What you’ll want to watch on television this week
‘Martha Gardens’
Martha Stewart shows you how to get a thumb as green as hers in her latest series. Friday (Roku)
Other picks Sunday
“Secrets of the Dead”: The season premiere surveys an archaeological dig at Althorp House, former home of Princess Diana. 8 p.m. (PBS)
A desperate father (Demian Bichir) struggles to protect his young daughter, a vampire, in a new horror drama based on the 2008 thriller “Let the Right One In.” 10 p.m. (Showtime)
Monday
The 2021 documentary “Accepted” studies one Louisiana prep school to explore the college admissions game on “POV.” 10 p.m. (PBS)
“Avenue 5”: Hugh Laurie (“House”) captains a second season of this sci-fi satire set aboard a cruise ship in outer space. 10 p.m. (HBO)
Tuesday
A new sport doc gets up close and personal with trailblazing Asian American basketball star Jeremy Lin in “38 at the Garden.” 9 p.m. (HBO)
“Becoming Frederick Douglass”: The legendary abolitionist and orator is celebrated in this new documentary. 10 p.m. (PBS) Wednesday
Everyday folks put their best dishes forward in the new series “Easy-Bake Battle:
TV picks
The Home Cooking Competition.” (Netflix)
“I Love You, You Hate Me”: This new two-part doc tells the “tail” of beloved and yet also reviled children’s entertainer Barney the Dinosaur. (Peacock)
The boy pharaoh’s dirty little secret is out in the new docu-special “Tut’s Toxic Tomb.” 8 p.m. (Discovery)
Thursday
“Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal”: The former “Great British Bake Off” star finds herself in Latin America in this new travel series. (Netflix)
A new documentary, “High Noon on the Waterfront,” revisits the dark days of the Hollywood Blacklist in the 1950s. 8 p.m. (TCM)
Friday
Musicians of today give props to jazz legend Charles Mingus in the debut installment of the arts series “Next at the Kennedy Center.” 9 p.m. (PBS)
Country music’s Alan Jackson is singled out for special honors at the annual “CMT Artists of the Year.” 9 p.m. (CMT) Saturday
“Autumn in the City”: If she can make it there, she’ll make it anywhere in this new rom-com set in NYC. With Aimee Teegarden. 8 p.m. (Hallmark)
Hip-hop’s Megan Thee Stallion pulls double duty as host and performer in a new episode of “Saturday Night Live.” 11:29 p.m. (NBC)