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Wednesday, July 13
Mr. Robot
USA Network, 10pm
Season Premiere!
The acclaimed, Peabody Award- and Golden Globe-winning drama returns for a 12-episode second season, which explores the consequences of fsociety’s hack on multinational company Evil Corp, as well as the illusion of control. Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Portia Doubleday and Carly Chaikin return, with Grace Gummer joining the main cast, and Craig Robinson onboard as a recurring guest star.
The 2016 ESPYS
ABC, 8pm Live
The 2016 ESPYS honor the past year’s best teams, players, moments and more from the world of sports, featuring appearances by luminaries of sports and entertainment. WWE’s John Cena hosts the show from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater. NBA on TNT sideline reporter Craig Sager, who is battling leukemia, receives the Jimmy V Perseverance Award.
Penn & Teller: Fool Us
The CW, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Alyson Hannigan joins the magic competition series as host. In each episode, aspiring magicians are invited to perform their best trick to try to fool the world-famous team of Penn & Teller. Anyone who succeeds wins the right to perform with the comedy legends in their Las Vegas show.
America’s Got Talent: “The Judge Cuts 2”
NBC, 8pm
Reba McEntire joins the panel, trying to use control of the Golden Buzzer to get her favorite act through to the Top 36.
Supernature — Wild Flyers: “Crowded Skies”
PBS, 8pm
The sky is a crowded world where mammals, birds and insects hunt, escape, mate, defend territory, sleep and even die on the wing. Survival up there depends not just on beating gravity or mastering flight, but also on outflying the competition.
Suits
USA Network, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Season 6 begins immediately following the events of last season’s cliffhanger that left Mike (Patrick J. Adams) behind bars. After signing a plea deal to spare his colleagues at Pearson Specter Litt, Mike will be confronted with the harsh realities of prison life as he starts his two-year sentence. Meanwhile, the once bustling Pearson Specter Litt offices are a ghost town — the partners have defected, leaving Harvey (Gabriel Macht), Jessica (Gina Torres), Louis (Rick Hoffman), Donna (Sarah Rafferty) and Rachel (Meghan Markle) to pick up the pieces. But the firm’s troubles are far from over, and they will have to deal with the fallout from Mike’s crime before they can even begin to rebuild.
Flipping Out
Bravo, 10pm
Season Premiere!
Season 9 is so big that it’ll take two nights to premiere it all! After a lucrative job takes an unexpected turn, Jeff Lewis returns to his first passion, house flipping. Lewis decides to move his entire household, including his life partner and life organizer Gage, his unflappable housekeeper Zoila, 3 dogs and new cat into a flip that is currently under construction. With his business — which also includes his baby-crazed assistant Jenni — crammed into a space that’s a work zone, the drama is bigger than ever.
American Gothic: “Christina’s World”
CBS, 10pm
In the new episode “Christina’s World,” a death on the Hawthorne property gives Detective Brady (Elliot Knight) a solid lead on the Silver Bells Killer case.
The Night Shift: “All In”
NBC, 10pm
Topher’s (Ken Leung) mother arrives in the ER with life-threatening symptoms. As her condition deteriorates, the team works furiously to save her before it’s too late.
9 Months That Made You: “The Final Countdown”
PBS, 10pm
See how your time in the womb, as your senses mature, determines your destiny on the outside. Survey the latest epigenetic research that shows how the womb environment leaves its mark, even altering your DNA.
The A Word
SundanceTV, 10pm
New Series!
This gently funny, insightful and moving drama centers on the family of a music-obsessed little boy named Joe (vocally gifted 6-year-old newcomer Max Vento), who is newly diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Originally produced for BBC One, The A Word thoroughly charms as the Brit family weathers its ups and downs, with Joe’s future — and a glorious soundtrack filled with English rock and punk bands — as the fulcrum.
Thursday, July 14
Golf: British Open
Golf Channel, beginning at 1:30am Live
Golf’s third major of the year, the Open Championship (or “British Open”) tees off at Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland. Defending champion Zach Johnson will contend for another Claret Jug against Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Adam Scott, Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson and more of the world’s best. Golf Channel and NBC take over broadcasting duties with nearly 50 hours of live tournament coverage through July 17.
Bones: “The Jewel in the Crown”
FOX, 8pm
Guest Star Alert!
Sexy Frenchman Gilles Marini appears as a rich, sexy Frenchman (oui, oui!) when the Jeffersonian team investigates a body with a diamond lodged in its jaw.
The Simpsons
FXX, beginning at 8pm
It’s Bastille Day, so FXX airs eight straight episodes of The Simpsons that involve France or Francophones, beginning with Season 1’s “The Crepes of Wrath,” and including Season 2’s “The Way We Was” and Season 11’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Criticize Dinner?”
Flipping Out
Bravo, 9pm
The antics of celebrity house-flipper Jeff Lewis and his crew continue tonight on the series’ regular day and time.
30 for 30: “Doc & Darryl”
ESPN, 9pm
Directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio explore the lives and careers of former New York Mets superstars Dwight “Doc” Gooden and Darryl Strawberry. Gooden and Strawberry were tremendous talents who won a World Series with the 1986 Mets, but addictions led them down self-destructive paths. This 30 for 30 documentary reunites Gooden and Strawberry at a diner in Queens for a candid discussion of their glory days and what went wrong.
Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge: “Spartan vs. Ninja: The Sequel”
NBC, 9pm
Six new teams compete for the chance to win $250,000.
Aquarius: “Piggies”
NBC, 10pm
Manson (Gethin Anthony) and the Family receive two surprises: one a blessing, one a threat.
Impractical Jokers
truTV, 10pm
Midseason Premiere!
Comedians and lifelong friends Sal Vulcano, Joe Gatto, Brian “Q” Quinn and James “Murr” Murray — who hit the comedy circuit as The Tenderloins — dare each other to embarrass themselves (and sometimes others) in public. At the end of each episode, the guy who blows the others’ challenge or refuses their dare must suffer a buddy-sanctioned, comical consequence.