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6 p.m. on TRAV

The Dead Files In the new episode “Battle for Control,” former homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi and medium Amy Allan answer a distress call in Toledo, Ohio, where they uncover a horrific battle between good and evil in an unhappy and stressed-out household. Then, another segment finds the pair in Michigan, where they investigate chilling reports of a faceless shadow entity terrorizing a family.

7 p.m. on PBS

PBS NewsHour Debates 2020

Chris Wallace of Fox News moderates the first of three debates between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, from the Health Education Campus Samson Pavilion at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Veteran journalist Judy Woodruff, pictured, anchors PBS coverage of the two-hour event, which also is scheduled to be covered by the major commercial networks and cable news outlets.

8 p.m. on TLC

Sweet Home Sextuplets

The Waldrop family returns for Season 4 and, since apparently the challenges of parenting sextuplets are too easy, they currently are extensively renovating their house, forcing a temporary relocation to a mobile home, in the season premiere “Mobile Home for the Holidays.” Meanwhile, outside their temporary living space, their Alabama town is slammed by one crisis after another, ranging from violent storms to the weird new world of the COVID-19 pandemic.

9 p.m. on NBC

Weakest Link

Jane Lynch (Hollywood Game Night) hosts this reboot of a British game show that aired previously on this network from 2001-02, hosted by tart British TV personality Anne Robinson. In each episode, eight contestants work as a team to answer general-knowledge questions, with the value of each consecutive correct answer increasing exponentially. If a player gives a wrong answer, though, the money awarded drops back to the lowest amount. At the end of each round, the team votes to eject the player they see as their “weakest link.”