1) “A Capitol Fourth,” 8 p.m., PBS stations. The 4th of July party starts a day early. Most networks (including PBS) will have big, 250th-birthday events Saturday. That nudges this concert to tonight on most (but not all) PBS stations, many rerunning it at 9:30. There’s music (including Trace Adkins) from the Capitol lawn and fireworks (shown here at the Capitol in a previous year) at Mount Vernon. Read more…
“S.W.A.T.,” it seems, is one of those shows that’s never really gone.
A new version — the third on TV, plus some movies — arrives this fall. Shemar Moore (shown here) will again star, but with different co-stars. Read more…
Mark Harmon hasn’t faded from our TV screens after all.
CBS says he’ll appear — at least a bit — in every episode of next season’s “NCIS: Origins.” That’s in a two-era story, going from the 1990s to modern times. Read more…
1) “The Americas: A Wild 250th,” 9 p.m., NBC. Lately, NBC has been rerunning the gorgeous “Americas” documentary series here. But now it pauses for a new hour: Two days before the 250th birthday, it focuses on creatures — bald eagles (the scene shown here is not from the film), bison, sea lions, etc. — that may symbolize the U.S. That follows a new “Surviving Earth” at 8. Read more…
