Catch up on

(Netflix) With everything that’s going on in the news, a journey to the simpler world of Green Gables may be in order. The new adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved 1908 novel about a highly imaginative orphan retains all the charms of the original while tonally giving it a more contemporary window. Anne, the 13-yearold who is mistakenly sent by her orphanage to Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert (Geraldine James and R. H. Thomson), is a more complicated and deeper figure than previous incarnations. Amybeth McNulty — who plays the young lass — is a real find, capturing both Anne’s spirit and doubts.

(9 p.m. Monday on History) Two-part miniseries chronicles the massive immigration patterns of ethnic groups to the United States through the telling of historical events, including the Dutch Fur Trade; the creation of the postage stamp; the California Gold Rush; Germans coming to the aid of the Union Army in vast numbers during the Civil War; The Great Migration of African-Americans to the North and West and the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.

(9 p.m. Tuesday on TNT) The second season of the crime drama finds a threat from the past resurfacing as some in the Cody clan begin thinking of separating themselves from one another.

(10 p.m. Tuesday on MTV) Ludacris hosts a new revival of the NBC game show that ran 2001-06 (and was previously revived in 2011).

(Available Tuesday on Netflix) Comedy special.

(Available Saturday on Hulu) Examines the rise and fall of the 1990s counterculture/ skater magazine that served as the launching ground for MTV’s “Jackass” and fea- tured early work by Spike Jonze, among other things.