Los Angeles Times

TV THIS WEEK

- By Matt Cooper

SUNDAY

A moment like this: Your newest “American Idol” is named in the singing competitio­n’s season finale. 8 p.m. ABC

The new docu-series “The Aquarium” introduces viewers to marine animals and staffers at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. 8 p.m. Animal Planet And now our watch is ended: After eight seasons, the fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” airs its final episode. 9 p.m. HBO

David James Elliott and Catherine Bell reprise their “JAG” roles on the season finale of “NCIS: Los Angeles.” 10 p.m. CBS

MONDAY

“The Voice” closes another cycle with a two-night finale. 8 p.m. NBC; also 9 p.m. Tue. The new special “Norman Mineta and

His Legacy: An American Story” salutes the Japanese American politician who made it from a WWII-era internment camp all the way to the U.S. House of Representa­tives and beyond. 9 p.m. KOCE Her heart will go on: Singer Celine Dion

joins host James Corden for “The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2019.” 10 p.m. CBS Members of an underprivi­leged Alabama high school’s wrestling team grapple with life’s ups and downs in “Wrestle” on a new “Independen­t Lens.” 10 p.m. KOCE The winner will take the, um, cake in the new series “Cake-off.” 10 p.m. Food Network

TUESDAY

The “JAG” spinoff “NCIS” ends its 16th season. Mark Harmon stars. 8 p.m. CBS

A sexy antiquitie­s expert (Matt Barr) and a sexy art thief (Sofia Pernas) join forces to stop a terrorist financier in the new action drama “Blood & Treasure.” With John Larroquett­e and Oded Fehr. 9 p.m. CBS

“Frontline” takes a Bork-to-Kavanaugh look at 30 years of contentiou­s Supreme Court confirmati­on hearings in the new episode “Supreme Revenge.” 10 p.m. KOCE

WEDNESDAY

More terminally ill individual­s talk about making the most of what little time they have left in new episodes of the poignant docu-series “My Last Days.” 8 p.m. The CW The special “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons” finds stars like Woody Harrelson, Will Ferrell, Marisa Tomei and Jamie Foxx helping to re-create episodes of those two 1970s sitcoms. 8 p.m. ABC

“90210’s” Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth and boxing’s Evander Holyfield and Oscar De La Hoya compete in a new “MasterChef Celebrity Family Showdown.” 8 p.m. Fox

On we sweep with threshing oar: Archaeolog­ists uncover evidence of a “Lost Viking Army” on a new “Nova.” 9 p.m. KOCE Can you hear me now? The limited series “Breakthrou­gh: The Ideas That Changed the World” concludes with a look at the origins of the smartphone. 10 p.m. KOCE The elite meet to carve all kinds of meat in the new competitio­n series “The Butcher.” 10 p.m. History Channel

THURSDAY

This year’s star-studded “Red Nose Day” special to raise awareness of children living in poverty includes a short film that reunites “Four Weddings and a Funeral” costars Hugh Grant, Andie McDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas and Rowan Atkinson. 8 p.m. NBC “Flip or Flop’s” Christina Anstead flies solo in the new home-makeover series “Christina on the Coast.” 9 p.m. HGTV

Holmes and Watson (Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu) are back on the case in a seventh season of “Elementary.” 10 p.m. CBS

John Turturro, not Sean Connery, plays medieval monk/detective William of Baskervill­e in “The Name of the Rose,” a new series based on Italian novelist Umberto Eco’s cerebral whodunit. With Rupert Everett. 10 p.m. SundanceTV

FRIDAY

“Get Out’s” Allison Williams plays a highstrung cellist in the twisted new psychologi­cal thriller “The Perfection.” With Logan Browning. Anytime, Netflix Renée Zellweger plays mystery woman who has a propositio­n for a newlywed couple in the new San Francisco-set drama “What/ If.” Anytime, Netflix Broadway’s Megan Hilty (“Wicked”) sings show tunes and more on a new “Live From Lincoln Center.” 9 p.m. KOCE

SATURDAY

Tom Cruise risks life and limb to save the world and also to bring you the action-flick thrills you crave in the crackerjac­k 2018 franchise entry “Mission: Impossible — Fallout.” With Alec Baldwin. 8 p.m. Epix It’s Jamie Lee Curtis versus serial-killer sibling Michael Myers for the umpteenth time in the simply titled 2018 franchise entry “Halloween.” With Judy Greer. 8 p.m. HBO

They can always give that vacation rental a one-star rating — if they survive — in the new thriller “Fatal Getaway.” With Christie Burson and Tilky Jones. 8 p.m. Lifetime Childhood BFFs become more than just BFFs in the romantic new TV movie “From Friend to Fiancé.” With Jocelyn Hudon and Ryan Paevey. 9 p.m. Hallmark Channel

 ?? Fabio Lovino SundanceTV ?? JOHN TURTURRO, right, and Benjamin Stender costar in “The Name of the Rose” premiering on Sundance TV.
Fabio Lovino SundanceTV JOHN TURTURRO, right, and Benjamin Stender costar in “The Name of the Rose” premiering on Sundance TV.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States