TV HIGHLIGHTS

American Masters, 8

PM on Ch. 16 and Ch.

48: Timothy GreenfieldSanders’ new “Toni Morrison’: The Pieces I

Am’ offers an “intimate meditation” on the life, works and recurring themes of this masterful storyteller and Nobel

Prize winner. Morrison’s personal story opens in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio, where she grew up, and leads her to ’70s book tours with Muhammad Ali and political front lines with Angela Davis. The film also features interviews with Davis, poet Sonia Sanchez, writers Fran Lebowitz, Walter Mosley and Hilton Als, and Oprah Winfrey, who turned Morrison’s novel “Beloved” into a feature film.

Ghost Adventures, 8 PM on TRAV; 12 AM on TRAV: A new episode called “Voices of the Dead” finds Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin trying to help a colleague of sorts — another paranormal investigator — and his family find closure after they suffer a traumatic loss. After they do what they can, the guys then head to the Great Lakes to investigate reports of demonic activity at a historic hotel.

Frontline, 10 PM on Ch. 16 and Ch. 48; 2 AM on Ch. 16 and Ch. 48: Although many viewers may be suffering from scandal fatigue these days, the new documentary “Opioids, Inc.” may still shake some of them up with its account of how a drug company flooded the market with powerful opioids by bribing doctors and committing extensive insurance fraud. Produced in association with the London-based business and economic publication Financial Times, the film reveals how a company called Insys Therapeutics reaped a monetary windfall from a fentanyl-based painkiller that was 50 times stronger than heroin.