New Orleans was changed significantly after Katrina, with a significant number of the poor, African-American community having left the city for good and the political and housing landscape changed as a result. The engrossing and surprisingly musical documentary “Getting Back to Abnormal” chronicles that change through the prism of a councilwoman’s re-election campaign of Stacy Head.
Head is targeted by black groups as an enemy because she’s white, but tries her best for the community despite an unnecessarily prickly personality. “I’m working on it,” she says. Though the filmy Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Peter Obadashian and Paul Stekler, which takes in the Saints’ Super Bowl drive and a Mardi Gras, has as much of same kind of flavor of the unique city that “Treme” got. It premieres tonight on “POV” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings).
What I thought was a perfectly taut, action-filled season of “24: Live Another Day” (Fox, 9 p.m.), its story judiciously streamlined by half as many episodes and featuring a lot of favorite characters from the past, comes to its likely cataclysmic ending that shakes from its real time format by increasing its one hour of action into covering 11 hours.
The latest Canadian summer import, “Seed” (The CW, 9:30 p.m.), stars Adam Korson as a sperm donor who meets two of his many offspring. Also new tonight is the comedy “Backpackers” (The CW, 8 p.m.) with Dillon Casey and Noah Reid as friends on a trip to Europe searching for a fiancé gone missing. They come between two episodes of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” (The CW, 8 and 9 p.m.) — one new and the late one a rerun.
Andi goes to the Dominican Republic with the final three on “The Bachelorette” (ABC, 8 p.m.). Will the Fantasy Suite be opened?
Because he’s the star of “Luther” he gets to do what he wants. Hence, a car travel show “Idris Elba: King of Speed” (BBC America, 10 p.m.).
A new season of “Brain Games” (National Geographic Channel, 9 and 9:30 p.m.) explores a brain’s capacity for compassion through a series of interactive games and experiments. Also: addictions.
Dwight Yoakam looks super weird in the new episode of “Under the Dome” (CBS, 10 p.m.), where acid rain starts to fall.
In the slow moving “Murder in the First” (TNT, 10 p.m.) the guy is just now going to trip for the flight attendant murder in season one.
The 14 remaining candidates on “MasterChef” (Fox, 8 p.m.) cook in a diner.
Poe stuff turns up on a trip to Baltimore on “Antiques Roadshow” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings).
No regular baseball tonight, as preparations are made for Tuesday’s All-Star Game. But there is something special, the annual Home Run Derby (ESPN, 8 p.m.) from Target Field in Minneapolis.
The actress Kay Francis is featured tonight on Turner Classic Movies with “For the Defense” (8 p.m.), “Trouble in Paradise” (9:15 p.m.), “I Found Stella Parish” (10:45 p.m.), “Jewel Robbery” (12:15 a.m.), “Raffles” (1:30 a.m.), “Stranded” (3 a.m.) and “Allotment Wives” (4:30 a.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly & Michael: Eric Dane, Tori Amos. The View: Tony Goldwyn, Diane Kruger, Meghan McCain. The Talk: Larry King, Shelley Wade, David Walzog. Ellen DeGeneres: James Franco, Anna Faris, Peyton Robertson, Donald Driver (rerun). Wendy Williams: Brian Balthazar.
Late Talk
David Letterman: Kurt Russell, Hannibal Buress, Sturgill Simpson. Jimmy Fallon: Michael Strahan, Diane Kruger, Phish. Jimmy Kimmel: Susan Sarandon, Ramon Rodriguez, Robin Thicke, Yasiel Puig (rerun). Seth Meyers: Kate McKinnon, Pete Rose, Betty Who. Craig Ferguson: Margaret Cho, Zachary Levi. Carson Daly: Jared Harris, the Growlers, Andrew Schultz (rerun). Tavis Smiley: Joan Rivers. Jon Stewart: Dahlia Lithwick. Stephen Colbert: Had Abumrad, Robert Krulwich. Arsenio Hall: Magic & Cookie Johnson, La La Anthony, Helen Hong, DJ Ravi Drums (rerun). Conan O’Brien: Jason Biggs, Ellie Kemper. Chelsea Handler: Ben Falcone, John Caparulo, Fortune Feimster, Ian Karmel.