1) Sports surge. The baseball season starts with one game Wednesday (Yankees-Giants, 8:05 p.m. ET on Netflix) and lots on Thursday, including two on NBC — Pirates and Mets at 1:15 p.m., Dodgers (shown here) and Diamondback at 8:30. Also, Thursday is when the college basketball tourney starts a new round, at 7 and 9:30 p.m. on CBS, 7:30 and 10 on TBS.
2) “iHeartRadio Music Awards, 8-10 p.m. Thursday, Fox. On that big sports night, we also get lots of pop stars. Ludacris hosts and performs and Miley Cyrus gets a special award. There’s more music, new (Alex Warren, Raye, Lainey Wilson) and older: We’ll hear three girl groups that soared in the early ’90s — TLC. En Vogue and Salt-N-Pepa.
3) Kennedy stories. On that same, overcrowded Thursday, FX concludes “Love Story: John F. Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette” at 9 p.m., rerunning at about 10. It’s a well-crafted mini-series, with newcomer Paul Anthony Kelly as John and Sarah Pidgeon superb as Carolyn. Then CW profiles John’s mom: “I Am Jackie O” (2020) is 8-10 p.m. Saturday.
4) “St. Denis Medical,” 8 p.m. today, NBC. Three stories pair up the main characters neatly. It’s Bruce and Matt on ambulance runs … Joyce and Alex hiring a head midwife … and Ron and Serena battling over a pen, the only thing that seems to work. It’s a funny episode, leading into a “Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” that’s inconsistent, but has hilarious moment.
5) “NCIS” 500th episode, 8 p.m. Tuesday, CBS. Yes, 500 episodes over 23 years. (By comparison, it’s 805 for “Simpsons,” 588 and 538 for “Law & Order” shows; in the past, “Turn-on” and “South of Sunset” each lasted one episode.) This hour gets everyone involved: A Marine’s son is desperate; the fractured team links for an off-the-books operation.
6) “The Masked Singer” and “Fear Factor,” 8 and 9:02 p.m. Wednesday, Fox. It’s a key week for both shows. “Masked” has its semi-finals, with seven singers left. It will hve a two-hour finale next week, so “Factor” is wrapping up now. The final four face a water challenge; then two people leap between speeding semi-trucks, trying to win $200,000.
7) “Love Overboard,” Thursday, Hulu. This flashed its first hour Sunday, after the “Bachelorette” opener. Now it settles in, with things that are more at home on a streamer or cable. The 16 people, all looking fine in swimwear, find easy sex and hard rules. The next day, Hulu has Vince Vaughn in an offbeat crime film, “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice.”
8) “Martha Graham Dance Company: We Are Our Time,” 9-10:30 p.m. Friday, PBS. The opener, a three-minute gem, sets up a terrific documentary. We see Graham dance in her 30s (including a 1929 film) and coach in her 90s. We hear her words, via Meryl Streep. Mostly, we see her company, in its 100th season; dancers offer immense talent and idealism.
9) “The Count of Monte Cristo,” 10 p.m. Sunday, PBS. This is easily the best hour of a grim, eight-week tale. Last week, Edmond was framed and imprisoned. Now he meets an inmate (great work from Jeremy Irons) in a sharp, adventurous hour. It follows a strong “Forsytes,” with Soames scheming in romance and in corporate politics.
10) ALSO: After “Bachelorette,” ABC has a documentary. “Betrayal: Secrets & Lies,” at 10:02 p.m. Sunday, And it’s a busy week for streaming series: Season-openers of “Daredevil: Born Again” (Tuesday, Disney+) and “For All Mankind” (Friday, Apple)’ plus debuts of “Bait” (Wednesday, Amazon Prime) and “Something Very Bad is Going to Happen” (Thursday, Netflix).