What's On Tonight (Thursday): Jump In Line For Harry Belafonte's Time To Shine

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Plus: Playoff hockey, semifinal women's tennis, playoff basketball and the return of football for Thursday, September 10th.

Top Pick
🔔 The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (Peacock, 3:01 AM) 'While the country was embroiled in a divisive election with racial tensions flaring, Civil Rights activist and trailblazing performer Harry Belafonte guest hosted The Tonight Show for one week in 1968. By then, Johnny Carson had turned this pioneering late night show into one of the most powerful platforms of communication. In an unprecedented move, Belafonte took a predominantly white institution, The Tonight Show, and transformed it into a multicultural and political experience.'

Highlights
🔔 Black Boys (Peacock, 3:01 AM) A documentary film from director Malcolm Jenkins that 'illuminates the full humanity of Black boys and men in America.' 

🔔 Julie And The Phantoms (Netflix, 3:01 AM) A new teen-themed musical series from Kenny Ortega.

🔔 Roll The Tape (ESPN+, 3:01 AM)

🔔 Star Trek: Lower Decks (CBS All Access, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Unpregnant (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) '[S]eventeen-year-old Veronica never thought she’d want to fail a test—that is, until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with a blue plus. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she’d have to make.'

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

🔔 🏈 Football Night In America: NFL Kickoff 2020 (NBC, 7:00 PM)

🔔 🏒 NHL Playoffs (NBCSN, 7:30 PM) 

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🔔 🎾 Primetime At The U.S. Open (ESPN, 7:00 PM) Women's singles semifinal.

🔔 Big Brother (CBS, 8:00 PM) 

🍴 Beat Bobby Flay (Food Network, 8:00 PM) Anne Burrell and Jay Pharoah team up to try to take Bobby Flay down.

The First 48 (A&E, 8:00 PM) Back-to-back-to-back episodes.

🔔 Holy Moley (ABC, 8:00 PM) 'A finale of epic proportions'

🔔 Homestead Rescue (Discovery, 8:00 PM) 'Home Sweet Homestead: Winter Washout.'

🔔 Mysteries Decoded (The CW, 8:00 PM)

🔔 🏈 Sunday Night Football (NBC, 8:20 PM) No, you're not reading that wrong. They are calling a game on Thursday night 'Sunday Night Football' because we're living in the upside down. If you care about the game, it's the Texans at Chiefs.

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🍴 Beat Bobby Flay (Food Network, 8:30 PM) Yay, it's Martha Stewart and... BOO, it's Richard Blais. Very hard pass!

🔔 Bin Ladin's Hard Drive (National Geographic, 9:00 PM)

🔔 Love Island (CBS, 9:00 PM) 

🔔 To Tell The Truth (ABC, 9:00 PM) 

🔔 Real Housewives Of New York City: The Reunion, Part 1  (Bravo, 9:00 PM) There will be chairs and drinks thrown.

🔔 Celebrity Game Face (E!, 10:00 PM) With Kelly Osbourne and Jack Osbourne; Loni Love and James Welsh; Erin Andrews and Jarret Stoll.

🔔 🍴 Fire Masters (The Cooking Channel, 10:00 PM) 'Turn The Heat Around.'

🔔 House Hunters (HGTV, 10:00 PM) 'To Downsize Or Not In Columbus.'

🔔 Johnny Carson (Antenna TV, 10:00 PM) Paul Sorvino and Jon Lovitz are the guests.

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🔔🍴 Restaurant Impossible (Food Network, 10:00 PM) Robert's in Titusville, Florida this week, helping Loyd Have Mercy reopen after the COVID shutdown.

🔔 Shark Attack: The Paige Winter Story With Robin Roberts (ABC, 10:00 PM) 

🔔 Tamar Braxton: Get Ya Life! (WE, 10:00 PM)

🔔 House Hunters International (HGTV, 10:30 PM) 'Bed And Breakfast In San Clemente.'

Blast From The Past
🎥 The Natural (The Movie Channel, 9:30 PM) Barry Levinson's classic film about an over-the-hill ballplayer finally getting hi

'Ray Of Light' takes five awards at the MTV Video Music Awards On September 10, 1998

Source(s): Zap2It, OnThisDay, Rotten Tomatoes, The Futon Critic, Netflix, Discovery, Wikipedia, Deadline, Roger Ebert, ESPN, HBO Max, Tribeca Film, Black Boys Film.