HGTV Rocks the Block, ‘Idol’ Rocks the Hall of Fame, Finales of ‘Reggie’ and ‘Wild Cards’

Matt Roush
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HGTV stars team with celebrities in a new season of the home-renovation competition Rock the Block. The Rock & Rock Hall of Fame’s 2026 inductees are announced during American Idol, when the Top 11 perform from Hall of Famers’ song lists. NBC‘s The Fall & Rise of Reggie Dinkins ends its first season with back-to-back episodes, and The CW‘s Wild Cards wraps its third.

Rock the Block S7 Group 4 (L to R_ Mina Starsiak Hawk, Vernon Davis, Drew Lachey, Taniya Nayak, Ty Pennington, Brooke Hogan, Scott McGillivray, Chelsea Meissner, Kim Wolfe)
HGTV

Rock the Block

Season Premiere

The channel’s highest-rated competition series returns for a seventh season, pairing HGTV stars with celebrities to tackle lookalike builds in a Las Vegas cul-de-sac. They each have seven weeks and a $275,000 budget to work their magic, with the winning team honored by having a street named after them. The teams include Renovation Resort Showdown‘s Scott McGillivray with reality-TV star Brooke Hogan, Battle on the Beach‘s Taniya Nayak with singer/actor Drew Lachey, Good Bones‘ Mina Starsiak Hawk with Super Bowl champ Vernon Davis, Why the Heck Did I Buy This House host and Survivor winner Kim Spradlin-Wolfe with Survivor and Southern Charm alum Chelsea Meissner. In the two-hour opener, the teams tackle the main bedroom, bathroom and walk-in closet, with Lisa Vanderpump and business partner/designer Nick Alain judging the result.

LIONEL RICHIE, CARRIE UNDERWOOD, LUKE BRYAN
Disney/Eric McCandless

American Idol

Who are your picks for this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Find out if your favorites made the cut when the inductees are announced during a special episode of the singing competition. While the Top 11 sing their hearts out, tackling selections from Hall of Famers’ catalogs, the Hall of Fame class of 2026 will be revealed. Among this year’s starry candidates: Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, Lauryn Hill, Billy Idol, Jeff Buckley, Luther Vandross, Pink, Sade, Shakira, Melissa Etheridge, Wu-Tang Clan, Iron Maiden, Oasis, New Edition, INXS, Joy Division/New Order, and the Black Crowes. Idols one and all.

Daniel Radcliffe, Erika Alexander, and Tracy Morgan in 'The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins'
NBC

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins

Season Finale

Speaking of halls of fame, disgraced NFL star Reggie Dinkins (Tracy Morgan) is a cockeyed optimist when it comes to his chances of being considered for pro football’s illustrious Hall of Fame. In the two-part Season 1 finale airing back-to-back, Reggie musters his troops, including filmmaker Arthur Tobin (Daniel Radcliffe), to get him back on the ballot. But it won’t be easy, not with his nemesis, the more successful gridiron alum Jerry Basmati (Craig Robinson), plotting against him.

Vanessa Morgan as Max Mitchell and Giacomo Gianniotti as Detective Cole Ellis
Justine Yeung / The CW

Wild Cards

Season Finale

The third season of the light mystery-comedy brings the conflict between Max’s (Vanessa Morgan) family and the vindictive crime boss Varga to a head when Max is kidnapped, forcing her partner/detective Ellis (Giacomo Gianniotti) to work with her con-artist relatives. The goal: to break Varga’s brother Artie out of a federal prison, with Ellis posing as an air marshal and Max’s dad George (Jason Priestley) his prisoner. What could go wrong?

Joel McHale in 'The 1% Club
Tom Griscom / FOX

The 1% Club

Season Premiere

With so many scripted series ending early, the summer onslaught of game shows is already upon us. Following last week’s launch of The Floor, Fox offers a new season of the quiz program, hosted by Animal Control‘s Joel McHale, that challenges 100 players to use logic, brains, and common sense to watch wits with other Americans. (The final question is a toughie aced by only 1% of respondents.) Followed by a new season of The Quiz With Balls (9/8c), which knocks players into a pool of water with a giant ball when they get an answer wrong. Jay Pharoah hosts.

