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5 p.m. on (87) (19) Nature.
Between May and July of each year, billions of sardines gather along the east coast of South Africa to create a shoal stretching several miles long in one of nature’s greatest spectacles. As the largest biomass migration on the planet, this run — which researchers estimate rivals Africa’s fabled wildebeest migration — sees the tiny fish fighting to escape the mouths of multiple hungry predators that on this event for food. Special underwater cameras capture this event in “The Ocean’s Greatest Feast.”
5 p.m. on (124) Catfish: The TV Show.
Gabby is understandably shocked and heartbroken when she learns that her online love, Kendrick, has been killed in this new episode. However, Gabby’s cousin strongly suspects she’s been mourning a nonexistent character, so she calls in Nev and Kamie to uncover a
6 p.m. on (37) Dr. Pimple Popper.
Dr. Sandra Lee is busier than ever with a new caseload of patients as this somewhat improbable medical docuseries returns for a new season. Thankfully, she’ll have help from new associate Dr. Betty Song, who joins the practice ready and willing to help Dr. Lee with conditions that are unusual and even sometimes baffling. Among the new cases featured are a condition Dr. Lee never has seen before, in which a male patient has a facial cyst so large that it nearly covers one of his eyes almost entirely.
6 p.m. on (87) (19) NOVA.
A fascinating new episode called “Great Mammoth Mystery” chronicles how amateur padepend leontologists and fossil collectors Neville and Sally Hollingworth were pursuing their hobby to stave off pandemic lockdown boredom when they discovered a site in southwest England that preserved traces of extinct beasts that populated Britain more than 200,000 years ago. David Attenborough is the host.
7 p.m. on (27) Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch.
Determined to get into the cavern, Duane and his team explore new strategies to find a dry entrance in the new “Radioactive Rocks.” Elsewhere, while Chad takes to the skies in search of a natural opening, Eric thinks the radioactive rocks found in the box might provide them with a clue about where to dig.
8 p.m. on (55) The Panthers.
Set against the racially charged backdrop of 1974 Auckland, New Zealand, this fact-based
TV miniseries chronicles how a group of Polynesian students and street gangsters led by Tongan student Will Tlolahia formed a revolutionary movement called the Polynesian Panthers, inspired ny the American Black Panther Party. Lealani Siaosi, Roy Billing, Beulah Koale, Frankie Adams and Jordan Mooney also star. Two more episodes immediately follow.
9 p.m. on (16) The Chase.
Season 2 of this fast-paced game show wraps up with two back-to-back episodes. First, James “The Highroller” Holzhauer returns as the Chaser for an episode called “There Is a Time and a Place for a Hawaiian Shirt,” in which he tries to beat three contestants in a race against the clock. In the finale that immediately follows, “This Is My Chair of Disappointment,” Ken “The Professor” Jennings takes center stage as the last Chaser of the season.