Best-bets for Sept. 18: a night of key reruns

1) “S.W.A,T.” and “NCIS: New Orleans,” 8 and 9 p.m., CBS. When the season starts Monday, reruns will mostly disappear from the broadcast networks. Here’s one last shot for some key ones: In the “S.W.A.T.” season-finale, a police station is bombed and there’s a showdown with a domestic-terrorist group. Then the series finale of “NCIS: New Orleans” includes the wedding day (shown here) of Pride and Rita (Scott Bakula and Chelsea Field, married in real life), complicated by worries about his son. Read more…

1) “S.W.A,T.” and “NCIS: New Orleans,” 8 and 9 p.m., CBS. When the season starts Monday, reruns will mostly disappear from the broadcast networks. Here’s one last shot for some key ones: In the “S.W.A.T.” season-finale, a police station is bombed and there’s a showdown with a domestic-terrorist group. Then the series finale of “NCIS: New Orleans” includes the wedding day (shown here) of Pride and Rita (Scott Bakula and Chelsea Field, married in real life), complicated by worries about his son.

2) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Twice, Dave Chappelle has hosted the “SNL” that followed a presidential election. In 2016, he was consoling and philosophical; in 2020, he was more upbeat. Now the latter reruns, two weeks before the season-opener; the Foo Fighters are music guests.

3) Movies, cable. Families can catch an animated film and its sequel: Freeform has “Finding Nemo” (2003) at 7:20 p.m., with “Finding Dory” (2016) at 9:50; FX has “Shrek” (2001) at 6 p.m. and “Shrek 2” (2004) ar 8 and 10. And grown-ups? At 8 p.m., catch comedy with “Bridesmaids” (2001) on E or action with “Justice League” (2017) on TNT.

4) Football. You could spend much of the day with three collisions of ranked teams. Top-ranged Alabama visits Florida (No. 11) at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS … Auburn (No. 22) visits Penn State (No. 10) at 7:30 ET on ABC … and Arizona State (No. 19) visits Brigham Young (No. 23) at 10:15 on ESPN.

5) ALSO: If you missed Wednesday’s “America’s Got Talent” finale, catch a quick rerun tonight; that’s 9-11 p.m. on NBC. And CBS news shows are getting early starts: Last Sunday, “60 Minutes” opened its season; at 10 p.m. today, “48 Hours,” now a true-crime show, does the same.

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