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TV shows, movies, sports and specials on broadcast, cable and streaming this coming week
Welcome to an all-new TV or Not TV roundup of new and noteworthy programming on broadcast, cable and streaming this week. I’m Matt Cooper, former listings coordinator for the Los Angeles Times’ Calendar.
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Sunday — Sept. 1
A grieving woman falls between the cracks of “Parallel” worlds in this 2024 sci-fi thriller. With Danielle Deadwyler and brothers Aldis and Edwin Hodge. Anytime, Paramount+
Are you ready for some college football? The USC Trojans battle the LSU Tigers in Sin City in the Vegas Kickoff Classic. 4:30 p.m. ABC
They did the crime, they’re doing the time and sharing their stories in jailhouse interviews in new episodes of the spin-off series “Snapped: Behind Bars.” 7 p.m. Oxygen
A woman learns the child she placed with an adoptive family many years earlier has now gone missing in the new thriller “The Daughter I Gave Away.” With Romina D’Ugo. 8 p.m. Lifetime
Engage! The franchise entry “90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days” serves up a seventh season. 8 p.m. TLC
Monday — Sept. 2
Two titans of the competitive eating world stuff their faces with hotdogs until a wiener is announced in the new live special “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef.” Noon, Netflix
“The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper” compares and contrasts the presidential candidates’ visions for America in “Fight for the White House: Where Harris Stands” and “Fight for the White House: Where Trump Stands.” 8 and 9 p.m. CNN
The two-night docuspecial “The Chicano Squad” revisits the formation of a special all-Latino unit of bilingual homicide detectives in Houston in the 1970s. 9 p.m. A&E; concludes Tuesday
The three-night docuspecial “Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior” tells the dark tale of a convicted murder and self-confessed serial killer. 9 p.m. Investigation Discovery; also Tuesday-Wednesday
Don’t touch my bags if you please, Mr. Customs Man: The docuseries “To Catch a Smuggler” returns for an eighth season. 9 p.m. National Geographic
A dedicated high-school “English Teacher” gets an ‘A’ for effort in this new workplace comedy set in Austin, Texas and created by and starring Brian Jordan Alvarez. 10 and 10:30 p.m. FX
It’s all about the fusion as chef Deborah VanTrece puts an international spin on Southern favorites in the new series “Global Soul Kitchen.” 10 and 10:30 p.m. FYI
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