Best-bets for June 23: Walters leads a non-fiction night

1) “Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything,” Hulu. Walters (shown here) reached “Today” in 1961, when it was still a male domain. She was the latest of the “Today girls” … and then was much more. She dominated mornings, created “The View,” drew huge ratings for primetime specials and led a complicated personal life. Here’s a profile, starting a big week for streamers.
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1) “Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything,” Hulu. Walters reached “Today” in 1961, when it was still a male domain. She was the latest of the “Today girls” … and then was much more. She dominated mornings, created “The View,” drew huge ratings for primetime specials and led a complicated personal life. Here’s a profile, starting a big week for streamers.

2) “Born to Be Viral” opener, 10 p.m., Freeform. Ava and Alexis McClure were 3 when a video (showing them first realizing they’re identical) went viral. A year later, they were the youngest people in Forbes’ “top kids influencers” list. At 8, they had a fashion book. Now, at 11, they and other “kidfluencers” are featured in this series

3) “The Quiz With Balls,” 9 p.m., Fox. There are flaws here, including overhyped contestants and one absurdly easy question. Still, this is fun to watch and to play along with. It follows “Lego Masters” at 8; they go against NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior,” from 8-10 p.m.

4) “POV” season-opener, 10 p.m., PBS. It’s the 38th season for a much-honored series that has documentaries with strong points-of-view. Tonight, it’s the view of people trying to create Amazon’s first union, at a 5,500-worker warehouse in New York. The result is slow, grinding, sometimes painful, with uplifting moments.

5) ALSO: ABC is rerunning “Scamanda,” a documentary about a young wife who posted videos — later disputed — about her struggles with cancer. That’s 8-11 p.m. today, with the final hour at 8 p.m. Tuesday. And yes, there’s one new scripted hour today: “The Librarians” (9 p.m., TNT) whisks the team to a manor full of Agatha Christie-style murders.

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