What to watch
THURSDAY
March 17, 2022
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
Minx HBO Max New Series
■ This series is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centers around Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson) to create the first erotic magazine for women. The 10-episode comedy airs two new episodes each week through April 14.
Star Trek: Discovery
Paramount+ ■ Season Finale
The Star Trek spinoff concludes its fourth season. It has been renewed for Season 5.
Below Deck Down Under New Series
Peacock ■
This latest entry in the Below Deck franchise is set against the stunning backdrop of the tropical Whitsunday Islands and worldfamous Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Australia. It explores the complex and often explosive dynamics of the crew and a rotating group of demanding charter guests on the yacht M/Y Thalassa. The first three episodes are available today; subsequent new episodes are available Thursdays.
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: First Round
CBS, TBS, TNT, & truTV, Beginning at 11 a.m. live
With the First Four games finished, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament begins in earnest with first-round action at venues around the country today and tomorrow on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV.
Station 19 ABC, 7 p.m.
In “In My Tree,” the Dean Miller Memorial Clinic has its opening day. Meanwhile, Sullivan gives Beckett an ultimatum, and the crew responds to a skydiving incident.
MasterChef Junior Season Premiere
FOX, 7 p.m. ■
Young chefs in Season 8 will cook for diners at a Renaissance fair and a motocross track as well as compete in a doughnut challenge and a WWE-themed episode. Chefs Gordon Ramsay, Daphne Oz and Aaron Sanchez will decide which contestant takes home the $100,000 grand prize.
A Gift of Murder Original Film
LMN, 7 p.m. ■
When Dylan (Bailey Bass) is forced to transfer to a new school after her mom, Cindy (Kate Orsini), is admitted to rehab, she quickly rubs reigning mean girl Tiffany (Courtney Lauren Cummings) the wrong way. Dylan’s aunt and uncle offer to throw a Sweet 16 party to help her adjust, but Tiffany will stop at nothing, not even murder, to destroy Dylan’s plans.
Welcome to Flatch New Series
FOX, 8:30 p.m. ■
When a documentary crew sets out to explore life in small-town America, they stumble upon Flatch, Ohio, which is made up of many eccentric personalities. Two of them are cousins and best buds Kelly (Chelsea Holmes) and Lloyd “Shrub” Mallet (Sam Straley), foulmouthed ne’er-do-wells who have deepseated rivalries with Flatch’s other residents. Based on the U.K. series This Country and shot in mockumentary style, the series also stars Seann William Scott, Aya Cash, Krystal Smith, Justin Linville and Taylor Ortega.