NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
I’ve all but given up on this reboot, because it makes little sense, and even less compelling drama and characters. Tonight is the last shot for Heroes Reborn to impress, or it becomes Heroes Dead to Me.
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few episodes into its new season, and Bones tonight finds a way not only to reunite Booth and Brennan, but to get them back to work – at the old workplace. In other words, their status has reverted to quo.
TBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
The final division series winner is decided tonight. Previously, in the National League, the Chicago Cubs had advanced by beating the St. Louis Cardinals – and last night, the American League finished up their respective best-of-five division series in memorable fashion. The Kansas City Royals came back from a 2-0 deficit to beat the Houston Astros 7-2, while the Toronto Blue Jays came back from a 3-2 deficit against the Texas Rangers, and one of the wildest scoring plays in baseball history, to add its own historic stamp to a wild seventh inning that lasted almost an hour. When the inning was over, Toronto was ahead 6-3, and that score held up through the final intense innings. Great game. So the Royals and Blue Jays meet for the American League Championship Series, while the Cubs meet the winner of tonight’s deciding division series game between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodger, televised live from Dodger Stadium. This series, too, has its major league drama – literally. In Game 2, Dodgers infielder Chase Utley slid hard into second base to break up a potential double play, and broke Mets infielder Ruben Tejada’s leg in the process. The league assessed Utley with a two-game suspension, which he’s appealing – and because of that appeal, he’s eligible, after missing the previous two games, to play in today’s deciding Game 5. Whether he takes the field or not is up to the Dodgers – but Tejada, of course, has no such option.
Lifetime, 9:00 p.m. ET
In the first season of this long-running fashion design series, its contestants were given a particularly inventive and challenging assignment: shop at a grocery store and design dresses made out of food. (Lettuce, entertain you!) And tonight, there’s another out-of-the-box challenge: the contestants are charged with creating avant garde garments using 3D printers.
TCM, 9:30 p.m. ET
This entry in TCM’s month-long Trailblazing Women salute to female filmmakers is Barbara Kopple’s 1976 documentary, Harlan County, U.S.A. It’s about a tense and often violent strike by coal miners in Kentucky – and if you’ve just purchased the complete series DVD set of Justified, you might want to watch this as a scene-setting appetizer. Or a perspective-offering encore. Either way, it’s worth it.