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Sunday, Sept. 23: Jennifer Love Hewitt Joins ‘9-1-1’ Season 2

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Sunday, Sept. 23

9-1-1
FOX, 8pm
Season Premiere!

The first-responder ensemble drama starring Angela Bassett, Peter Krause, Oliver Stark, Aisha Hinds, Kenneth Choi and Rockmond Dunbar returns with Jennifer Love Hewitt joining the cast. “I play a woman named Maddie, who is Buck’s sister,” the actress shares. “She comes to her brother pretty broken and bothered by what’s happening in her life and needing to start over and needing a place to maybe figure out who she really is and, hopefully, help other people. She was a nurse before and, through his guidance and brilliance, becomes a 911 operator.” Tonight’s episode is the first part of a two-night premiere event. Part 2 airs tomorrow.

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Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
PBS, 7:30pm

Anne Shirley (Ella Ballentine), the beloved heroine of L.M. Montgomery’s classic novels, is back in another film, which aired in Canada last year (where it was nominated for and won a couple of Canadian Screen Awards). In Fire & Dew, Matthew (Martin Sheen) and Marilla (Sara Botsford) face emptiness when Anne heads to school in the city. Will Anne — overwhelmed by competition, especially from Gilbert Blythe (Drew Haytaoglu) — find that the dark cloud over her life does have a silver lining?

The Ben Shapiro Election Special
FOX News Channel, 8pm
New Series!

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro hosts this four-episode midterm election series. Each Sunday, Shapiro will be joined by a panel of experts along with influential guests to discuss the major headlines of the week and their impact on the upcoming 2018 midterm elections. The hourlong program will also feature Shapiro’s unique political commentary and analysis on the major issues affecting the younger voting demographic this election season.

Celebrity Family Feud
ABC, 8pm
Season Finale!

One of this season’s favorite games, the Kardashian family vs. the West family, will be rebroadcast. Then in a new, separate game, actress and country music star Jana Kramer competes against Academy Award nominee and author Gary Busey, along with their families.

Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill
Lifetime, 8pm
Original Film!

This film is based on real-life events, court testimonies and authentic texts, and follows the tragic teen romance of Michelle Carter (Bella Thorne) and Conrad Roy (Austin P. McKenzie). After Conrad, a loner, meets Michelle while on vacation, the two carry out their romance largely over the phone. But when Conrad ends his life and his text messages reveal that Michelle encouraged him to carry out the act, the legal system — and the court of public opinion — must decide if technology and texting can be blamed for suicide.

NFL Football: New England at Detroit
NBC, 8:20pm Live

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are at Detroit’s Ford Field for a Week 3 Sunday Night Football meeting with Matthew Stafford and the Lions.

The $100,000 Pyramid
ABC, 9pm
Season Finale!

The first hour of tonight’s 2-hour season finale features the stars of ABC’s Splitting Up Together, Jenna Fischer and Oliver Hudson, followed by U.S. Olympians Johnny Weir and Gabby Douglas. In the second hour, television personality Ross Mathews competes against actress and author Vivica A. Fox, followed by author and television host Kelly Osbourne vs. actor Matt McGorry (How to Get Away With Murder).

Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest
Disney XD, 9pm
Season Premiere!

Season 5 of the Avengers’ animated adventures focuses on the character Black Panther. In the premiere episode, “Shadow of Atlantis, Part One,” Black Panther and the Avengers must defend New York City from an invasion of monsters. Part two of the season premiere follows immediately after this episode.

Worst Cooks in America: “Finally the Finale”
Food Network, 9pm
Season Finale!

The remaining recruits face off in one last skill drill to determine who will compete in the finale. To see how far they’ve come, the recruits re-create their baseline dishes using all the techniques they’ve learned in boot camp. Then chefs Robert Irvine and Anne Burrell teach their final two recruits how to make a three-course, restaurant-quality meal, and the two finalists put all their culinary skills to the test in order to impress a panel of culinary experts.

