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TV highlights

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SUNDAY 6:30 p.m. on WPGH Super Bowl LIV

Super Bowl LIV takes place at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., between the American Football Conference champion Kansas City Chiefs and the National Football Conference champion San Francisco 49ers. The halftime show will feature Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.

MONDAY 10 p.m. on HBO McMillion$

Mark Wahlberg is among the executive producers of this six-part docuseries, which chronicles the bizarre yet true story of a 1990s fraud case in which $24 million was stolen from the McDonald’s Monopoly game, which awarded prizes to the company’s fastfood customers. Unfortunat­ely, customers and most McDonald’s executives were unaware that the biggest winning tickets were being stolen and sold to winners via a complex web of friends and family members who became co-conspirato­rs. An anonymous 2001 tip to the FBI triggered a far-reaching investigat­ion.

TUESDAY 8 p.m. on WPGH Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back

Seafarer’s Family Restaurant is the struggling Manassas, Va., seafood eatery that gets the focus of Chef Ramsay and his crew in this new episode. At first glance, the business’s prime location would seem to enhance dinner traffic, but instead, the family running the place is being torn apart by the strain of supporting three households on declining revenue. The Ramsay team gives the restaurant a striking makeover, a fresh new menu and renewed hope for the future.

WEDNESDAY 9:01 p.m. on WPGH LEGO Masters

Best known to legions of fans for voicing Batman in the animated LEGO blockbuste­rs, Will Arnett hosts this new competitio­n series, in which he and some expert judges watch as pairs of LEGO enthusiast­s face off in a series of brick-building challenges. In each episode, the competitor­s who most impress the judges progress to the next round and so on until the finale, where the top teams vie for a large cash prize, the ultimate LEGO trophy and the grand title of LEGO Masters.

THURSDAY 8 p.m. on WPXI Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Former “Saturday Night Live” regular Vanessa Bayer joins season seven in the recurring role of uniformed officer Debbie Fogel, who finds herself partnered with .... Capt. Raymond Holt (Andre

Braugher)? For fans who don’t remember, at the end of season six, Holt’s profession­al nemesis, new acting commission­er Madeline Wuntch (guest star Kyra Sedgwick), found an excuse to force Holt to spend several hours on traffic patrol duty.

FRIDAY 10 p.m. on SHOW Mo’Nique & Friends: Live From Atlanta

Academy Award-winning actress and comic Mo’Nique (“Precious”) hosts an evening of stand-up comedy from the vintage Atlanta showplace Variety Playhouse, in this new special taped last October.

SATURDAY

7 p.m. on OXYGEN

The Witnesses

In this two-night investigat­ion (concluding Sunday), journalist Trey Bundy from the Center for Investigat­ive Reporting looks into allegation­s that the religious group known as Jehovah’s Witnesses has allowed its governing group to conceal the identities of child predators. His examinatio­n chronicles the stories of four former Jehovah’s Witnesses who claim to have experience­d multiple incidents of sexual abuse during their time within the organizati­on.

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