The Player
Alex (Philip Winchester) risks his new job and his freedom as his efforts to help a friend place him on the wrong side of Det. Brown (Damon Gupton) in the new episode The Big Blind. The situation involves a professional assassin. Though Alex gets help from Mr. Johnson (Wesley Snipes) in delving deeper into the circumstances of Ginny’s death, Cassandra (Charity Wakefield) stays one step ahead of them. Eric Roberts and Carmine Giovinazzo (CSI: NY) guest star. (NBC)
FIRSTHAND
This new documentary series launches with The Woman Who Joined the Taliban, an engrossing and deeply troubling chronicle of how Vancouver publishing executive Beverly Giesbrecht was so profoundly shaken by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that she converted to Islam after years as a devout Christian. While in Pakistan to film a documentary she hoped would put a new face on militant Islam, Giesbrecht was kidnapped by Taliban fighters who were convinced she was an American spy. (CBC)
SLEEPY HOLLOW
Pandora (Shannyn Sossamon) unleashes something from her legendary box in the new episode Blood and Fear. One of the items from it is transformative, literally — and not in a good way, since it changes humans from their regular form into horrifying beings. Ichabod and Abbie (Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie) set out to stop her. (Fox, CTV Two)
THE BLACKLIST
As Red and Liz (James Spader, Megan Boone) remain on the run, with the Midwest as their destination, their FBI pursuers find a more immediate crisis in the new episode Eli Matchett. Unless another case is solved soon, a food-related emergency could impact the entire globe. (NBC, Global)
THE NATURE OF THINGS
Director of photography Hugo Kitching invested 13 months of his life in the Maligne Valley of Jasper National Park, chronicling the struggles of a moose calf in the wild, for Susan Fleming’s new documentary Moose: A Year in the Life of a Twig Eater, which opens Nature’s new season. Despite that somewhat whimsical title, there’s a serious purpose behind this film: In some areas of North America, the moose population is down as much as 64 per cent and researchers aren’t sure why. (CBC)