Collision Course: “Captain Sully”
REELZ Channel, 10pm

On Jan. 15, 2009, just three minutes after takeoff on a routine flight from LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, N.C., US Airways Flight 1549 suddenly fell from the sky. Without power, veteran pilot Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger decided to ditch the Airbus A320 into the frigid waters of the Hudson River. All 155 people aboard survived. The media called it the “Miracle on the Hudson,” and Sully was celebrated as a hero for his grace under pressure. This episode looks at how Capt. Sully’s incredible instincts and skill saved all those lives.

Monday, Sept. 24

Ackley Bridge
Acorn TV
Season Premiere!

The school-based British drama returns for the exclusive U.S. premiere of Season 2. Set in a 50/50 multicultural school in West Yorkshire, the series offers a character-driven, gritty, funny, truthful and mischievous angle into the daily drama of the teachers, teenagers and families whose lives and cultures collide in a fictional 21st-century northern town.

Dancing With the Stars: “Premiere: Night 1”
ABC, 8pm Live
Season Premiere!

Your favorite dancing show is back with a new, dynamic cast of celebrities ready to hit the ballroom floor.

The Big Bang Theory
CBS, 8pm
Season Premiere!

Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) begin their lives as a married couple as the long-running comedy begins its 12th and final season. Expect to see Sheldon and Amy on their honeymoon, and working on their joint theory of “super asymmetry.” After tonight’s premiere, the series moves to its regular day and time beginning Thursday.

The Resident: “00:42:30”
FOX, 8pm
Season Premiere!

A blackout at Chastain Memorial Hospital requires the staff to go “old school” and treat their patients without the help of technology. Dr. Bell (Bruce Greenwood) orders the staff to stop accepting new patients and transfer those on life support, but when a child is rushed to the ER, Conrad (Matt Czuchry) and Devon (Manish Dayal) go against the mandate.

Jane Fonda in Five Acts
HBO, 8pm

Documentarian Susan Lacy, who created PBS’ acclaimed American Masters series and directed last year’s outstanding Spielberg for HBO, is back with another fascinating profile in this two-hour-plus film about the incredible life of Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda. Through a series of interviews with Lacy, the legend looks back on the various “acts” of her life — which have seen her be everything from sex symbol to political activist to fitness tycoon — including what the still busy and now 80-something actress calls the beginning of her last act.

The Voice
NBC, 8pm
Season Premiere!

Superstar coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson search for an amazing voice in Season 15 of this singing competition.

Young Sheldon
CBS, 8:30pm
Season Premiere!

In the Season 2 premiere episode “A High-Pitched Buzz and Training Wheels,” after Sheldon (Iain Armitage) dismantles the refrigerator to stop an annoying hum, he gets a paper route to pay for the repairs.

Magnum P.I.
CBS, 9pm
New Series!

The classic 1980s series gets a modern-day update with a new, charming Thomas Magnum (Hostel’s Jay Hernandez), a decorated former Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator and security consultant with a very posh lifestyle. With keys to a vintage Ferrari in one hand, aviator sunglasses in the other and an Old Düsseldorf longneck chilling in the fridge, Magnum is back on the case.

Halloween Baking Championship
Food Network, 9pm
Season Premiere!

The competition begins with a deliciously difficult pre-heat as eight bakers weave spider-web desserts with creatures trapped inside. In the main heat, wily witch hunter John Henson challenges the bakers to create melting desserts that reveal a Halloween item inside.

9-1-1: “7.1”
FOX, 9pm

The two-part season premiere concludes tonight. After a massive earthquake rocks Los Angeles, the first responders rush to rescue victims from a crumbling high-rise hotel both under the rubble and high above the ground.

No Greater Law
A&E, 10pm

This two-hour documentary introduces viewers to the families, beliefs and primeval rejection of compromise behind an elusive and private faith-healing church known as the Followers of Christ. As an effort grows by outsiders and the local sheriff’s office to confront an issue they say puts children at risk, the conflict tests the politicians and legality of exemptions that support and protect the church’s way of life. Exploring the narrative and ideological rift with empathy for all involved, the film lays bare a cultural fracture in the American religious psyche.

