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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. 22
For the defense: Oscar winner Kathy Bates steps into Andy Griffith’s brogans in a new gender-swapped reboot of the 1986-95 legal drama “Matlock.” 8 p.m. CBS
It’s not all fun in the sun for the lifeguards working Oahu’s North Shore in the new action drama “Rescue: HI-Surf.” With Robbie Magasiva and Arielle Kebbel. 8 p.m. Fox; also 9 p.m. Monday
A desperate mother leaves no stone unturned in the search for her kidnapped daughter in the new TV movie “Taken in Plain Sight.” With Tennille Read. 8 p.m. Lifetime
“Snowpiercer” goes off the rails as this drama based on Bong Joon-ho’s post-apocalyptic 2013 action thriller end its run after four seasons. With Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs. 9 p.m. AMC
Ellen coming out, Oprah shedding excess lbs. and Kanye going off script are just some of the incidents and episodes revisited in the new series “TV on the Edge: Moments That Shaped Our Culture.” 9 p.m. CNN
No pumpkin is safe as the competition series “Halloween Wars” returns for a 14th season. 9 p.m. Food Network
If you lived there, you’d be home by now in a third season of the sci-fi horror drama “From.” With Harold Perrineau. 9 p.m. MGM+
Monday — Sept. 23
Country music duo Dan + Shay will have to share a chair when they join returning coaches Reba McEntire, John Legend and Chance the Rapper in a new season of the competition series “The Voice.” 8 p.m. NBC
What’s y’all’s emergency? The Texas-set spin-off “9-1-1: Lone Star” is back for fifth season. Rob Lowe and Gina Torres star. 8 p.m. Fox
Veteran journalist Judy Woodruff takes a deep dive into our nation’s widening political and cultural divide in the new special “Crossroads: A Conversation with America.” 9 p.m. KOCE
“Brilliant Minds” think alike in this new medical drama starring “Heroes’” Zachary Quinto and based on the life and career of British neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks. 10 p.m. NBC
A former student activist turned Hong King lawmaker turned exiled dissident is profiled in Joe Piscatella’s 2023 documentary “Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?” on a new “POV.” 10 p.m. KOCE
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