TV TOP PICKS

6 p.m. on DSC

Bering Sea Gold

Top contenders Shawn Pomrenke and Vernon Adkison battle it out for their final haul in the face of a brutal storm that seems ready to knock them off the ice in the new episode “Legend vs. Underdog.” Meanwhile, Zeke Tenhoff goes all in on one last, very risky move, while Kris Kelly hopes to pull enough to set up his summer season.

7 p.m. on CW

Popstar’s Best of 2021

’Tis the season for looking back on the year that’s drawing to a close, and The CW gets in on all the other “countdown” specials with this new hour in which host Elizabeth Stanton, pictured, looks back at the good, the bad and the ugly of 2021, ticking off some of the year’s most memorable moments (for good or bad) and trends that dominated over the past 12 months.

7 p.m. on TLC

I Am Jazz

In the new episode “Raw,” Jazz’s rally in support of Black Trans Lives is in serious jeopardy after her heavily publicized main speaker is forced to drop out from the event. Elsewhere, Sander goes on a second date with Hope and is surprised to learn about some of her stringent dating criteria. Later, Jazz confronts TS Madison about her comments.

8 p.m. on FOOD

Raid the Fridge

Food writer Dan Ahdoot hosts this new culinary competition series, in which competing chefs must rely mainly on their intuition and luck. To get ingredients for a series of challenges, the chefs may use only the ingredients they find in the “mystery refrigerator” they select, but — here’s the rub — they have only the exterior photos, magnets, recipes and art on the fridge doors to go by. In other words, what may look on the outside like the fridge of a hardcore foodie may be filled with fast food.

8 p.m. on HIST

Great Escapes

With Morgan Freeman

The new episode “Assassin’s Flight” examines how petty thief and lifetime criminal James Earl Ray managed to escape prison multiple times. In fact, it was during one of those “unexcused absences” from incarceration that Ray fatally shot civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. For that crime, Ray was sentenced to the notorious Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee, widely believed to be virtually escape-proof. That didn’t discourage Ray and some fellow inmates from scaling the prison walls with a makeshift ladder. Morgan Freeman is the host.