The Good Doctor: “Hello”
ABC, 10pm
Season Premiere!

Shaun’s (Freddie Highmore) proposed treatment for a homeless patient puts him and Jared (Chuku Modu) in Andrews’ (Hill Harper) crosshairs. Meanwhile, Claire (Antonia Thomas) tries to overcome Melendez’s (Nicholas Gonzalez) reluctance to do a risky heart operation while Glassman (Richard Schiff) must overcome his personal feelings about his oncologist, Dr. Marina Blaize (guest star Lisa Edelstein), and face a difficult decision about his health.

Bull
CBS, 10pm
Season Premiere!

Season 3 of the legal drama begins with “The Ground Beneath Their Feet.” Following his heart attack, Bull (Michael Weatherly) returns to work with a new rich client for the firm to represent: an insurance company being sued by a dying mother for denying coverage of her liver transplant.

Manifest
NBC, 10pm
New Series!

This relationship drama seeks to find answers to what happened to a missing plane and all of its passengers when it returns five years later. For the people aboard, it was just a three-hour timespan, but for their families and friends, it’s been five years of grief and life changes. “I thought of this crazy idea 10 years ago driving in a minivan with my family halfway between L.A. and the Grand Canyon. And I told everybody in town about it, and everybody thought it was ridiculous, so I put it on the shelf,” says series creator Jeff Rake. “Then the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared, and suddenly my pie‑in‑the‑sky crazy idea didn’t feel as crazy and impossible after all. So I dusted that old idea off the shelf, and the good people at Warner Bros. and NBC thought it was worth pursuing, and here we are 10 years later.”

X Company: “Frontiers”
Ovation, 10pm

The team must free Faber (Torben Liebrecht) from the Polish resistance as Aurora (Evelyne Brochu) goes undercover to take on a new and disturbing job.

POV: “Survivors”
PBS, 10pm

Meet two Sierra Leonean healthcare workers who heroically face the Ebola epidemic in their country, chronicling their remarkable stories during one of the most acute public health crises of the modern era.

Tuesday, Sept. 25

Dancing With the Stars: “Premiere: Night 2”
ABC, 8pm Live

The second part of the finale airs tonight at a special time as the competition begins for its new cast members.

NCIS
CBS, 8pm
Season Premiere!

NCIS marks its 16th season with the premiere episode “Destiny’s Child.” One month after Director Vance (Rocky Carroll) was kidnapped, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is assigned the role of acting director in his absence while the team searches worldwide for his whereabouts.

The Gifted: “eMergence”
FOX, 8pm
Season Premiere!

Season 2 premieres with the subheading “Dawn of the Mutant Age” and finds Reeva Payge (Grace Byers) purging the Inner Circle of those who disagree with her. Six months later, as Polaris (Emma Dumont) prepares for the birth of her baby and her contractions wreak havoc by magnetizing anything metal around her, she makes Andy (Percy Hynes White) promise to save the baby, no matter what.

The Great American Read: “Heroes”
PBS, 8pm

Follow the trials and tribulations of some of literature’s favorite protagonists. From Katniss Everdeen to Don Quixote, examine how these everyday heroes and antiheroes find their inner strength, overcome challenges and rise to the occasion.

FBI
CBS, 9pm
New Series!

Ever-prolific producer Dick Wolf (of the Law & Order and Chicago franchises) is back with another procedural crime drama, this one focused on New York City’s office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Missy Peregrym and Zeeko Zaki lead the cast as partners in the drama that follows the successful Wolf formula of creating stories and cases drawn from topical headlines of the day.

Lethal Weapon
FOX, 9pm
Season Premiere!

Seann William Scott joins the cast after the departure of series star Clayne Crawford, who played Martin Riggs alongside Damon Wayans’ Roger Murtaugh. When asked about the casting change during the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, FOX Television Group co-chairman Gary Newman shared, “There was really no thought of plastic surgery and bringing back the same character. [Showrunner] Matt [Miller] developed a complex, layered character for Seann, which we’re excited to show the audience in September.” We’ll have to wait and see how the series chooses to handle the major cast change.

