TV TOP PICKS
6 p.m. on BBCA Top Gear
The returning Chris Harris gets two new co-hosts in U.K. cricket star Freddie Flintoff (pictured, right) and standup comic Paddy McGuinness (pictured, left) as this venerable series cranks the ignition on its 27th season. Their first episode together starts with the guys going out and buying budget-friendly replicas of the first cars they owned. To test-drive their purchases, they head to the searing heat of Ethiopia. Later, back at the track, Chris puts the Ferrari 488 Pista and McLaren 600LT through their paces.
7 p.m. on STARZ Sweetbitter
The characters who make up the staff of the chic Manhattan eatery 22W reveal more of their innermost secrets as this restaurant drama returns for Season 2. Small-town girl Tess (Ella Purnell) has gained knowledge and experience over the past months, giving her newfound confidence, but that’s not necessarily good news for her colleagues. They include her fellow server and mentor Simone (Caitlin FitzGerald), who’s in a somewhat enigmatic relationship with bartender Jake (Tom Sturridge).
8 p.m. on PBS Grantchester on Masterpiece
There’s a changing of the clerical guard in the offing during Season 4, which opens with a two-hour premiere set in 1956. Sidney (James Norton) is itching to shake up his life a little, but he gets that and more with the arrival in Grantchester of the Rev. Nathaniel Todd (guest star Paterson Joseph), an American minister, and his civil rights activist daughter, Violet (Simona Brown). A murder causes simmering racial tensions to spike.
8 p.m. on CBS Instinct
For different reasons, Lizzie and Dylan (Bojana Novakovic, Alan Cumming) have a very difficult time keeping their emotions in check while investigating the disappearance of a 9-year-old boy who went missing just as a judge was about to announce a decision in a bitter custody battle in the new episode “Finders Keepers.” While he tries to help Lizzie confront some old childhood demons, Dylan gets good news in his adoption quest with Andy (Daniel Ings).
8 p.m. on HIST Moon Landing: The Lost Tapes
Newly uncovered film footage, rare photographs and previously untelevised audio interviews are featured in this new one-hour documentary that helps mark the 50th anniversary of NASA’s unforgettable achievement and humankind’s “greatest leap” up to that point in history.