TV top picks
7 p.m. on FOOD Worst Cooks in America
Nora Dunn, Erik Estrada, Carson Kressley, Carmen Electra, Melissa Peterman, Vivica A. Fox, Sean Lowe and Perez Hilton make up the latest celebrity recruits as this hit reality competition series opens a new season. In the premiere, culinary mentors Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray challenge the rookies to make a dish inspired by food they’ve posted on their social media profiles. Later, Burrell and Ray teach the celebrities how to make some lobster dishes.
8 p.m. on PBS
The Farthest Voyager in Space The 40th anniversary of NASA’s first launch of Voyager is marked by this new special, recalling the spacecraft’s initial travels to photograph Saturn and Jupiter, as well as the Voyager 2 itinerary that also included Uranus and Neptune. Also considered is the Carl Sagan-backed initiative that saw the vessel carry a record of life on Earth that might be seen one day by extraterrestrial beings. Animated sequences depict the Voyager mission through the cosmos.
8 p.m. on OWN Greenleaf
Lady Mae (Lynn Whitfield) takes steps to make things right when Zora and Sophia (Lovie Simone, Desiree Ross) find themselves excluded from the upcoming debutante Cotillion in the new episode “Changing Season.” Grace (Merle Dandridge) finds inspiration in Basie’s (Jason Dirden) sermon). Meanwhile, Charity (Deborah Joy Winans) reaches out to Carlton (guest star Parnell Damone Marcano).
8 p.m. on USA The Sinner
As Cora (Jessica Biel) slowly begins to trust Ambrose (Bill Pullman, pictured), she agrees to let him try to help her recover some of the memories that are buried deep in her subconscious. Armed with some of the bits of information yielded via that process, Ambrose winds up on the trail of a promising new suspect in the new “Part IV.”
11 p.m. on FX Snowfall
As Franklin’s (Damson Idris) business really starts to ramp up, inevitable pressures cause a rift among the members of his inexperienced crew in the new episode “Baby Teeth.” Elsewhere, Teddy (Carter Hudson) does everything he can think of to ensure that Alejandro (Juan Javier Cardenas) remains safe. Lucia (Emily Rios) has an epiphany while visiting her dying father.