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7:30 p.m. on ABC Speechless
JJ’s (Micah Fowler) love match with Izzy (guest star Kayla Maisonet) devolves into a cage match with Kenneth (Cedric Yarbrough) in this new holiday-themed episode. Elsewhere, a frustrated Ray (Mason Cook) can’t find a viable date for a prepaid romantic evening out, so he’s reduced to taking out Dylan (Kyla Kenedy), while Maya and Jimmy’s (Minnie Driver, John Ross Bowie) disdain for Valentine’s Day disappears when they hit on a scheme to profit from it.
8 p.m. on FOX Proven Innocent
Danny Strong, who won an Emmy for writing HBO’s Sarah Palin docudrama
Game Change, co-created this new legal drama set inside a scrappy law firm where Madeline Scott (Rachelle Lefevre, pictured) and her team work tirelessly on behalf of innocents who were wrongfully convicted. Their work feels unusually personal for Madeline, who along with her brother (Riley Smith) was found guilty as a teenager in a sensational murder trial. Kelsey Grammer and Vincent Kartheiser co-star.
9 p.m. on PBS Great Performances
This award-winning series departs from its usual wheelhouse of presenting, well, great performances in favor of a special episode honoring an actress who has created an entire gallery of such work, in the new “Movies for Grownups Awards With AARP the Magazine.” Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine is this year’s honoree, recognizing her decadeslong career in films that appeal to “movie lovers with a grownup state of mind” (read: older adults).
9 p.m. on DISN Movie: Kim Possible
Disney Channel’s third original movie adapted from the iconic animated children’s series casts Sadie Stanley in the title role of the resourceful teen heroine, with Sean Giambrone (The Goldbergs) playing Kim’s sidekick and best friend, Ron Stoppable. The story finds Kim facing an unusual crisis of confidence as she and Ron start classes at Middleton High School and get lost in this new social hierarchy.
10:35 p.m. on DISN Fast Layne
Zeke and Luther creators Matt Dearborn and Tom Burkhard also are behind this new liveaction Disney comedy, which premieres tonight before moving into its regular Sunday time period later this weekend. Sophie Pollono stars as overachieving 12-year-old Layne Reed, whose orderly life spins out of control after she finds a talking car named VIN (voice of Nate Torrence) in an abandoned shed.