MATCH GAME - “Kevin Nealon, Selena Gomez, BD Wong, Anthony Anderson, Cara Delevingne, Ziwe” - Martin Short and six hilarious celebrities get BLANK on the season premiere of “Match Game” as contestants play to win $25,000 in a game of fill-in-the-blank. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 (9:00-10:00 p.m. EDT) on ABC. (Disney/Jan Thijs) TOP: SELENA GOMEZ, CARA DELEVINGNE, KEVIN NEALON BOTTOM: MARTIN SHORT, ANTHONY ANDERSON, ZIWE, BD WONG

Best-bets for Aug. 16: It’s all-Short all night

1) “Match Game,” 8-11 p.m., ABC. This show (shown here), hosted by Martin Short, is getting a big push. It has only had four hours (9 p.m. Wednesdays), but now three of them rerun here. Caroline Rhea and Constance Zimmer repeat as panelists at 8 and 10 p.m.; Triumph the Comedy Insult Dog is at 9. Read more…

1) “Match Game,” 8-11 p.m., ABC. This show (shown here), hosted by Martin Short, is getting a big push. It has only had four hours (9 p.m. Wednesdays), but now three of them rerun here. Caroline Rhea and Constance Zimmer repeat as panelists at 8 and 10 p.m.; Triumph the Comedy Insult Dog is at 9.

2) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. This is a Martin Short night. After watching him host reruns on ABC, we can switch to NBC; he’s hosting “SNL,” with Hozier as the music guest.

3) “Providence Falls” conclusion, 8-10 p.m., Hallmark. Here’s the mini-series in one chunk. In reruns at 4 and 6 p.m., a rogue in 1844 Ireland falls for a squire’s daughter. Angels tell him he’s disrupted her destiny; he’s sent to modern times, when they’re fellow cops and he must nudge her toward Finn. Then the finale wraps up a murder case and the dilemma.

4) Bull-riding, 8-9:30 p.m., CW. In a late change, CW follows the Professional Bull Riding circuit. This opener is in Nashville; next week is in Austin, Texas. A half-hour version of “Police 24/7” is at 9:30.

5) ALSO: “FBI: Most Wanted” (8 p.m., CBS) probes the death of a woman who had a home-renovation show with her husband. Showtime has the first four Indiana Jones films, at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10:10 p.m. MGM+ counters with James Bond films (in random order) at 9:20 and 11:35 a.m.; 1:40, 3:55, 5:55, 8 and 10:10 p.m.; and 12:35 a.m.

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