Thursday’s TV Highlights: ‘The Astronaut Wives Club’ on ABC

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This week’s TV Movies

TV HIGHLIGHTS

SERIES

Food Fighters In this new episode, a young girl who learned to cook preparing health meals for her mother, a cancer patient, competes against professional chefs, including pastry master Duff Goldman. Adam Richman is the host. 8 p.m. NBC

Beauty and the Beast Vincent and Liam (Jay Ryan, Jason Gedrick) must work together, and evidence sends them on a mission in this new episode. Kristin Kreuk, Austin Basis, Nina Lisandrello and Nicole Gale Anderson also star. 8 p.m. KTLA

The Astronaut Wives Club The summer series concludes with Apollo 11’s historic 1969 touchdown on the moon. With Bret Harrison and Odette Annable.8 p.m. ABC

Mistresses Karen (Yunjin Kim) tells Alec and Vivian (guest stars Ed Quinn and Sonja Bennett) about the baby. 9 p.m. ABC

Project Runway In this new episode, the designers must work in teams and draw their inspiration from travel destinations and exotic locations. Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish”) is a guest judge. 9 p.m. Lifetime

Rookie Blue Marlo (Rachael Ancheril) reaches a critical point in her pregnancy while she and Andy (Missy Peregrym) are searching for a missing member of her health-facility group meetings in the middle of a heat wave. 10 p.m. ABC

Documentary Now! This new series parodies the genre. 10 p.m. IFC

Dominion A desperate Alex (Christopher Egan) finds unexpected shelter where he can care for the wounded Noma (Kim Engelbrecht), although the New Delphi army is still on their trail in this new episode. Carl Beukes, Tom Wisdom and Roxanne McKee also star. 10 p.m. Syfy

Lip Sync Battle “Empire” costars Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson lip sync against each other in the two-part season finale. 10 and 10:30 p.m. Spike

Graceland While Mike (Aaron Tveit) grills Briggs (Daniel Sunjata) over his true motivations in the Sarkissian case, Charlie (Vanessa Ferlito) comes up with a new strategy to catch Germaine (Hal Ozsan) in this new episode. Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Rhys Coiro and Val Lauren guest star. 10 p.m. USA

Alone In the season finale, only two men remain on Vancouver Island as the season’s biggest storm blows in. Huddling in their respective shelters, each reflects on the challenges of his life in the wilderness and the toll it has extracted both physically and mentally. 10:03 p.m. History

MOVIES

The Theory of Everything James Marsh directed this 2014 biopic about the British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), tracing his days at Cambridge, his romance with Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) and his diagnosis with ALS. 8:45 a.m. and 9 p.m. HBO

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Patrick Stewart (“Blunt Talk”). (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today David Oyelowo; Tony Hale; Elisabeth Moss; Jake Johnson. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

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

Good Morning America A preview of “Katrina: 10 Years After the Storm With Robin Roberts.” (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Kelli Williams (“Ties That Bind”). (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Michael Hugh Jackman; Ross Lynch; spelling-bee winners. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Vintage Trouble performs. 10 a.m. KABC

The Talk Joe Manganiello. 1 p.m. KCBS

To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbé Government assistance programs; school discipline. 5:30 p.m. KOCE

Tavis Smiley Jeff Bridges. 11 p.m. KOCE

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

Conan Bill Hader; Bill Burr; Sam Morril. (N) 11 p.m. TBS

The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore (N) 11:30 p.m. Comedy Central

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Rachel Maddow; Artie Lange; the Doobie Brothers. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

Jimmy Kimmel Live Michelle Obama; Topher Grace; Lily Tomlin; the Struts. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC

The Late Late Show With James Corden Ben Kingsley; Bill Hader; Zac Efron. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Late Night With Seth Meyers Matthew Broderick; John Cena; “Impractical Jokers”; Jimmy Chamberlin sits in with the 8G Band. (N) 12:37 a.m. KNBC

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