Our TV critic's picks for the coming weeks: Football, 'Agent Carter,' and 'American Idol'

Don't miss these five this week.

NFL Playoffs. Football playoff season began Saturday. You can catch two games Sunday. In the AFC wild-card round, the Indianapolis Colts host the Cincinnati Bengals. 1:05 p.m. on CBS. In the NFC wild-card round, the Dallas Cowboys host the Detroit Lions. 4:40 p.m. on Fox.

Celebrating Dr. King and the Selma Marches 50 Years Later. Oprah will have an in-depth chat with Selma star David Oyelowo and the film's Golden Globe-nominated director, Ava DuVernay. The one-hour program will be followed by Oprah's Master Class: Civil Rights Special, featuring firsthand accounts of the civil rights movement from Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, and Diahann Carroll. 9 p.m. Sunday on OWN.

Rich Hill. Documentary filmmakers Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo's hard-hitting Sundance winner explores poverty in America through the lives of kids in a rural town. The film humanizes the statistics (50 million Americans live below the poverty line) by focusing on a year in the life of three teens from Rich Hill, Mo. 10 p.m. Monday on PBS.

Marvel's Agent Carter. Inspired by the recent Captain America films, this new adventure series has Hayley Atwell reprising her movie role as Peggy Carter, who balances secretarial work for Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) while also going on secret missions. James D'Arcy costars as Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, and Chad Michael Murray is S.S.R. agent Jack Thompson. The series premieres with a double episode 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tuesday on ABC.

American Idol: Audition. The 14th season of the greatest talent show premieres with a two-night stop in Nashville for a series of auditions hosted by Ryan Seacrest and evaluated by Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, and Harry Connick, Jr. 8 p.m. Wednesday and 8 p.m. Thursday on Fox.