LL Cool J on ‘NCIS,’ ‘Idol’s Prime 14, ‘Poppa’s Household Affair, ‘America’s Most Wished’ Returns

NCIS

When three fight veterans are discovered useless in a Washington, D.C. motel room, who you gonna name? Enter Sam Hanna, aka LL Cool J from the shuttered NCIS: L.A. spinoff. He’s the one agent the prime suspect will discuss to. Adopted by NCIS: Origins (10/9c), the place the Sandman continues to be on the free after the thriller sniper’s newest assassination. An FBI activity drive is introduced in to work with the unit, and with Wheeler’s (Patrick Fischler) job on the road, rookie agent Gibbs (Austin Stowell) feels he’s being wasted doing grunt work throughout the ticking-clock investigation.

American Idol

The sector of singing hopefuls has narrowed to the Prime 14, and we’re about to seek out out simply who they’re. In an emotional reveal episode, the finalists every take the stage with stay performances from Hollywood. On NBC’s rival singing contest The Voice (8/7c), relive the present season’s highlights on the highway to subsequent week’s Playoffs.

Poppa’s Home

All by its freshman season, this sitcom has felt like a Wayans household affair. That’s very true when Junior’s (Damon Wayans Jr.) sister Natalie (Amara Wayans) pays a go to to announce her engagement. Junior seizes the second to attempt to get her to reconcile with Poppa (Damon Wayans), who she blames for his or her mother and father’ divorce. The teleplay is by Cara Mia Wayans and Kyla Wayans from a narrative by Amara Wayans and Aniya Wayans. The director, remarkably, isn’t a Wayans, however actor/director Robert Townsend.

America’s Most Wished

The rebooted true-crime sequence returns for a 3rd season, with John Walsh and son Callahan again as hosts, touting the spectacular undeniable fact that the present has helped seize extra fugitives (1,198 to this point) than the variety of episodes (greater than 1,100) which have aired since its authentic 1988 premiere. The criminals could also be new, however the format is identical, because the Walshes break down a few of the nation’s most infamous instances with regulation enforcement specialists weighing in.

Love It or Checklist It

For the twentieth season of the favored real-estate present, realtor David Visentin competes with a brand new designer, Web page Turner (changing Hilary Farr), as they assist households resolve whether or not to remain of their newly renovated dwelling or ditch it for a special dream home. Within the opener, Web page goes to work for the husband, opening up current areas and discovering storage options for the rising household’s sentimental starter dwelling, whereas David scours listings for the spouse, who’s searching for a extra spacious abode not too removed from their acquainted neighborhood.

INSIDE MONDAY TV:

• The Neighborhood (8/7c, CBS): Cedric the Entertainer directs an episode the place his curmudgeonly character Calvin turns into caretaker for his neighbor Dave (Max Greenfield), who suffers an damage whereas attempting to dunk a basketball.
• Extracted (8/7c, Fox): The survival sport involves an finish with the 4 remaining adventurers and their households again at HQ battling it out for the $250,000 grand prize. Challenges embody guessing a five-letter phrase chosen by their households to open the ultimate provide drop, then deciphering a Morse code puzzle.
• All American (8/7c, The CW): Amina (Alexis Chikaeze) arranges a shock go to for KJ (Nathaniel McIntyre) from his mother whereas he’s processing a discovery in regards to the Jeremy household.
• Celtics Metropolis (9/8c, HBO): The sports activities docuseries follows the Boston basketball staff by the 2000s, culminating within the Celtics’ 2008 overcome the Lakers within the NBA Finals to win their seventeenth championship.
• Pimple Popper: Breaking Out (10/9c, Lifetime): Dr. Sandra Lee invitations the following technology of dermatologists into her working room to profit from her experience.
• Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey (streaming on Netflix): A shifting nature documentary directed by Pippa Ehrlich (My Octopus Trainer) follows the trail again to freedom within the wild of an endangered pangolin (assume scaly anteater) who was rescued from traffickers in South Africa.
• The Brokenwood Mysteries (streaming on Acorn TV): The offbeat New Zealand crime drama opens its eleventh season with Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea) and his staff wanting into the darkish historical past of a rock band after a fan fatally falls from a bell tower.