TV top picks
1 7 p.m. on FOX Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The police comedy resumes its fourth season with the new episode “The Audit,” as a reduced crime rate means the imminent closure of one of the Brooklyn precincts. The Nine-Nine squad members think they’re safe ... until they learn they’ll be assessed by Amy’s (Melissa Fumero) former boyfriend (guest star Kyle Bornheimer).
2 7 p.m. on ABC The Middle
Series regular Charlie McDermott — alias the show’s Axl — directed the new episode “The Confirmation,” which offers a reunion of Patricia Heaton and fellow Everybody Loves Raymond alum Monica Horan. She plays the mother of the bunkmate (guest star Kevin Thomas Mitchell) of Brick (Atticus Shaffer), who is sent to a camp for a weekend crash course on religion to prepare for the confirmation he never had. Neil Flynn and Eden Sher also star.
3 7 p.m. on DSC Deadliest Catch
Climate change in the Bering Sea forces the fleet to venture into “Uncharted Territory” as this hit series kicks off a new season. With ocean temperatures rising, most of the crab population has moved out to deeper, colder waters. After surviving a major heart attack last year, Capt. Sig Hansen resumes the helm of the Northwestern for what may be his last fishing season.
4 7 p.m. on HIST Forged in Fire
For Season 4 of this addictive and somewhat offbeat reality series, the show goes global for an unprecedented international competition and blacksmiths who were fan favorites in earlier seasons return for a second shot at victory. Also, for the first time, masters and apprentices team up to compete in the forge. U.S. Army and Air Force veteran Will Willis returns as host.
5 7 p.m. on FREE Switched at Birth
This family drama, which ends its run tonight after five seasons, had a somewhat soapy set-up in its premise, which found two families bonded by the discovery that their teenage daughters (Katie Leclerc, pictured, Vanessa Marano) were inadvertently switched in a hospital mix-up. The show quickly transcended that gimmick, though, through another element: Leclerc’s character was deaf, and the show broke new ground by featuring multiple deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars (including Leclerc herself).