On TV this Wednesday: American Ninja Warrior‘s COVID-safe season crowns a champion, The A Word returns for Season 3 and a mass shooting rocks Coroner. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar; all times are Eastern.

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On TV this Wednesday: American Ninja Warrior‘s COVID-safe season crowns a champion, The A Word returns for Season 3 and a mass shooting rocks Coroner. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar; all times are Eastern.
Two episodes: In Asunción, Paraguay, the teams compete in a series of switchback Detours from Season 20, and then they are off to Paris, France, where they must make enough Crème Chantilly for four pies.
Group C (Squiggly Monster, Broccoli, Mushroom and Jellyfish) returns for their second performances of the season. (Review the latest clues/guesses.)
Bill (played by David Koechner) is getting married — and Beverly and Jane have only 24 hours to plan it.
Katie becomes overbearing and controlling; Franklin challenges an older boy to a duel. (Get the inside story on the Anna-Kat recast.)
Season 12 finale (two hours): After the remaining ninjas take their shot at the Finals course, the Top 8 compete in a playoff where they race head-to-head on the Power Tower, to claim a $100K prize.
Season 4 premiere: Drew and Jonathan Scott continue to help couples transform houses into “forever homes” where they can put down roots.
A mass shooting thrusts Jenny and McAvoy into one of the biggest cases of their careers; Jenny must take drastic measures to control her sleepwalking.
This week, house “detectives” Cheryl Hines and Adrienne Bailon-Houghton are joined by Donny Osmond, Bob Saget and Finesse Mitchell.
Dre and Junior butt heads over the most effective way to protest in the age of social media.
Season 3 premiere: Joe shocks everyone by rejecting his headphones; Maurice tries to solve his family’s problems.
♦ ON THIS DATE IN TV HISTORY ♦
On Nov. 4, 2003, ABC’s 8 Simple Rules marked
the passing of John Ritter with a two-part episode
in which family patriarch Paul also suddenly died.