The ABC reality dating show wraps up a season, and the Emmy Award-winning sitcom begins its second.
Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Sept. 19-25. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
THE NEIGHBORHOOD 8 p.m. on CBS. This sitcom, starring Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield, is back for its fifth season. The show’s premise is: What happens when Dave (Greenfield), an earnest professional conflict negotiator, moves in next to Calvin (Cedric), an auto-repair shop owner in a mostly Black neighborhood in California? The result is a sometimes heartwarming, sometimes contentious relationship.
THE VOICE 8 p.m. on NBC. Camila Cabello, John Legend, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani will be back in their plush red swivel chairs this week as the 22nd season of this competition singing show begins. As always, the first episode is a blind audition in which singers perform with the judges faced away — if a judge likes what they hear, they turn around.
Tuesday
THE RESIDENT 8 p.m. on Fox. Last season of this medical drama ended on a bittersweet note with Dr. Conrad Hawkins (Matt Czuchry) looking back on memories of his wife (Emily VanCamp), a nurse who died in a car crash. The beginning of the new season involves Conrad making a decision about his current love life.
THE BACHELORETTE 8 p.m. on ABC. With this season’s finale, we can hope for not one but two engagements. That’s because the show has featured two leads this year — Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey (who both had their heart broken by Clayton Echard last season) — and each has one suitor left. Time will tell if two weddings are in the cards, or if more people fall into the crowded group of failed “Bachelor” relationships.
Wednesday
THE MASKED SINGER 8 p.m. on Fox. This show, which originated in South Korea and involves celebrities performing in elaborate costumes until someone guesses their identity, begins its eight season. Past contestants have included Natasha Bedingfield, Wiz Khalifa and Logan Paul, just to name a few. We already have a sneak peek of two of the “characters”: a fortune teller and a pi-rat (that’s half pirate, half rat).
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY 9 p.m. on ABC. Just over a week after winning two Emmy Awards (Sheryl Lee Ralph for best supporting actress in a comedy, and Quinta Brunson for best writing for comedy), this show is back for Season 2, with teachers returning to school for development week. Leslie Odom Jr., Lauren Weedman and Keyla Monterroso Mejia will be guest starring this season.
Thursday
NORMAN LEAR: 100 YEARS OF MUSIC AND LAUGHTER 9 p.m. on ABC. George Clooney, Laverne Cox, Tom Hanks, Rita Moreno, Jennifer Aniston, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler, Kristen Bell and Octavia Spencer are a few of the names who will be giving speeches or performing comedy sets in this special celebrating the screenwriter and producer Norman Lear, known for “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Good Times.” He turned 100 years old in late July.
Friday
SHARK TANK 8 p.m. on ABC. The sharks (a.k.a. the judges) Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O’Leary are back for the 14th season of this business reality show, and the Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow and the DoorDash chief executive Tony Xu are joining them. This week’s premiere will be live, so audience members can weigh in on whether the sharks should make a deal with the entrepreneurs.
Saturday
THE SUNSHINE BOYS (1975) 6 p.m. on TCM. This film, based on Neil Simon’s 1972 play by the same name, stars Walter Matthau, Richard Benjamin and George Burns (who won an Academy Award for his role). The movie is about two comedians who reunite years after their vaudeville comedy act was popular. “‘The Sunshine Boys,’ which I like, is the sort of movie that makes you grin almost continuously, laugh out loud on a number of occasions, and then, at the end, leaves you wondering if that’s all there is,” Vincent Canby wrote in his review of the film for The New York Times.
Sunday
GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL: TAKE ACTION NOW 7 p.m. on ABC. This live concert, hosted by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and taking place in Central Park in New York City and in Accra, Ghana, seeks to raise funds for extreme poverty. Metallica, Charlie Puth, the Jonas Brothers, Mariah Carey and Rosalía will perform in New York while Usher, SZA and H.E.R. are set to perform in Accra.
VAN DER VALK 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). This show, starring Marc Warren as Piet Van der Valk, the titular homicide cop in Amsterdam, is back for a second season. It starts off with a gruesome murder of a solicitor with a confusing note in the pocket of her coat when her body is found.
Source: Television - nytimes.com
