Los Angeles Times

TV THIS WEEK

- By Matt Cooper

SUNDAY

“American Style” is a four-part survey of sartorial splendor from the 1940s to the present. With Tim Gunn, Donna Karan and others. 6 and 7 p.m. CNN; concludes next Sun.

With 14 nomination­s, “The Favourite” is the, um, favorite in the film categories at the “24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards.” Taye Diggs hosts. 7 p.m. KTLA

They were BFFs until one day they weren’t in the new thriller “Best Friend’s Betrayal.” With Mary Grill. 8 p.m. Lifetime

Yas queen! Jenna Coleman reigns as “Victoria” for a third season of the period drama on “Masterpiec­e.” 9 p.m. KOCE

“Moonlight’s” Mahershala Ali will be asking the questions this time around in a third season of the mystery drama “True Detective.” 9 and 10 p.m. HBO

Log in to “Valley of the Boom,” a new drama about the tech industry in Silicon Valley in the 1990s. With Bradley Whitford. 9 and 9:58 p.m. National Geographic Channel MONDAY

The new special “Gretchen Carlson: Breaking the Silence” finds the former “Fox & Friends” cohost shining a light on the stories of survivors of sexual harassment and abuse. 8 p.m. Lifetime

A federal agent (“NYPD Blue’s” Mark Paul Gosselaar) goes on the lam with a young girl who might hold the key to a stopping a global pandemic in the new series “The Passage.” 9 p.m. Fox

Aw, rats! Efforts to stop “Rodents of Unusual Size” from ravaging Louisiana’s ecosystem are detailed in this documentar­y on “Independen­t Lens.” 10 p.m. KOCE

TUESDAY

Felicity Huffman and “The Wire’s” Michael K. Williams explore their respective

family histories on “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” 8 p.m. KOCE

The drama “This Is Us” is back with new episodes. With Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimigli­a and Sterling K. Brown. 9 p.m. NBC

The aliens are more extraterre­strial than illegal in “Roswell, New Mexico,” a reboot of the UPN/WB drama “Roswell.” With Jeanine Mason and Nathan Parsons. 9 p.m. KTLA

“American Experience” tours the Florida Everglades, probably in one of those boats with a big ol’ fan on the back, in the new episode “The Swamp.” 9 p.m. KOCE

Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen and “Westworld’s” Evan Rachel Wood take on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenste­in” on the return of “Drunk History.” 10 p.m. Comedy Central

WEDNESDAY

If you love horses, it would behoove you to watch the new two-part episode “Equus: Story of the Horse” on “Nature.” 8 p.m. KOCE; concludes next Wed.

See how Iraq’s Saddam Hussein managed to hold on to power for three-plus decades on a new episode of “The Dictator’s Playbook.” 10 p.m. KOCE

The sitcom “Schitt’s Creek” serves up a fifth season. With Eugene Levy, Chris Elliott and Catherine O’Hara. 10 p.m. Pop

The course load is murder at a school for criminals’ kids in the dark, teen-themed drama “Deadly Class.” With Benjamin Wadsworth and Benedict Wong. 10 p.m. Syfy THURSDAY The online series “Star Trek: Discovery” blasts off for a second season. With Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones and Michelle Yeoh. 5:30 p.m., CBS All Access

The new Fab 5 from the “Queer Eye” reboot face off on the season premiere of “Lip Sync Battle.” 9 p.m. Paramount Network

A trio of landscape designers known as the Manscapers ply their trade in the new reality series “Backyard Envy.” 10 p.m. Bravo

FRIDAY

Vigilante Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) brings the pain in a second season of “Marvel’s The Punisher.” Any time, Netflix

She’s cool, she’s royal, she’s “A Winter Princess” in this new romantic TV movie. With Natalie Hall. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel

The Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Joffrey Ballet go to hell and back in a joint production of Gluck’s “Orphee et Eurydice” on a new “Great Performanc­es.” 9 p.m. KOCE

SATURDAY

Charlize Theron is the mother of all overworked moms in writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman’s 2018 comedy-drama “Tully.” 7:20 p.m. HBO

Two authors on a book tour write their own “Winter Love Story” in this new TV movie. With Jen Lilley and Kevin McGarry. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel

The new historical drama “Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story” stars Christina Ricci as the crusading 19th-century investigat­ive journalist who went undercover to expose harsh conditions at a women’s insane asylum. 8 p.m. Lifetime

Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin take the war on drugs to a Mexican cartel leader’s doorstep in the 2018 sequel “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.” 8 p.m. Starz

“Brexit,” stage left. Benedict Cumberbatc­h plays the political strategist tasked with selling the notion of leaving the European Union to the British public in this new docudrama. 9 p.m. HBO

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