TUESDAY’S BEST PICKS
9 PM G Bryan Callen: Complicated Apes Most recently, Bryan Callen’s fans know him mostly from his work in the sitcoms “The Goldbergs” and its spinoff “Schooled,” but he’s also a smart, provocative comic, as he proves when he takes the stage at Chicago’s historic Thalia Hall for his third televised stand-up special. This time, the topic is a front-burner issue — equality — and Callen has a few thoughts on the subject, railing against the tendency of modern humans to turn people into “nouns,” when we should think of each other as verbs.
9 PM ( BRV) Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles Josh Altman uses every strategy he can think of to persuade a seller to be more realistic about his expectations, risking losing the listing in question altogether, in the new episode “Ze Plane, Ze Plane!” Josh Flagg, meanwhile, goes all out for a new resort-style trophy listing in Los Angeles, including hiring a plane, but it proves far more challenging than he expected. Elsewhere, Tracy gets groovy to draw interest for a new construction that has mid-century “bones” in Pasadena.
9 PM ( FOOD) Chopped With so many current foodies today seeking low-carb options, cauliflower definitely is a veggie star of the moment, and it’s at the center of a new episode called “Cauliflower Power,” which also spotlights a certain funky Mexican delicacy. Kung pao cauliflower appears in the entree round, but don’t miss the halo-halo cauliflower desserts. Host Ted Allen welcomes guests Maneet Chauhan, Esther Choi and Marc Murphy.
9 PM ( OWN) Greenleaf Instead of attending the last Sunday service at Calvary, the Greenleaf family gathers for a small, more intimate service in their home in the new episode “The Fifth Day.” The immense shadow of their loss looms over them as they ponder the future and try to envision what it would be like to start all over again. Paralyzed by grief, Grace (Merle Dandridge) feels inadequate to surmount the obstacles they all face, until Noah (Benjamin Patterson) offers some interesting insights into their home’s history. Lynn Whitfield also stars.
10 PM ( ID) The Murder Tapes After Jeffrey Franklin, a deaf sixteen-year-old, is killed, a determined team of detectives embarks on a painstaking quest to determine what happened, with their investigation captured on body-cam video and original audio in the new episode “Things Weigh on You.” As the investigation starts to unravel, GPS data and some shocking admissions ultimately add up to give the doomed teenager the justice he desperately deserves.
10:01 PM ( HGTV) House Hunters Seeking a more affordable housing alternative to what they’re finding among the exorbitant listings in the Los Angeles area, a husband finally convinces his wife to leave the City of Angels and move back to his showy midwestern home state of Minnesota in the new episode “Minnesota Dreamin’.” Unfortunately, a decidedly unwelcome surprise awaits them in Minneapolis, where the real estate market is so hot, they’re faced with having to make compromises neither of them expected.
10:03 PM ( NGEO) Sharkcano Dr.
Michael Heithaus, a world-renowned shark expert, embarks on a mission to understand and explain the mysterious connection that seems to exist between sharks and volcanoes in this new hourlong documentary. Since they discovered the uncanny affinity sharks seem to have for such literal hotspots, scientists have been baffled to explain this phenomenon, which seems a little like a gimmick in a sci-fi flick. Dr. Heithaus, however, is determined to solve why these two destructive forces of nature seem to be bonded.