1) “The Quiz With Balls” season-opener, 9 p.m., Fox. Like “Family Feud,” this takes a clever game and adds lots of less-clever hype and noise. This opener is noisier than usual, pitting families from New Jersey and New York. The questions are wildly uneven and the show sometimes fails to show which answers were right, Still, Jay Pharoah (shown here) keeps it fun.
2) “American Ninja Warrior” season-opener, 8-10 p.m. NBC. In its first 16 seasons, “Ninja” has seen someone reach the $1-million top prize only four times. Two of those were in the last two seasons, with back-to-back wins by Vance Walker, at ages 18 and 19. Now the new try-outs begin.
3) “Yes, Chef,” 10 p.m., NBC. If zombies can keep returning, maybe the eliminated chefs can get one more chance. Tonight, they try to cook their way back into the field. This may not be fair — the chefs who had already reached the final six don’t think so — but it does make for a fairly spirited showdown.
4) “The West,” 9 p.m., History. After living as a Comanche for about 24 years, Cynthia Ann Parker, 32, was captured by Texas Rangers and taken from her husband and children. She refused to adapt to her biological family; the events enraged her son, who later became the Comanche chief. That story follows reruns of previous ones, from 6-9 p.m.
5) ALSO: Jane Seymour shows up twice tonight — first in the season-finale of her “Harry Wild” series (on www.acorn.tv) and then hosting “Relative Secrets” (10 p.m. on Acorn and BBC America), a family-history show. Today also has the season-openers of “Below Deck” (8 p.m., Bravo) and “Ugliest House in America” (9 p.m., HGTV).