Jordan Klepper Takes the Satirical Pulse, ‘Minimum Wage’ Sitcom, Celebs Form a ‘Mob,’ Deep Dive With ‘Private Eyes’

The Daily Show

For two consecutive years, master satirist Jordan Klepper has taken home Emmys for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program for his Fingers the Pulse specials that dare to take this polarized nation’s political temperature. In the latest edition, titled The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Red Flags, Klepper joins the campaign trail nationwide as the president’s allies and supporters react to negative poll numbers, the war in Iran, inflationary gas prices, among other hot-button issues. The midterm election is only a week away, so it couldn’t be timelier.

Minimum Wage

Welcome to the Slice Club, a pizza joint that aims to deliver laughs if not on-time pies. Based on a web series of comedy shorts from American High, the workplace sitcom stars new Saturday Night Live featured player Grace Reiter among the ensemble of young underachieving jokesters who need to step up or risk being shut down by their unimpressed boss (Fresh Off the Boat alum Randall Park). You can finish the 14-episode season, 12.5 minutes each, in about the time it takes to order, receive, and consume a pizza.

The Mob

Producers of The Traitors hope to strike reality-TV gold again, taking over an Italian villa where celebrities of varying stripes gather to play a game of treachery, loyalty, and control. The White Lotus star Parker Posey hosts the proceedings, during which the players choose a don who makes critical decisions, including who stays and who gets whacked. The Sopranos alum Aida Turturro is the most on-the-nose casting, joined by a rapper (Romeo Miller), an actress (Debi Mazar), and assorted reality-TV flotsam, including Harry Jowsey, Dancing With the Stars judge Bruno Tonioli, Mormon Wives‘ Demi Engemann, Bachelor Nation’s Maria Georgas and Shane Parton, Real Housewives‘ veteran Joe Gorga, Bella Palk from Love Overboard, and Willam Belli from RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Private Eyes West Coast

Jason Priestley directs and stars in the light mystery as Matt Shade, teaming with wife Angie Everett (Cindy Sampson) as Victoria, British Columbia’s favorite private detectives and new parents. Their latest case sends the couple into the deep when a freediver is attacked while underwater, and the investigation reveals conflict in the world of competitive freediving. Shade and Angie are inspired to start their own contest, with the winner getting naming rights for their new firm.

Line of Fire

The multi-tiered crime-in-high-places family drama lives up to its title when U.S. Marshal Jane (Hope Davis) is trapped on a plane that’s been disabled, one of several in a coordinated campaign against an airline. Good thing she was transporting a charming hacker (Andy Mientus, Smash) when this happened. While the rest of the Hollingsworth family sweats out her return, brothers Micah (Tommy O’Brien) and Russ (Taylor Bloom) reveal their suspicions about the assassination attempt on President Barnes (Sam Waterston) to their dad, Mike (Peter Krause). It’s not the only ongoing mystery that takes a twist.

INSIDE MONDAY TV:

• World Series (8 pm/ET, Fox): Game 3 moves to St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field in the best-of-seven series between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers.
• The Voice (8/7c, NBC): It’s the last night for the Battle Rounds, with lucky singers moving on to next week’s inaugural “Cut Week,” replacing the Knockout Rounds.
• FBI (8/7c, CBS): How are a missing infant and several murders connected to a rocket company going public? That’s for the team to figure out, a challenge complicated when they suspect one of their own could be involved. Followed by CIA (9/8c), involving an undercover mission at a swanky gala.
• Monday Night Football (8:15 pm/ET, ABC and ESPN): The Dallas Cowboys play the Philadelphia Eagles in the primetime match.
• Pati Jinich Explores Panamerica (9/8c, PBS): Chef Pati Jinich‘s culinary journey along the Pan-American highway continues for a second season, taking her through the Western states to the Mexican border.
• Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (9/8c, The CW): Graff (Aden Young) and Bateman (Kathleen Munroe) discover a pattern of police incompetence when a murder investigation reveals multiple deaths that occurred under the same roof.
• Halloween Baking Championship (9/8c, Food Network): The Season 12 finale challenges the remaining bakers to create desserts inspired by ancient Egyptian rites.
• Harlan Coben’s Final Twist (10/9c, CBS): The true-crime series explores the 2018 shooting murder of Portland chef and culinary instructor Dan Brophy in an Oregon Culinary Institute kitchen. Was the motive personal or professional?
• Wolf (streaming on Acorn TV): Ukweli Roach stars as troubled DI Jack Caffery in a British limited series based on Mo Hayder’s acclaimed crime novels.