Reality winners may be common on TV, but this Reality Winner is the 25-year-old former Air Force intelligence specialist who leaked a report showing Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The action led to a five year prison term. Sydney Sweeney, of “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus” fame, takes the title role in “Reality” (HBO, 9 p.m.), based on writer-director Tina Satter’s 2019 play “Is This a Room,” whose dialogue was taken directly from the initial FBI interrogation at Winter’s home in Augusta, Ga.
A lot of other actors have played more convincing Franklin Delano Roosevelts over the years than Christian McKay, but at least the new series “FDR” (History, 9 p.m.) has Doris Kearns Goodwin and Bradley Cooper as executive producers. The six-hour miniseries runs three nights. Alice Bounsail portrays Eleanor Roosevelt.
Based on a Belgian series, the new “The Rising” (CW, 8 p.m.), imported from the UK, concerns a teen who wakes up in a nearby lake and slowly realizes she’s dead. Now her spirit has to find out who murdered her.
It accompanies a show picked up from Australia, “Barons” (CW, 9 p.m.) a surfer drama set in the 1970s.
“White House Plumbers” (HBO, 9 p.m.) ends its run, maybe with long jail sentences.
The 14th season starts with a two-hour “Hoarders” (A&E, 9 p.m.). But too much is what this show is all about.
“America’s Hidden Stories” (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.) returns for a new season with a story of the Osage Nation.