Timothy Greenfield-Sander’s distinctive portraits of various groups that began with “The Black List” and continued to Latinos, gays, and baby boomers, now focuses to not a minority at all: Women.
There’s no way that interviews with just 15 people in “The Women’s List” give a representative picture of the gender — there is a tendency toward older people since they’ve had their success. But each of those who speak in the film, making its debut on “American Masters” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) is interesting enough to make you want to hear more from Madeleine Albright, the usually tight-lipped Shonda Rhimes, Betsey Johnson, and the inventor of Spanx.
In the case of one of the women profiled, however, Margaret Cho, we do get to hear much more from her tonight in a standup special scheduled for exactly the same time, “Margaret Cho: psyCHO” (Showtime, 9 p.m.).
The fascinating career of prolific art forger Mark Landis is examined in the documentary “Art and Craft” making its debut tonight on “POV” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings). As director Sam Cullman shows, Landis doesn’t do it for money, but to get his work in museums, so he just donates to art institutions his exacting work that replicates everything from 15th Century icons to Picasso to Walt Disney. He managed to get his work placed in 46 museums in 20 states, including the National Portrait Gallery.
“The Amazing Race” (CBS, 8 p.m.) begins its 27th season — its second on Fridays — in Venice Beach, Calif., where eleven teams first go to Rio de Janeiro. The network is saying this year’s race is harder than ever, or at least it causes participants to cry more.
“Hawaii Five-0” (CBS, 9 p.m.) returns for its sixth season in Ouahu pirate territory and a search for buried treasure.
The sixth season start for “Blue Bloods” (CBS, 10 p.m.) has Tom Selleck’s character on high alert following a terrorist attack in the Middle East.
For the seventh season premiere of “Shark Tank” (ABC, 9 p.m.), Ashton Kutcher becomes a guest shark, who may well punk some hopefuls.
In the new reality series “Step It Up” (Lifetime, 10 p.m.) a former Miami Heat dancer, Traci Young-Byron, becomes artistic director of Miami’s Young Contemporary Dance Theatre. At the same time the dance team on “Bring It!” (Lifetime, 9 p.m.) has a second season finale.
Miss anything on premiere week? You get a chance to see three of this week’s shows again tonight: “Minority Report” (Fox, 8 p.m.), “The Muppets” (ABC, 8:30 p.m.) and “Rosewood” (Fox, 9 p.m.).
There’s also a same-week replay of “Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris” (NBC, 8 p.m.) which maybe would have been better off not showing once.
Jane Goodall, Spike Feresten, John Cleese, S.E. Cupp and Ron Reagan are guests on a new “Real Time with Bill Maher” (HBO, 10 p.m.).
Zombies move a little bit faster than you’re used to on “Z Nation” (Syfy, 10 p.m.).
Piff the Magic Dragon is one of the magicians on “Masters of Illusion” (The CW, 8 p.m.).
You know James Dean’s three major movies by heart; things like “East of Eden” (TCM, 2:30 a.m.) and “Rebel Without a Cause” (TCM, 4:30 a.m.). What about his television work? Five days before the 60th anniversary of Dean’s death at age 24, Turner Classic Moves delves into the rare episodes where his talent was first seen, in episodes dating as far back as 1948 and going until just before his death in 1955, with “Something for an Empty Briefcase” from “Campbell Summer Soundstage” (8 p.m.), “Sentence of Death” from “Studio One in Hollywood” (9:30 p.m.), Rod Serling’s “A Long Time Till Dawn” from “Kraft Theatre” (9:30 p.m.), “Harvest,” with Ed Begley and Dorothy Gish, from “Robert Montgomery Presents” (10:30 p.m.), “Run Like a Thief” from “The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse” (11:30 p.m.), Sherwood Anderson’s “I’m a Fool” with Natalie Wood, and “The Dark, Dark Hours” with Ronald Reagan, both from “General Electric Theater” (12:30 and 1 a.m.) and “The Thief,” with Diana Lynn and Mary Astor, from “The United States Steel Hour” (1:30 a.m.).
Baseball includes Pittsburgh at Cubs (MLB, 2:15 p.m.), Texas at Houston (ESPN2, 8 p.m.) and Seattle at Angels (MLB, 10 p.m.).
College football has Boise State at Virginia (ESPN, 8 p.m.) and Stanford at Oregon State (Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly & Michael: Don Johnson, Priyanka Chopra. The View: Stacy London. The Talk: Marg Helgenberger. Ellen DeGeneres: Wanda Sykes, David Arquette. Wendy Williams: Harry Josh, Nina Terrero. Meredith Vieira: Keke Palmer. The Real: Gladys Knight, Erica Ash, Melissa Rivers.
Late Talk
Stephen Colbert: Malala Yousafzai, Kerry Washington, the Arcs. Jimmy Fallon: Olivia Wilde, Fred Savage, Walk the Moon. Jimmy Kimmel: John Stamos, Jake Tapper, Cold War Kids (rerun). Seth Meyers: Tina Fey, Nick Jonas, Abe Laboriel Jr. (rerun). James Corden: Jeff Goldblum, Rick Schwartz, Beck (rerun). Carson Daly: Ed Skrein, Goldroom, Stephanie Sigman (rerun). Tavis Smiley: Dr. James S. Forrester, Brandi Carlile.