‘Problem’ Pits Vets In opposition to New Threats, Tragedy and Scandal on ‘Buccaneers,’ Son of Sam Speaks, ‘Sunny’ Goes to the Canine

The Problem

The long-running actuality competitors that even predates Survivor is again for a forty first season, and because the new subtitle suggests, the present continues to be recycling winners and fan favorites from previous seasons, together with seven-time champ Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio and two-time winner Cara Maria Sorbello. They’re among the many 16 returning gamers dealing with a squad of first timers, together with seasoned actuality stars with credit from such reveals as Survivor, The Superb Race, Canada’s Final Problem, Cheer, Too Scorching to Deal with and varied iterations of Love Island and Massive Brother. Within the opener, newly fashioned pairs have little time to get acquainted earlier than they’re put to the take a look at, with dramatic nominations and a stunning elimination.

The Buccaneers

Whereas the pal group in England grieves the stunning fratricide that ended final week’s melodramatic episode, the previously frivolous interval romance jumps forward a number of weeks, shifting focus to late-1800s New York Metropolis—the timeframe roughly shared by HBO’s The Gilded Age—the place divorce is a social third rail. However Patti St. George (Mad Males‘s Christina Hendricks) is set to go ahead with the dissolution of her marriage to the untrue Tracy (Adam James), and her daughter Nan (Kristine Froseth), the Duchess of Tintagel, is there for her, turning heads. The general public divorce trial isn’t fairly, and neither is the fallout from tragedy throughout the pond, the place the widow Conchita (Alisha Boe) refuses to cry. She’s nearly the one one.

Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes

The newest installment of director-producer Joe Berlinger‘s true-crime collection revisits some of the infamous durations in New York Historical past: the reign of terror within the late Seventies when a serial killer dubbed Son of Son focused younger {couples} sitting of their vehicles. Letters taunting the police went public, resulting in a mammoth manhunt and the arrest of David Berkowitz in 1977. The three-part collection reveals new recordings that present an unsettling window into the killer’s psyche, with additional testimony from police, journalists and survivors.

It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia

Followers of this raucous sitcom shouldn’t be shocked at what occurs when these miscreants from Philly lie down with canine (metaphorically, principally) on an tour to a dog-racing observe in West Virginia. Dennis (Glenn Howerton) and Dee (Kaitlin Olson) are dressed to the nines underneath the mistaken impression they’re attending the Kentucky Derby. (In a bus?) They’re rapidly humbled, whereas Mac (Rob Mac) and Charlie (Charlie Day) meet a scraggly canine whisperer with a mystical connection to the canines. The conclusion: This place makes animals of us all.

Who Desires to Be a Millionaire

When final we visited this quiz present, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings and his “shock” accomplice (to the mock dismay of Jimmy Kimmel), Matt Damon, had simply received $250,000 with three lifelines remaining. How far will the king of trivia and his movie-star sidekick go of their quest to win $1 million for charity? After their run ends, The Every day Present‘s Jordan Klepper and Ronny Chieng strive their luck. Adopted by Match Recreation, the place new host Martin Brief welcomes a panel together with such humorous of us as Caroline Rhea, Jay Pharoah, Ana Gasteyer, Phoebe Robinson, Randall Park and Constance Zimmer.

INSIDE WEDNESDAY TV:

• Superstar IOU (8/7c, HGTV): Olympic snowboarder Shaun White comes off the slopes, enlisting Drew and Jonathan Scott to assist renovate his childhood finest pal’s new residence. Adopted by the premiere of the Property Brothers‘ newest collection, Chasing the West (9/8c), through which they assist Western owners understand their desires.
• Household Regulation (8/7c, The CW): Abby’s (Jewel Staite) new case is a doozy, when she represents a surrogate who learns one of many twins she’s carrying for her finest pal is definitely her personal organic little one. Exterior courtroom, her half-brother Daniel (Zach Smadu) hits the bars after his breakup with Martina (Miranda Edwards).
• Expedition Unknown (9/8c, Discovery): Josh Gates heads to Micronesia, the place he dives into the Pacific to hunt a downed P-47 Thunderbolt whose American pilot participated in a raid throughout the ultimate days of World Conflict II.
• Mr. & Mrs. Homicide (streaming on Hulu): A four-part true-crime docuseries follows the investigation into the disappearance in 2000 of Floridian Mike Williams, presumed drowned and/or eaten by alligators throughout a duck-hunting journey. After his finest pal Brian Winchester divorced his spouse Kathy to marry Mike’s widow, Denise, Kathy’s suspicions led to justice for Mike.