TV top picks
5 p.m. on HMM Darrow & Darrow
It’s been about three weeks since Claire Darrow’s (Kimberly WilliamsPaisley) life was upended by the unexpected return of her semiestranged mom, Joanna (Wendie Malick), who now has rejoined the small-town law firm of Darrow & Darrow. Claire, meanwhile, is dating likable district attorney Miles Strasberg (Tom Cavanagh), whose half-sister Phoebe (Mackenzie Porter) shockingly finds herself charged with the murder of an unscrupulous music producer. Lilah Fitzerald also stars in the new “In the Key of Murder.”
6 p.m. on STARZ Sweetbitter
Frustrated with her dull life in her small Ohio hometown, Tess (British actress Ella Purnell, pictured, right, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar
Children), a 22-year-old English major, moves to New York and lands a job as a waitress at a trendy Manhattan eatery in this new halfhour series adaptation of a novel by Stephanie Danier, also the writer and an executive producer on the show. Playing Tess’s new acquaintances are Caitlin FitzGerald, Tom Sturridge, Evan Jonigkeit, pictured, Eden Epstein and the mononymous Daniyar.
7 p.m. on PBS Call the Midwife
The drama wraps up its seventh season with “Episode 8,” as the closure of another maternity facility beings an influx of patients to Nonnatus House, causing considerable pressure for the midwives. Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) doesn’t suspect that going to the movies will involve her in the plight of the projectionist (David Bamber) and his pregnant, maritally separated daughter (Scarlett Alice Johnson).
8 p.m. on SHOW I’m Dying up Here
This savagely funny dramedy about struggling comics in 1970s-era Los Angeles earned some critical raves for its first season, but not nearly as many viewers as it deserves. Let’s hope more people discover it in Season 2, which finds Cassie (Ari Graynor) being consumed by a closely held secret. She’s also in a relationship with Eddie (Michael Angarano), who’s working as a joke writer for bitter comedy legend Roy Martin (new recurring guest star Brad Garrett).
8:30 p.m. on FOX The Last Man on Earth
The comedy closes out its fourth season with “Cancun, Baby!,” which just might take the survivors to that locale after they find reasons to evacuate the mansion. Still, Tandy (Will Forte) develops second thoughts about leaving. Kristen Schaal, January Jones, Mel Rodriguez, Mary Steenburgen and Cleopatra Coleman also star.