1) Sept. 11 documentaries. For the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks (shown here), filmmakers did a brilliant job of combining old footage and fresh comments. Now, two years later, some of those films rerun. The National Geographic Channel’s compelling “9/11: One Day in America” runs from 8 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.; the History Channel’s “9/11: I Was There” is 8-10:03 p.m. Other 9/11 films start at 7 a.m. on History and 6 p.m. on National Geographic.
2) “American Experience,” 9-11 p.m., PBS. For Boston, the change came slowly. The Supreme Court banned school segregation in 1954; the Massachusetts legislature passed the Racial Imbalance Act in 1965. In 1974, court-ordered busing finally began. There was violence and, eventually, the departure of 10,000 students. “Experience” now views the era in opposite worlds – the urban North tonight and the rural South (in Leland, Miss.) on Tuesday.
3) “The Chelsea Detective,” www.acorn.tv. This movie-length (90-minute) mystery packs taut emotions into its final half-hour, with two perfect performances. Adrian Scarborough plays the police detective, trying to seem calm as a crumbling suspect (Joshua James) holds him at knifepoint. More twists are coming, in a smart script. The four-story season concludes next week.
4) Football, 8;15 p.m. ET, ABC, ESPN and ESPN2. Aaron Rodgers’ debut with the New York Jets is a big deal – big enough to sprawl over three channels. The Jets, 7-10 last year, host the Buffalo Bills, who were 13-3 in the regular season, then lost in the second round of the playoffs.
5) CBS shows, 8-11 p.m. After next Monday, all of these shows will be displaced by some new-season stunts. For now, we get reruns of “The Neighborhood” (Dave creates a power outage), “Bob (Hearts) Abishola” (a celebration is marred by a fight between Bob’s wife and his sister), “NCIS: Hawaii” (a secret from Tennant’s past emerges) and “NCIS: Los Angeles” (Sam goes undercover as a fighter).