Best-bets for Aug. 13: an “AGT”/”BB” showdown

1) “America’s Got Talent” return, 8-10 p.m., NBC. After eight weeks of auditions and a two-week Olympic break, “Talent” (shown here) finally has live shows, with viewers voting. That’s for five Tuesdays (with a results hour at 8 p.m. Wednesdays, pointing to the finale, Sept. 17 and 18. Read more…

1) “America’s Got Talent” return, 8-10 p.m., NBC. After eight weeks of auditions and a two-week Olympic break, “Talent” (shown here) finally has live shows, with viewers voting. That’s for five Tuesdays (with a results hour at 8 p.m. Wednesdays, pointing to the finale, Sept. 17 and 18.

2) “Big Brother,” 8-9 p.m., CBS. In an effort to blunt the return of “AGT,” CBS inserts an extra episode of its top summer show. Three of the four most-recent winners – Jag Bains, Taylor Hale and Cody Calafiore – analyze what’s happened this season.

3) “American Godfathers: The Five Families” finale, 8 p.m., History, rerunning at 10:05, 12:03, 2:06. If you missed the first two parts, catch them at 4 and 6 p.m. Then the finale catches a time when laws tightened; some mobsters improvised; others dropped out.

4) “Celebrity Family Feud,” 8 p.m., ABC. One game has Bobby Lee facing Flavor Flav. The other has Donny Osmond – with lots of family members to choose from –and Ken Marino. Also at 8 p.m., HGTV’s “100 Day Hotel Challenge” begins, with the “property brothers” judging a husband-wife challenge to remodel two old inns.

5) Scripted shows. CBS slides “FBI” and “FBI: International” to 9 and 10 p.m. Freeform has animation, starting at noon and wrapping with “Lightyear” and “Cars 3,” at 6 and 8:30. Turner Classic Movies has a Jean-Paul Belmondo day, peaking with the vibrant “That Man From Rio” and “Breathless,” at 6 and 8 p.m. ET.
— Mike Hughes, TV America

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