Today’s Highlights
7 p.m. on KECY 9-1-1
After a drunk driver triggers a deadly pileup on the freeway, Athena (Angela Bassett) and the 118 team race to the scene and begin treating the crash victims in the spring premiere, “Blindsided.” Elsewhere, Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) goes into labor, while a heartsick Karen and Hen (Tracie Thoms, Aisha Hinds) prepare their foster daughter to be reunited with her birth mother. Peter Krause, Oliver Stark and Ryan Guzman also star.
8 p.m. on KAET American Experience
The new episode “American Oz” explores the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, creator of one of America’s most beloved literary classics. When “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was published in 1900, Baum was 44 and had spent most of his life going through jobs ranging from chicken breeder to marketer of petroleum products to traveling salesman, with mixed results. Somehow, though, he never lost his childlike sense of wonder and optimism. Interviews include Baum biographer
Evan Schwartz, “Wicked” author Gregory Maguire and historian Philip Deloria.
9:01 p.m. on KYMA Debris
Bryan and Finola (Jonathan Tucker, Riann Steele) put their lives on the line as they undertake a high-risk operation that takes them inside a compound held by the shadowy terror group INFLUX, as the agents try to rescue Finola’s father, George Jones (Tyrone Benskin). Unfortunately, Maddox and Ferris (Norbert Leo Butz, Anjali Jay) have their own plans for the best way to carry out this mission. Scroobius Pip also stars in the new episode “Spaceman.”