 move stars Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as visitors to New York, whose every bite of the Big Apple leads to something very sour. If you want to understand, or relive, the urban squalor of the big city circa 1970, this is it. Simon’s dialogue, and the acting by the stars, is very funny – but the location photography is dismally, and intentionally, depressing. It’s followed at midnight ET by a much earlier, Simo

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FARGO MARATHON By David Bianculli

All 10 episodes of FX’s delightfully different take on the Joel and Ethan Coen Fargo film, a series that presented its own characters and story but kept the original spirit intact, are presented today by sister network FXM. It’s a very different way to begin the New Year – but also a very, very good one. Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton star.

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2015 ROSE BOWL By David Bianculli

Well, here it is – the day of the semifinal games for the brand new College Football Playoff. Four teams play today in two games, and the winners of those games move on to the national championship 11 days from now. First up, in the Rose Bowl: the defending national champions, the Florida State Seminoles (seeded No. 3), battle the No. 2 seed, the Oregon Ducks. Both teams feature hot young quarterbacks: FSU’s Jameis Winston and Oregon’s Marcus Mariota.

2015

Jan

THE GODFATHER By David Bianculli

Here’s an offer that may be difficult to refuse: Cinemax is presenting Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 film version of the Mario Puzo Mafia family saga as a New Year’s Day treat – in prime time, uninterrupted and unedited. Al Pacino and Marlon Brando star.

2015

Jan

MARX BROTHERS MARATHON By David Bianculli

This New Year’s Day collection of Marx Brothers movies begins with 1932’s Horse Feathers (8 p.m. ET), followed by the team’s classic 1935 comedy, A Night at the Opera (9:15 p.m. ET, pictured). Sadly, there’s no Duck Soup this time around. But how sad can you be, really, when it’s wall-to-wall Marx Brothers?

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2015 SUGAR BOWL By David Bianculli

Part 2 of today’s first-ever College Football Playoff semifinal features the nation’s top-seeded team, the Alabama Crimson Tide, against No. 4 seed the Ohio State Buckeyes, in this year’s Sugar Bowl. The stakes are high – and the reputation of Alabama receiver Amari Cooper is even higher. He’s lauded as the best receiver in college football. For more on today’s bowl games, see Gerald Jordan’s Crossing Jordan.

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