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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Having returned last week (in most markets) after several days of suspension in a wave of support from advocates for free speech, Jimmy Kimmel takes what amounts to a victory lap by returning to the East Coast — specifically, Brooklyn — and BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House for the seventh time for a week’s worth of highly anticipated shows. His scheduled guests during the week include his fellow late-night host, the Emmy-winning “late-night martyr” Stephen Colbert (on whose Late Show Kimmel is scheduled to appear on Tuesday), Tom Hanks, Emily Blunt, Spike Lee, Ryan Reynolds, Bruce Springsteen, and his movie portrayer, The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White. Musical guests include Living Colour, Public Enemy, and Renée Rapp.

Bob’s Burgers
Bob Belcher is a third-generation restaurateur who runs Bob’s Burgers with his loving wife and their three children. Bob believes his burgers speak for themselves and isn’t afraid to offer a variety of off-beat creations. Bob’s wife, Linda, supports his dream but is becoming sick of the slow times, as the restaurant is constantly in danger of going out of business. Despite the challenges, which includes consistent harassment from Linda’s ex — a health inspector — Bob tries to keep the grill sizzling. Every Sunday night on FOX and streaming next day on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+, the Belcher family serves up their sixteenth season.

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Murder Before Evensong
Is it divine guidance that accounts for so many TV clergymen displaying a knack for solving crimes? The latest, based on the first in a series of novels by British author Rev. Richard Coles, stars Matthew Lewis as Canon Daniel Clement, the Rector of Champton, whose discovery of a dead body in the pews sets him on a season-long search for the truth. Clement, whose pastoral life is disrupted by the arrival of his domineering mother, Audrey (the amusingly imperious Amanda Redman), suspects the killing may be related to the victim’s interest in the village’s wartime past. Set in the 1980s, Evensong introduces Amit Shah as DS Neil Vanloo, who believes the vicar could be helpful because he knows so many of the small town’s residents intimately. “You’re a way in,” Vanloo muses, while suggesting that the Reverend, who’s been receiving threatening mail because of his ministry toward AIDS patients during the epidemic, might have been the target.

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Celebrity Weakest Link
If any TV celebrities need to have thick skin, it’s the “stars” who became famous through the crucible of reality TV. Four sets of couples will also require a sense of humor, and hopefully some trivia skills, as they put themselves through the gauntlet of host Jane Lynch’s withering banter while answering rapid-fire questions in this fast-paced quiz show. (These themed gatherings of familiar faces put Weakest Link a cut above most celebrity game shows.) This week’s victims — players, rather — include The Real Housewives of New Jersey‘s Melissa and Joe Gorga, The Hills alums Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, The Bachelor star Joey Graziadei and his intended, Kelsey Anderson, and Love Is Blind‘s Lauren Speed-Hamilton and Cameron Hamilton.

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Brilliant Minds
Looking at the TV schedule some weeks, it’s easy to feel like you’re trapped in a reality show with no easy means of escape. But for Lauren B. (Younger‘s Molly Bernard), that has become a nightmare reality — at least in her mind — when she’s admitted to Bronx General, believing she’s still on camera and nothing is truly real. Which prompts sympathetic neurologist Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto) to play along, responding when she questions his credentials as a doctor, “I just play one on TV.” Is her delusion a rare case of Truman Show Syndrome? While Wolf and his team grapple with this meta situation, the good doctor is also processing the sudden departure of his long-absent dad, and his psychiatrist pal Dr. Carol Pierce (Tamberla Perry), goes before the hospital’s medical board to try to get her job back.

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Below Deck Mediterranean
One of the world’s most gorgeous cities, Barcelona, provides a backdrop for the 10th season of the steamy reality show, setting sail from Spain with Capt. Sandy Yawn managing a rowdy crew aboard the sleek Bravado (which you can’t spell without “Bravo”). Season 9 deckhand Nathan Gallagher has been promoted to bosun, Season 8 deckhand Max Salvador returns for more mischief, and the new chef, Josh Bingham, is literally a clown. He’ll fit right in.
INSIDE MONDAY TV:
- WEST (Western Entertainment Series Television): A new channel devoted to vintage Western programming launches in more than half of the U.S. Find out where at westtelevision.com.
- Reality Roundup: Blind auditions continue on NBC’s The Voice (8/7c). Criminal Minds‘ Aisha Tyler and Oscar winner Mira Sorvino (currently on Broadway as Roxie in Chicago) face off in a round of Fox’s Name That Tune (8/7c). Cookbook author and party maven Jake Cohen returns to demystify the art of dinner parties in A&E’s Jake Makes It Easy (10/9c).
- Monday Night Football (8:15 pm/ET, ABC and ESPN): The Cincinnati Bengals play the Denver Broncos.
- Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks (streaming on Peacock): A three-part documentary goes behind the scenes of the preparation and launch of the new Universal Epic Universe theme park in Orlando.
- Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg? (streaming on Hulu): A three-part docuseries explores the controversy over the investigation into the 2011 death of Philadelphia schoolteacher Ellen Greenberg, initially ruled a suicide despite her body having sustained multiple knife wounds and bruises.