Life Below Zero
National Geographic, 9pm
Season Premiere!

Winter is looming near the Arctic Circle in Alaska, and the Hailstone family, Sue Aikens, Andy Bassich, Jessie Holmes, Glenn Villeneuve and the series’ newest cast member Ricko DeWilde — a native Athabascan Indian who was born and raised in the Alaskan bush and who enjoys a primitive, hermit-like lifestyle — dig in to ensure their survival. This season, the fearless Alaskans face Mother Nature’s wrathful darkness and battle whiteout snowstorms, man-eating carnivores and treacherous frozen terrain. The series will enjoy its 100th episode in early 2019.

This Is Us
NBC, 9pm
Season Premiere!

The beloved drama returns with new adventures for the Pearson family. Last season’s finale offered glimpses of the family one year in the future, including newlywed Kate (Chrissy Metz) helping her husband, Toby (Chris Sullivan), through a dark period of depression. We spoke to Sullivan, who is excited for fans to see another side of his normally jovial character and shares, “I don’t think you really know anyone until you’ve seen their suffering or their sadness.”

The Mayo Clinic: Faith – Hope – Science
PBS, 9pm

Though short (by his standards), Ken Burns’ two-hour documentary film, co-directed with Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, is nonetheless every bit as fascinating as his previous works as it explores the history of Minnesota’s famed Mayo Clinic. Along with Burns’ familiar approach — including voice-overs from the likes of Sam Waterston and Tom Hanks placed over historical footage and images — the film also combines the past with the present as it interweaves those elements with current stories of patients who have come to Mayo looking for answers.

Flipping Out: “A Very Lewis Christmas”
Bravo, 10pm

The team heads to New York City; it’s Monroe’s first trip, making Jeff and Gage nervous; Jeff charters a private plane and brings along Monroe’s nanny and grandparents; the team searches for real estate for Jeff’s client, Julie Grossi.

NCIS: New Orleans
CBS, 10pm
Season Premiere!

NCIS star Mark Harmon makes a guest appearance as Special Agent Gibbs for the Season 5 premiere episode “See You Soon.” While Pride (Scott Bakula) fights for his life in the ICU, the team scours the city for the hitwoman who attempted to assassinate him.

New Amsterdam
NBC, 10pm
New Series!
Inspired by the real-life Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in America, this unique medical drama follows the brilliant and charming Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold), the institution’s newest medical director, who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care. Can he disrupt the status quo and breathe new life into this understaffed, underfunded and underappreciated hospital, and return it to the glory that originally put it on the map? Freema Agyeman, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims, Anupam Kher and Tyler Labine also star.

The Purge: “Release the Beast”
USA Network, 10pm

Jane (Amanda Warren) must leave the office. Lila (Lili Simmons) consoles Jenna (Hannah Anderson). Penelope (Jessica Garza) is thrust into the Carnival of Flesh.

Mr Inbetween
FX, 11:30pm
New Series!

Newcomer Scott Ryan plays Ray Shoesmith, a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend who also happens to be a badass criminal for hire, in this half-hour Australian dramedy. This six-episode first season is darkly entertaining.

Wednesday, Sept. 26

The Goldbergs: “Sixteen Candles”
ABC, 8pm
Season Premiere!

It’s Adam’s (Sean Giambrone) 16th birthday, but his parents are too distracted by Barry (Troy Gentile) and Lainey’s (A.J. Michalka) engagement and Erica’s (Hayley Orrantia) band ambitions to remember their youngest son’s big day. But the situation presents an opportunity for Adam to ask Erica to put him on the high school social map. Meanwhile, Beverly (Wendi McLendon-Covey) thinks she can scare Barry and Lainey straight with the reality of being adults.

Survivor: David vs. Goliath
CBS, 8pm
Season Premiere!

