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7 p.m. on PBS
The Hispanic Heritage Awards
Among the highest honors presented by Latinos for Latinos and supported by 40 national Hispanic-serving organizations, the 33rd edition of these ceremonies will eschew the traditional live gathering in accordance with pandemic guidelines. Instead, the broadcast will feature more intimately filmed performances and honoree segments filmed on location across the United States and Latin America. These awards were created by the White House in 1987 to commemorate the establishment of Hispanic Heritage Month in America.
7 p.m. on CW Swamp Thing
In this TV series adaptation of a DC Comics property, Crystal Reed stars as Abby Arcane, a physician with the Center for Disease Control, who is dispatched to her Louisiana hometown to investigate what appears to be a deadly swamp-borne virus. She discovers much more, however, after her medical colleague Alec Holland (Andy Bean) appears to die, then literally resurfaces as an entity known as Swamp Thing (Derek Mears).
8 p.m. on FOX NEXT
This new sci-fi crime drama stars John Slattery (Mad Men, pictured) as Paul LeBlanc, a Silicon Valley pioneer who discovers to his horror that one of his own creations, a powerful artificial-intelligence unit, could spell doom for humanity. When he desperately tries to shut down the project, he is ousted from his company by his brother (Jason Butler Harner). As Paul watches with dread while “inexplicable” tech mishaps seem to confirm his fears, he teams with Special Agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade) to stave off a global catastrophe.
8 p.m. on NBC Ellen’s Game of Games
Her daytime talk-show may currently be involved in some behind-the-scenes unhappiness, but that evidently hasn’t affected this popular primetime venture by Ellen DeGeneres, who returns for her fourth season of silliness, along with announcer Stephen “tWitch” Boss. NBC hasn’t released any details yet as to how the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — and related guidelines against large indoor gatherings — will affect game play on a show that traditionally plucked its contestants from a live studio audience.