What's On Tonight (Tuesday): A Trio Of Accomplished Ladies Find Their Roots

Lots of things in the line-up tonight, let's get to it.

Top Pick

🔔 Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS, 8:00 PM) Lupita Nyong'o, Chef Lidia Bastianich and Scarlett Johansson are the featured guests.

Highlights

🔔 Ainu Mosir (Netflix, 3:01 AM) The second feature from Takeshi Fukunaga,'set in northern Japan’s Hokkaido community and follows 14-year-old indigenous Ainu teen Kanto (Kanto Shimokura), who searches for a spiritual connection with his recently deceased father with the help of a family friend.'

🔔 The Boss Baby: Back In Business (Netflix, 3:01 AM) Fourth season premiere.

🔔 LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special (Disney+, 3:01 AM)

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🔔 A Teacher (Hulu, 3:01 AM)

🔔 Tooning Out The News (CBS AllAccess, 3:01 AM)

🔔 We Are The Champions (Netflix, 3:01 AM) From executive producer Rainn Wilson, this new series explores unusual competitions from around the world. 

🔔 🏈 College Football (CBSSN, 7:00 PM) Buffalo at Bowling Green.

🔔 🏈 College Football (ESPNU, 7:00 PM) Akron at Kent State.

🔔 Alaskan Bush People: Wild Life (Animal Planet, 8:00 PM)

🔔 The Bachelorette (ABC, 8:00 PM)

🔔 🏈 College Football (ESPN, 8:00 PM) Ohio at Miami (Ohio).

🔔 The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down (History, 8:00 PM) 

🔔 The Dead Files (Travel Channel, 8:00 PM) 

Food Fantasies (OWN, 8:00 PM)

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🔔 Fixer To Fabulous (HGTV, 8:00 PM) 

🔔 Life Below Zero (National Geographic, 8:00 PM)

🔔 NCIS (CBS, 8:00 PM) Good lord, it's the eighteenth season premiere of the OG naval investigation team. How many head slaps is that?

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🔔 Swamp Thing (The CW, 8:00 PM) 

🔔 The Voice (NBC, 8:00 PM) 

🔔 Women Make Film (TCM, 8:00 PM) 

🔔 🍴 Chopped (Food Network, 9:00 P.M.) 'Comfort Food Feud: Mac & Cheese.'

🔔 The Curse Of Oak Island (History, 9:00 PM) 

🔔 FBI (CBS, 9:00 PM) Third season premiere.

🔔 🏈 Inside The NFL (Showtime, 9:00 PM)

🍴 Man Vs. Food (Cooking Channel, 9:00 PM) 'Hall Of Fame: Sensational Seafood.'

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🔔 Rise Of The Nazis (PBS, 9:00 PM) 'The First Six Months In Power: 'Chancellor Hitler works to dismantle the German state; the Nazis have power to ban free speech and burn books; Jewish people, gay people and those with anti-Nazi beliefs begin to disappear.'

🔔 Tell Me A Story (The CW, 9:00 PM) 

🔔 This Is Us (NBC, 9:00 PM) 

🔔 Beyond Oak Island (History, 10:00 PM) How much is too much Oak Island? Three hours sounds about right. Anywhoo, this new series is described thusly: 'A look at treasure quests across the globe, revealing new details and clues from past searches.' Sounds legit.

🔔 Big Sky (ABC, 10:00 PM) Series premiere. The latest entry from the David E. Kelley factory stars Ryan Phillippe, John Carroll Lynch and Valerie Mahaffey, and centers on the search for kidnapped girls.

🔔 FBI: Most Wanted (CBS, 10:00 PM) Second season premiere.

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🔔 Frontline (PBS, 10:00 PM) 'American Voices: A Nation In Turmoil.' Not for much longer, baby!!

🔔 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 10:00 PM) 

🔔 🍴 Supermarket Stakeout (Food Network, 10:00 PM) 

🔔 Transplant (NBC, 10:00 PM) 

🔔 Tosh.0 (Comedy Central, 10:00 PM) 

🔔 Yukon Men 10:00 PM) Seventh season premiere.

🔔 The Misery Index (TBS, 10:30 PM) 

Blast From The Past
🎥 Stories We Tell (AMC, 9:15 PM) Sarah Polley's acclaimed documentary about secrets in her family.

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Source(s): Zap2It, OnThisDay, Rotten Tomatoes, The Futon Critic, Netflix, What's On Netflix, TV Guide, Discovery Channel, Variety, TCM, HGTV, HBO, PBS, Roger Ebert.