Rob Lowe Is ‘Unstable,’ A ‘Ghosts’ Descendent, ‘Alaska’ Finale, ‘CSI’ Cold Case, MLB Opening Night

Rob Lowe moonlights from 9-1-1: Lone Star along with his equally charming and charismatic son, John Owen Lowe, in a quick, delightfully offbeat comedy about, what else, a heightened father-son relationship. Rob is Ellis Dragon, a world-famous biotech creator whose probably world-saving visionary initiatives are in jeopardy due to his, sure, unstable psychological state following the loss of life of his spouse. (The Apple TV+ comedy Shrinking has an analogous premise, though with a lot decrease stakes.) To save his firm, and to maintain a involved board off his again, uptight CFO Anna (Fleabag’s fabulous Sian Clifford) enlists Ellis’ estranged flute-playing son Jackson (John Owen) to reunite with and hopefully floor his unhappy dad. The chemistry between the Lowes is terrific, and the affect of fellow creator/producer Victor Fresco (Better Off Ted, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, extra just lately Santa Clarita Diet) will be felt within the impressed office wackiness. Not a dud on this ensemble, together with Fred Armisen as a smitten therapist who by no means desires to go away the Dragon homestead.

Another ghost’s descendant arrives at Woodstone, when Thirties jazz singer Alberta’s (Danielle Pinnock) great-grandniece Alicia (Ashley D. Kelley) checks into Woodstone, so intrigued by the podcast investigating her ancestor’s homicide that she begins to fall for creepy co-host Todd (Rodrigo Fernandez Stoll). While Alberta and the remainder of the spirits beg Sam (Rose McIver) to place a cease to this attraction, one other paranormal relationship is in jeopardy, when the key affair between Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) and Trevor (Asher Grodman) is in peril of being uncovered by redcoat Nigel (John Hartman), who tries his hand at petty blackmail.

In the season finale of the issue-driven newspaper drama, reporters Eileen (Hilary Swank) and Roz (Grace Dove) comply with leads from a newly launched 9-1-1 name that would assist exonerate a prisoner who was coerced to make a false homicide confession. These ace journalists may wish to make good on their job provides from the New York Times and Washington Post, respectively, as a result of the remainder of the newsroom is all abuzz about rumors of a brand new rival publication with deeper pockets that would put all of them out of enterprise.

Series creator Anthony E. Zuiker returns to put in writing an emotional stand-alone episode of the rebooted procedural, which additionally welcomes again authentic solid member Eric Szmanda as irreverent investigator Greg Sanders, who’ll be filling in for some time on the “vampire shift.” The case of the week is a private one for Crime Lab chief Max Roby (Paula Newsome), who makes it her mission to seek out long-overdue justice when the stays of a younger lady are present in a barrel submerged for greater than 40 years in a drying Lake Mead. After specialists reconstruct the sufferer’s face, her mom (nicely performed by the fierce Regina Taylor) confronts Max, distrustful that the police will lastly be capable to do their job. We know higher.

INSIDE THURSDAY TV:

• Major League Baseball Opening Night (7 pm/ET, ESPN): With World Series champ Houston Astros internet hosting the Chicago White Sox for opening night time, a revered former Astro—seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemons—joins the published each with Karl Ravech, analyst Eduardo Perez and reporter Buster Olney. Let the video games start.
• Prom Pact (8/7c, Disney Channel): Doogie Kamealoha’s Peyton Elizabeth Lee stars in a high-school romcom as Mandy, a yearning-for-Harvard senior who tutors a jock (Blake Draper) whose Harvard alum senator dad might assist get her accepted. Co-stars embody Milo Manheim as Mandy’s bestie and The Goldbergs’ Wendi McLendon-Covey as her mother.
• Young Sheldon (8/7c, CBS): Attention have to be paid, when Sheldon’s (Iain Armitage) twin Missy (Raegan Revord) steals their dad’s truck to run away together with her troubled buddy, baby prodigy Paige (Mckenna Grace).
• Grey’s Anatomy (9/8c, ABC): The docs go to work to avoid wasting a number of lives when the hospital goes into lockdown after final week’s assault by anti-abortion protesters. Somehow amid the chaos, Maggie (soon-to-depart solid member Kelly McCreary) manages to get on husband Winston’s (Anthony Hill) mistaken aspect once more.
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (9/8c, NBC): The squad’s latest member, Detective Grace Muncy (Molly Burnett), sheds her robust shell when Benson (Mariska Hargitay) brings in her brother (Michael Trotter), who Grace helped increase, as an individual of curiosity in a case involving girls’s drinks being drugged in crowded bars.
• CMT Defining: Carly Pearce (10/9c, CMT): A brand new collection of specials highlighting the profession paths of feminine nation musicians begins with the reigning ACM Awards Female Artist of the Year.
• RapCaviar Presents (streaming on Hulu): A docuseries impressed by the Spotify playlist tackles hot-button points together with gender norms, misogynism, social media and psychological well being from the attitude of hip-hop stars together with Jack Harlow, Roddy Ricch, Polo G, City Girls and Tyler, The Creator.
• Silent Road (streaming on Topic): A Greek crime drama, launching with three episodes, depicts the shock waves when a bus of schoolchildren disappears, held for ransom.
• The Dreamer—Becoming Karen Blixen (streaming on Viaplay): A reputation acquainted from the Oscar-winning Out of Africa comes into sharper focus in a Danish docudrama, starring Wonder Woman’s Connie Nielsen as Karen Blixen in the course of the Thirties, as she grew to become a author after getting back from her years in East Africa.