TV top picks
6 p.m. on TBS 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards
From The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., Ryan Seacrest hosts the ceremonies (also airing on TNT and TruTV) honoring the best work of artists selected online by the network’s listeners. Battling it out in the Song of the Year category are Justin Timberlake (“Can’t Stop the Feeling”), Sia (“Cheap Thrills”), The Chainsmokers (“Closer”), Drake (“One Dance”) and twenty one pilots (“Stressed Out”). Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Thomas Rhett, Noah Cyrus and Big Sean are among the scheduled performers.
7:30 p.m. on FOX Making History
There’s no shortage of timetravel series this season, but this new one takes a comedic approach to trekking through the years. The “Pilot” introduces Adam Pally, Leighton Meester and Yassir Lester as the trio who venture to and through various eras — and Meester’s character is the daughter of legendary horse-rider Paul Revere, so the show turns people from both the past and present into strangers in strange lands.
8 p.m. on ABC Time After Time
H.G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper again in the debut of this fantasy-adventure series, inspired by the same-named 1979 movie and adapted for television by Kevin Williamson. Freddie Stroma plays the “Time Machine” novelist, who uses an invention of that nature to pursue serial killer Jack (Josh Bowman, Revenge) to present-day New York. Genesis Rodriguez, pictured, also stars as a woman caught between the two men in “Pilot/I Will Catch You.”
8:30 p.m. on FOX The Last Man on Earth
Regular viewers of this comedy know the plight of the handful of regular characters ... but how did it all begin for the group? The roots of their situation, involving the emergence of a lethal virus, are recalled as the show resumes with the new episode “Got Milk?”.
9 p.m. on NBC Shades of Blue
The Jennifer Lopez police drama begins its second season with “Unforgiven,” as Harlee (Lopez) tries to pick up the pieces — and cover up the remains — of the homicidal actions she took against her ex. Wozniak (fellow returnee Ray Liotta) bargains with FBI agent Stahl (Warren Kole), only to find he’s made a very dicey deal. Anna Gunn
(Breaking Bad) and Margaret Colin guest star. Drea de Matteo also stars.