TUESDAY’S BEST PICKS
8 PM $ NCIS A back-to-back double bill of new episodes opens with “Sunburn,” in which McGee’s (Sean Murray) Bahamian vacation with his wife Delilah (guest star Margo Harshman) turns into a high-stakes mission. Elsewhere, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) fears the worst when his search for Fornell (Joe Spano) leads to blood. Immediately following, the new “Head of the Snake” follows Gibbs and Fornell as their crusade to find the head of the drug ring responsible for Fornell’s daughter Emily’s overdose comes to a climax.
8PM* MOVIE Cinderella ABC’s three-week festival of broadcast premieres of some iconic movies concludes with Disney’s 2015 live-action re-envisioning of the fairy tale, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Lily James (“Downton Abbey”) stars in the title role of the heroine who endures the cruelty of her stepmother (Cate Blanchett) to become the belle of the ball. Richard Madden (“Game of Thrones”) plays the prince she attracts; Helena Bonham Carter, Nonso Anozie (“Zoo”), Stellan Skarsgard, Ben Chaplin and Hayley Atwell (“Marvel’s Agent Carter”) co-star.
10 PM ^ Frontline On the eve of Joe Biden’s inauguration as 46th president of the United States, a new one-hour documentary chronicles the poignant story of how this veteran politician’s life has been shaped by crisis and personal tragedy, including the untimely deaths of his first wife and infant daughter in a 1972 car accident and the 2015 passing of his beloved firstborn son, Beau, from brain cancer. Those who know him well say such traumas have only given the senior Biden the strength and perspective he’ll need as president. 10 PM ( FOOD) Supermarket Stakeout Four rival chefs will strive to come up with success on a near-mythic scale as host Alex Guarnaschelli tasks them with going Greek in the dishes they devise from ingredients they cajole grocery store shoppers into providing them with in the new episode “Greek, Sweet & Open-Faced Eats.” Later, judges Sabin Lomac and Aarti Sequeira determine who brings the necessary sweet and who suffers defeat in a final, very crucial face-off.
10 PM ( CNBC) Streets of Dreams With Marcus Lemonis In the new episode “Harbor Drive, San Diego,” host Marcus Lemonis secures exclusive access to this Southern California city’s restricted military and industrial waterfront district, part of San Diego’s emerging “blue economy,” the nickname given to an under-the-radar economic sector that generates $1.5 trillion worldwide. Exploring how big a transformative impact this ocean-based economy could have on the community, Lemonis takes a deep dive into San Diego’s fishing heritage and gets an unprecedented look at the billions contributed by the U.S. Navy. 10:01 PM & Nurses Keon (Jordan Jackson-Hinds) is taken aback when Nurse Molly (Molly Atkinson) subjects him to some unexpected hazing, but his day only takes a turn for the worst when he gets off on the wrong foot with a patient in handcuffs in the new episode “What Size Are Your Feet?” An unhappy
Wolf (Donald MacLean Jr.) is suddenly beset by serious financial pressure, forcing him to consider resorting to desperate measures to earn money. Tiera Skovbye and Natasha Calis also star.