1) Daytime Emmys, 8-10 p.m., CBS. After shrinking to four best-soap nominees, the field now has six. “General Hospital” (shown here) has won 16 times; others are “Young and the Restless” (11), “Days of Our Lives” (4), “Bold and Beautiful” (3), “Neighbors” and “The Bay.” Talk-show nominees are “The View,” plus the Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Tamron Hall and Robin Roberts shows.
2) “Hit Man,” Netflix. After being in two hit movies – “Top Gun Maverick” and “Anyone But You” – Glen Powell does a streaming one, playing a book-ish professor who doubles as a fake hit man, working with the police. Powell wrote it with the film’s director, Richard Linklater (“Boyhood,” “School of Rock”).
3) More streaming. For the second time this year, there’s a TV series about a fashion designer. Apple TV+ had Christian Dior; Hulu has “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld.” That arrives today, one day after others: “Paramount+” has the second season of the “Criminal Minds” reboot; Netflix has the third and final one of “Sweet Tooth.”
4) “Night Court,” 8 and 8:30 p.m., NBC. For a Halloween episode, John Larroquette had an idea: He was a Klingon 40 years ago in “Star Trek III”; why not have his character dress as one now? Strikes pushed that past Halloween, so the episode (rerunning at 8 p.m.) switched to Comic-Con, which always likes Klingons. One bonus: The make-up, he said, took 5-plus hours back then, 45 minutes now.
5) Movies. For the second straight night, Turner Classic Movies has a Steven Spielberg gem at 8 p.m. ET. “Lincoln” (2012) was nominated for 12 Oscars, including best picture; Daniel Day-Lewis wonfor best actor. Also, HBO has the gentle “Minari” (2020) at 8. It was nominated for six Oscars, including best picture; Youn Yuh-Jung won for supporting actress.
— Mike Hughes, TV America