1) “Mayor of Kingstown” season-opener, 9 p.m., Showtime. Now recovered from a near-fatal accident, Jerremy Renner (shown here)is back to playing a tough guy in a hard-scrabble prison town. On Jan. 1, 2023, Renner was severely injured while saving his nephew from a snowplow. Now third season begins, 14 months after the second ended.
2) “American Ninja Warrior” season-opener, 8-10 p.m., NBC. After last-week’s one-shot couples contest, the full season begins. That starts in Los Angeles, where people face two new obstacle courses and the “warped wall.” Qualifiers will move on to Las Vegas; where they’ll race side-by-side. This is followed tonight by a new “Weakest Link.”
3) “The 1% Club” debut, 9 p.m., Fox. Patton Oswalt hosts a game that’s 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”; now Fox’s summer is rerun-free, except for the Sunday cartoons.
4) “Ennio” (2022), 5:15 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. Clint Eastwood’s first westerns had two magic elements – the direction of Sergio Leone and the clever, quirky music of Ennio Morricone. The composer went on to get an Oscar (“The Hateful Eight”) and five more nominations, including “The Mission” (which follows at 8) and “Malena” by Giuseppe Tornatore, who made this documentary.
5) MORE. “Star Trek: Discovery” wraps its five-season run, at 8 p.m. on Showtime; at 9 on BBC America, “Harry Wild” has a story that starts well (a village competition gone bonkers), but resolves its mystery clumsily. They stream on Paramount+ and Acorn, respectively. And it’s a good night for Disney cartoons – “Mpana” at 6:10 p.m. on Disney; he first “Toy Story” tales at 7 and 9 on Freeform.
— Mike Hughes, TV America