Daily Best Bets

1) “America’s Got Talent” and “Snake in the Grass,” 8 and 10 p.m., NBC. Next Monday, “Snake” (shown here) has its USA Network debut. First, it gets a bigger spotlight on NBC (USA’s corporate partner), behind “Talent,” the summer ratings-leader. “Snake” dumps four people (from “Survivor,” “Naked and Afraid,” etc.) in the wilds for 36 hours. They face challenges, while trying to figure out which one is secretly working against them. Bobby Bones hosts. Read more…

1) “The Great Giveback,” 9 p.m., HGTV. Melissa McCarthy seems to have lots of cousins, all of them taller than her. One is Jenny McCarthy, the actress and ex-Playmate; another is actress Jenna Perusich. Last year on “Celebrity IOU,” Melissa helped do a fix-up that Perusich designed for her dad (a retired Chicago cop) and mom. Now the two cousins (shown here) have their own show; tonight, they create a special room for a kindly pianist. Read more…

1) “Hotel Portofino” season-finale, 8 p.m., PBS. In 1920s Italy, Bella’s gorgeous little hotel caters to her fellow Englishfolk. Problems include a corrupt Fascist official and her scheming husband, who is learning about her far-away love. Now come key questions: Who stole the painting Cecil took from his family’s estate? Will his son Lucian choose the bland socialite or the sweet nanny (shown here)? What happens to Lucian’s closeted friend? There’s a lot here, some of it satisfying. Read more…

1) World Athletic Championships finals, 9-11 p.m., NBC (also, 2-3 p.m. ET). This massive track-and-field event (shown here) assembled more than 1,900 athlete (including 42 who had won individual Olympic gold medals) from 192 countries. It’s mostly been on the USA Network and Peacock, but jumps to NBC on weekends. Now we lead up to Sunday’s finish. Read more…

1) “Blood & Treasure,” 9 p.m., CBS. Three years after the first season aired on CBS, the second one is on Paramount+. Its season-opener debuted there Sunday, but now gets a quick rerun here. “Blood” links a mismatched duo (shown here): He’s a former FBI agent, now recovering antiquities; she’s a former art thief and con person. Their search takes them to descendants of Cleopatra and beyond. Read more…

1) Congressional hearings, 8 p.m. ET, CBS, news channels and more. The second primetime hearing for the House’s Jan. 6 committee is expected to focus on a specific question: What was happening in the White House, during the 187 minutes, from the time violence (shown here) began to President Trump’s request that protesters go home. For CBS, the coverage will bump two comedies and delay “Big Brother” to 8 p.m. Friday, pushing “Secret Celebrity Renovation” back a week. Read more…

1) “The Green Planet,” 8 p.m., PBS. With gorgeous, slow-motion photography, plus astute narration from David Attenborough, this is a weekly gem. Now it has a particularly good episode, focusing on seasonal changes. One great sequence has a sapsucker interrupting syrup’s rush up a maple tree … until it’s so busy fighting squirrels and hummingbirds that the tree is spared. Another sees the fire lily (shown here) emerge four days after a wildfire, leading a renaissance. Read more…

1) Baseball’s All-Star Game, 7:30 p.m. ET, Fox; pre-game at 7. It’s time for baseball’s best to go Hollywood, with the game in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ stadium. Appropriately, two Dodgers (Mookie Betts, shown here, and Trea Turner) were voted starters; so were two Los Angeles Angels (Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani). the Dodgers also have pitchers Clay Kershaw and Tony Gonsolin. Read more…

1) “American Ninja Warrior” (shown here), 8-10 p.m., NBC. The semi-finals begin. In five weeks of qualifiers, only seven people conquered the “Mega Wall.” Now they – and others – move on; they’ll face up to 10 obstacles, including the new Kaleidoscope, Ghost Town and Spin Zone. Read more…

1) “Dark Winds,” 9 p.m., AMC. A terrific mini-series ends with a so-so hour. Joe Leaphorn (shown here) and his two tribal-police deputies have figured out a complex plot that involved a bank robbery, a helicopter escape and hidden loot. Now comes the prolonged finale, with some too-convenient timing. Read more…