What To Watch: Chicago Crossover Begins, Riverdale Returns, Lucy Hale Serves Life Sentence And More
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On TV this Wednesday: Hard Sun and Life Sentence get underway, Riverdale heads up to the lake and Chicago P.D. walks the beat for the 100th time (and kicks off a crossover).
Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar; all times are, as always and forever, Eastern:
Showtimes for March 7, 2018
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Hard Sun
Hulu
Series premiere: In this new drama from Luther's Neil Cross, a wholesome-yet-corrupt cop (Across the Universe's Jim Sturgess) and a difficult-yet-incorruptible colleague (Clash of the Titans' Agyness Deyn) must work together to survive as the world edges toward a cataclysmic natural disaster.
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Riverdale
The CW
A weekend at the lake house gets dark when Jughead decides to multitask and press Veronica about what she knows; when Josie reveals a secret to Kevin, there's serious fallout. (Read our Season 2 report card.)
The X-Files
Fox
Mulder and Scully suspect dark forces are involved when animals brutally attack a little boy in Connecticut.
Series premiere: Stella (Pretty Little Liars' Lucy Hale) gets the best possible news — after eight years with a terminal cancer diagnosis, she's been cured! — but then must face the consequences of her many "live like you were dying" decisions. Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck), Carlos PenaVega (Big Time Rush) and Jayson Blair (The New Normal) co-star. (Read a preview.)
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Chicago P.D.
NBC
Episode 100: In the start of a P.D./Fire crossover, Intelligence asks Firehouse 51 to help as they investigate bombings targeting the media. (Watch a sneak preview.)
Criminal Minds
CBS
The BAU, with Barnes tagging along, look into a quadruple homicide of a group of roommates. (Let this be a lesson, people: Do your dishes!) (Watch a sneak preview.)
Designated Survivor
ABC
The president and Russia must work together (imagine!) when a missile bringing water to stranded astronauts is hacked. (Watch Kim Raver's debut.)
Hap and Leonard: The Two-Bear Mambo
Sundance TV
Season premiere: Season 3 finds the guys battling a corrupt sheriff and an impending storm as they search for a missing African-American woman in a Klan-infested Texas community.
If Loving You Is Wrong
OWN
Season 5 finale: We're not exactly sure what the official synopsis ("The sins of the neighborhood come to a head in catastrophic events across the city") means, but it scares the bejesus out of us, anyway.
