What's On Tonight (Monday): This Extraordinary 'Earth'

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The curtain begins to descend on summer with What's On Tonight for August 31st.

Top Pick

🔔 Planet Earth: A Celebration (AMC/BBC America/IFC/Sundance, 8:00 PM) A special highlighting 'eight of the most extraordinary sequences from... Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II and features new narration from Sir David Attenborough. To accompany these sequences, award-winning composer Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea and the team at Bleeding Fingers have created new compositions, and have rearranged the original scores for this exciting, joyful and adrenaline-packed journey around the world to some of the most extreme environments, where despite the odds animals manage to survive.' Read more about it at BBC America.

Highlights

🔔 All Or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur (Amazon, 3:01 AM) Tom Hardy narrates this nine-part series (with three episodes being released weekly) about the Premier League team.

🔔 Mapleworth Murders (Quibi, 3:01 AM) The first season finale of the Paula Pell starrer about a murder-mystery writer solving crimes in her small town. 

🔔 David Blaine: Ascension (YouTube, 12:00 PM) The annoying illusionist's latest stunt aims to fly from New Jersey to New York holding only balloons. Where's a flock of Canadian geese when you need them?

🔔 🎾 U.S. Open Tennis (ESPN/ESPN3/ESPN+, 12:00 PM) First round coverage kicks off from Flushing Meadows.

🔔 ⚾ Major League Baseball (Fox, 6:30 PM) Cardinals at Reds.

🔔 Diana: In Her Own Words (National Geographic, 7:00 PM) 

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🔔 🎾 Primetime At The U.S. Open (ESPN, 7:00 PM) First round coverage kicks off from Flushing Meadows. [Note: USTA says night coverage is on ESPN; Zap2It says ESPN2.]

🔔 American Ninja Warrior: All Stars Skills Challenge (NBC, 8:00 PM) 

🔔 The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons - Ever! (ABC, 8:00 PM) The Nick Viall Era.

🔔 The Contenders: They Ran And Lost But Changed History (CSPAN, 8:00 PM) Thomas E. Dewey.

🔔 Hoarders (A&E, 8:00 PM)

🔔 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW, 8:00 PM) 

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (PBS, 8:00 PM) A repeat of the Morgan Neville documentary about television treasure Fred Rogers and his groundbreaking show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Have Kleenex handy.

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🔔 WWE Raw (USA, 8:00 PM)

🔔 All-Star Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network, 9:00 PM) Is there anything better than an 'Unbeatable Breakfast'?

🔔 Being The Queen (National Geographic, 9:00 PM) If you can't wait until November for a new season of The Crown, this hour long special on Betty is here to fill the gap.

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🔔 Love Island (CBS, 9:00 PM) 

🔔 The 93 Victims Of Samuel Little (ID, 9:00 PM) 'A chance phone call brings together an FBI crime analyst, a DOJ forensics expert and a Texas Ranger, who join forces in an attempt to gain a cold-case murder confession from convicted killer Samuel Little; they get much more than they ever imagined.'

🔔 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (The CW, 9:00 PM)

🔔 ⚾ Major League Baseball (Fox, 6:30 PM) Padres at Rockies. 

🔔  American Dad (TBS, 10:00 PM) 'Stan goes to great lengths to find the right couple's activity for him and Francine; Hayley and Steve look into some mysterious markings they find on the doorframe.'

🔔 🍴 Amy Schumer Learns To Cook (Food Network, 10:00 PM) Amy and husband Chris focus on takeout and finger foods.

🔔 Back To The Titanic: Secrets Of The Wreck (National Geographic, 10:03 PM) 

🔔 Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations (Cooking Channel, 10:00 PM) Bangkok is featured.

🔔 Dateline NBC (NBC, 10:00 PM)

🔔 Intervention (A&E, 10:00 PM)

🔔 Axios (HBO, 11:00 PM)

Blast From The Past

🎥 Rudy (The Movie Channel, 8:00 PM) This sentimental favorite about an underdog whose dream is to play football for Notre Dame; based on the story of Daniel Ruettiger. Starring Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton and Jason Miller.

Thomas Edison Patents The Kinetoscope On August 31st, 1897

Source(s): Zap2It, OnThisDay, Rotten Tomatoes, The Futon Critic, Netflix, Food Network, TV Guide, BBC America, U.S. Tennis Association.