1) Emmy Awards, 8-11 p.m. ET Sunday, CBS. Nate Burgatze hosts on CBS … which has few nominations, except for reality shows and Stephen Colbert. Apple TV+ has two best-comedy nominees (“Shrinking,” shown here, and “The Studio”) and two for drama (“Severance,” “Slow Horses”). HBO has “White Lotus” and “The Last of Us,” plus two more on Max.
2) “America’s Got Talent,” 8-10 p.m. Tuesday, NBC. Eleven acts vie for the final four semi-final spots. Ages range from 10 (in the Birmingham Youth Choir) to 66 (in the Funkateers dancers). There are four more music acts and another dance one, plus a magician, a bodybuilder, acrobats and a laser act. Viewers vote, with the results from 8-9 p.m. Wednesday.
3) “Only Murders in the Building,” Tuesday, Hulu. One of TV’s best shows returns for a 10-week comedy/mystery. This time, the victim is the doorman and suspects abound. And our sleuths? Oliver and Loretta (Martin Short, Meryl Streep) are newlyweds; Charles (Steve Martin) will try a dating site, with the help off a skeptical Mabel (Selena Gomez).
4) “Big Cats” and “Sacred Planet,” 8 and 10 p.m. Wednesday, PBS. A new TV season starts — sort of. Other networks are waiting, but PBS has these openers. “Big Cats” returns to a Botswana delta. The five-week “Sacred Planet” — gorgeously filmed, clumsily narrated — follows eco-journalist Gulnaz Khan, as she sees indigenous people nurture the land.
5) “MasterChef,” 8 p.m. Wednesday, Fox. After choosing its three finalists last week, the show pauses. This episode (repeating Friday) has season highlights, plus profiles of the remaining duos. There’s a married couple (Rachel Sanchez and Julio Figuerdo); a longtime, unmarried couple (Jessica Bosworth and Jesse Rosenwald) and an aunt and niece (Tina Duong and Aivan Tran).
6) “Match Game” season-finale, 8 p.m. Wednesday, ABC. Alongside his “Only Murders” duties, Short hosts this successful reboot. The finale has Oscar-winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph, plus Kal Penn, Randall Park, Adam Pally, Beannie Goldstein and Ana Gasteyer. It’s followed by a rerun at 9, with Tituss Burgess, Andrea Martin and more.
7) “Celebrity Family Feud,” 8 p.m. Thursday, ABC. Gymnasts, it turns out, are our new reality stars. This night starts with two Olympians, Jordan Chiles and Stephen Nedoroscik. .(It’s new, followed by reruns from 9-11 p.m.) Five days later, Chiles will be on “Dancing With the Stars,” trying to be the seventh Olympian (and third gymnast) to be its champion.
8) “The Rainmaker,” 10 p.m. Friday, USA. By the end of the hour — the mid-point in a 10-week story — there’s a major plot switch. Before that, Rudy and his girlfriend face each other in court. The guy Rudy really wants (a killer nurse) holds a former colleague captive. Despite some flaws — including the cliche of a close-minded cop — it’s a strong hour.
9) “Doc,” 8 p.m. ET Sunday, Fox. After a great first season, this gets a post-football showcase, prior to its regular Tuesday slot on Sept. 23 opener. By now, Amy has regained her medical privileges, plus shards of her eight-year memory gap. Now an angry man — desperate to get a heart-transplant for his daughter — stirs reminders of her own son’s death.
10) ALSO: At 10 p.m. Tuesday, PBS profiles famed civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall. On Thursday, streamers start a season (Tyler Perry’s “Beauty in Black,” Netflix) and end one (“Star Trek: Brave New World,” Paramount+). And at 9 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Fox has the final episodes of the “Up North” cartoon, which hasn’t been renewed.