Survivor’s 37th season — dubbed “David vs. Goliath” — returns to the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji. This edition features 20 new castaways divided into two groups of 10 strangers. Castaways who make up the “David” tribe have overcome adversity in their lives, while the castaways on the “Goliath” tribe tend to capitalize on their individual advantages and use it against their opponents.

Empire: “Steal From the Thief”
FOX, 8pm
Season Premiere!

Two years after losing Empire to Eddie Barker (guest star Forest Whitaker), Cookie and Lucious are still in the midst of picking up the pieces. The Lyon family is completely dispersed, and in an effort to reclaim their position in the music industry, Cookie sets her eyes on a talented new singer and rapper named Treasure (guest star Katlynn Simone).

Chicago Med: “Be My Better Half”
NBC, 8pm
Season Premiere!

Season 4 of the medical drama that is part of mega-producer Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise begins tonight.

American Housewife: “Mom Guilt”
ABC, 8:30pm
Season Premiere!

After spending years as a full-time mom, Katie (Katy Mixon) goes back to work as a party planner, which brings new challenges of balancing home and work life into the mix.

Modern Family: “I Love a Parade”
ABC, 9pm
Season Premiere!

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan are going to be setting off more than a few fireworks when they get together at the annual Fourth of July parade where Jay (Ed O’Neill) will be acting as the grand marshal. Meanwhile, Haley’s (Sarah Hyland) goodbye with Arvin (Chris Geere) before his trip to Switzerland doesn’t go as well as she pictured it.

Star: “Secrets & Lies”
FOX, 9pm
Season Premiere!

The new season picks up three months after the events of the season finale, as Star returns home from touring and makes a big announcement that leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

Chicago Fire: “A Closer Eye”
NBC, 9pm
Season Premiere!

Casey (Jesse Spencer) tries to deal with his unsettled personal life, and the firehouse welcomes a new member. Meanwhile, Boden (Eamonn Walker) clashes with new Assistant Deputy Commissioner Jerry Gorsch (guest star Steven Boyer).

NOVA: “Transplanting Hope”
PBS, 9pm

Follow the patients who desperately need transplants to save their lives, see the profound decisions families face in donating the organs of loved ones who die, and learn about the critical shortage of organs and new research into “organs by design.”

Single Parents
ABC, 9:30pm
New Series!

This ensemble comedy follows a group of single parents as they lean on each other to help raise their 7-year-old kids and maintain some kind of personal lives outside of parenthood. In the pilot episode, the group meets Will (Taran Killam), a 30-something guy who’s been so focused on raising his daughter that he’s lost sight of who he is as a man. When the other single parents see just how “deep in the vortex” of PTA, parenting and princesses Will has gone, they band together to get him out in the world and make him realize that being a great parent doesn’t mean sacrificing everything about your own identity. Leighton Meester, Brad Garrett, Kimrie Lewis and Jake Choi also star.

A Million Little Things
ABC, 10pm
New Series!

They say friendship isn’t one big thing, it’s a million little things, and this emotional drama follows a group of Boston friends who believe that. These guys met, bonded and committed to a lifelong friendship after being stuck in an elevator. When one of their foursome unexpectedly dies, it’s a wake-up call to the others to start living.

South Park
Comedy Central, 10pm
Season Premiere!

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are back for Season 22 of Comedy Central’s ever-popular South Park. The Season 21 finale saw Cartman break up with Heidi, and President Garrison desperate and on the run after his “splatty tomato” approval rating.

Chicago P.D.: “New Normal”
NBC, 10pm
Season Premiere!

Bad heroin is causing overdoses in Chicago, and Intelligence is a man down with Voight (Jason Beghe) suspended. Antonio (Jon Seda) takes charge, but Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) undermines his authority.

BoJack Horseman
Comedy Central, 10:30pm
Network Premiere!

Comedy Central has acquired exclusive linear TV rights to Seasons 1-4 of Netflix’s hit animated comedy BoJack Horseman, which follows washed-up ’90s sitcom star BoJack Horseman (voice of Will Arnett) as he tries to get his life together and make a career comeback. Aaron Paul, Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie and Paul F. Tompkins also star in the voice cast.

