1) Earth Day, Tuesday. Alongside splendid films in their libraries, streamers have new ones – “Sea Lions of the Galapagos” (shown here), Disney+; “Kiss the Ground,” Amazon Prime; “Pangolin,” Netflix; “Jane,” Apple TV+; “The Americas,” Peacock and Hulu. Also, the delightful “Secrets of the Penguins” is on Disney+ and reruns 8-11 p.m. Tuesday on National Geographic.
2) “Dark Winds” season-finale, 9 p.m. Sunday, AMC. Four potent stories wrap up in a deeply moving hour. Joe pursues the killer who’s chasing a terrified teen. He agonizes over the FBI agent pursuing him … and over his wife, who left when the agony became overwhelming. And his ex-deputy is on a one-person battle with a cartel. It’s a superb finish.
3) “The Conners” series finale, 8 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, ABC. This began 35 years ago as “Roseanne,” packing a blue-collar wit that TV needed. After returning in 2018, it soon dropped Roseanne Barr, changed its name and lost some of its humor, but none of its depth of character. The finale brings key relationships, a lawsuit and fond farewells.
4) “Fire Country” season-finale, 9-11 p.m. Friday, CBS. A strong season concludes with two new episodes. At 9 p.m., a fire erupts at a gas station; Bode and Manny jump into action. At 10, fierce winds push a wildfire toward the town and toward the care home where Walter Leone (the retired fire chief, Vince and Luke’s father, Bode’s grandfather) lives.
5) “America’s Most Wanted” season-opener, 9:02 p.m. today, Fox. This debuted in 1988, when Fox was barely a year old. John Walsh – whose son Adam was kidnapped and killed — passionately hosted and profiled suspects. “AMW” was canceled after 23 years, then revived often. Now it’s back, hosted by Walsh, 79, and his son Callahan.
6) “Changing Planet” season-opener, 10 p.m. Wednesday, PBS. Two projects – one urban, one rural – rescued ailing rivers. In Paris, we see the rush to clean the Seine in time for swimming at the 2024 Olympics. And in Oregon, the 259-mile Klamath was suffering. Members of the Yurok Tribe fought to have the dams removed and salmon-fishing revived.
7) “Elsbeth,” 9 and 10 p.m. Thursday, CBS. Now that “Matlock” has wrapped its season, this slides to 9 p.m., with a rerun at 10. The rerun (Vanessa Bayer as Christmas mogul) is a good one; the new hour is iffy. Elsbeth (Carrie Preston) finally confronts a corrupt judge (Michael Emerson, Preston’s husband). It grips our attention, then deflates.
8) “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” 8 p.m. Friday, NBC. Recently demoted from Sundays to Fridays, this is a mixed blessing. Soapy stories involving Birdie (whose biological son is now a teen) and Patty (Alice’s mother-in-law) are overwrought. But there are moving ones involving sturdier souls – Catherine, the realtor, and Brett, the garden-club manager.
9) “NCIS: Sydney” season-finale, 8 p.m. Friday, CBS. On the eve of a World War II commemoration, a Stinger missile is missing; the team races to find it. This has been a short (10-episode) season, but the show will be back next season. So will “Fire Country,” but the other Friday show (“SWAT”) won’t. It returns next week and has its series finale May 16.
10) MORE: There are two more series-finales of note, plus two openers. The finales are on Fox — “”Extracted” (8 p.m. Monday), with four people still having a shot at $250,000; “The Floor” (9 p.m. Wednesday). The openers are Sunday: At 9 p.m., CNN has Eva Longoria’s “Searching for Spain.” At 10:07, AMC has the “Black Snow” drama; subsequent hours are on AMC+.