MONDAY’S BEST PICKS
8 PM 7 L.A.’s Finest A quasi-spinoff of the “Bad Boys” movie franchise, this new police drama finds Gabrielle Union reprising her “Bad Boys II” film role of Syd Burnett, who has left behind a complicated past in Miami in favor of a fresh start as a Los Angeles Police Department detective. Her new partner, Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba), is an equally complicated single mom, but the pair have in common a penchant for skirting the rules as they take down dangerous criminals. Zach Gilford, Duane Martin, Ryan McPartlin and Ernie Hudson also star.
8 PM ( TCM) MOVIE A Cry in the Dark Meryl Streep earned her eighth Oscar nomination playing Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian wife and mother who faces a media firestorm of skepticism and controversy after she and her pastor husband, Michael (Sam Neill), claim their 9-week-old daughter was carried away by a wild dog during a family camping trip. Largely because Chamberlain strikes the public as chilly and emotionally remote, many suspect the parents were somehow complicit in their child’s death. Fred Schepisi directed and co-wrote this 1988 docudrama, airing as part of tonight’s TCM Streep festival.
9 PM 7 Filthy Rich Writer- director Tate Taylor (“The Help”) is behind this soapy new drama starring Kim Cattrall (“Sex and the City”) as Margaret Monreaux, the widow of a Christian TV network bigwig (Gerald McRaney). After her husband dies in a plane crash, Margaret’s grief quickly turns to shock and anger when she and her family discover the pious patriarch secretly fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will. Melia Kreiling, Aubrey Dollar, Corey Cott, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Mark L. Young and Steve Harris (“The Practice”) co-star.
9 PM ( HGTV) Love It or List It A couple thought they had found the renovation project of their dreams when they purchased a potentially stunning centuryold triplex in the new episode “Triplex Troubles.” Sadly, after they started work, the place quickly turned into a money pit. Host Hilary Farr wants to help the pair conquer the daunting project, but co-host David Visentin is quick to advise the couple that he knows some properties with all the space and function this growing family needs — and they’re available right now.
9 PM ( DIY) Restoring Galveston Michael announces he has purchased a new house for them to renovate, but an exhausted Ashley feels she is just not ready to start a new project in the new episode “Destined for Demo.” When she hears the house is on the city’s demolition list, however, she immediately realizes this unique 1930s bungalow needs to be saved.
10 PM 4 Manhunt: Deadly Games Season 2 of this scripted true-crime series chronicles one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil following the deadly terrorist attack at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Security guard Richard Jewell (Cameron Britton) saves hundreds of lives when he discovers a bomb on the grounds of the international event, but his heroic act quickly comes under the scrutiny of law enforcement as local press and political pressure mounts to catch the killer. Jack Huston, Carla Gugino and Arliss Howard star.
11 PM 2 POV Dujuan, a 10-year-old
child healer and hunter, speaks three languages, yet he is struggling in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare authorities and police. As Dujuan comes under greater risk of incarceration, filmmaker Maya Newell’s “In My Blood It Runs” chronicles his family’s fight to give this youth a strong education in his indigenous Australian heritage alongside his traditional Western education.