INSIDE MONDAY TV:

  • WNBA Draft (7 pm/ET, ESPN): With the league entering its 30th season, Ryan Ruocco hosts the presentation from The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York, with analysts Rebecca Lobo and Andraya Carter with Holly Rowe reporting.
  • The Neighborhood (8/7c, CBS): Dave (Max Greenfield) gets a reality check after a health scare as the sitcom enters its final month. Followed by DMZ (8:30/7:30), the freshman comedy also in its final weeks, with branch manager Barb (Molly Kearney) sulking when a rival office lands a magazine feature.
  • The Voice (9/8c, NBC): In the semifinal round, superfans in the studio and past contestants vote on which of the Top 9 will make it through.
  • Foul Play With Anthony Davis (9/8c, TBS): Olympian Tara Lipinski and former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III are the latest victims of the hidden-comedy prank show.
  • FBI (9/8c, CBS): The team suspects the involvement of a cult religious leader in the torture murder of a VA psychiatrist. Followed by CIA (9/8c), with FBI‘s Isobel (Alana De La Garza) and Maggie (Missy Peregrym) helping search for two soccer stars who go missing after a bomb threat disrupts an international match.
  • Born to Bowl (9/8c, HBO): The docuseries finale follows the top bowlers as they compete at the 2025 Tournament of Champions in Akron, Ohio.

 ON THE STREAM:

American IdolRock the BlockThe Fall and Rise of Reggie DinkinsWild Cards (2024)



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  1. A

    Antonio Montealegre

    Melania's "press conference", Trump's feud with Pope Leo XIV, and the Iran Hormuz blockage: These are the things Colbert will, I'm sure, talk about in tonight's show!

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      Jena

      Looking forward to that, as always. Plus, even though I won't watch it live, I'll have to catch up on Jon Stewart's reaction. :-p

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    Jena

    I'll watch FBI.

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      Fred

      Did you watch Tracker last night?

      Would love to hear your thoughts.

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        Jena

        I did watch Tracker. Another unremarkable episode, imho. I just happened to see a repeat episode of The Equalizer with a crazy woman obsessed with her sister's husband, and last night was a crazy ex obsessed with someone else's husband. Plus, I lost track of what the missing guy was doing to earn money. At the end of an episode he still didn't have a job, so that was unsatisfactory.

        Not sure if I'm crazy (always possible), but it looked like the actor who played Colter got a haircut between scenes; it was normal, then it was short, then it was normal again.

        Also, when he enters a house, he's usually trying to be quiet and stealthy, and yet he wears boots, which makes for definitely audible footsteps.

        So what did you think of Tracker??

        I forgot to mention that I'll be watching The Count of Monte Cristo tonight.

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          Fred

          Tracker remains unimpressive . Reenie’s storyline was dreadful and the case she was working on the last several eps was ignored. The female assistant ads nothing to the proceedings.

          Randy is the quickest tech /hacker guy ever! He completes his tasks faster than I can log in to my computer!

          And it’s already done before Colter finishes his request.

          The Fatal Attraction /Misery plot was lazy writing . Multiple shows and movies have utilized that cliched plot very recently. 9-1-1 just did one several weeks ago. But it was better done there.

          Equalizer was a superior drama. CBS axed that too early.

          Hopefully the more reliable FBI and CIA deliver tonight.

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            Jena

            I agree that the mystery case that Reenie had been working on was promising, but is now AWOL. Her female assistant... i still think she has some hidden agenda. And yes Randy can 'hack into' anything with two keystrokes... totally unbelievable, really strains believability.

            Meanwhile FBI is in its 8th season. Hard to believe it's been on for so long, kind of takes me by surprise every time I think of it. It's a workhorse of a show-- some episodes better than others, but it delivers. And definitely flies under the radar.

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              Fred

              100% in agreement.

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    Arben70

    We caught up on The Voice and Reggie Dinkins this weekend so might get to watch both live tonight. Matt doesn’t mention The Rookie but if I recall last week’s teaser right it’s another “documentary” episode featuring the actual show’s creator Alexi Hawley. We also have plenty of backlog still.

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      Fred

      American Idol and The Rookie (hope it’s not a doc ep -they are the worst.

      Later DMV, FBI , CIA and The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.

      Editors note: DMV is misspelled above.