Only a few Columbus Day/ Indigenous People Day songs for the holiday. Mostly, I was anticipating a road trip on Route 66, with four different versions of the song, from Nat King Cole to the Cramps.

The NBA's new season doesn't start until Tuesday, but sports are still spilling out to weekdays. Monday Night Football has ...

A new set of mysteries begins on public television, with season five of “Professor T” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) with a death arousing suspicions about the new relationship of the titular ...

Let it be known that the Christmas movie onslaught has begun two weeks before Halloween. One of them is “Silver Bells at ...

The NBA's new season doesn't start until Tuesday, but sports are still spilling out to weekdays. Monday Night Football has Washington at San Francisco (ABC, ESPN, 8:15 p.m.). Baseball has… ...

The surrealist comic presents her second comedy special “Kate Berlant: Parmesan” (HBO, 10 p.m.)., shot at the Plaza Nightclub in Los Angeles. A second season starts for “The Rainmaker” (USA, 10 p.m.), ...

Tommy Lee Jones and Betty Gilpin join the cast of “The Lowdown” (FX, 9 p.m.), the Ethan Hawke series in which he plays an ...

A new generation of activists fights to “Free Leonard Peltier” (Netflix, streaming), the American Indian Movement leader who ...

A Ghost Story” (HBO, 9 p.m.) is a new three-part true crime series about the proprietor of a pet cemetery outside New Orleans who disappears and is later discovered wrapped in chains in the ...

A new series spotlighting the most influential names in classical music in the 20th and 21st centuries, “Great Musicians of Our Time” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) begins with a good one: ...

Paul Feig’s thriller “The Housemaid” (HBO, 8 p.m.), with Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, makes its premium cable debut, as does the drama “I Was a Stranger” (Showtime, 9 p.m.). Prime time college ...

Josh Hartnett stars in a new six-episode series about a sea monster, “Below” (Netflix, streaming) that also stars Charlie Heaton and Macenzie Davis. From Michelle and Robert King, who gave us “The ...