8 things to watch this week
1 The Mindy Project
Tuesday, 3 a.m., Hulu
“The Mindy Project” moves Hulu for Season 4, and the action picks up right where the show left off when it was still on Fox, with Danny ( Chris Messina) traveling to India to meet Mindy’s ( Mindy Kaling, inset) parents. Meanwhile Mindy, reeling from the news that Danny doesn’t want to get married, gets a taste of what life would have been like if she had fallen in love with someone else. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Freida Pinto guest star.
2 Sex & Drugs& Rock & Roll
Thursday, 10 p.m., CBS
Greg Dulli sets Gigi ( Elizabeth Gillies) up with a well-respected producer from the West Coast, which Johnny ( Denis Leary, top right, with Rob Morrow) loves because Flash ( John Corbett) doesn’t.
3 hush … hush, Sweet Charlotte
Sunday, 10 p.m., TCM
On these last hot nights of summer, what could be better than a Southern film set in an antebellum mansion (actually, Houmas House in Louisiana)? Bette Davis (above left) plays Charlotte, a high-strung recluse with age-inappropriate braids whose well-meaning cousin Miriam ( Olivia de Havilland, above right) shows up out of the blue one day to inquire about her health. This being a Robert Aldrich (“What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”) movie, Miriam has her own agenda. Watch out for falling flower pots! Joseph Cotten plays Miriam’s unctuous consort, and Agnes Moorehead takes a holiday from playing Endora on “Bewitched” to steal the movie as Charlotte’s housekeeper Velma, who’s not as dumb as she looks. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.
4 Dancing with The stars Monday, 8 p.m., Tuesday, 9 p.m., ABC
Here’s one show that never runs out of sequins, mirror balls, narcissistic instructors or go-for-broke celebrities. Following in the tinseled tradition of Mel B, George Hamilton, Cloris Leachman, Martina Navratilova and Wayne Newton are formerly cool R&B diva Chaka Khan, former Food Network star Paula Deen and several people who are related to celebs. Bindi Irwin is the daughter of the late Steve Irwin. Tamar Braxton is sister of singer Toni Braxton. Nick Carter is brother of singer Aaron Carter. And then there’s Gary Busey.
5 American Experience: Walt Disney
Monday and Tuesday, 9 p.m., PBS
Walt Disney (right) was uniquely adept at art as well as commerce, a master filmmaker who harnessed the power of technology and storytelling. This new two-part, four-hour film examines Disney’s complex life and enduring legacy, featuring rare archival footage from the Disney vaults, scenes from some of his greatest films, and interviews with biographers, animators and artists who worked on early films, including Snow White, and the designers who helped turn his dream of Disneyland into reality.
6 I Love Kellie Pickler
Friday, 10 p.m., CMT
Thanks to “American Idol” and “Dancing With the Stars,” Kellie Pickler has become a household name and “Idol” host — and uber producer Ryan Seacrest has decided she needs her own show. With a nod to the classic sitcom “I Love Lucy,” here it is — a backstage look at Pickler’s private life away from recording studios and craven fans. The series will focus on the singer’s marriage to songwriter Kyle Jacobs, with whom she eloped in 2011.
7 Fear The Walking dead
Sunday, 9 p.m., AMC The zombie apocalypse continues and fear rules the land. Travis (Cliff Curtis), Liza (Elizabeth Rodriguez) and Chris (Lorenzo James Henrie) seek refuge with the Salazar family after escaping a riot in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Madison (Kim Dickens) defends her home. Co-starring Frank Dillane.
8 Doctor who Saturday, 9 p.m., BBC America
The Doctor ( Peter Capaldi, left) is joined by Clara Oswald ( Jenna Coleman) for time travel on a cinematic scale. Having a ball, the pair meet new and old monsters, and go on a journey that takes them to deadly alien planets, creepy underwater bases, vikings villages, a global Zygon uprising and through hidden alien dens — to the very end of time itself. Meeting monsters of all sizes, the Doctor will come face to face with Missy ( Michelle Gomez), a city of Daleks and deadly mercenaries called the Mire.