Tuesday’s TV Highlights: ‘Parenthood’ on NBC
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SERIES
30 for 30: The documentary “Benji” recalls high-school star Ben Wilson from Chicago’s South Side, a promising basketball prospect who was senselessly murdered in 1984, the day before his senior season was to begin (5 p.m. ESPN).
Chef Race: U.K. vs. U.S.: The teams must cook in a food truck and one chef collapses in the summer heat in this new episode (7 and 10 p.m. BBC America).
Hart of Dixie: Zoe (Rachel Bilson) can’t help feeling a pang of jealousy when she sees Wade (Wilson Bethel) with another woman, so she makes a date with Ruby’s (Golden Brooks) cousin. Cress Williams, Jaime King, Tim Matheson and Claudia Lee also star in this new episode (8 p.m. KTLA).
Pretty Little Liars: Adam Lambert performs in this new Halloween-themed episode (8 p.m. ABC Family).
Iconoclasts: Seth McFarlane and Norah Jones are mutually profiled in this new episode (8 p.m. Sundance).
Emily Owens, M.D.: Emily (Mamie Gummer) learns how much the nurses dislike her when one of them gives her a difficult case as payback in this new episode (9 p.m. KTLA).
Happy Endings: The comedy returns for a new season (9 p.m. ABC).
Airport 24/7: Miami: In the new episode “Air Force One,” a swarm of bees halts traffic at the airport on the day the president is slated to arrive (9 p.m. Travel).
Don’t Trust the B— in Apartment 23: The comedy returns for a new season (9:30 p.m. ABC).
Frontline: The new episode “Climate of Doubt” looks at the debate over climate change and the politics of global warming (10 p.m. KOCE).
SPECIALS
Cuban Missile Crisis — Three Men Go to War: This new documentary explores the events of October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust, focusing on U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and the Soviet Union’s Nikita Khrushchev (8 p.m. KOCE).
SPORTS
Women’s soccer: U.S. vs. Germany (4:30 p.m. NBCSP).
College football: Arkansas State at Louisiana-Lafayette (5 p.m. ESPN2).
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