Thursday’s TV Highlights: The Republican National Convention

SERIES

Thirteen Ivy (Jodie Comer) resolves to save Phoebe (Isabel Shanahan) even if it means putting her own life at risk, while Lisa and Elliott (Valene Kane, Richard Rankin) take pains to ensure Ivy’s safety as she sets up a meeting with Mark White (Peter McDonald), but they gravely underestimate the cleverness of their adversary. 6 p.m. BBC America

Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge The most difficult course the contenders have faced yet awaits them in the season finale. 8 p.m. NBC

Bones In the season finale Brennan (Emily Deschanel) struggles with guilt over not stopping a serial killer, who retains his murder victims’ bodies for a time. Ryan O’Neal reprises his guest role as Brennan’s father. David Boreanaz also stars. 8 p.m. Fox

Alone The remaining participants battle for supremacy; after pushing their minds and bodies to the breaking point in the season finale, 8 p.m. History. A season reunion episode follows at 9.

Beauty and the Beast AnnaLynne McCord guest stars as a mystery woman who works with Vincent (Jay Ryan) on an undercover operation — and is discovered to be a hired killer, making Cat (Kristin Kreuk) frantic to contact Vincent. Austin Basis, Nina Lisandrello and Nicole Gale Anderson also star. 9 p.m. KTLA

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) gives mixed signals to Flash (John Corbett) while Ava (Elaine Hendrix) works on her solo debut. 10 p.m. FX

SPECIALS

Republican National Convention C-SPAN begins its final day of coverage with a preview of scheduled events, programs and speeches, (7:30 a.m. and Noon), followed by live coverage (4:30 p.m.). Cable news channels, including CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, Fox News, Bloomberg and MSNBC, will incorporate coverage into their regular programming and as breaking news. Donald J. Trump’s prime-time acceptance speech will be broadcast and included in special programming on PBS (5 p.m.); CBS, NBC, KTLA and ABC (7 p.m.).

Syfy Presents: Live From Comic-Con Will Arnett ventures into the annual event that routinely qualifies as the biggest party of the summer as Syfy presents the massive fan convention in San Diego. Tony Hale; Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Idris Elba, John Cho and Sofia Boutella (“Star Trek Beyond”); Zachary Levi (“Heroes Reborn”) are featured. 8 p.m. Syfy

MOVIES

Dragon Blade An exiled Chinese general offers shelter to a renegade Roman and his legion, then becomes involved in the soldier’s dispute with Rome’s villainous consul in this uneven 2015 Chinese-Hong Kong action film. Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Adrien Brody star. 9:45 p.m. Cinemax

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Republican National Convention; Questlove; Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander; Tony Danza. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America Idris Elba; Keegan-Michael Key. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Burt Ward (“Batman” TV series). (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

The View The National Republican Convention. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

The Talk Mario Lopez; Ellen K; Ruth B visits and performs. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show Fatty liver disease; restaurant chains make changes. (N) 2 p.m. KTTV

Real Time With Bill Maher The Republican National Convention: Equality advocate Heather McGhee; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.); Robert Reich. (N) 8 and 11 p.m. HBO

Tavis Smiley Doris Meissner, Migration Policy Institute. (N) 11 p.m. KOCE

Charlie Rose (N) 11 p.m. KVCR; 11:30 p.m. KOCE; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Alex Wagner. (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central

Conan Nick Kroll; Stephen Amell, Grant Gustin and Melissa Benoist. (N) 11 p.m. TBS

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Alicia Vikander; Celine Dion visits and performs. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert The Republican National Convention: Elizabeth Warren; Billy Eichner; Neko Case; k.d. lang. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel Live Viggo Mortensen; George Lopez; Colin Hay performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC

The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore Author Salman Rushdie. (N) 11:35 p.m. Comedy Central

The Late Late Show With James Corden Chris Pine; Imogen Poots. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Late Night With Seth Meyers Leslie Jones; Carlo Mirarchi; Atom Willard. (N) 12:37 a.m. KNBC

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC

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