Year: 2022

1) Congressional hearings, 8 p.m. ET, CBS, news channels and more. The second primetime hearing for the House’s Jan. 6 committee is expected to focus on a specific question: What was happening in the White House, during the 187 minutes, from the time violence (shown here) began to President Trump’s request that protesters go home. For CBS, the coverage will bump two comedies and delay “Big Brother” to 8 p.m. Friday, pushing “Secret Celebrity Renovation” back a week. Read more…

1) “The Green Planet,” 8 p.m., PBS. With gorgeous, slow-motion photography, plus astute narration from David Attenborough, this is a weekly gem. Now it has a particularly good episode, focusing on seasonal changes. One great sequence has a sapsucker interrupting syrup’s rush up a maple tree … until it’s so busy fighting squirrels and hummingbirds that the tree is spared. Another sees the fire lily (shown here) emerge four days after a wildfire, leading a renaissance. Read more…

1) Baseball’s All-Star Game, 7:30 p.m. ET, Fox; pre-game at 7. It’s time for baseball’s best to go Hollywood, with the game in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ stadium. Appropriately, two Dodgers (Mookie Betts, shown here, and Trea Turner) were voted starters; so were two Los Angeles Angels (Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani). the Dodgers also have pitchers Clay Kershaw and Tony Gonsolin. Read more…

1) “American Ninja Warrior” (shown here), 8-10 p.m., NBC. The semi-finals begin. In five weeks of qualifiers, only seven people conquered the “Mega Wall.” Now they – and others – move on; they’ll face up to 10 obstacles, including the new Kaleidoscope, Ghost Town and Spin Zone. Read more…

1) “Dark Winds,” 9 p.m., AMC. A terrific mini-series ends with a so-so hour. Joe Leaphorn (shown here) and his two tribal-police deputies have figured out a complex plot that involved a bank robbery, a helicopter escape and hidden loot. Now comes the prolonged finale, with some too-convenient timing. Read more…

1) “Transplant” season-finale, 8 p.m., NBC. It’s a pivotal episode for this well-made Canadian show, with huge changes, plus cliffhangers. Bash (shown here), a Syrian refugee, saved the life of Bishop (the emergency room chief), who later vouched for him despite a lack of paperwork. Then there’s the intense Mags … and the closed-off Jane … and Hunter, who retreated to a far-away job. There are also key moments from patients, including great scenes with one in her 90s. Read more…

1) American Film Institute tribute, 8 and 11:45 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. Sure, Julie Andrews is known for “The Sound of Music.” This tribute includes five of her kids in the film, plus Cynthia Erivo singing “Edelweiss.” But TCM shows us Andrews’ range, in a pair of films with James Garner: At 9:15 p.m., it has “Victor/Victoria” (shown here, 1983), one of seven comedies she did with her husband, Blake Edwards; at 1 a.m. is “The Americanization of Emily” (1964), a smart, black-and-white drama. Read more…