THE 1% CLUB: Host Joel McHale in THE 1% CLUB episode "Shout Out to Maddie" airing Tuesday, June 17 (8:00-9:02 PM ET/PT) on FOX. CR: Tom Griscom/FOX. ©2025 FOX MEDIA LLC.

Best-bets for July 8: mind games, art battles

1) “The 1% Club,” 8 p.m., Fox. After a one-week break, “Club” (shown here) — slick and smart — is back. The questions are clever and the contestants are quirky, including Lego and roller-coaster buffs and all four guys from the first “Farmer Wants a Wife.” Joel McHale toys with them verbally. Read more…

1) “The 1% Club,” 8 p.m., Fox. After a one-week break, “Club” (shown here) — slick and smart — is back. The questions are clever and the contestants are quirky, including Lego and roller-coaster buffs and all four guys from the first “Farmer Wants a Wife.” Joel McHale toys with them verbally.

2) “Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty” opener, 9 p.m. Tuesday, PBS. Let’s scrap the glorious image of the Renaissance. Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”) plays Michelangelo, who lived to 88. Through his words (plus re-enactments and modern scholars), this three-week film offers beauty, violence, tyranny and despair.

3) “Will Trent,” 9 and 10 p.m., ABC. In the first rerun, two off-duty cops have been shot; the Georgia Bureau of Investigation needs Will, who fled town. The second involves a kidnapped child; they follow a “High Potential” rerun, also involving missing children.

4) “A League of Their Own” (1992), 8 p.m., BBC America. Director Penny Marshall’ deftly blended humor and drama, with a fictional version of the women’s professional baseball league. The real-life league folded after World War II, but now there’s the surge of women’s pro basketball. At 8 p.m. ET, ESPN has Las Vegas at New York.

5) “Romancing the Stone” (1984), 8 p.m. ET, , Turner Classic Movies. A romance writer (Kathleen Turner), accustomed to make-believe, is thrust into crises with a real-life adventurer (Michael Douglas). The result is great fun. It’s preceded by a Greta Garbo documentary (2005) at 6:30 ET and Garbo’s “Anna Karenina” (1935) at 4:45.

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