Tuesday, July 4: Happy Independence Day!

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Tuesday, July 4

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— TV Guide Magazine (@TVGuideMagazine) July 3, 2017

The Words That Built America
HBO, 7pm
Directed by filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, this timely documentary features A-list celebrities, all living U.S. presidents and vice presidents, and media titans reading the documents that founded our democracy — the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights — to give viewers a better understanding of what they truly say and mean.

Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular
Bloomberg Television, 8pm
This perennial has a new TV home! Pop star Andy Grammer, singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge and Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. headline the show, which will also stream online at Bloomberg.com. The Boston Pops Orchestra will perform new work by composer Alan Menken and Tony-winning lyricist Jack Feldman, plus music by composer John Williams.

Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular
NBC, 8pm Live
NBC celebrates America’s birthday with this annual event held in New York City, featuring entertainment and, of course, fireworks.

A Capitol Fourth
PBS, 8pm Live
Celebrate our country’s 241st birthday with an all-star musical extravaganza broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. With cameras positioned around the city, viewers are front and center for the greatest display of fireworks anywhere.

Independence Day Movie Marathon
TCM, 8pm
Turner Classic Movies celebrates America’s birthday with a night of patriotic films, kicking off with 1942’s Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Wednesday, July 5

MasterChef: “Shell-Shocked & Scrambled”
FOX, 8pm
The top 18 contestants face a mystery box challenge featuring some of the world’s finest shellfish. Then, in the elimination challenge, the chefs must recreate a Gordon Ramsay classic.

Little Big Shots: Forever Young: “103 Years Young”
NBC, 8pm
Four-time Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Simone Biles guest-stars on this episode, surprising Johanna from Germany — the world’s oldest gymnast, who is still an active gymnast at the age of 91. Host Steve Harvey also visits with the world’s oldest living showgirl, who is 93 and still performing with her longtime dance partner. We also meet a gospel singing quartet from Detroit whose oldest member is 103.

Big Pacific: “Voracious”
PBS, 8pm
See how all life in the Pacific is driven by the challenge of finding food. Meet a destructive army of mouths, a killer with a hundred mouths and the biggest mouth in the ocean. For creatures large and small, every mouthful counts.

TCM Spotlight: 50 Years of Hitchcock
TCM, 8pm
Tonight, TCM looks at the distinguished career of Alfred Hitchcock with a marathon of movies, which includes The Ring (which he wrote and directed), Blackmail, The Skin Game, Rich and Strange (also known as East of Shanghai), plus others.

American Pickers: “Ain’t That Americana”
History, 9pm
Mike and Frank head across the country searching for iconic items that are as American as apple pie and baseball.

The Carmichael Show: “Morris”
NBC, 9pm
When Bobby (Lil Rel Howery) shares news with Jerrod (Jerrod Carmichael) about a mysterious Facebook message he received, a decades-old family secret is revealed.

Great Yellowstone Thaw
PBS, 9pm
See how the soaring summer temperatures affect the Yellowstone ecosystem. When a major fire breaks out in the Beartooths, a team scrambles to see if the great gray owl family has survived. How is one particular wolf pack feeding its 11 pups?

To Tell the Truth
ABC, 10pm
Tonight’s panelists — Jalen Rose, Sherri Shepherd, Chris Kattan and Kelly Osbourne — are presented with a variety of participants with interesting traits, from a scout who holds the all-time record for selling Girl Scout cookies to Jennifer Lopez’s stunt double to the six-time world champion “lumberjill.”

Snowfall
FX, 10pm
New Series!
In this new drama series, director John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) explores the effect of the early 1980s crack cocaine epidemic on the neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles. The intertwined stories involve an enterprising young drug dealer (Damson Idris), the daughter of a Mexican drug lord (Emily Rios), a gang enforcer (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), a Contra rebel (Juan Javier Cárdenas) and a CIA officer (Carter Hudson).

Thursday, July 6

Boy Band: “Sweet Sixteen”
ABC, 8pm
In the third week of competition, the remaining six vocalists come together as a band, rehearse and perform onstage for architects Emma Bunton, Nick Carter and Timbaland. The architects decide which member of the band will go home, while the remaining five continue on their journey to stardom and prepare to perform for America’s vote.

Surrogates
BBC America, 8pm
In a world where humans are isolated, interacting only through robots, a cop (Bruce Willis) is forced to leave his home to investigate a series of murders in this 2009 sci-fi mystery.

The Simpsons
FXX, beginning at 8pm
Odd pairings are featured in tonight’s eight-episode stunt of The Simpsons on FXX. Among the highlights: Homer gets Apu fired (sing “Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?”) and then helps him get his job back in “Homer and Apu,” and Flanders finds Homer’s friendship a little overbearing in “Homer Loves Flanders.”

Hollywood Game Night: “Super Duper Store Night”
NBC, 8pm
Celebrities Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash and Nico Santos of NBC’s Superstore, and Cheri Oteri, Natalie Morales and Ne-Yo, compete in this episode.

Mosquito
Discovery Channel, 9pm
Over 750,000 people are killed by mosquitoes every year. Discovery sounds the alarm on the risks of mosquitoes as the next potential worldwide pandemic in this compelling documentary. Featuring interviews with leaders in the global health community, a rare one-on-one with Bill Gates and intimate interviews with families impacted by these killer insects, the story charts the rising outbreaks of Zika, malaria, West Nile virus, yellow fever, chikungunya and dengue, and links it all to the accelerating expansion of the mosquito around the globe.

The Tunnel: Sabotage
PBS, 9pm
Listen in on DC Borowski’s interview with an intriguing, cheroot-smoking witness. Laura receives a disturbing package, and in Calais, a double-bluff has the police racing to catch Defence in the act. Has a mole infiltrated the investigation?

