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TENNIS: US OPEN: MEN’S FINAL ESPN, 4 p.m. Live

The year’s final Grand Slam comes to a conclusion at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, with the men’s singles final match.

REL FOX, 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific (after football game)

New Series! In this multi-camera sitcom based on his life, Lil Rel Howery plays Rel, a Chicago husband and father who finds out his wife has been sleeping with his barber. When his ex and their kids move to Cleveland, Rel must rebuild his life as a long-distance single dad. Helping him pick up the pieces are his brother (Jordan L. Jones), his best friend (Jessica Moore), his dad (Sinbad) and his pastor (also played by Howery).

THE BAD SEED Lifetime, 8 p.m.

Original Film! Rob Lowe directs, executive produces and stars in this remake of the classic 1956 psychological thriller as a father who begins to suspect that his beloved daughter may not be who he thought she was after a horrible tragedy takes place at her school. Patty Mccormack, who at the time was the youngest actor ever nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar when she played the “bad seed” in the original film, is cast here as a psychiatrist who treats the girl.

DR. K’S EXOTIC ANIMAL ER Nat Geo Wild, 8 p.m.

Season Premiere! There is no such thing as a boring day at Dr. Susan Kelleher’s South Florida exotic animal emergency room, where she and her staff treat unusual animals from big cats to hedgehogs, birds, reptiles, rabbits and any other animal imaginable. “Your ‘strange’ is my normal,” laughs Dr. K.

NFL FOOTBALL: CHICAGO AT GREEN BAY NBC, 8:15 p.m. Live

Sunday Night Football kicks off its 2018 season in Green Bay, Wis., as Mitch Trubisky and the Chicago Bears take on Aaron Rodgers and the Packers in an

NFC North rivalry game at Lambeau Field.

■ THE 2019 MISS AMERICA COMPETITION ABC, 9 p.m. Live

The 2019 Miss America Competition airs live from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., and this year’s show has a new mission: to highlight women from all walks of life who are advancing the message of female empowerment. “We are no longer a pageant. Miss America will represent a new generation of female leaders focused on scholarship, social impact, talent and empowerment,” says Gretchen Carlson, chair of the Miss America Organization board of trustees. The 51 competitors will no longer be judged on physical appearance — there’s no more swimsuit category, and the former evening gown competition has been revamped — but the talent portion of the contest remains.

THE DEUCE HBO, 9 p.m.

Season Premiere! The nine-episode second season returns to the world of 1977 — the Golden Age of Porn — capturing Times Square at its most garish and volatile. James Franco reprises his roles as both Vincent Martino, a successful manager of several mob-backed nightspots, and his twin brother, Frankie Martino, whose own business ventures are more fraught. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Candy is now a rising director of ambitious porn films. Joining the cast is Luke Kirby (Rectify) as an incoming Koch administration official bent on reform, with Jamie Neumann (The Looming Tower) reprising her role as Ashley, a former sex worker turned activist.

THE MINIATURIST PBS, 9 p.m.

New Miniseries! See what happens when a teen bride’s new husband gives her an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet that is a miniature replica of their home — and seems to predict and unravel the future with unsettling precision.

THE LAST SHIP TNT, 9 p.m.

Season Premiere! In the fifth and final season, the world is finally recovering from the deadly virus that devastated the population, but global political unrest remains. Tom Chandler (Eric Dane) has retired from the Navy, and his former crew has scattered. Sasha Cooper (Bridget Regan), Lt. Danny Green (Travis Van Winkle), Wolf Taylor (Bren Foster) and Sgt. Azima Kandie (Jodie Turner-smith) are on a covert mission in Panama. When they are wrongly blamed for an attack on the Panamanian president, the consequences for the United States are dire.

ASHLEE+EVAN E!, 10 p.m.

New Series! For much of their lives, musicians Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross have been in the spotlight. The series follows the couple as they juggle their lives as soul mates, parents, musicians and artists.

YOU

Lifetime, 10 p.m.

New Series! Penn Badgley stars in this adaptation of Caroline Kepnes’ bestselling thriller as a bookstore employee whose chance encounter with a beautiful and struggling writer (Elizabeth Lail) turns into a dark obsession. The former Gossip Girl star reveals that he was hesitant to take on the role, and instead of dwelling on the nefarious acts of his gentleman stalker, he tries to focus on the good within the character. He reveals, “The only thing that I can say that I love about him, or that I can admire in him, or that I became transfixed by playing him, was his curiosity, his deep, longing curiosity to know others and to connect with them.”

KIDDING Showtime, 10 p.m.

New Series! Jim Carrey stars as Jeff Pickles, better known to young TV viewers as Mr. Pickles from the long-running series Mr. Pickles’ Puppet Time. Mr. Pickles is an icon of children’s television and a beacon of kindness and wisdom to America’s impressionable young minds. But when Jeff’s family life implodes, he finds no fairy tale, fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: A kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. Frank Langella, Catherine Keener and Judy Greer also star.

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