WHAT TO WATCH
Inventions That Changed History
discovery+ • New Series!
This inspiring six-part limited series tells the unbelievable stories behind our culture’s most notable inventions.
Julia HBO Max • New Series!
Inspired by Julia Child’s extraordinary life and her long-running series The French Chef, which pioneered the modern cooking show, this eight-episode series explores a pivotal time in American history — the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity, and America’s cultural evolution — through Julia’s life and her singular joie de vivre. At its heart, Julia is a portrait of a loving marriage with a shifting power dynamic. Stars Sarah Lancashire, David Hyde Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth, Brittany Bradford, Fran Kranz and Fiona Glascott. The first three episodes are available today; subsequent new episodes are available Thursdays.
Young Sheldon CBS, 8 p.m.
Sheldon (Iain Armitage) gets an odd request from an old friend, Paige (McKenna Grace), in the new episode “A Solo Peanut, a Social Butterfly and the Truth.”
Walker The CW, 8 p.m.
Cordell (Jared Padalecki) reaches a breaking point with Denise (guest star Amara Zaragoza), who sets her sights on revenge as the tensions between the Walker and Davidson families finally hit a fever pitch.
This Old House PBS, 8 p.m.
On the 1890s Victorian home in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, aluminum gutters that mimic wood are beginning to get installed. Inside, trim goes around the new back door, and the existing wood flooring is patched. Upstairs, the master shower is waterproofed and prepped for a linear drain.
Call Me Kat FOX, 9 p.m.
In the new episode “Call Me a Kingbirdie,” Max (Cheyenne Jackson) gets a job writing a song for a social-media savvy teenage pop star that doesn’t go as well as he planned.
Rat in the Kitchen TBS, 9 p.m. • New Series
Far more than a traditional cooking show, Rat in the Kitchen, hosted by iconic roasting queen and comedian Natasha Leggero and celebrity chef Ludo Lefebvre, is a game of high-stakes cat and mouse where viewers get to play detective. Over the course of the 10-episode season, a mix of professional chefs and passionate home cooks compete in a series of creative cooking challenges, earning cash in their bank for every dish that impresses Chef Ludo, while attempting to expose an undercover mole (the rat) determined to sabotage the dishes and undermine their chances at victory. At the close of each episode, both cooks and viewers will determine who they believe is the rat. If the cooks guess correctly, they win their bank, but if successfully duped, then the rat walks away with the cheddar.