What To Watch This Week: 50+ Premieres, Finales, And More

Every day, TVLine's What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized by release time and alphabetically within each slot.

What follows is a look at the week ahead — a roundup of premieres and finales designed to help you plan your viewing for the next seven days.

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📺 1 p.m. "Saturday Night Live UK" Season 2 (Peacock)
📺 7:30 p.m. "60 Minutes" Season 59 (CBS)
📺 8 p.m. "The Floor" Season 6 (Fox, immediately following NFL doubleheader in all time zones) 
📺 9 p.m. "American Dad!" Season 20 finale (Fox, two episodes)
📺 9 p.m. "Halloween Wars" Season 16 (Food Network)

📺 9 p.m. "High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam" (TNT, two-episode premiere)
Inspired by the memoir "Debriefing the President" by CIA Analyst John Nixon, the eight-episode political thriller chronicles the story of John Nixon (Joel Kinnaman), the first CIA officer to interrogate Saddam Hussein (Waleed Zuaiter) following his capture in December 2003.

📺 9 p.m. "The Walking Dead: Dead City" Season 3 finale (AMC)

📺 9:30 p.m. "Best of VMAs: Iconic Vanguard Performances" (CBS special)
Donnie Wahlberg hosts a look back at memorable performances from Video Vanguard honorees.

🎥 8 p.m. "Family Through Fire" (Lifetime movie)
When a family's home is caught in a deadly wildfire, a husband's choice to stay behind to recover their youngest daughter turns into a fight for redemption, while his wife shepherds their other children to safety. But when he fails to appear in the days after, the wife must keep it together as she tries to maintain hope and normality for her children; Alanna LeVierge and Matthew Stefiuk star.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

📺 8 p.m. 78th Emmy Awards (NBC, hosted by Mariska Hargitay)
📺 8 p.m. "Monday Night Football" Season 57 (ABC & ESPN)
📺 9 p.m. "Halloween Baking Championship" Season 12 (Food Network)
📺 9 p.m. "Somebody Knows Something" Season 1 finale (Freeform, two episodes)

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

📺 "The Creep Tapes" Season 3 (AMC+ & Shudder, two-episode premiere)

📺 "Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence" (BritBox)
In this contemporary adaptation, Tommy and Tuppence (played by Josh Dylan and Antonia Thomas) are a detective duo for the ages. They fall in love, fall out of it, and tumble back in, all while solving mysteries along the way; Imelda Staunton co-stars.

📺 8 p.m. "Dancing With the Stars" Season 35 (ABC & Disney+, two-night premiere)
📺 8 p.m. "Kitchen Nightmares" Season 3 finale (Fox, two episodes)

📺 8 p.m. "A Very Haunted Renovation" (HGTV)
Six designers live inside a haunted mansion while completing a top-to-bottom transformation —all in pursuit of a $50,000 dollar cash prize — while design expert Michel Smith Boyd will mentor and evaluate each unnerving overhaul alongside guest judges including Hannah Beachler, Jack Osbourne, Billy Porter, Cassandra Peterson, Eli Roth, and LuLu Wilson; Anna Camp hosts.

📺 10 p.m. "Password" Season 3 finale (NBC)
📺 10 p.m. "R.J. Decker" Season 2 (ABC)

🤣 "Jo Koy: Blue in the Face" (Netflix comedy special)
🤣 "Vanessa Gonzalez: Mamona" (Hulu comedy special)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

📺 "Golden Axe" (Paramount+, 10-episode binge)

Legendary warriors Ax Battler, Tyris Flare, and Gilius Thunderhead (voiced by Liam McIntyre, Lisa Gilroy, and Matthew Rhys) as they reunite to save Yuria from the evil giant Death Adder, who just won't seem to stay dead.

📺 "Neagley" (Prime Video, eight-episode binge)
In this "Reacher" spin-off, when private investigator Frances Neagley (Maria Sten) learns that a friend from her past has been killed in a suspicious accident, she becomes hell-bent on justice.

📺 "Reacher" Season 4 finale (Prime Video)

📺 "Route 187" (Paramount+, four-episode binge)
Along South Winslow's violence-plagued Route 87, a relentless print journalist investigates a deadly bus ride and uncovers a serial killer who has been operating undetected for years; Christopher Livingston, Taiv Lee, and Elijah Collins star.

