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- DAVID WIEGAND David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and the TV critic of The San Francisco Chronicle. Follow him on Facebook. Email: dwiegand@ sfchronicl­e.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV

The third season of Zander Lehmann’s superb comedy “Casual” is available on Hulu today. The show stars Michaela Watkins, Tommy Dewey and Tara Lynn Barr as members of a comically dysfunctio­nal family. Valerie (Watkins) had moved in with her man-child younger brother, Alex (Dewey), after her divorce, toting her teenage daughter, Laura (Barr), with her. The first two seasons turned on Valerie trying to establish her own identity, but mostly failing to do that, while Alex grew more and more depressed as he realized how stuck he was in his postadoles­cent past, and Laura just being an independen­t-minded teenager. The new season begins with Valerie and Laura moving out on their own, but physical separation doesn’t end the dependence they all have on each other. Frances Conroy guest-stars as Alex and Valerie’s manipulati­ve mother.

Hasan Minhaj of “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah ”hasa Netflix special available today called “Homecoming King.” The new ABC sitcom “Downward Dog” moves to its regular Tuesday time slot today, at 8 p.m.

NBC airs a new episode of “Great News” at a special time, 8 p.m., followed by the first-season finale at 8:30. “The Flash” wraps its season on the CW at 8 p.m. Season 24 of “Dancing With the Stars” cha-chas to a finale at a special time of 8:30 p.m. on ABC. The third season of “Unearthed” is, well, unearthed at 10 p.m. on the Science channel with “Tut’s Buried Secrets.”

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Hulu Michaela Watkins stars in Hulu’s “Casual.”

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