1) Football, 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC, with pre-game at 7. The pro season opens with a classic rematch. The Baltimore Ravens sailed through last season with a 13-4 record, won the divisional playoffs 34-10, then sputtered; the Kansas City Chiefs (shown here), 11-6, won 17-10 and then won the Super Bowl. Now it’s Ravens-Chiefs time again.
2) “Young Sheldon,” 9 p.m., CBS. This backs up to the season’s second episode. In Germany, Sheldon is startled to find he’s the weakest student. Back home, his grandma finds that her illegal casino has lots of post-tornado business. That’s followed by “Ghosts,” with a scramble to find an investor for the restaurant.
3) “The Perfect Couple,” Netflix. Since winning two Emmys for the 2017 “Big Little Lies,” Nicole Kidman has become the queen of mini-series. This one, (a six-parter, based on a novel) is her fifth since “Lies.” She and Liev Schreiber celebrate their perfection at their son’s wedding; then, of course, things go wrong.
4) Cruise films. You can sample the eternal career of Tom Cruise at 8 p.m. The Paramount Network has the original “Top Gun” (1986); FX finds him 25 years later, in “Mission Impossible” (2011).
5) Double-features. Take your pick here, with a movie and its sequel. There’s “Cars” (6 and 8 p.m., Disney Channel), “Austin Powers” (7 and 9, E) or the delightful “Back to the Future” (8 and 10:30, TNT).
— Mike Hughes, TV America