Welcome to the canopy of a conference that virtually no one attends! As we have known for some time, due to COVID, the Democratic National Convention (10 p.m., CBS, NBC, ABC) will be a virtual issue, with few delegates or speakers giving at the original conference in Milwaukee.
“PBS Newshour” (8 p.m., see local lists) will begin politics earlier, as will the presenters of their respective fox news series, CNN and MSNBC.
We all know that 2020 has been a year. SoArray this news has become the star of the ratings!
Due to COVID considerations, as the choice and minimization in the number of new TV series, news ratings have increased.
ABC’s David Muir hosted the most-watched exhibition on television for weeks and months in a row. Recently, Fox News’ prime-time audience has eclipsed that of other television and cable networks.
Networks would possibly underestimate their traditional coverage. Obviously, viewers are turning to the news.
On the other hand, nets can stick to their own history. Conventions have generated drama and a massive audience for decades. When the riots shook the 1968 Democratic convention, the protesters chanted, “The world total is watching,” because at a time when there were only three chains, everyone seemed to listen.
There hasn’t been much drama at a political conference since 1976, when Ronald Reagan nearly snatched the nomination of outgoing President Gerald Ford. In 1992, Democratic nominee Bill Clinton hired television director Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (“Designing Women”) to produce a film and “present” it to viewers. That same summer, the Republican conference had failed the rebel candidate and CNN’s “Crossfire” co-host Pat Buchanan delivered a fiery speech that greatly pleased some delegates and frightened many voters.
In some respects, over the last quarter century, television news has forgotten conventions while organizing television events.
This year would possibly be different. After all, it is no longer a traditional conference or a “television” event. It will look like the kind of Digital Zoom conference that so many other people have attended since COVID kept us all inside.
– “American Greed” (10 p.m., CNBC, TV-PG) introduces the con artist John Bravata, who has encouraged more than 400 middle-class investors to invest money in their genuine real estate scam. Attracted by a loose lunch and the promise to sign up for their “Billionaire Boys Club”, many paid their savings.
– “Bad Chad Customs” (10 p.m., Discovery, TV-14) promises to turn a 1957 Cadillac into something extraordinary. Am I the one who looks at too many systems faithful to revive the Detroit classics?
How about an exhibition committed to the alchemy of turning lemons into gold? An excited Yugo, anyone? A new life for an AMC Gremlin? Deceive a Pontiac Aztek!
– TCM devotes 24 hours to Maureen O’Hara’s films, adding “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (8 pm, TV-PG), “Miracle on 34th Street” (10:15 pm, TV-G) and the 1963 melodrama “Spencer Mountain” (3:45 am, TV-G), which “The Waltons” a decade later.
TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
– The 2018 adventure “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (7:30 p.m., TNT, TV-14), a backstory that explains how and when Han met Chewbacca.
– A to Seattle / Tacoma in “American Ninja Warrior” (8 pm, NBC, R, TV-PG).
– A fireplace traps a blind in your apartment in “9-1-1” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).
– The short work occupies a place in “Holey Moley” (8 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG).
– Boss problems in “All Rise” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).
– A bull escapes to a parking lot at “9-1-1: Lone Star” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).
CULT CHOICE
– A bright eye (Mickey Rourke) is hired through a satanic figure (Robert De Niro) to take a look at a case with occult accents in the sinister 1987 atmospheric surprise “Angel Heart” (8 p.m., Cinemax). Directed through Alan Parker, who died on July 31.
SERIES NOTES
Long time on “The Neighborhood” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) … Improvisations in “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” (8 pm and 8:30 pm, CW, r, TV-14) … Romantic rivals in “Bob Hearts Abishola” (8:30 pm, CBS, TV-PG) … “To Tell the Truth” (9 pm, ABC, r, TV-PG) … Audition of illusionists in “Penn – Teller: Fool Us” (9 pm, CW, TV-14).
LATE AT NIGHT
“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) keeps social distance … Lauren Lapkus appears in “Conan” (11 pm, TBS, r) … Jimmy Fallon presents Tiffany Haddish, Jurnee Smollett, Orville Peck and Shania Twain on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC).
Jason Sudeikis, Robert Costa and Thomas Land “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 p.m., NBC).
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