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What’s on TV, Sept. 20-26: ‘Backrooms,’ ‘The Voice,’ ‘SNL,’ ‘American Horror Story’ and more

New and noteworthy series, movies, sports events and specials on broadcast, cable and streaming this coming week

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Sep 18, 2026
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Chiwetel Ejiofor in “Backrooms” (A24)

Sunday — Sept. 20

Comic Kevin Hart will be chillin’ with the likes of tennis great Serena Williams and former NFL star Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski in new episodes of his ice-bath chat show “Cold as Balls.” (Anytime, Netflix)

Take off, eh! The new docuseries “Setting the Tempo” spotlights the WNBA’s first-ever Canadian team, the Toronto Tempo. (Anytime, Disney+ and the ESPN app, with all four episodes airing on ESPN beginning at 8:30 p.m. ET and 5:30 p.m. PT)

Glamour girl: The new documentary “Kimora Lee: On Her Own” profiles the former fashion model turned fashion mogul and reality TV star who created the popular Baby Phat clothing line. (8 p.m. Lifetime)

Revisit highlights and lowlights from previous editions of MTV’s annual Video Music Awards in the new special “Best of VMAs: Unforgettable Moments” hosted by Vanessa Lachey. (9:30 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. PT on CBS)

The new foodie travelogue “The Detour with David Chang” finds the noted chef and restaurateur and his celebrity traveling companions going off the beaten path in search of flavors to savor. (9 and 10 p.m. CNN)

“I’m listening...” A veteran radio host (Jon Hamm) in Indianapolis takes a call from a disgruntled man holding a mortgage broker at gunpoint in the debut season of the anthology series “American Hostage” based on the true crime podcast. (9 and 10 p.m. MGM+)

Forgive us our “Trespasses.” A Catholic school teacher (Lola Petticrew, “Furious”) has a dangerous liaison with a married Protestant barrister (Tom Cullen) in this new drama set in 1970s Northern Ireland. Gillian Anderson also stars. (10 p.m. PBS)

“Youth” is wasted on the young. A 50-something divorcée and empty nester (Sharon Horgan, “Catastrophe”) dips a toe back into the dating pool in this new Britcom. (10 and 10:30 p.m. HBO)

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Monday — Sept. 21

A piano tuner (Leo Woodall, “The White Lotus”) uses his super-sensitive hearing in his side gig as a safe cracker in the 2025 crime thriller “Tuner.” Dustin Hoffman and Jean Reno also star. (Anytime, Paramount+)

Queen Latifah and country music’s Riley Green will be spinning in their chairs alongside returning coaches Kelly Clarkson and Adam Levine in the three-night, Season 30 premiere of “The Voice.” (8 p.m. NBC; also Tuesday-Wednesday)

Skateboarding’s Tony Hawk matches musical wits with rapper and actor Ice-T in the return of “Name That Tune” hosted by “30 Rock’s” Jane Krakowski. (8 p.m. Fox)

“The Apprentice’s” Omarosa and “Survivor’s” Richard Hatch are among the reality TV villains playing for charity in the season premiere of “Celebrity Weakest Link” hosted by “Glee’s” Jane Lynch. (9 p.m. Fox)

If you can make it there… Filmmaker Ric Burns picks up where he left off nearly a quarter-century ago with two brand-new installments of his exhaustive 1999-2003 historical series “New York: A Documentary Film.” (9 p.m. PBS; also Tuesday)

The family business: He’s a Secret Service agent, she’s a U.S. Marshal and their adult children also work for various federal law-enforcement agencies in the new procedural drama “Line of Fire.” Peter Krause and Hope Davis star. (10 p.m. NBC)

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