1) “Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” season-opener, 8 p.m. Wednesday, ABC. Things start with two interesting duos. First, Larry David is paired with his daughter Cazzie, a writer and actress. Then Ben Affleck teams with Jamie Ding (shown here), who won 31 straight nights of “Jeopardy.” That’s followed by reruns of Tim Allen’s “Shifting Gears.”
2) “The Walking Dead: Dead City” season-opener, 9 p.m. Sunday, AMC, rerunning at 10:14 and 11:26. Maggie and Negen — fierce, feuding souls — are still in a city awash in zombies. This hour is messy and gory, but it’s also well-crafted and brings huge changes. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile before,” Negen tells Maggie, without exaggerating.
3) Space tales, PBS. At 9 p.m. Tuesday is the second piece of “Once Upon a Time in Space.” That’s a four-parter tracing the merger of the U.S. and Russian space programs; this hour has a warm view of the Soviets. Then (9-11 p.m. Friday) is the start of a three-week “Chasing the Moon” series,
going back to the start of that U.S.-Soviet race.
4) “Survivor” return, CBS. In a sudden change, reruns of the 50th edition will take up large chunks of CBS’ summer. The opener is 8-11 p.m. today, with the next episodes 8-9:30 p.m. Tuesday and 9:30-11 p.m. Wednesday. After that, the reruns will continue at 9:30 Wednesdays (after “Big Brother”) and on a few Tuesdays, leading to the Sept. 15 finale.
5) Celebrity Family Feud,” 9-11 p.m. today and 8-9 p.m. Thursday, ABC. It’s a triple”Feud” week. Today has reruns of the season-openers, with football (AFC and NFC champs) and music (Sheila E vs. En Vogue, Lisa Lisa vs. Taylor Dayne). On Thursday, the Barstool Sports folks face Cooper Flagg; then the U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams collide.
6) “Pompeii: Out of Time,” 8-11 p.m. Wednesday, National Geographic. Many people have heard of the volcanic eruption, almost 2,000 years ago, that buried a town and more than 1,000 people. Now Tom Hiddleston, an actor and history buff, brings a fascinating new approach, He visits the site, talks with experts and traces three individual lives.
7) “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” debut, HBO Max, and “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” 9 and 10 p.m., CBS; both Thursday. “Big Bang” spin-offs keep delivering big laughs. “Stuart” is a quirky, sci-fi tale with the comic-store guy and friends finding a portal to new worlds. “Georgie” has reruns about a scoreboard and a botched retirement.
8) “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season-opener, Thursday, Paramount+. Thursday seems to be sci-fi day for streamers. While Stuart is finding laughs, the “Trek” crew faces an extreme challenge. Reviews of this episode are embargoed, so we’ll just say this: It’s an epic hour in which the stakes involve time, space and the future of everyone everywhere.
9) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m. Saturday, NBC. The season-finale reruns, with two of the show’s favorites, Will Ferrell and Paul McCartney. It’s Ferrell’s sixth time as host; at 8 p.m. that night, CW’s “I Am Chris Farley” (2015) profiles someone who didn’t get that far: Two months after his first time hosting “SNL,” Farley died of a drug overdose at 33.
10) “The Simpsons,” 8 p.m. Sunday, Fox. Now that all that soccer fuss has ended, Fox can put some of its shows in the same slots they’ll be this fall. On Sunday, that includes reruns of the “Simpsons” — meeting tech billionaires who are intent on living forever — and then the clever “Animal Control”: This time, Frank and Shred have a late-night rescue.