What To Watch: Task Begins, Daryl Dixon Returns, The VMAs And More

To help you navigate the best of broadcast, cable and streaming TV, TVLine offers curated daily, weekly and monthly What to Watch columns, along with an overview of every new TV show premiering in 2025.

On TV this Sunday: Mark Ruffalo leads HBO's Task, Daryl Dixon's Walking Dead journey continues and LL COOL J lords over the MTV Video Music Awards.

Showtimes for September 7, 2025

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The Chicken Sisters

Hallmark Channel

Amanda tries to teach her daughter that she can handle anything; a pesky weasel sneaks into Amanda and Frankie's house.

MTV Video Music Awards

CBS and MTV

Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga, Tate McRae, Alex Warren and Sabrina Carpenter perform; LL COOL J hosts.

Professor T

PBS

The investigation into a series of burglaries turns into something else when a school inspector is found murdered.

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Sunday Night Football

NBC

The Baltimore Ravens take on the Buffalo Bills, live from Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y.

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The Marlow Murder Club

PBS

A man with no ID and no connection to Marlow is found dead in the middle of a suburban road.

Task

HBO

Limited series premiere: Set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) heads a Task Force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Tom Pelphrey). (Read review; watch trailer.)

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

AMC

Season 3 premiere: Daryl and Carol travel through distant lands with unfamiliar conditions as they witness the various effects of the Walker apocalypse. (Watch trailer.)

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The Great North

Fox

Judy fights to save the family's annual summer trip. (Two-episode finale airs next Sunday at 9 pm.)

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Unforgotten

PBS

Gerry Cooper's descent into nationalism is revealed; Leanne and Sunny's friendship evolves.

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