Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

TV highlights

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SUNDAY 8 p.m. on HGTV Renovation Island

“Go big or go home” is clearly the motto of this new series, in which renovation experts Bryan and Sarah Baeumler pack up their kids and move to a tropical island, where they’ll undertake the biggest profession­al project of their career: renovating a huge, rundown beachfront resort in the Bahamas. In the series premiere, “Welcome to Bryland,” the family arrives at their destinatio­n and almost immediatel­y discovers that the island weather, wildlife and remote location will present unique challenges for them.

MONDAY 9 p.m. on TRAV Buried Worlds With Don Wildman

A familiar face to Travel Channel viewers, host Don Wildman ventures off the beaten path in this new unscripted series, which takes him to new locales to explore some of mankind’s darkest mysteries. The series premiere, “Vampire Hunt,” finds him in Eastern Europe to discover the facts behind the haunting vampire legends that still have rural villagers looking nervously over their shoulders. He joins a band of Bulgarian vampire hunters to investigat­e an abandoned village reputedly once terrorized by the undead, then continues his research in Hungary.

TUESDAY 10:30 p.m. on TBS The Last O.G.

Cousin Bobby (Allen Maldonado) is understand­ably elated when he gets an early release from prison, but his happiness dims sharply when he realizes that most of his old friends assume he won his freedom by being a snitch in the new episode “Warning.” Meanwhile, Tray (Tracy Morgan) is forced to deal with a formidable bully in the form of his new girlfriend’s ex-husband, who also happens to be a cop.

WEDNESDAY 9 p.m. on WPCW Bulletproo­f

Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters return as childhood friends turned detectives Aaron Bishop and Ronnie Pike as this British crime drama opens season two. In the season premiere, what starts out as a routine drug bust pays off an unexpected dividend for the National Crime Agency team when they find 1 million pounds hidden in one of the dealers’ cars. The subsequent investigat­ion leads them to a crime family with a matriarch who’s an old acquaintan­ce of Sarah Tanner.

THURSDAY 9 p.m. on HGTV Design at Your Door

HGTV stars provide virtual help, as well as a delivered box of specially curated decor elements, to 16 homeowners who try their hand at do-it-yourself design. Each episode pairs the featured homeowners with a designated design coach, who oversees the DIY design process while the homeowners perform the physical tasks themselves. The featured families include a firefighte­r, a cafeteria worker, an ER nurse, and several parents who are juggling their makeover project with homeschool­ing their kids.

FRIDAY 10 p.m. on MAX Trackers

Lemmer (James Gracie) notices they’re being tailed as he, Laurens and Flea (Gerald Steyn, Trix Vivier) continue transporti­ng their new cargo in the new “Episode 2.” Still facing the possibilit­y of an agency shutdown, Janina (Sandi Schultz) keeps pursuing all available leads. She gets strong assistance from Milla (Rolanda Marais), despite distractin­g threats from the latter’s abandoned husband, Christo (Morné Visser).

SATURDAY 10 p.m. on TRAV Terror in the Woods

A double bill of chilling tales called “It Came From Hell and

Ozark Bigfoot” opens with two brothers enjoying a fun fishing trip at a Texas lake, but their outing morphs into a night of sheer terror when they encounter a monster in the darkness. Then, a band of Bigfoot hunters who are camping in the Ozarks suddenly have the chilling realizatio­n that they have turned into the quarry for something out there.

10 p.m. on SHOW Movie: Mob Town

Danny A. Abeckaser’s 2019 mob drama is based on an actual 1957 incident, when roughly 100 members of the mafia, from all across the United States, were summoned by mob kingpin Vito Genovese (Robert Davi) to the remote upstate New York estate of Joe Barbara (played by Abeckaser). The gathering was prompted by Genovese’s wish to establish himself as the boss of bosses of the Luciano crime family.

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