TV TOP PICKS

6 p.m. on LIFE

Married at First Sight

In the run-up to a new season of this highly unconventional relationship series and social experiment, Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Pastor Calvin Roberson and Dr. Viviana Coles meet and evaluate a diverse assortment of hopeful singles and choose the 10 people who will marry a complete stranger in a new edition of this program.

7 p.m. on CW

Heroes on the Front Line

Dean Cain (Masters of Illusion) serves as host for this new one-hour special that, like several other such tributes, takes a moment to honor those on the ground heroes and front line emergency workers who selflessly risked their own welfare to keep other Americans safe and cared for during the topsy-turvy reality of a global pandemic.

8 p.m. on FOOD

Beat Bobby Flay

There’s more facial hair in the kitchen than usual in the new episode “Mustache Takeover” as mustachioed chefs Saransh Oberoi and Tom Cuomo face off for a shot at taking down clean shaven master Bobby Flay. Actor and chef David Burtka joins restaurateur Donatella Arpaia to cheer on all the culinary action.

8 p.m. on TNT

Movie: Gladiator

Maximus (Russell Crowe), a great Roman general, is marked for death for refusing to support the new emperor (Joaquin Phoenix) — who got the job by killing his own father. He manages to escape, but the emperor executes his family. Then, Maximus is easily captured and sold into slavery, putting his military training to good use as a gladiator. Derek Jacobi, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou and Connie Nielsen also star in the 2000 adventure, which won five Oscars.

8:08 p.m. on USA

Movie: Fast & Furious

The central cast of the original movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise — Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster — is reunited in this fourth chapter, successful because it adds solid character development to the expectedly frantic automotive action. A personal tragedy reunites the former enemies played by Diesel and Walker to bring down a smuggling kingpin.