MINISERIES PREMIERE: Netflix is carpet-bombing so many new series, miniseries and movies onto its platform these days that it’s easy to let some of them slip away. But some of this year’s very best series have come from Netflix, including Godless and Mindhunter – and today, a four-part miniseries premieres that may never even pop up as a promoted new arrival, forcing you to search for it. But seek and ye shall find a very entertaining series, in the same delightful fish-out-of-water vein as Paul Haggis’ sparkling Due South. In that vintage CBS series, Paul Gross, later of Slings & Arrows, played a Royal Canadian Mountie who crossed the border and teamed with a Chicago detective to solve cases. In The Indian Detective, whose co-creators are Smita Bhide and X-Files writer-producer Frank Spotnitz, Russell Peters plays Doug D’Mello, a Canadian constable with what feels like an American attitude, and sounds like an American accent. On leave from his job, he visits his father in Mombai, and gets involved in a local murder, the mob, the police, and other memorable events and characters – including a shady real-estate magnate played by William Shatner. Peters is standup-comic funny as he reacts with the people and customs of India, and his co-star, Mishqah Parthiephal, is also very amusing – and very beautiful. In India, for the record, her credits list her as being a star of, no kidding, something called Keeping Up with the Kandasamys.

From now until Christmas Day night, BBC America is working its way through the modern era of Doctor Who, leading up to the new episode introducing the new Doctor. The retrospective begins this morning with some of the 2006 episodes starring David Tennant as the titular time-traveler, back when his TARDIS companion was played by Billie Piper.

CYCLE FINALE: The winner of this latest cycle of The Voice is revealed tonight – and I stand firm in my prediction that this go-round of The Voice has belonged, from the start, to the youngsters. And after last night’s final performances, while all four finalists performed impressively, I still figure Chloe Kohanski, who closed her night with a husky cover of “Bette Davis Eyes,” to be crowned the winner. Although she has some fairly stiff competition from Addison Agen, who choked up and dropped some lyrics during her emotional rendition of “Humble and Kind” – but not in a way that should cost her votes. Even the other two finalists, Brooke Simpson and Red Marlow, remain in the running as possibilities, but Kohanski, I believe, will prevail.

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Part 2 of 3. Kit Harington from Game of Thrones continues to star in this three-part miniseries import from the BBC, tracing the origins of the rebellious movement known as Guy Fawkes Day. Harington plays Robert Catesby, the major force behind the Gunpowder Plot in London in 1605.

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Sam Kinison died 25 years ago, at age 38, but he’s still remembered, mostly fondly, as a standup comedian with a short fuse, and an ability to rage that makes Lewis Black look sedated. This documentary looks back at his life and career, and in retrospect, his act’s misogyny and anger may seem particularly out of touch with today’s sensibility. But Kinison also was a genuinely funny fellow, as when he roared at, and against, victims of world hunger, particularly in the deserts of Africa. (His high-decibel advice: “You’re in a  @#$%ing desert!! Go where the food is! Go where the water is!”) To see and hear the unexpurgated Kinison in action, wait for the midnight ET showing of this documentary. That’s the one that’s not edited for content.