MONDAY’S BEST PICKS
11 AM $ The Price Is Right The longestrunning game show in television history opens its 50th season with a special week-long event, in which each day’s episode offers a game wherein contestants could win up to a million dollars. Bob Barker was host when “The Price Is Right” premiered on Sept. 4, 1972, and the Emmy-winning daytime series has featured 108 different pricing games since then. Two new games are being introduced this week to mark the milestone anniversary, including one — “Back to ’72” — that includes a retro look and feel. Drew Carey is the show’s current host.
8 PM _ Hell’s Kitchen The Season 20 champion is crowned at the end of tonight’s eventful two-hour season finale, wherein chef Gordon Ramsay arranges a heartfelt reunion for the three remaining chefs before challenging them to cook a five-course dinner service to be evaluated by a panel of celebrity judges. Then, the two finalists pick their brigades from a pool of their former competitors and compete in their final dinner service to see which of them earns the title of head chef at Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris Las Vegas.
8 PM ( Darcey & Stacey Darcey and TLC) Stacey set sail in Turkey’s Twin Bays in the new episode “Blow Up in Bodrum.” Later, Stacey takes Darcey into her confidence over a secret she’s been hiding from her sister, while Georgi attempts to lift his spirits in a highly unusual way. Elsewhere, Stacey and Florian get news that shakes up their future plans.
9 PM ^ American Experience Ronald Reagan’s 1981 nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first female Supreme Court justice dominated that day’s news cycle, and rightly so. The new documentary “Sandra Day O’Connor: The First” looks back at the Texas-born O’Connor’s life and career. During her 25 years on the Supreme Court, she was the critical swing vote on cases involving some of the 20th century’s most polarizing cases involving race, gender and reproductive rights, and O’Connor was the tie-breaker decision regarding the George W. Bush-Al Gore presidential election.
9 PM ( Halloween Baking FOOD) Championship John Henson returns to host Season 7 of this popular seasonal competition, which this fall uses classic 1980s slasher movies as the overall theme. In the season premiere, “Welcome to Camp Devil’s Food Cake,” ten bakers compete for a chance to win the ultimate $25,000 prize, if they can outwit the (metaphorical) mass murderer who takes out one chef each week. Their first challenges involve “cereal killer” pies and mega cakes. Carla Hall, Zac Young and Stephanie Boswell are the judges.
9 PM ( Laetitia In episode three, HBO) Jessica (Sophie Breyer) grows increasingly anxious as Laetitia (Marie Colomb) remains missing after several days. Her worries prompt Detective Touchais (Yannick Choirat) to dig even deeper into the victim’s habits. Flashbacks reveal more disturbing information about the volatile childhood years the twins — as well as Meilhon (Noam Morgensztern) — were forced to endure.
10 PM ( Titans After Donna (Conor TNT) Leslie) stops Kory (Anna Diop) from killing Rachel (Teagan Croft), Donna and Dick (Brenton Thwaites) follow the guilt-stricken Kori to an abandoned warehouse, where a previously invisible spacecraft suddenly uncloaks itself for Kory in the new episode “Koriand’r.” Kory reveals that she was dispatched from her home planet, Tamaran, on a mission to take out Rachel before she destroys both Tamaran and Earth.
10 PM ( Back to Life Series creator SHO) and star Daisy Haggard returns to her role as good-natured former prison inmate Miri Matteson as this dramedy launches its sophomore season comprising six new episodes. The action resumes three weeks after the Season 1 finale. Miri is working a trial shift at the local supermarket and spending personal time with Billy (Adeel Akhtar), her neighbor. She’s still not talking to Caroline (Geraldine James), her mother, however, since finding out the older woman was having an affair with Miri’s old flame.