Tonight is a documentary-heavy Tuesday, but the good kind: sharp science, smart music television, and one PBS hour that deserves to own the room. There isn't a giant franchise finale to schedule around, so the move is to build a deliberate night and skip the obvious filler.
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Auburn at Vanderbilt.
Big Ten Championship: Indiana vs. Ohio State.
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl: Virginia vs. Missouri.
Cincinnati hosts the A's in an early evening interleague start.
Two legacy brands meet under the Yankee Stadium lights.
Pittsburgh Pirates at Milwaukee Brewers.
A marquee NL matchup lands in Wrigley.
First Round: Teams TBA.
Preliminary Round: Canada U18 vs. Slovakia U18.
NCAA Championships.
Hungarian Grand Prix.
A five-track overnight card for racing diehards.
Romania vs. Kazakhstan.
Mexico vs. Greece.
FC Cincinnati vs. Pachuca.
Live event coverage from tonight's sports slate.
Final Round.
Hard-court action rolls through the Canadian Open night session.
Night-session Masters tennis continues after midnight.
This is exactly the kind of loud, communal summer nature TV Animal Planet was built to program: big animals, a blunt title, and a premise outrageous enough to fuel the group chat. The saving grace is that it still leans on real marine expertise, so the spectacle comes with just enough science to justify tuning in.
Tribeca invites women industry leaders to talk about challenges faced in the current landscape.
This is the unquestionable center of the night. Survivor testimony does not need embellishment, and PBS is smart enough to let the moral weight do the work; airing it on August 4, two nights before the August 6 anniversary, gives the hour an extra measure of urgency and civic seriousness.
A Post-screening panel discussion for recipients of the 8:46 film grant. The panelists reflect on the inspiration behind their films, and the importance of representation within media and culture.
Jenna Dewan (ABC's "The Rookie"); Mason Gooding; A Great Big World performs!
Simon Cowell and Mel B bring back their chosen acts to perform in the Judges' Callbacks.
A documentary-heavy Tuesday needs one reliable piece of comfort TV, and this is the cleanest version on the board. The pleasure of Love It or List It has never been the square-footage math alone; it's the familiar ritual of a domestic stalemate turning into a design argument with a real deadline.
Vice's best franchise works because it treats wrestling lore as American tragedy, not trivia. The Renegade story is exactly the kind of rise-and-collapse arc this series can tell with unnerving force, and the anthology format means you can drop in cold and still get flattened by it.
The hook here isn't hardware, it's human pressure. An episode about relationships aboard the ISS straining while war breaks out on Earth promises the rare space documentary that understands geopolitics and intimacy belong in the same frame, which is why this feels like more than standard educational TV.
Choir television can go soft-focus fast, but the premise here is sharper than that: three Welsh choirs, three different pressures, one culture trying to keep its voice public. Sky Arts is good at treating music as community rather than mere performance, which makes this a sturdier watch than the format suggests.
For a lighter lane, this is useful counterprogramming: fast music hooks, easy drop-in appeal and a cast dynamic that keeps it moving. It broadens the slate without drifting into disposable reality filler.
Peele's second feature remains one of the sharper studio horror plays of the past decade, and a late HBO slot suits its unnerving tone. It is the strongest straight genre option in this secondary group.
Ray Breslin and his team of security experts infiltrate a formidable prison called Devil's Station.
Rapper Nas revisits his rise from the projects to the recording of his debut album, "Illmatic."
This lineup gives the show more shape than a routine late-night stop. Colman Domingo, Monica Barbaro and Zarna Garg make it a stronger guest stack than a filler summer booking.
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