Fox, 3:00 p.m. ET
The last time so many U.S. viewers tuned in for coverage of a live TV event from Paris, it was when the Notre Dame cathedral was on fire. Today, though, it’s a much happier occasion. It’s the U.S. women’s soccer team that’s on fire, dominating the 2019 FIFA tournament this year and emerging from the group stage undefeated. But now it faces France, which also won all three of its group stage games, and is the host country to boot. (And hey: isn’t it especially sweet to be able to end a soccer sentence with the phrase “to boot”? Answer: yes.) The U.S. is the defending champion, France is the host nation, and today’s game is presented on Fox for a very good reason. Lots and lots of American viewers will be tuning in…
ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET
Last week’s episode was a mind-bending, time-bending episode running Fitz and Jemma (Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge) through a series of dangers, conflicts and personae (pictured) – but the episode ended with the couple not only reunited, but rescued. That was good news. Now the bad news: Tonight, they and their S.H.I.E.L.D. cohorts move from the proverbial frying pan into the galactic fire.
Cinemax, 10:00 p.m. ET
The crime caper at the end of last week’s episode of Jett had series star Carla Gugino, as former master thief “Jett” Kowalski, forced to take a crew on a safecracking job inside a mob-connected nightclub. Armed with both a gun and a killer outfit and blonde wig, Jett infiltrated the place easily – but just before the closing credits rolled, one of her fellow robbers pointed his gun directly at her, at close range, and fired. Because her name is this show’s title, it’s presumed that Jett survives. Meanwhile, promos for tonight’s program take the character two years in the past, to a flashback when she was in prison – and where, for her, orange was the old black.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
After two nights of Democratic debates featuring presidential hopefuls, Bill Maher hits the stage for a post-mortem monologue, and a conversation with tonight’s scheduled guests – who include MSNBC anchor Joy Reid, author Max Brooks, Seth MacFarlane, and one of the presidential aspirants who made the cut for the first set of Democratic debates, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who’s likely to get more screen and talking time tonight on Real Time than she did in real time on Wednesday (pictured).
BBC America, 11:00 p.m. ET
When James Corden did a week of shows from London recently, he began with Tom Hanks – who shows up here as well, coming to play with the very playful Graham Norton, whose all-guests-seated-together format is one that Corden has “borrowed.” And on Norton’s couch tonight, Hanks shares couch space with, among others, Gwyneth Paltrow and the movies’ latest Spider-Man, Tom Holland.
TCM, 2:00 a.m. ET
This controversial 1970 screen adaptation of Gore Vidal’s bestseller made room for cinematic sex symbols from the past, present and future. Mae West represented the past (and among her on-screen conquests here is a pre-Magnum, P.I. Tom Selleck ), a pre-Charlie’s Angels Farrah Fawcett represented the future – and Raquel Welch, playing the gender-bending, transitioning titular character, was very, very present throughout.