WHAT TO WATCH
Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father
Netflix
In Season five of this British series, jovial comic Jack Whitehall and his stuffy father, Michael, take unusual and amusing trips to foreign lands.
You vs. Wild: Out Cold
Netflix
In this stand-alone interactive adventure, after a plane crash leaves Bear Grylls with amnesia, he must make choices to save the missing pilot and survive.
LEGO Masters Fox, 7 p.m.
In the season two finale, the three remaining teams are given the freedom to build anything their minds can envision. The twist is that the build needs to have different looks for day and night. The winning duo gets $100,000, the Lego trophy and the title of LEGO Masters.
America’s Got Talent
NBC, 7 p.m. Live
Finalists compete for the judges, with results determined live Wednesday night.
Back on Campus
TCM, beginning at 7 p.m.
It’s back to school for the characters in tonight’s films. First is “The Paper Chase” (1973), about a first-year student (Timothy Bottoms) at Harvard Law School. John Houseman won a best supporting actor Oscar for his role as professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. Next, June Allyson and Peter Lawford star in “Good News,” a 1947 musical with Lawford as the college football star who falls for a student (Allyson) from a poor background. Next is the 1970 comedy/drama “Getting Straight,” centered on student politics at a university. Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Jeff Corey and Harrison Ford star. “The Affairs of Dobie Gillis,” a 1953 musical comedy, stars Bobby Van, Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse in a song-filled story set at a Midwestern university. Finally, in “A Yank at Oxford” (1938),
Robert Taylor plays he’s a cocky American athlete who receives a scholarship to Oxford University.
The Oval BET, 8 p.m.
Season two of Tyler Perry’s drama about a first family comes to an end tonight.
Supergirl
The CW, 8 p.m.
Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and team must stop Nyxly (Peta Sergeant) from vanquishing Mr. Mxyzptlk (guest star Thomas Lennon). Mxy returns and explains Nyxly’s dark history to the super team in the best way he knows how — in song. Lena (Katie Mcgrath) visits her mother’s birthplace in Ireland but is shocked by the icy reception.
Fantasy Island Fox, 8 p.m.
A bookworm goes back in time to meet her favorite author, and a competitive survivalist is faced with an ultimate challenge for which he isn’t trained.
Good Bones HGTV, 8 p.m.
Garfield Park is a haven for artists, so Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E Laine think it’s the
perfect place for an art-filled renovation. Between the house’s nightmarish texture and their tight budget, they’ll need some creativity to turn this home into an eclectic dreamscape.
My Big Fat Fabulous Life
TLC, 8 p.m.
Whitney and her friends begin to doubt the Frenchman’s intentions after a shocking revelation at the big girls’ retreat forces her to acknowledge the similarities between him and a man in her past. She must decide if she will give him a chance.
Karen BET, 9 p.m.
In this thriller, an entitled and racist white woman (Taryn Manning) pulls out all the stops to rid her neighborhood of a peaceful Black couple (Cory Hardrict and Jasmine Burke) who just moved in next door. Gregory Alan Williams, Lorenzo Cromwell and V. Bozeman also star.
Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail
TBS, 9:30 p.m.
Season three of the Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi comedy comes to the end of its trail tonight.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD When cows fly
Cows summering in the mountains of Switzerland have to find their way to lower elevations as winter comes on, but among one herd, about 10 cows were injured and couldn’t hoof it down safely.
So in late August, farmers arranged for them to be harnessed and flown by helicopter to terrain more accessible to conventional transportation, Sky News reported.
The cows were held in a mesh harness, and farmers grabbed ropes to guide them down. Farmer Jonas Arnold noted, “I didn’t ask a cow how it feels after such a flight, as it couldn’t answer, but … it was only a short, calm flight.”
The cows are scheduled to participate in the annual cow parade at Urnerboden, Switzerland.
Shoot! It was Fido
Jonathan George, 31, of Norwalk, Ohio, told police Aug. 30 that his dog, Lula, shot herself, FOX8-TV reported.
“Said … he trained the dog to bring a gun to him,” said police Capt. Jim Fulton. “The dog had the gun in its mouth when it went off accidentally.”
But officers didn’t believe that; Fulton said George’s blood alcohol content was 1.7, about twice the legal limit for driving and he “shouldn’t be drinking and handling firearms, bottom line.”
George later admitted he’d been trying to unload the gun when he shot the dog in the jaw. Lula is recovering but lost an eye in the shooting. George was charged with cruelty to animals and two other misdemeanors.
Way the sewer works
In one neighborhood in south St. Louis, the century-old brick stormwater sewer system works in a most alarming way: When heavy rain falls, the street “explodes,” with water charging up through any cracks and manholes it can find.
FOX2-TV reported that on Aug. 30, resident Sacha Heath posted a video of the phenomenon to Twitter. “You hear the manholes kind of trembling and you hear the water exploding and it sounds like steam, and then chunks of asphalt are flying in the air,” Heath said. “Obviously, you don’t want asphalt chunks flying into the bottom of your car.”
But the Metropolitan Sewer District doesn’t find it unusual.
“The water’s gotta go somewhere,” Sean Hadley of the MSD deadpanned. “That’s what the system is designed to do — for it to pop the manhole covers so that the water can come out and it’s not popping in people’s basements. That’s what you don’t want to happen.”
Fire and ash and hip metal
Mortician Caitlin Doughty, who stars in the Youtube show “Ask the Mortician,” has answered all kinds of questions about what happens when bodies are cremated, the Mirror reported.
For example, titanium hip joints don’t melt with tissue, clothes and hair, so, Doughty explained, “the metal has to be removed by hand or by a large magnet, and it’s not handled as biological waste because it was never really part of the body to begin with.”
She said hip and knee replacements can now be recycled into road signs and car parts. Pacemakers, on the other hand, must be removed before cremation, as the batteries and intense heat could cause an explosion.
And breast implants? Doughty says they just melt but can leave a “gelatinous goo” at the bottom of the cremation chamber.
Jordan’s Hanes on you?
United Press International reported Sept. 2 that a pair of Michael Jordan’s underwear, sporting signs of “definite use,” will be up for auction on the website Lelands until Sept. 25.
The item description notes “some loose threads evident at the seams.” The basketball star apparently gave the U-trou to John Michael Wozniak, his former security guard, along with other items of clothing.