TV TOP PICKS
6 p.m. on BRAVO Top Chef
A new batch of exceptional executive chefs and restaurant owners representing a cross-section of kitchens and food styles across North America gathers in Portland, Ore., as this Emmy-winning culinary competition series launches Season 18. These “cheftestants” will vie in a series of wide-ranging challenges, from celebrating Portland’s thriving Pan-African cuisine to feeding hundreds of front-line workers. A crabbing outing on the Oregon Coast also pays tribute to culinary icon James Beard, an Oregonian himself. Padma Lakshmi returns as host, with Tom Colicchio as head judge.
7 p.m. on NBC Manifest
This eerie thriller returns for Season 3, which reportedly will answer the central question of Manifest: What happened to the passengers of Flight 828? As the action resumes, it’s been more than a year since their miraculous homecoming, and while the Stone family continues trying to protect their friends and outwit their enemies, new challenges will test how much they trust the callings, as well as one another. One thing’s certain, though: No matter what happens, it’s all connected. Melissa Roxburgh and Josh Dallas, pictured, star.
8 p.m. on FOX The Moodys
As Season 2 opens tonight with two back-to-back episodes, Moody patriarch Sean Sr. (Denis Leary) is contemplating retirement. He wants to turn his heating and air business over to his hapless older son, Sean Jr. (Jay Baruchel), then cross America in an RV with wife Ann (Elizabeth Perkins). Meanwhile, daughter Bridget (Chelsea Frei), newly divorced, has moved home while her townhouse is being renovated, and commitment-phobic kid brother Dan (Francois Arnaud) is back home as well, having backed out of another relationship.
9 p.m. on NBC Law & Order: Organized Crime
Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), who left the Special Victims Unit of the New York Police Department under a cloud at the end of Season 12, returns to the department to lead a new task force against organized crime in this new spinoff. Not surprisingly, he quickly discovers both New York and its police force have changed dramatically in the decade since he previously worked there. The cast also includes Dylan McDermott, Tamara Taylor, Danielle Moné Truitt and Ainsley Seiger, with occasional appearances by Mariska Hargitay.