TUESDAY

JANUARY 17

2017

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NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

This Is Us tonight presents an episode that is new, yet old: It’s going back to the series premiere, and presenting a sort of imminent prequel, by dramatizing the events leading up to the delivery of the triplets. Gerald McRaney returns, reprising his role as the maternity room doctor.

BONES

Fox, 9:00 p.m. ET

Bones is ending its long run by presenting a season where it’s making room for lots of welcome guest stars. In tonight’s new episode, a murder at a retirement home sends the crew investigating and interviewing a bunch of elderly suspects, played by such amazing tenured talents as Ed Asner, June Squibb, and Hal Holbrook.

FRONTLINE: "DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA"

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Part 1 of 2. This new Frontline documentary, presented just days before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45^th President of the United States, tries to explain, and explore, why our country seems so starkly polarized as the new chief executive is about to take office. Fittingly, for such a divisive and divided subject, this Divided States of America installment of Frontline is presented in two parts. It concludes tomorrow night. Check local listings.

INSIDE THE NFL

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

Sunday’s playoff games were so exciting, with both Green Bay and Pittsburgh pulling off heroic last-minute wins, that watching those games through the Inside the NFL prism, with isolated microphones and special camera angles, ought to be a special treat indeed. During the season, this series covers lots of games. This weekend, there were only four, and two of them were classics.

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET

Aida, the Life Model Decoy played by Mallory Janson, appears to have been corrupted after reading the evil book with its inter-dimensional keys. And she’s not the only LMD on the loose, deceiving peers and pursuing an agenda at odds with Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics. “A robot may not injure a human being”? Been there, already done that…

TABOO

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tom Hardy continues his complicated role in this complicated series, which tells of corruption, ambition, and betrayal in early 19^th-century London. Tonight’s episode deepens and clarifies not only the plot, but the characters.

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