Thursday, Sept. 27

Grey’s Anatomy: “With a Wonder and a Wild Desire/Broken Together”
ABC, 8pm
Season Premiere!

The first half of this 2-hour premiere begins with the doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial vying for a new position. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) struggles to stay focused, and Maggie (Kelly McCreary) finds herself the keeper of a big secret while Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) try to figure out their relationship. Meanwhile, Jo (Camilla Luddington) and Alex’s (Justin Chambers) honeymoon doesn’t go exactly as planned. In the second hour, new doctors continue to shake up the hospital. Meredith bonds with a patient while Jackson (Jesse Williams) struggles with the meaning behind recent experiences. After making a life-changing decision, Jo forms an unexpected alliance.

The Big Bang Theory: “The Wedding Gift Wormhole”
CBS, 8pm

Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) drive themselves crazy trying to figure out what “perfect gift” Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) gave them for their wedding in the new episode “The Wedding Gift Wormhole.”

NFL Football: Minnesota at L.A. Rams
FOX & NFL Network, 8pm Live

Two teams with NFC playoff aspirations meet on Thursday Night Football as the Minnesota Vikings visit the L.A. Rams at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It’s the first TNF game for FOX, which begins a five-year deal to air games (simulcast on NFL Network) in Weeks 4-15.

The Good Place
NBC, 8pm
Season Premiere!

At the end of Season 2, Michael (Ted Danson) was able to get Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil) and Jason (Manny Jacinto) a second chance at life on Earth. In Season 3, we’ll see if they waste it. Mike O’Malley guest-stars as the Guard in the hourlong season premiere episode.

Young Sheldon: “A Rival Prodigy and Sir Isaac Neutron”
CBS, 8:30pm

The new episode “A Rival Prodigy and Sir Isaac Neutron” finds Sheldon (Iain Armitage) threatened by another child genius who bonds with Dr. Sturgis (Wallace Shawn).

Mom
CBS, 9pm
Season Premiere!

Season 6 of the acclaimed comedy begins with “Pre-Washed Lettuce and a Mime,” in which Christy (Anna Faris) has second thoughts about law school after a tough first day, and Bonnie (Allison Janney) is plagued by an upsetting dream.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
NBC, 9pm
Season Premiere!

The groundbreaking 20th season kicks off on a new night with a special two-hour premiere.

Murphy Brown
CBS, 9:30pm
Season Premiere!

TV’s favorite sharp-tongued newswoman, Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen), returns as CBS resurrects the beloved sitcom that ran from 1988-98. In the new incarnation, veteran journalist Brown returns to the airwaves in response to “a divided nation, chaotic national discourse and rampant attacks on the press.” And she’s not coming alone. Murphy convinces her old FYI team — lifestyle reporter Corky Sherwood (Faith Ford), investigative reporter Frank Fontana (Joe Regalbuto) and frequently exasperated producer Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud) — to sign on for a new daytime talk show. But Murphy’s biggest on-air competitor in her new time slot is none other than Avery Brown (Jake McDorman), now all grown up and of a sociopolitical mindset that’s a far cry from his mom’s.

How to Get Away With Murder: “Your Funeral”
ABC, 10pm
Season Premiere!

Annalise (Viola Davis) selects students for her new legal clinic at Middleton and juggles job offers from competing firms, all while the Keating 4 attempt to move on from last semester’s turmoil. In a startling flash-forward, a new mystery is introduced that shakes things up for everyone.

S.W.A.T.
CBS, 10pm
Season Premiere!

A major earthquake hits Los Angeles in the Season 2 premiere “Shaky Town,” and the quake compromises the SWAT team’s operation to take down human traffickers holding children hostage.

Golf: Ryder Cup: Day 1
Golf Channel, 2am Live (late night)

Golf’s premier international match-play tournament, the Ryder Cup, is played this year at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, France. Captain Jim Furyk’s U.S. team includes Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson, Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler and Webb Simpson. Team Europe, captained by Thomas Bjørn, includes Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose, Tyrrell Hatton and Tommy Fleetwood. The U.S. won its first Ryder Cup since 2008 with a 17-11 win in 2016. Golf Channel airs live Day 1 coverage beginning in the late night/early morning. NBC airs early morning coverage on Saturday and Sunday.

