ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET
Next week is the start of the fall 2015 TV season, and brings with it new episodes of all of TV producer Shonda Rhimes’ Thursday night dramas. So if you need a refresher, or are thinking this may be the year you tune in to see what all the fuss is about, tonight’s the night to watch ABC. All three of her prime-time shows are repeating their most recent season finales – beginning with the Season 11 finale of Grey’s Anatomy, continuing at 9 p.m. ET with the Season 4 finale of Scandal, and concluding at 10 p.m. ET with the Season 1 finale of her latest hit series, How to Get Away with Murder.
CBS, 8:25 p.m. ET
Last week, NBC presented a special Thursday night edition of its Sunday Night Football. Tonight, CBS takes over, returning for another season of its new hit sports franchise series, Thursday Night Football. Tonight’s teams: Denver Broncos vs. Kansas City Chiefs.
Comedy Central, 8:30 p.m. ET
One night after he sat on stage at the Reagan Library with 10 other presidential hopefuls, Donald Trump is shown, in this repeat from four years ago, sharing another type of stage with another group of potential adversaries entirely. Seth MacFarlane hosts this roast of Donald Trump, and the roasters include Gilbert Gottfried, Whitney Cummings, Larry King, Marlee Matlin, and Jeff Ross. It’s worth watching, especially in retrospect, to see Trump’s pre-politician character, and what he says in a venue where he’s expected to be outrageous.
FX, 10:00 p.m. ET
SEASON FINALE: The first season of this new Denis Leary series ends, as it should, with a focus on the rise of Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies). The actress playing her, a Nickelodeon graduate, has proven to be as strong a comedic actress as she is a singer – and anyone who can stand toe-to-toe with Leary in fast-moving dialogue scenes, as she can, is quite an asset.
TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET
This 1956 movie isn’t shown often on TV, but it’s one of those movies that’s lots of fun to watch, because it’s so woefully miscast and poorly written. Howard Hughes was the man behind this debacle, which chose, as its leading man in this biography of Genghis Khan, none other than… John Wayne. Khan you believe it? Not really. Not for a moment.