8 things to watch this week

1. The Last Ship

Sunday, 9 p.m. — TNT

With Chandler (Eric Dane) and Tex (John Pyper-Ferguson) in jeopardy, Slattery (Adam Baldwin) has an Alexander Haig moment and steps into the role as commanding officer. Torn between a desire to save the world and an awareness of his own limitations, he has to get his people back without losing the most important asset: the vaccine prototype.

2. Shark Week: The Highlights

Don’t go in the water Sunday to Saturday — Discovery

Sunday

8 p.m. — Air Jaws: Fin of Fury

Researchers attempt to find a missing mega-shark named Colossus.

9 p.m. — Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine

A 30-foot shark nicknamed “Submarine” is hunted off the coast of South Africa.

Monday

9 p.m. — Jaws Strikes Back

The remote Pacific island of Guadalupe provides the backdrop of this documentary on the hunting behavior of the largest great white sharks.

10 p.m. — Monster Hammerhead

Scientists investigate a legendary hammerhead shark that has been patrolling Florida’s shores for the past 60 years.

Tuesday

9 p.m. — Alien Sharks: Return to the Abyss

Bioluminescent sharks get ready for their close-up.

10 p.m. — Lair of the Mega Shark

Jeff Kerr and Andy Casagrande track a great white that resembles a legendary giant New Zealand’s Maoris call the “lord of the sharks.”

Wednesday

9 p.m. — Zombie Sharks

Professional diver Eli Martinez induces underwater immobility in a great white to study how this behavior is used to prey on other species.

10 p.m. — Spawn of Jaws 2: The Birth

A pregnant female shark gives birth.

Thursday

9 p.m. — I Escaped Jaws 2

Shark-attack survivors tell their grisly stories.

10 p.m. — Sharkageddon

The spike in shark attacks off the coast of Hawaii bears investigation.

Friday

10 p.m. — Megaladon: The New Evidence

Scientists investigate the deaths of the crew aboard a fishing vessel off the coast of South Africa.

Saturday

9 p.m. — Great White Matrix

Shark-attack survivor Paul de Gelder explores the shark-infested waters of Australia.

Don’t forget: On weeknights at 11 p.m. comedian Josh Wolf hosts “Shark After Dark,” a talk show related to the specials.

3. Ray Donovan

Sunday, 9 p.m. — Showtime

Some compromising information about the private, Scrabble-oriented activities of Cochran (Hank Azaria), the FBI LA bureau chief, comes to the attention of Ray Donovan (Liev Schreiber). Meanwhile, Abby (Paula Malcomson) tries to have fun with her prospective Trousdale Estates neighbors and gets closer to Jim (Brian Geraghty), her cop friend from the shooting range; Marvin (Octavius J. Johnson, above left)gives Bridget (Kerris Dorsey, above right) a present; and Ray brings Conor (Devon Bagby) to apologize to the boy he injured at school.

4. The Knick

Friday, 10 p.m. — Cinemax

Already fuming over the hospital’s faulty new electrical system, Thackery (Clive Owen) tasks Herman Barrow (Jeremy Bobb), the Knick’s crooked superintendent, to deliver more cadavers so that he and his team can test out novel surgical procedures. With more patients dying, Edwards (Andre Holland) offers to share a procedure he learned in France, but is rebuffed by Thackery and Gallinger (Eric Johnson). Robertson (Juliet Rylance) addresses a typhoid-fever outbreak; Elkins (Eve Hewson) is taken into Thackery’s confidence; Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) breaks a taboo.

5. The Honorable Woman

Thursday, 10 p.m. — Sundance

Nessa’s (Maggie Gyllenhaal) security adviser gets a lead on the missing boy, while her brother Ephra (Andrew Buchan) makes an alarming discovery that could impact the family and their work.

6. Legends

Wednesday, 9 p.m., TNT

Deep cover agent Martin Odum (Sean Bean) returns to the FBI after an assignment infiltrating the Citizen’s Army of Virginia (CAV), a domestic terrorist organization. He tries to reconnect with his estranged wife and son, put his life back together and get the last “legend” behind him. But when the CAV announces an imminent attack, Martin must go back under in order to stop them. To complicate matters, a mysterious stranger confronts Martin to tell him that his life is a lie.

7. Extant

Wednesday, 10 p.m. — CBS

Molly (Halle Berry) uncovers footage that may reveal the real reason the ISEA chose her for the solo mission. Meanwhile, Ethan (Pierce Gagnon) experiences his first dream, an advancement for which he was not programmed, and Julie (Grace Gummer) distracts herself from work with a mysterious man (Charlie Bewley) she meets at the gym. Tessa Ferrer guest stars as Katie Sparks.

8. The Best of Marlon Brando

Monday, 8 p.m.to 1:45 a.m. — TCM

Since there are no good movies in the theaters, you might as well watch some classics on TCM, with one of the best actors this country ever produced. At 8 p.m: Marlon Brando revolutionized acting with his raw performance in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which tells the sad story of played-out Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh), whose decline is accelerated by her tempting brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Brando).

At 10:15 p.m., Brando puts on a leather jacket and wraps his sturdy thighs around a motorcycle in “The Wild One,” where he plays Johnny Strabler, the leader of a pack of delinquents who infiltrate a small town.

At 11:45 p.m., we get Brando’s Oscar winner, “On the Waterfront.”

In a towering performance that will be watched over and over again by anyone who wants to learn how to act, Brando is failed boxer Terry Malloy, a young stevedore who takes on the mob boss running the docks on the New York waterfront.