So You Think You Can Dance
This celebration of footloose young hopefuls who just gotta dance celebrates its milestone 250th episode with the new two-hour presentation The Next Generation: Top 5 Perform and Elimination. After the five best finalists perform for judges Nigel Lythgoe, Paula Abdul, Jason Derulo and Maddie Ziegler, the names of the quartet who have made it one step closer to victory will be announced. (Fox)
CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND
Wanting to be popular with Josh’s (Vincent Rodriguez III) friends, Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) rents a bus to take them on a beach excursion in a new episode logically titled I’m Going to the Beach With Josh and His Friends! The trip yields many surprises, including some that Rebecca didn’t intend to reveal to the others. Veteran choreographer Kenny Ortega directed the tale. Santino Fontana, Donna Lynne Champlin and Pete Gardner also star. (Global)
THE MAKING OF THE MOB: CHICAGO
It is the season finale for this edition of the series focusing on the Chicago mafia, specifically the rise of Al Capone, whose ruthless tactics and over-the-top lifestyle were legendary. In the finale Last Man Standing, Capone soldier Joe Accardo and Sam Giancana, who was the titular head of the Chicago Outfit from 1957-66, have a falling out. While Giancana spent a year in jail and was murdered not too long after he was deported back to the U.S. from Mexico, Accardo died of natural causes at the age of 86. (AMC)
THE DAILY PLANET
The popular science show begins its 22nd season with an all-new theme week — Boldly Go. During the week, viewers will get a frontrow seat at the world’s first concert inside a volcano, go deep in Silfra, Iceland — the only place in the world where divers can swim between two continental plates — and watch a rocket launch from a sailing platform in the Baltic Sea. The series also celebrates Star Trek’s 50th anniversary with interviews of the team who brought the series to life. (Discovery)
MURDER IN THE FIRST
As Hildy’s (Kathleen Robertson) domestic life continues an apparently bottomless downward spiral, she struggles to remain focused on work, where she and Terry (Taye Diggs) are trying to solve the Normandy Parker conspiracy. Siletti (Currie Graham), meanwhile, begins a highly vocal crusade against “the system” he used to champion as district attorney in the new episode Rise of the Phoenix. (Bravo)