TV HIGHLIGHTS
SERIES
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Time is running short for the team to stop the end of everything in the two-hour season finale. Clark Gregg, MingNa Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley and Jeff Ward star. 8 p.m. ABC Nature’s Strangest Mysteries: Solved The first of two new episodes of this documentary series wonders why sea lions of San Francisco mysteriously swim away all at once. In the second episode, a pair of giraffes turn white. 8 and 8:30 p.m. Animal Planet American Masters The new episode “Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin” profiles the acclaimed science fiction author whose success at breaking into the largely male-dominated genre helped bring it into the literary mainstream. It was made with Le Guin’s participation over a decade. Interviews with Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman and Michael Chabon are featured. 9 p.m. KOCE Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Host Guy Fieri visits Kauai, Hawaii, for local specialties including saimin and chile pepper chicken. Then samples the meatless Mexican fare from a funky food truck in El Paso in this new episode. 9 p.m. Food Network Jett Jett (Carla Gugino) is in dire straits when Dillon (Michael Aronov), out for revenge, descends on Charlie’s (Giancarlo Esposito) house to confront an out-of-control Junior (Gentry White). 10 p.m. Cinemax Racing Wives This new unscripted series features sisters-in law Samantha and Ashley Busch, married to NASCAR drivers Kyle and Kurt Busch; Whitney Ward Dillon, wife of NASCAR’s Austin Dillon; and Amber Balcean, an driver from Canada, trying to break the glass ceiling and win a spot on the Kyle Busch Motorsports team. 10 p.m. CMT A Black Lady Sketch Show Ashley Nicole Black (“Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”), Gabrielle Dennis (“Luke Cage”) and Quinta Brunson (“iZombie”) star in this new sketch comedy show created, written by and starring black women. 11 p.m. HBO
SHARK WEEK
Isle of Jaws: Blood Brothers For the third year, a team of shark experts visits the Isle of Jaws, a remote piece of land off the western coast of Australia, where they hope to explore a provocative mystery involving two male great white sharks who are believed to be brothers and seem to hunt together. 8 p.m. Discovery Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver The author, inventor and illusionist tries to create a unique shark suit that effectively renders him “invisible” by blocking him from the shark’s senses. 9 p.m. Discovery I Was Prey: Shark Week This new film re-creates two real-life shark attacks to show how the victims fought to survive these dangerous encounters. 10 p.m. Discovery
MOVIES
Descendants 3 This new fantasy, the third and final installment in the “Descendants” movie trilogy, finds Maleficent’s daughter Mal (Dove Cameron) and three other offspring (Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce, Booboo Stewart) of classic Disney villains inadvertently causing a magical barrier breach. 8 p.m. Disney Boy Erased Lucas Hedges (“Manchester by the Sea”) plays a gay teenager whose parents (Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe) send him to a conversion therapy program in this 2018 biographical drama. 8 p.m. HBO
TALK SHOWS
CBS This Morning Lulu
Wang. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Octavia Spencer; Bob Harper; Dr. Debra Wattenberg. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America Pitbull performs. (N) 7 a.m. KABC Good Day L.A. Dog trainer Cesar Millan. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV Live With Kelly and Ryan Rosie Perez; Colin Cowie; guest co-host Tamron Hall. (N) 9 a.m. KABC The View Presidential candidate Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-N.Y.) and his wife, Chirlane McCray. (N) 10 a.m. KABC Strahan & Sara Antoni Porowski; Jonathan Van Ness; Karamo Brown. (N) noon KABC The Talk Host Sara Gilbert’s farewell episode features a performance from her wife Linda Perry and daughter Sawyer. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS Washington Week Democratic presidential debates; President Trump escalates the trade war with China; the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut: Hallie Jackson, NBC; Dan Balz, the Washington Post; Tarini Parti, the Wall Street Journal; Joshua Green, Bloomberg. (N) 7 p.m. KOCE Real Time With Bill Maher Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (DN.Y.); Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson; Josh Barro; former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich); radio host Buck Sexton. (N) 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. HBO The Issue Is: Elex Michaelson Margaret Cho; Bob Shrum; Ben Lyons. (N) 10:30 p.m. KTTV Amanpour and Company (N) 11 p.m. KOCE; 1 a.m. KLCS
SPORTS
Baseball The Angels visit the Indians, 4 p.m. Fox Sports Net; the visit the Dodgers, 7 p.m. SportsNet LA