1) Basketball and hockey finals, ABC. This month, ABC turns into Sports Central, with the best-of-seven finals for two pro sports. Basketball — including the Celtics, show here — starts Thursday; hockey’s Stanley Cup finals start Saturday. Other basketball games are Sunday, then June 12, 14 and (if needed) 17, 20 and 23. Hockey continues on June 10, 13, 15 and (if needed) 18, 21 and 24. Most start at 8:30 p.m. ET, with Sundays at 8.
2) “The Bear” reruns, 10 p.m. today through Wednesday, FX. This caught many people by surprise. Partly comedy, partly drama, sometimes frantic, it follows intense people in a Chicago restaurant. Its first season won 10 Emmys, including best comedy; reruns of that season started Smday and continue, two per night. The second season will be up for Emmys in September, but the third arrives June 27.
3) “American Ninja Warrior” season-opener, 8-10 p.m. today, NBC. After last-week’s one-shot couples contest, the full season begins. That starts in Los Angeles, where people can tackle two new obstacle courses and the “warped wall.” Qualifiers will move on to Las Vegas; in a change added last season, competitors will race side-by-side. This is followed at 10 by a new “Weakest Link.”
4) “Star Trek: Discovery” and “Mayor of Kingstown,” 8 and 9 p.m., today, Showtime. One show ends and another returns – both shortly after airing on Paramount+. Wrapping a richly crafted, five-season run; our “Trek” hero is trapped in a portal with her enemy. Then “Kingstown” starts its third season (14 months after the second ended), now that Jeremy Renner has recovered from a near-fatal accident.
5) “The 1% Club” debut, 9 p.m. today, Fox. Patton Oswalt hosts a game in which people try to get all 15 answers right, based more on logic and common-sense than on raw facts. Contestants range from a pageant queen to a science teacher and a mechanical engineer. That follows the return of Jane Krakowski’s “Name That Tune,” making Fox’s summer rerun-free, except for the Sunday cartoons.
6) “Clipped” opener, Tuesday, Hulu. Glittery on the surface, bitter at the core, this shows the 2013-14 Los Angeles Clippers. It had great basketball players, a respected coach (Doc Rivers) … and a bizarre owner (Donald Sterling). The team soared; then Sterling’s girlfriend leaked a tape of his rants. The opener (two hour, of six), tries to humanize people, but viewers still have to strain to like them.
7) “MasterChef: Generations,” 8 p.m. Wednesday, Fox.. Didn’t the baby-boomers start the youthquake? Aren’t they the rockers and flower children? Now it’s their turn to audtion and, as one guys says, “”show what the old folks can do.” Joe Bastianich even adds his mom Lidia, 77, as guest judge. She’s an acclaimed food expert who will get an honorary Daytime Emmy on Friday.
8) “Sight Unseen” finale, 9 p.m. Wednesday, CW. After going blind, Tess has continued solving crimes in Vancouver, aided – 3,000 miles away, in New York – by Sunny, who views a body-cam and talks into her earpiece. Now Tess faces a big mystery – the attack that has left Sunny frozen in fear, unwilling to leave her apartment. That follows a new “Walker” at 8; next week, “Wild Cards” reruns are at 9.
9) “Saving Private Ryan” (1999), 8 p.m. ET Thursday, Turner Classic Movies. On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a marathon is led by Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece. Other key films include “D-Day, the Sixth of June” (1956) at 3:30 p.m. and the epic “The Longest Day” (1962) at 11. Also, the History Channel has turned audio tapes into “D-Day: The Unheard Tapes,” from 8 to midnight.
10) Daytime Emmys, 8-10 p.m. Friday, CBS. Once down to four best-soap nominees, this year has six – “General Hospital” (winner 16 times), “Young and the Restless” (11), “Days of Our Lives” (4), “Bold and Beautiful” (3), plus “The Bay” and “Neighbours.” Best-talk-show nominees are “The View,” plus the Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Tamron Hall and Robin Roberts shows.