1) “Happy’s Place” debut, 8 p.m., NBC. Bobbie (Reba McEntire, second from right) inherited her dad’s bar, which she was already running. Now she learns a half-sister (left) she’d never met owns half of it. McEntire and some supporting actors get the most out of a so-so script. But the sister is underwritten and an employee (and friend) is badly overwritten, leaving a so-so show.
2) “Lopez vs. Lopez” season-opener, 8:30, NBC. Here, by comparison, is a thoroughly awful show. The younger people are fine and 8-year-old Brice Gonzalez is a delight, but the older ones are wretchedly overwrought. Tonight, George (George Lopez) and his ex-wife behave extremely selfishly.
3) “SWAT” and “Fire Country” season-openers, 8 and 9 p.m., CBS. First is a mission that’s vital to Hondo: A school bus is missing, containing kids and his old high school football coach. Then Gabriela’s wedding is disrupted by a helicopter crash; guests scramble to the rescue.
4) “Blue Bloods,” 10 p.m., CBS. Technically, this isn’t a season-opener; it
continues an ongoing season. CBS ordered a 14th and final year, but strikes only left time for 10 episodes; the final eight are this fall. Tonight, Erin is charged with jury tampering, in a case that involves her brother Danny and others. Also, Jamie gets help from his nephew, Joe Hill.
5) “Next at the Kennedy Center,” 10 p.m., PBS. Alonzo King’s ballet troupe performs “Deep River,” backed by singer Lisa Fischer and Jason Moran, the head of the Kennedy Center’s jazz program.
— Mike Hughes, TV America