TV TOP PICKS
6 p.m. on TCM Movie: Claudine
Diahann Carroll earned an Oscar nomination as best actress for this well-received 1974 romantic dramedy, in which she stars as a single mother of six in Harlem. With the aid of financial assistance from welfare checks, she’s able to eke out a living for her large brood, but the complicated bureaucratic rules that govern what she must do to qualify for that support complicate almost every facet of her life, including her budding romance with a warmhearted garbage collector (James Earl Jones).
6:20 p.m. on NFL NFL Football
Will two of the first three players taken in the NFL Draft be on the field when the New York Jets visit the Cleveland Browns? The Browns chose Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield with the top overall pick and the Jets took Sam Darnold out of USC at No. 3. Darnold has impressed in New York and may have a better chance of getting the starting nod.
7 p.m. on FOX The Gifted
Hoping to take his sadistic Hound program national, the sinister Dr. Campbell (Garret Dillahunt) attends a summit with a deadly anti-mutant emphasis, so members of the Mutant HQ team mobilize to stop him at all costs in an encore telecast of the two-hour Season 1 finale. After she learns more about her own past, Polaris (Emma Dumont) make an important decision that could have wide-ranging consequences. Multiple relationships are tested as the Mutant headquarters are attacked in “eXtraction; X-roads.”
7 p.m. on CW Supernatural
Though Gabriel (guest star Richard Speight Jr.) isn’t the first partner they would choose, Sam, Dean and Castiel (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins) must work with him to retrieve Mary and Jack (guest star Samantha Smith, Alexander Calvert) in the somewhat literally titled episode “Beat the Devil.” Rowena (guest star Ruth Connell) crosses paths with Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino), possibly determining the fate of someone else.
11 p.m. on FX Snowfall
Season 2 of this critically acclaimed yet ratings-challenged period drama about the early days of the American drug culture concludes with a finale called “Education,” which finds Franklin (Damson Idris) paying the piper for his actions. Elsewhere, Teddy (Carter Hudson, pictured) does everything he can think of to help his partners, while Lucia (Emily Rios) is forced to make a sacrifice to save the life of Gustavo. FX has not picked up a third season.