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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

Saving Hope: When an airline passenger is taken to Hope Zion after getting sick and forcing the plane to make an emergency landing, Alex (Erica Durance) operates on the patient and discovers he may be carrying a very contagious, very deadly virus in this new episode (9 p.m. NBC).

Trip Flip: Bert Kreischer surprises a Los Angeles with a three-day Big Apple getaway in this new episode (9 p.m. Travel).

Rookie Blue: After a prisoner pulls a gun on Chris (Travis Milne) at the station, the rookies are questioned by internal affairs, and try to balance telling the truth with protecting themselves and one another in this new episode (10 p.m. ABC).

Extreme Chef: In this new episode chefs cook like Native Americans and adapt to desert foods (10 p.m. Food).

Sullivan & Son: Carol (Christine Ebersole) finds out she’s going through menopause, and she worries about not being attractive, so Ahmed (Ahmed Ahmed) tries to convince her otherwise, but he goes too far in this new episode “ (10 p.m. TBS).

SPECIALS

Republican National Convention: The Broadcast networks and cable news channels provide live coverage of the event in Tampa, Fla. (4 p.m. KOCE, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC; 5 p.m. Fox Business; 7 p.m. CBS, NBC, ABC).

Taylor Swift: Taylor Swift’s new music video for “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” will air at 7:49 p.m. on CMT and MTV. On CMT the video will air as part of a longer program featuring Swift and her music at 7:30 p.m.

SPORTS

Baseball: The Chicago White Sox visit the Baltimore Orioles (9:30 a.m. WGN A); the Boston Red Sox visit the Angels (7 p.m. FSN); the Diamondbacks visit the Dodgers (7 p.m. FS Prime).

Tennis: 2012 U.S. Open Tennis Second Round (10 a.m. and 4 p.m. ESPN2).

College football: South Carolina at Vanderbilt (4 p.m. ESPN).

Exhibition football: The Oakland Raiders visit the Seattle Seahawks (7 p.m. KTLA); the San Diego Chargers visit the San Francisco 49ers (7 p.m. KCAL).

College football: Washington State at BYU (7:15 p.m. ESPN).