Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Nov. 9-15. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
INDUSTRY 10 p.m. on HBO. Five young graduates join a prestigious London investment bank and do whatever they can to prove their worth in this new hourlong drama. The show follows Harper (Myha’la Herrold), an outsider from upstate New York, in her high-pressure work environment while she and her peers navigate issues of gender, race and class on the trading floor.
SOULMATES 10 p.m. on AMC. This anthology series, from one of the writers of “Black Mirror,” is set in the near future and centers on a biological test that can determine a person’s soul mate. On the season finale, Caitlin (Betsy Brandt) takes the test and discovers she has been matched with a handsome doctor (JJ Feild). But as they get to know each other, Caitlin struggles to trust this new stranger.
Tuesday
WOMEN MAKE FILM 8 p.m. on TCM. The latest episode in this ongoing series about female filmmakers examines the art of creating tension, maintaining stasis or withholding key moments in film. The episode, narrated by Tilda Swinton, revisits these themes in Carol Morley’s “Dreams of a Life,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “Blue Steel” and Marleen Gorris’s “A Question of Silence,” among others. The episode also features interviews with directors including Angela Schanelec, Nanouk Leopold and Chantal Akerman.
THE COST OF WINNING 9 p.m. on HBO. St. Frances Academy, a 200-year-old Catholic school in Baltimore, serves as the setting for this four-part documentary chronicling the school’s football program. The series follows the promising young players and their coaches following the team’s expulsion from their private school league for being “too good.” Despite having so much talent, the team faces various obstacles, like finding practice facilities and the realities of gun violence in the neighborhood.
Wednesday
THE CMA AWARDS 8 p.m. on ABC. Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker will take the stage at the Music City Center in Nashville to host the 54th annual Country Music Association Awards. This year, Miranda Lambert was nominated for seven awards, including entertainer and album of the year. Luke Combs received six nominations, while Maren Morris is up for five awards. The evening will feature performances from Gabby Barrett, Eric Church and Florida Georgia Line, among others.
CHICAGO FIRE 9 p.m. on NBC. Season 9 of this drama returns to Chicago Firehouse 51 and the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics working to protect their city. On this premiere, a new member joins the firehouse, and Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) sees potential in Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo). A new season of CHICAGO PD follows at 10 p.m. on NBC.
Thursday
TRANSHOOD 9 p.m. on HBO. The filmmaker Sharon Liese spent five years chronicling the lives of families in Kansas City raising transgender children, capturing their varied experiences growing up in America’s heartland. At the beginning of this documentary, viewers meet the children, Jay, 12; Avery, 7; Leena, 15; and Phoenix, 4. They also meet their parents, following along as the children navigate changes in their identity, coming out to their peers and going through puberty.
GREY’S ANATOMY 9 p.m. on ABC. This hospital drama embarks on its 17th season, as Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital confronts the coronavirus pandemic. On the two-hour premiere, Meredith Grey, Miranda Bailey and the Grey Sloan staff find themselves on the front lines treating patients affected by the virus, as well as those injured in a local fire.
Friday
BLACKLIST 8 p.m. on NBC. On the season premiere of this crime series, career criminal turned F.B.I. informant Raymond Reddington (James Spader) finds himself up against his former Task Force partner, Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone). Elizabeth works to uncover the truth about why Raymond entered her life and what his endgame is.
CHRISTMAS ON THE VINE 8 p.m. on Lifetime. It’s a Wonderful Lifetime continues its holiday programming with this film, following Brooke (Julianna Guill), a young marketing executive, who returns to her hometown to help a struggling winery owned by the charismatic but stubborn Tyler (Jon Cor). Together they form an unlikely partnership to save local wineries and restore the town’s Christmas spirit.
Saturday
HISTORY’S GREATEST MYSTERIES 9 p.m. on History. This series, hosted by Laurence Fishburne, revisits some of the most compelling unsolved mysteries surrounding various historical events and figures. The premiere examines the case of D.B. Cooper, a man who hijacked a plane going from Portland to Seattle in November 1971. He released passengers in exchange for money when the plane landed, and parachuted out of the plane after it took off again. The episode will feature Eric Ulis, a D.B. Cooper researcher, on his hunt for evidence of Cooper’s landing place.
AMC VISIONARIES: ELI ROTH’S HISTORY OF HORROR 10 p.m. on AMC. On the season finale of this series, the filmmaker Eli Roth examines nine movies that pushed the boundaries of the horror genre. Roth revisits Jordan Peele’s “Us,” Mary Harron’s “America Psycho,” Robin Hardy’s “The Wicker Man” and other films that explore unsettling societal issues tied to class, consumerism and religion.
Sunday
THE REAGANS 8 p.m. on Showtime. Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary series revisits the Reagan White House, examining the administration’s legacy and how it has affected today’s conservative politics. Through archival material and interviews with the couple’s family and friends, the four-part series analyzes the Reagans’ rise to power, and, more specifically, Nancy Reagan’s role in helping her husband get elected and govern. The show will also explore Ronald Reagan’s record on race, the Iran-Contra scandal and the AIDS epidemic.
MURDER ON MIDDLE BEACH 10 p.m. on HBO. This four-part docuseries, directed by Madison Hamburg, follows his relentless search for answers surrounding the 2010 killing of his mother in Madison, Conn. Hamburg spent eight years interviewing family members and other close acquaintances, uncovering family secrets that include connections to criminal figures, years-old resentments and an illegal pyramid scheme in his quest to find the truth.
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