THURSDAY’S BEST PICKS
8PM $ Young Sheldon Sheldon
(Iain Armitage) is in a pickle and must choose sides in an ethical dilemma in the new episode“Passion’s Harvest and a Sheldocracy.” Elsewhere, Mary (Zoe Perry) decides to try her hand at the fine art of writing and Mandy (Emily Osment) needs a new place to live.
Lance Barber, Annie Potts, Montana Jordan and Raegan Revord also star. 8PM (TCM) High Noon on the Waterfront As part of the channel’s examination of the 75th Anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist, this new special is an inventive remembrance of the impact of the Blacklist on two American classics, “High Noon” (1952) and “On the Waterfront” (1954), rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman (voiced by Edward Norton) and Elia Kazan (voiced by John Turturro). “High Noon” and “On the Waterfront” immediately follow.
9PM (BRV) Winter House Because questionable behavior is not limited to Southern California, the Season 2 premiere brings the crazy back to Stowe, Vt., where snow bunnies and snow dudes make bad decisions on an hourly basis. Returning to the house are Amanda Batula, Jason Cameron, Craig Conover, Kyle Cooke, Paige DeSorbo, Luke Gulbranson, Austen Kroll and Ciara Miller. New cast members include Rachel Clark, Kory Keefer and Jessica Stocker. Expect your goggles to fog up.
9PM (HGTV) Renovation Impossible Home is where the heartbreak is.
After a previous contractor botched their kitchen remodel and left them with a broken heart of the home, a couple calls on Russell Holmes to help with renovations in the new episode “Sunken Living.” He’ll have to manage their rapidly shrinking budget and overcome design disagreements to deliver on a dream home they’ll both love. Can he right the ship without breaking the bank?
9:30 PM _ Call Me Kat Kat (Mayim Bialik) ends up spending the day with Max (Cheyenne Jackson) and his nephew, and realizes she enjoys being around a baby. Meanwhile , Carter (Julian Gant) confesses that he has lied to Randi (Kyla Pratt) about liking scary movies and his decision to watch them is haunting him in the new episode “Call Me Thor.” Swoosie Kurtz, Leslie Jordan and Julian Gant also star.
10 PM $ CSI: Vegas Catherine (Marg
Helgenberger), Maxine (Paula Newsome), Joshua (Matt Lauria) and the rest of the team are called to investigate when a group of teens discover an abandoned car crash with a dead woman at the wheel in a Nevada ghost town. It’s classic CSI as the team works to uncover how the seemingly nonfatal crash ended with the woman’s death in the new episode “Story of a Gun.”
10 PM (TCM) High Noon on the Waterfront As part of the channel’s examination of the 75th Anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist, this new special is an inventive remembrance of the impact of the Blacklist on two American classics, “High Noon” (1952) and “On the Waterfront” (1954), rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman (voiced by Edward Norton) and Elia Kazan (voiced by John Turturro). “High Noon” and “On the Waterfront” immediately follow.
10:01 PM * Alaska Daily When
Roz (Grace Dove) and Eileen (Hilary Swank) find a lead in Gloria’s (Lex Anastasia) case, Eileen calls in a favor to help them track down the person of interest. Meanwhile, Claire (Meredith Holzman) investigates why a beloved local restaurant is selling out to a big corporation. Then, after landing her first front page story, Yuna (Ami Park) learns that success in journalism sometimes comes at a cost in the new episode “A Place We Came Together.”