What to watch
February 20, 2024
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Will Trent
ABC, 7 p.m. Season Premiere
The hit adaptation of Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent novels starring Ramón Rodríguez returns for a highly anticipated second season tonight, with Angie’s (Erika Christensen) life hanging in the balance after a savage attack.
Crime Nation
The CW, 7 p.m. New Series
True crime comes to The CW for the first time in this new docuseries produced by former ABC News President James Goldston. With a more modern approach, which will include coverage of not only real crimes committed in the U.S. and how they are solved but also the recent uptick in involvement of online amateur sleuths, the show aims to showcase a variety of criminal cases, both solved and unsolved. “The aim of the show is to sort of pull back the curtain a little bit and really show the good, bad and ugly of modern true-crime reporting and investigation,” says Goldston. “Some of these stories are just incredibly psychologically fascinating, and obviously they raise profound issues of our times, as well.”
Name That Tune
FOX, 7 p.m. Season Finale
Celebrity contestants Jay Pharoah, Nicole Byer, Teresa Giudice and David Archuleta play the musical guessing game for charity in the Season 4 finale, “Pharaohs and Idols.”
Finding Your Roots PBS, 7 p.m.
In the new episode “Mean Streets,” Henry Louis Gates Jr. traces the roots of comedian Tracy Morgan and actor Anthony Ramos, two native New Yorkers whose roots stretch to surprising places and contain inspiring stories of survival. Finding Your Roots will be on hiatus after this episode, returning with its final Season 10 installments beginning April 2.
Extended Family
NBC, 7:30 p.m. In the new episode “The Consequences of Helping People,” Jim (Jon Cryer) asks Julia (Abigail Spencer) to help him get a friend’s kid into an exclusive private school. When she lies to make that happen, she finds there are consequences to her dishonesty.
The Rookie
ABC, 8 p.m. Season Premiere Season 6 of this police drama following LAPD’s oldest rookie (Nathan Fillion) returns tonight, featuring a new villain and more challenges for all officers.
Quantum Leap
NBC, beginning at 8 p.m. Season Finale Two back-to-back episodes close out the sci-fi drama’s second season. First, in “As the World Burns,” Ben (Raymond Lee) leaps into the body of a Baltimore firefighter in 1974 and is unexpectedly reunited with his time-crossed love, Hannah (Eliza Taylor), and her son, Jeffrey (Connor Esterson). Trapped in a towering inferno, Ben must find a way to repair their troubled relationship and save their lives before it’s too late. Then, in “Against Time,” the season finale, Ben finds himself behind the wheel of a speeding stock car in 1976, but a terrifying threat from the future could sabotage the leap. Racing against the clock, Ben, Addison (Caitlin Bassett) and the team must risk everything to complete the mission and save Quantum Leap itself.
American Experience
PBS, 8 p.m. In “Fly With Me,” meet the pioneering women flight attendants who changed the world while flying it. Maligned as feminist sellouts, “stewardesses,” as they were called, knew different: They were on the front lines of a battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace.
The Good Doctor
ABC, 9 p.m. Season Premiere Freddie Highmore returns as Dr. Shaun Murphy in Season 7 of the popular medical procedural about a young autistic surgeon navigating personal and professional relationships at a prestigious San Jose, California, hospital.
FBI: Most Wanted
CBS, 9 p.m. The Fugitive Task Force launches into full gear after multiple bombings appear to be targeting retired NYPD officers in the new episode “Footsteps.”