Friday, Sept. 28

Chef’s Table
Netflix
Season Premiere!

The Emmy-nominated series returns for Season 5, taking viewers inside the lives and kitchens of four new international chefs.

MacGyver
CBS, 8pm
Season Premiere!

After quitting the Phoenix Foundation and moving to Nigeria, MacGyver (Lucas Till) returns to help rescue Jack (George Eads) from a murderous dictator in the Season 3 premiere episode “Improvise.”

Last Man Standing
FOX, 8pm
Season Premiere!

The sitcom that ran on ABC for six seasons and was unceremoniously canceled in 2017 gets revived for Season 7 on FOX. Tim Allen stars as Mike Baxter, a happily married father of three daughters who finds himself the odd man out as he tries to maintain his manliness in a home surrounded by women. Most of the original core cast is back, including Nancy Travis, Jonathan Adams, Amanda Fuller, Christoph Sanders and Hector Elizondo. Kaitlyn Dever returns in a limited role as youngest daughter Eve, who joined the Air Force Academy. In recast roles, Molly McCook now plays Mandy, and Jet Jurgensmeyer plays Boyd.

The Cool Kids
FOX, 8:30pm
New Series!

This multi-camera comedy is about a rowdy, ragtag group of friends living in Shady Meadows Retirement Community who are willing to break every rule in order to have fun — because, at their age, what do they really have to lose? In the pilot episode, Hank (David Alan Grier), Charlie (Martin Mull) and Sid (Leslie Jordan) have their worlds overturned after their friend dies and brash newcomer Margaret (Vicki Lawrence) takes over his seat at their dinner table.

Hawaii Five-0
CBS, 9pm
Season Premiere!

The Season 9 premiere episode “Ka ʻōwili ʻōka’i (Cocoon)” is a retelling of the original Hawaii Five-O series pilot. McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) lets himself be captured by the group he thinks is responsible for his friend’s murder and endures a torturous sensory deprivation tank to find the killer. Mark Dacascos returns as McGarrett’s nemesis, Wo Fat.

Wynonna Earp: “Daddy Lessons”
Syfy, 9pm

Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) has a run-in with the Revenants that leads her to an unexpected revelation about the curse. Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) meets an important figure from her past, and Nicole (Katherine Barrell) tries to evacuate Purgatory before it’s too late. The season finale episode follows.

Blue Bloods
CBS, 10pm
Season Premiere!

In the Season 9 premiere episode “Playing With Fire,” Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) takes on a personal case involving a drug cartel member, Louis Delgado (guest star Lou Diamond Phillips), who Danny believes is responsible for torching his house.

Saturday, Sept. 29

NASCAR Xfinity Series: Drive for the Cure 200
NBCSN, 3pm Live

The NASCAR Xfinity Series playoffs continue with the Drive for the Cure 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Major League Baseball: Detroit at Milwaukee
FS1, 7pm Live

The final weekend of Major League Baseball’s regular season has the Detroit Tigers at Miller Park in Milwaukee to face the Brewers in Game 2 of a three-game set.

College Football: Stanford at Notre Dame
NBC, 7:30pm Live

Two storied college football programs clash tonight at Notre Dame Stadium as the Stanford Cardinal visit the Fighting Irish in primetime on NBC.

All of My Heart: The Wedding
Hallmark Channel, 9pm
Original Film!

In the third film in the rom-com franchise, Jenny (Lacey Chabert), Brian (Brennan Elliott) and Emily’s Country Inn have been embraced by their local community, and almost everyone will be coming to their wedding, including the town’s wise old codger Vern (Edward Asner), who has been tapped to give away the bride. But when a woman (Pauline Egan) arrives with papers claiming she’s also an heir to the inn, Jenny and Brian struggle to raise funds to buy the inn while planning their wedding there.