MONDAY’S BEST PICKS
8PM The Neighborhood After a $ break-in at Calvin’s (Cedric the Entertainer) place of business, he and Dave (Max Greenfield) team up on a stakeout to catch the guilty party in the act, in the new episode “Welcome to the Stakeout.” Meanwhile, Gemma (Beth Behrs) seems uncharacteristically reluctant to share her newest hobby with
Tina (Tichina Arnold). Sheaun McKinney and Marcel Spears also star.
8PM All American Spencer (Daniel G Ezra) tries to enjoy his celebratory time with Jordan, Asher and JJ (Michael Evans Behling, Cody Christian, Hunter Clowdus) at JJ’s rented summer beach house, but he’s distracted and conflicted by some of the sponsorship opporprompting tunities he receives in the new episode “Got Your Money.” Elsewhere, things don’t go as smoothly for Coop and Patience (Bre-Z, Chelsea Tavares) as they had hoped when they take a big step in their relationship. Meanwhile, Laura (Monet Mazur), at her wits’ end, steps in to help Billy (Taye Diggs).
8PM Spring Baking (FOOD) Championship A beloved seasonal kitchen competition returns for Season 8, with host Molly Yeh challenging the 12 of the best bakers in the world to create and elevate springtime desserts that will impress judges Kardea Brown, Duff Goldman and Nancy Fuller. In the two-hour premiere, “Everything’s Coming Up Floral,” Yeh tasks the newly arrived bakers to make fruit tarts that showcase their personalities, then create floral bonanza cakes. Look for some major twists, not to mention double eliminations, as the season unfolds.
9PM NCIS While they are investigating $ the death of an intruder at Quantico, Jimmy and Kasie (Brian Dietzen Diona Reasonover) find themselves exposed to a deadly neurotoxin, the rest of their team to enlist the help of Dr. Carol Wilson (guest star Meredith Eaton) in a race against the clock in the new episode “The Helpers.” Meanwhile, Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) has his hands full trying to distract Jimmy’s young daughter, who had been spending the day at the office with her dad. Sean Murray also stars.
9PM Rock the Block Four (HGTV) duos, each with familial ties, duke it out in Season 3 of this hit home makeover competition, this one set in the Greater Charleston, S.C., area. Fan-favorite craftsman and design expert Ty Pennington returns to host as the teams compete for the honor of having a street named after them. The competitors include Pacific Northwest twins Leslie Davis and Lyndsay Lamb, married Arkansas renovation experts Dave and Jenny Marrs, Detroit-based couple and designer-builders Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas, and Atlanta spouses Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson.
10 PM Better Things Pamela Adlon (FX) begins her final run as a resourceful divorced mother raising three daughters on her own as this Peabody Awardwinning dramedy series opens its fifth and final season. These last episodes focus on the road that lies ahead for her character, working actress Sam
Fox, as well as the challenges of her fickle career and the increasing signs of aging her mother (Celia Imrie) has begun to exhibit (not to mention the toll the years have taken on Sam herself). Mikey Madison and Olivia Edward also star.
10:02 PM (AMC) Ragdoll The production team from “Killing Eve” also is behind this dark new six-part thriller series, about a serial killer stalking London. The madman’s six victims have been murdered and dismembered, then sewn into the shape of one grotesque body hanging from the ceiling in a block of apartments. The grisly case is assigned to newly reinstated Detective Sgt. Nathan
Rose (Henry Lloyd-Hughes, “The Irregulars”), Detective Inspector Emily Baxter (Thalissa Teixeira, “The Musketeers”) and new recruit Detective Constable Lake Edmunds (Lucy Hale, “Pretty Little Liars”).