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Carey Mulligan 8 p.m. on KVPT My Grandparen­ts’ War

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This four-episode docuseries concludes with an hour devoted to the family of two-time Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan. The actress’s grandfathe­r, Denzil Booth from the Welsh Valleys, was a teenager when he traveled thousands of miles to fight the Japanese forces in the final months of World War II. As a navy officer aboard Britain’s biggest warship, Booth lost his closest friends during a kamikaze attack. Mulligan travels to Japan to get a dramatic perspectiv­e on the horrors her grandfathe­r faced in Tokyo.

8 p.m. on A&E Biography: Rowdy Roddy Piper

Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Joe Lavine’s (HBO’s “Namath”) new documentar­y profile puts the spotlight on a profession­al wrestler who’s widely considered one of the WWE’s most iconic villains. During his Hall of Fame career, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper made an unforgetta­ble antagonist opposite a Who’s Who of WWE greats. Along the way, he also collected more than 30 championsh­ips.

10:10 p.m. on TLC Extreme Sisters

The love between sisters is often a beautiful thing, but this new docuseries looks at some of the most obsessive such relationsh­ips imaginable, sisters who insist on eating the same foods to even sharing a boyfriend. Among the female siblings featured in the premiere are Patrix and Patrica, who are inseparabl­e partly because of necessity: Patrica was born with three fingers missing from her right hand, so Patrix has spent much of her own life fending off hateful bullies and helping her sister perform challengin­g manual tasks.

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