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Top TV week of Sept. 8: 'Z Nation,' 'Hell's Kitchen,' 'Wahlburgers'

 
'Z Nation' on SyFy.
'Z Nation' on SyFy.
Published Sept. 5, 2014

MONDAY

Rewrapped, 8 p.m., Food

Host Joey Fatone returns for another season of this show in which three chefs have to recreate a beloved snack food from scratch and incorporate that product (this week it's the Hostess Ho Ho!) into a new dish.

MasterChef, 8 p.m., Fox

There's a new two-hour episode this week, in which five and then four home chefs compete against each other as we get closer to the finale. Everyone has to create a dish with a loved one as the inspiration. Aw, how sweet. Doesn't change the fact that Cutter made it to the final five, MasterChef.

TUESDAY

Superhuman Animals, 9 p.m., BBC America

The season finale explores scent, particularly the ways in which animals have evolved their sense of smell beyond humans. Uh, really? We can't even focus on our work when someone halfway across the newsroom brings tuna fish for lunch.

Fashion Rocks, 9 p.m., CBS

Ryan Seacrest hosts this special mixing fashion and music, because is there another person on this Earth who hosts things? Models will show off clothes while an impressive list of musicians perform: Jennifer Lopez, Miranda Lambert, Usher, Pitbull, KISS, Duran Duran and more.

WEDNESDAY

Hell's Kitchen, 8 p.m., Fox

Just as MasterChef is winding down, Gordon Ramsay's other and far less pleasant Fox cooking show heats up again. Eighteen newcomers take the stage in a two-hour episode to open Season 13, with a men vs. women challenge to kick things off.

Wahlburgers, 10 p.m., A&E

Since Marky Mark ditched his own brother Donnie's wedding to Jenny McCarthy over Labor Day weekend, this show just became much more interesting. No, Donnie isn't on this reality show with Mark about the family's burger joint. That would be Paul (who, ahem, was at the wedding), who in this episode has to deal with an interview, a visit to an oyster farm, a skateboarding event and Mark's request that he meet with the mayor of Boston. Paul: Most underrated Wahlberg?

THURSDAY

Rebuilding the World Trade Center, 6 p.m., History

Using time-lapse imagery, this two-hour documentary eight years in the making chronicles the reconstruction of the World Trade Center and restoration of the New York City skyline. We've got chills already.

FRIDAY

The Knick, 10 p.m., Cinemax

In this new episode of Steven Soderbergh's turn-of-the-century medical drama, Everett and Eleanor fear for the health of their baby. Well, yeah, we would too. It's 1900! Medicine wasn't exactly at the height of safety; see: surgeons not using gloves.

Z Nation, 10 p.m., SyFy

It's another new zombie apocalyptic thriller, because there is a real shortage of those these days. This 13-episode series follows a band of heroes making their way from New York to California led by Harold Perrineau from Lost. They're transporting the sole survivor of a zombie plague to the last functioning lab in the hopes of finding a vaccine. Surely everything will go fine.