A meth superhighway fueled by a big cartel-run lab in Sinaloa, Mexico is investigated by “Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.).
Six consecutive episode of the rebooted sitcom “The Wonder Years” (ABC, 8 p.m.) fills prime time.
“The First 48: Playing with Fire” (A&E, 9 p.m.) investigates the case of a New Orleans mother found dead after a night on the town.
The sea serpent is considered on “River Monsters: Deadliest Man-eaters” (Animal Planet, 8 p.m.).
On “The Bradshaw Bunch” (E!, 9 p.m.), Terry helps a stranded motorist.
Progress of the James Webb Space Telescope is tracked on the special “Beyond Hubble: Launching the Telescope of Tomorrow” (Science, 10 p.m.).
The Colts prepare for their Christmas game on “Hard Knocks in Season: The Indianapolis Colts” (HBO, 10 p.m.).
The sampling of HBO Max shows on cable continues with a couple of episodes of “Doom Patrol” (HBO2, 10 p.m.).
Turner Classic Movies’ month-long Wednesday night salute to Ingrid Bergman concludes with “Murder on the Orient Express” (8 p.m.), “A Walk in the Spring Rain” (10:15 p.m.), “Cactus Flower” (12:15 a.m.), “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweller” (2:15 a.m.), “A Matter of Time” (4:15 a.m.) and “Autumn Sonata” (6:15 a.m.).
During the day are some winning romantic screenplays with “An American in Paris” (6:30 a.m.), “Gigi” (8:30 a.m.), “Princess O’Rourke” (10:30 a.m.), “The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer” (12:15 p.m.), “Designing Woman” (2 p.m.), “It Happened One Night” (4 p.m.) and “The Philadelphia” (6 p.m.).
Today’s college bowl games have Maryland vs. Virginia Tech (ESPN, 2:15 p.m.) in the Pinstripe Bowl, Clemson vs. Iowa State (ESPN, 5:45 p.m.) in the Cheez-It Bowl, and Oregon vs. Oklahoma (ESPN, 9:15 p.m.) in the Alamo bowl. But the Fenway Bowl was canceled.
Basketball includes Lakers at Memphis (NBA, 8 p.m.) and Dallas at Sacramento (NBA, 10:30 p.m.).
Men’s college hoops includes DePaul at Butler (Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.), LSU at Auburn (ESPN2, 7 p.m.), Seton Hall at Providence (Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.), Tennessee at Alabama (ESPN2, 9 p.m.), NC State at Miami (ESPNU, 9 p.m.) and Washington at Washington State (ESPNU, 11 p.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest: Gabrielle Union, John Leguizamo, Adison Rae, Science Bob Pflugfelder. The View: Michael B. Jordan, Chanté Adams, Cana Canedy (rerun). The Talk: Meredith Vieira (rerun). Ellen DeGeneres: Cary Elwes, Tori Kelly, Brad Paisley. Drew Barrymore: Tom Green, Pilar Valdes (rerun). Kelly Clarkson: Dave Grohl, David Chang, Prisa Krishna, Abigail Breslin (rereun). Tamron Hall: Alfonso Ribeiro (rerun). Wendy Williams: Laura Kasperzak, Michael Rapaport (rerun). The Real: Maverick city Musica (rerun).
Late Talk
All reruns: Stephen Colbert: Billy Porter, Annaleigh Ashford. Jimmy Kimmel: Riz Ahmed, Nicole Byer, Norah Jones. Jimmy Fallon: Ariana Grande, Adrien Brody, Bixst with Ty Dolla $ign. Seth Meyers: Javier Bardem, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Ashley Williams. James Corden: Andie MacDowell, Rudi Dharmalingam, Calum Scott.