The Gong Show
ABC, 10pm
Tonight’s acts include a contortionist who can artistically impersonate a tree, a girl who performs a handstand while chasing Tommy around the stage, a crazy cat lady performing a cat song and bug exterminators playing “Toxic” on violins while spraying human cockroaches with CO2 guns.
At the end of the show, the act with the highest judges’ scores receives the fabulous The Gong Show trophy and a check for $2,000 and 17 cents.

Zoo: “Diaspora”
CBS, 10pm
Jackson (James Wolk) and Logan (Josh Salatin) find a link between the hybrid attacks in Portland and New York. Mitch (Billy Burke) is interrogated by a woman claiming to be his daughter. Abraham’s (Nonso Anozie) research into the sterility crisis puts his family in danger.

Alone: “The Last Mile”
History, 10pm
Desperation sinks in as the hikers struggle to make the final push to their teammates. Exhaustion leads one participant straight into the path of a predator, and into a dangerous confrontation.

Sin City Justice: “Blood Brothers”
Investigation Discovery, 10pm
When the Sullivans are killed by a drunk driver and the bodies burned beyond recognition, their adult sons are beyond grief. But their grief turns to anger when the driver, Matthew Dalrymple, flees while his bail is being posted. The brothers use social media to track him down and with him in custody, will they finally get some justice? In a different murder case that ended in a mistrial, two prosecutors must retry the defendant, this time seeking the death penalty, when brother turns against brother in court.

The Night Shift: “Do No Harm”
NBC, 10pm
Jordan (Jill Flint) and Cain (Mark Consuelos) figure out their professional dynamic as they work on a patient with extreme injuries from an oil field explosion. Drew (Brendan Fehr) and Paul (Robert Bailey Jr.) receive a patient from the same accident, and must figure out a solution to save the patient’s severed hand.

Friday, July 7

Castlevania
Netflix
New Series!
Inspired by the classic video game franchise, this animated series is a dark, medieval fantasy that follows the last surviving member of a disgraced clan, who is trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hands of Dracula himself.

Killjoys: “A Skinner, Darkly”
Syfy, 8pm
As Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) and D’avin (Luke Macfarlane) attempt to train a replacement nerd, John (Aaron Ashmore) finds his search for Clara is getting under some people’s skin.

TCM Spotlight: 50 Years of Hitchcock
TCM, 8pm
TCM’s monthlong Hitchcock salute continues tonight with some of his better-known films, beginning with Number 17 and including The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, plus Jamaica Inn, and concluding with the war shorts Aventure Malgache and Bon Voyage.

The Great British Baking Show: “Pastry”
PBS, 9pm
See how eight bakers handle three types of pastry. For the signature, it’s breakfast time, Danish-style. Then, the technical is a classic British tart. The bite-size showstopper is a pastry notoriously difficult to make and even trickier to bake.

Dark Matter: “One More Card to Play”
Syfy, 9pm
Familiar faces from the past return, causing havoc and forcing the crew to scramble to save their already damaged reputations.

Wynonna Earp: “Let’s Pretend We’re Strangers”
Syfy, 10pm
A furious thunder snowstorm makes landfall while Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) and Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) are forced to confront their demons … and each other.

Saturday, July 8

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Mirror Magic
Discovery Family Channel, 11:30am
When Sunset Shimmer returns to Equestria as a pony, she agrees to bring another pony back through the mirror portal to experience life as a human girl at Canterlot High. But while Sunset Shimmer is away, Juniper Montage discovers an enchanted mirror with the ability to trap things between two realms. When Sunset Shimmer finds the Mane 6 missing and Juniper Montage acting extremely suspicious, she and her new friend try to release her friends from limbo.

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series: Quaker State 400
NBCSN, 7:30pm Live
The 1.5-mile tri-oval at Kentucky Speedway is the site of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Quaker State 400 as top drivers Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Larson, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, Chase Elliott and others race for points and playoff spots.

Doubt
CBS, 8pm
Tonight, CBS airs back-to-back episodes of the canceled series. First, in “Clean Burn,” Sadie (Katherine Heigl) interviews Billy’s (Steven Pasquale) ex-classmates in hopes of finding info on a key piece of evidence. Then, in “Not a Word,” the DNA results from Billy’s case come in, and Sadie avoids the gag order placed on revealing them by making a scene in court.

The Essentials: “Bride of Frankenstein”
TCM, 8pm
Tina Fey returns as host tonight to discuss one of her favorite classic movies. Directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as The Monster, the Frankenstein sequel features Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of Mary Shelley and the Monster’s mate. The bride’s conical hairdo, with its white lightning-trace streaks on each side, is an iconic symbol of both the character and the film. This film is scheduled to be remade as part of Universal’s Dark Universe series. It will be directed by Academy Award winner Bill Condon.

Turn: Washington’s Spies: “Private Woodhull”
AMC, 9pm
Seeking revenge against Simcoe, Abe travels to New York and meets Benedict Arnold. A visitor from Anna’s past comes to the continental camp.

Tour de Pharmacy
HBO, 10pm
The second sports mockumentary special from Andy Samberg and Murray Miller (7 Days in Hell) under their Legends of Sport banner, this film tells the tale of an unforgettable, entirely fictional race that turns into a no-holds-barred melee following a doping scandal. The star-packed cast includes Samberg, Jeff Goldblum, Daveed Diggs, Danny Glover, Freddie Highmore, Julia Ormond, Orlando Bloom, John Cena, Dolph Lundgren, James Marsden, Kevin Bacon, Nathan Fielder, Maya Rudolph, Will Forte, Phylicia Rashad, Joe Buck, Mike Tyson, Chris Webber and J.J. Abrams.