📺 "Slow Horses" Season 6 (Apple TV)

📺 12 p.m. "Max vs. 100" (Disney+ and ESPN App, live event)
Four-time Formula 1 World Champion Max Verstappen attempts to overtake 100 drivers in a massive go-kart race at Silverstone; comedian Mo Gilligan hosts.

📺 8 p.m. "The Great American Road Rally" (The CW)
Ian Ziering takes audiences on a journey across Route 66, combining adventure, competition, entertainment, community celebration, and philanthropy

📺 8 p.m. "MasterChef" Season 16 finale (Fox)
📺 8 p.m. "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" Season 7 (Bravo)
📺 9 p.m. "Nation's Dumbest" Season 1 finale (Fox)
📺 9:15 p.m. "Next Gen NYC" Season 2 Reunion, Part 1 of 2 (Bravo)

📺 10 p.m. "Ages of Ice" (PBS)
Narrated by David Tennant, the three-week docuseries event follows scientists into Earth's frozen frontiers to investigate the dramatic changes transforming the planet's polar regions.

📺 10 p.m. "DWTS After Party" (ABC special)
📺 10 p.m. "South Park" Season 29 (Comedy Central; new episodes air biweekly)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

📺 "The Howard Stern Show" (HBO Max)
Stern brings his long-running SiriusXM program to HBO Max with weekly video editions of his Monday show.

📺 "Monster" Season 4 aka "The Lizzie Borden Story" (Netflix, eight-episode binge)
📺 "Stranger Things: Tales From '85" Season 2 (Netflix, eight-episode binge)

📺 8 p.m. "The Traitors: New Blood" (NBC)
Everyday Americans compete in missions to build a prize fund worth up to $250,000 while rooting out the Traitors hidden among them; Alan Cumming hosts.

📺 8:15 p.m. "Thursday Night Football" Season 20 (Prime Video)
📺 10 p.m. "The Voice 30th Season Celebration" (NBC special)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

📺 "MobLand" Season 2 (Paramount+)
📺 7 p.m. "Friday Night Baseball" Season 5 finale (Apple TV, two games)

📺 8 p.m. "The Greatest @Home Videos: CEDY Awards" (CBS)

Donnie Wahlberg, Jerry O'Connell, Kevin Frazier, Nischelle Turner, and Phil Keoghan join this year's celebration.

📺 8 p.m. "JAŸ-Z In 8" (HBO, two-episode premiere)
The four-week docuseries event features a candid conversation between JAŸ-Z and Rick Rubin as the rap star breaks down his writing process and traces how his words reflect his childhood, the experiences that shaped him, and the evolving world he navigated as his career grew..

📺 8 p.m. "Outlander: Blood of My Blood" Season 2 (Starz)
📺 9 p.m. "Scariest House in America" Season 3 (HGTV)
📺 10:30 p.m. iHeartRadio Music Festival Day 1 of 2 (Disney+ & Hulu)

🎥 "Best of the Best" (Netflix movie)

Childhood best friends (played by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Priyanka Kedia) join UCLA's competitive Bollywood-fusion dance team, only to discover that the road to winning the U.S. Championship is far more raucous and cutthroat than they ever imagined; Hasan Minhaj, Lilly Singh, and Janina Gavankar co-star.

🎥 "Now You See Me: Now You Don't" (Prime Video)

🎥 9 p.m. "Joffrey Ballet: The Next Movement" (PBS documentary)

Over two pressure-filled weeks, the film shadows five choreographers from Brazil, India, Puerto Rico, Brooklyn, and Chicago as they race against the clock to transform personal stories into bold choreography.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

📺 10:30 p.m. iHeartRadio Music Festival Day 2 of 2 (Disney+ & Hulu)

🎥 8 p.m. "Garage Sale Mysteries: Murder Takes the Stage" (Hallmark Channel movie)
Lori Loughlin returns as Jennifer Shannon, whose true-crime book club becomes the center of a real-life murder mystery when a member is killed during the group” reenactment of the Lizzie Borden case.

🎥 8 p.m. "Sole Survivor of Flight 119" (Lifetime movie)
After a routine flight takes a harrowing turn, Lisa Foster (Sarah Wayne Callies) survives a devastating plane crash deep in the Mexican jungle; Joy Bryant co-stars.