What to Watch on Tuesday: America's Got Talent goes live, without judge Simon Cowell

EW Staff
·4 min read

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America's Got Talent

NBC

HOW/WHEN & WHERE TO WATCH: 8 p.m. on NBC

The show must go on. While judge Simon Cowell recovers from surgery after breaking his back over the weekend, Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, and Sofia Vergara, along with guest judge (and coach on NBC's other talent show, The Voice) Kelly Clarkson (filling in for Cowell on tonight and Wednesday), will oversee the action as it moves to Universal Studios starting tonight for the annual AGT live shows. Eleven performers that include the wrongly incarcerated Archie Williams, the Pork Chop Revue, and FrenchieBabyy the contortionist, will compete for America’s vote and the $1 million prize. Viewers can send their fave performer to the next round by using the America’s Got Talent Official App or going to NBC.com. —Lynette Rice

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Will Smith: Off the Deep End

Benjamin Lanpher/Discovery Channel

HOW/WHEN & WHERE TO WATCH: 9 p.m. on Discovery

Mike Tyson overcame his terror of sharks on the opening night of Shark Week. Now it’s Will Smith’s turn. The actor/producer/rapper/bucket list cross-offer heads to not Miami but the Bahamas to get not jiggy but up close with the ocean’s apex predator, guided by shark guru Paul de Gelder. The special — which grew out of a 2019 installment of his Facebook Watch series, Will Smith’s Bucket List — sees the two-time Oscar nominee (and Shark Tale voice actor) face down some tiger sharks as well as a fear that was fomented in his childhood when he first watched Jaws. You’ve seen Smith’s heroics above water; let’s watch what happens when this A-lister goes beneath the sea. —Dan Snierson

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Greenleaf

HOW/WHEN & WHERE TO WATCH: 9 p.m. on OWN

Series Finale

After last week's shocking penultimate episode, the emotions run raw in the series finale. After five years, everything the Greenleaf family has fought for comes to an end. As they say goodbye to one of their own and start to look forward to the next chapter of their lives post-Calvary and giving up the family estate, one of them pursues an opportunity that sees him or her leaving Memphis for the big city (and potentially as star of the spin-off!). —Gerrad Hall

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Hard Knocks: Los Angeles

HOW/WHEN & WHERE TO WATCH: 10 p.m. on HBO

Season Premiere

Football is back? As questions remain as to whether sports will be able to happen outside of a bubble environment (as the NBA and MLS have done), the NFL season unofficially kicks off with the latest installment of HBO’s behind-the-scenes series Hard Knocks. For the first time ever, two teams will be followed through training camp as the Los Angeles Chargers and Rams prepare to open their new joint state of the art stadium. Come for stars like Aaron Donald and high-profile rookies like Justin Herbert, but stay for the stories of the inspirational stories of the no-name players trying to make a name for themselves. —Derek Lawrence

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What ELSE to Watch

12 p.m.

An Idiot's Guide to Climate Change — SoulPancake on YouTube

8 p.m.

Siesta Key — MTV

9 p.m.

Chopped — Food Network

10 p.m.

What Would You Do? (with Sutton Foster) — ABC

Greenleaf: The Homegoing Celebration — OWN

Streaming

Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids — Netflix

Unraveling Athena: The Champions of Women's Tennis (documentary) — Digital

Uncle Peckerhead (movie) — Digital/VOD

*times are ET and subject to change