TV top picks
7 p.m. on NBC Little Big Shots
As might be expected from this series by now, the title of the new episode “Tiny Dancer” describes one of the young talents featured during the hour, a 7-year-old who shows off some impressive moves. Other talented children presented by host Steve Harvey run the gamut from a gospel singer and a banjoplaying group to knife throwers and twins who are boxers.
8 p.m. on CBS Madam Secretary
A popular young actress (guest star Julia Nicole Schlaepfer) teams with Elizabeth (Tea Leoni) to try to convince a foreign leader to oppose human trafficking in the new episode “Good Bones.” However, the effort could backfire, and at a big cost to an American captive. Henry (Tim Daly) locates the bomb that a cult intends to use. Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran Cady Huffman (The Producers) and Michael Boatman also guest star.
9 p.m. on ABC American Crime
Shae (guest star Ana Mulvoy-Ten) mulls a deeply personal decision while Dustin (guest star Kurt Krause) presents her with a potential line of work in the new “Season Three: Episode Five.” Jeanette (Felicity Huffman) makes a decision of her own. Things get worse for Nicholas and Clair (Timothy Hutton, Lili Taylor).
9 p.m. on AMC Talking With Chris Hardwick
One of the hardest working performers in show business, Chris Hardwick, pictured, is in demand as a stand-up comic, hosts a weeknight Comedy Central game show called At Midnight
With Chris Hardwick and also anchors the companion chatfest Talking Dead. This new show, which airs on weeks when those two AMC dramas are not airing new episodes, finds Hardwick welcoming a single guest or cast from the world of pop culture for a one-hour interview.
11 p.m. on FX Feud: Bette and Joan
In “Hagsploitation,” a new episode that focuses even more sharply on the Hollywood sexism that aging screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford (Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange) confronted, Warner (Stanley Tucci) is hungry for another box-office smash like What Ever Happened to Baby
Jane?, so he pressures Aldrich (Alfred Molina) to reassemble that film’s stars and creative team to make another “hag horror” feature.