Thursday’s TV Highlights: ‘Raising Hope’ on Fox

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

American Idol Colton Dixon performs in this results episode. 8 p.m. Fox

Jesus: Rise to Power In this three-episode series, airing in its entirety tonight, Dr. Michael Scott traces the birth and early history of the Christian religion. 8, 9 and 10 p.m. Nat Geo

1600 Penn A princess (Hannah Simone) comes to the White House for a peace gala, and she asks that Skip (Josh Gad) be her escort in the first of two new episodes 8:30 p.m. NBC. Larry King guest stars in the season finale at 9:30.

Raising Hope Burt (Garret Dillahunt, pictured) learns he is Jewish, and prepares for his bar mitzvah in the season finale. 9 p.m. Fox

Archer Archer must rescue the pope from an assassination plot in this new episode of the animated series. 10 p.m. FX

MOVIES

Fall to Grace This new TV documentary tells the story of former Gov. Jim McGreevey (D-N.J.) who outed himself as gay, confessed to an extramarital affair and resigned from office in one very momentous news conference. 8 p.m. HBO

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Doug Parker, American Airlines; Jim Lentz. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Jill Martin. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

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

Good Morning America Diane Kruger; reality-TV star Lisa Vanderpump. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Rachael Ray (N) 8 a.m. KCAL

Live With Kelly and Michael Jeremy Piven; Blake Shelton performs; Maria Menounos. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Mario Cantone; Mario Batali, Michael Symon, Carla Hall and Daphne Oz. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

The Talk Wayne Brady; Lily Tomlin; Caroline Manzo. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

Anderson Live Caroline Manzo; Kathy Griffin. (N) 1 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors Cutting-edge procedures change people’s lives; surgery restores movement to paralyzed limbs. 2 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show Mercury dental fillings. (N) 2 p.m. KABC

Katie Drew Barrymore. 3 p.m. KABC

The Ricki Lake Show Aubrey O’Day; dancer Val Chmerkovskiy. (N) 3 p.m. KTTV

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Emma Stone. 4 p.m. KNBC

SoCal Connected Birth tourism. Earthquake early detection: Lucy Jones, U.S. Geological Survey. (N) 5:30 and 10:30 p.m. KCET

Kathy Eva Longoria and Kristin Chenoweth. (N) 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. Bravo

Tavis Smiley Emmy Rossum. (N) 11 p.m. KOCE

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

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Author Denise Kiernan. (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central

Conan Ricky Gervais. 11 p.m. TBS

The Colbert Report Dr. Robert Lustig. (N) 11:31 p.m. Comedy Central

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Kim Kardashian; Willie Geist; Imagine Dragons perform. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

Late Show With David Letterman Sylvester Stallone; former Vice President Al Gore. 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel Live Dwayne Johnson; Saoirse Ronan; Kendrick Lamar performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Tyler Perry; Nick Offerman; Thom Filicia; Blake Shelton. (N) 12:36 a.m. KNBC

The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Betty White; Morena Baccarin; Terry Fator. 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Last Call With Carson Daly David Duchovny; Derek Cianfrance; Gold Fields perform. (N) 1:36 a.m. KNBC