1) Baseball, 7:15 p.m. ET, Fox. While other networks cover the Democratic convention, Fox will go with (varying by region) Braves-Phillies or Astros-Orioles. And at 7 and 9:30 p.m., TruTV has “Field of Dreams” (shown here, 1989), the beautifully written gem that has Kevin Costner build a baseball diamond in his corn field.
2) Convention. At 10 p.m. (possibly while baseball continues), Kamala Harris gives her acceptance speech. ABC and CBS will join at 10, NBC at 9 and PBS at 8. The news channels will be there forever.
3) “Young Sheldon,” 8 p.m., CBS. After tonight, three reruns remain in this final season. Tonight, Sheldon’s professors ask him for tutoring; also, his dad secretly has a vasectomy. That’s followed by “Ghosts,” with the possibility that Jay’s sister’s boyfriend can see ghosts.
4) “Secret Lives of Orangutans,” Netflix. For 70 years, David Attenborough has offered great nature films; he narrates this one at 98. Also streaming is the overwrought season-opener of Hulu’s “Reasonable Doubt.” That’s one night after Apple TV+ continued “Bad Monkey” and wrapped the delightful “Time Bandits.”
5) ALSO: At 8 p.m. are excellent George Clooney films – “Ocean’s Eleven” on TNT, “The Perfect Storm” on Showtime. And Freeform has Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” at 6 and its sequel at 8:30. The second one is animated, the first isn’t, but both have Johnny Depp.