The latest true crime documentary is an import. “Pray, Obey, Kill” (HBO, 9 p.m.) is a five-part series about a pair of 2004 Swedish murders in a rural religious compound that gave a police investigator “a Twin Peaks feeling.” Journalists Anton Berg and Martin Johnson reinvestigate the case with a lot of original source materials, new interviews with compound members, and they even build a little model of the compound. The first two episodes run tonight.
The case of Akai Gurley, an unarmed Black man killed by a Chinese-American police officer, Peter Lang at a Brooklyn housing project in 2014 is the basis of Ursula Liang’s documentary “Down a Dark Stairwell,” making its debut on “Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings).
It follows “Prince Philip: A Royal Life – A PBS NewsHour Special” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), put to gather after his death last week at 99.
The imported Chinese movie “New Gods: Nezha Reborn” (Netflix, streaming), from the studio that made “White Snake,” is an animated fantasy, based on the character from the Ming dynasty, but separate from the 2019 movie about the the same hero.
The third and final season of the drama “Keeping Faith” (Acorn TV, streaming), begins with a pair of episodes.
“American Idol” (ABC, 8 p.m.) announces the Top 12 while “The Voice” (NBC, 8 p.m.) continues battle rounds.
A third baby is a possibility on “Breeders” (FX, 10 p.m.).
“The Talk” (CBS, 2 p.m.) returns with a discussion about race and healing after the ouster Sharon Osbourne.
There’s car troubles in Russia for a time on the “Race to the Center of the Earth” (National Geographic, 10 p.m).