TONIGHT ON TV
NEW GIRL FOX, 8 ET/PT
All in the Family great Rob Reiner guests as Jess’ dad in an episode that also boasts a guest shot by Donna Pescow, whose Angie helped close the TV decade Fam
ily started. Like Family, it was a show with a killer theme song, back in the days when most every show had one. New Girl’s metariff on them doesn’t quite compare, but hey, it’s better than nothing. BULL CBS, 9 ET/PT Could this be the end for Bull and his business? The future’s at risk this week, as Bull faces bankruptcy if a class-action suit he’s funding doesn’t go his way at trial. It could be touch and go — but considering CBS has already renewed this freshman hit for a second season, odds are good that, one way or another, Bull finds a way to keep working. REBEL BET, 10 ET/PT As if in answer to Fox’s unfocused
Shots Fired, BET debuts Rebel —a drama from John Singleton that also gets its impetus from a police shooting. But this story is told from the point of view of the cop, Rebel (Danielle Moné Truitt), who is pushed out of the force when she shoots her partner in an attempt to save her brother. Giancarlo Esposito, Mykelti Williamson, Cliff “Method Man” Smith and LaTanya Richardson co-star.