Roush Review: ‘Masterpiece’s ‘Miss Austen’ Explores Jane Austen’s Real-Life Sister Act

Miss Austen

Series Premiere

Set in 1830, more than a decade after Jane’s untimely death at 41, Miss Austen focuses on her surviving sister Cassandra (the sublime Keeley Hawes), who’s determined to protect Jane’s privacy when a batch of personal letters are discovered.

9/8c

The Walking Dead: Dead City

Season Premiere

The second season opens with a morose Maggie (Lauren Cohan) reluctantly recruited by the New Babylon Federation army to join an exploratory mission into the rotted Big Apple. Shirking service has serious consequences.

9/8c

The Righteous Gemstones

Series Finale

Having barely escaped a violent death at a gator farm in the last episode, patriarch Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) and Baby Billy (Walton Goggins) each experience life-changing epiphanies in the eventful series finale of the irreverent comedy.

10/9c

Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

Special

Conan O’Brien receives the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor with special guests David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, former sidekick Andy Richter, John Mulaney, Tracy Morgan, and more,

MobLand

A car bomb reignites the war between the Harrigans and the Stevensons in this violent mob drama, and loyal fixer Harry (Tom Hardy) springs into action to protect his own family as well as his boss’s unruly clan.