TV picks for April 30: 'Elementary,' 'Dancing With the Stars,' 'James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction'

April 29, 2018 at 7:00PM
FOR USE WITH FYI_TV CONTENT ONLY. DANCING WITH THE STARS: ATHLETES - Get ready, sports fans, for the most competitive season of "Dancing with the Stars" ever as the show fires up the scoreboard and welcomes 10 athletes to sparkle up their uniforms and lace up their dancing shoes as they ready themselves for their first dance on the ballroom floor, on the season premiere of "Dancing with the Stars: Athletes," MONDAY, APRIL 30 (8:00-10:01 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. (ABC/Craig Sjodin
Tonya Harding is participating in an all-sports edition of “Dancing With the Stars.” ABC (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Jocks who jig

Tonya Harding and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are the most intriguing MVPs in an all-sports edition of "Dancing With the Stars." The casting stunt makes sense; 10 athletes have been crowned champs over 25 seasons.

7 p.m., KSTP, Ch. 5

A space odyssey

One of Hollywood's most successful but maddeningly sporadic film directors has found a new way to procrastinate with "AMC Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction," a limited docu-series determined to showcase every movie from the genre short of "My Stepmother Is an Alien." You won't learn much, but it's fun to observe earthlings like Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott talk shop with Cameron.

9 p.m., AMC

Clueless

Those itching for a wimpier Sherlock Holmes may want to revisit "Elementary," which kicks off its delayed sixth season with Jonny Lee Miller's version of the famed detective, who is more obsessed with mortality than Moriarty. The shift in personality makes Holmes a bit more humane — and a lot more humdrum.

9 p.m., WCCO, Ch. 4

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James Cameron, Ridley Scott - James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction _ Season 1 - Photo Credit: Michael Moriatis/AMC
Cameron (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Pictured (L-R) Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson of the CBS series ELEMENTARY, premiering for a fourth season on Thursday, Nov. 5 10:00-11:00 PM ET/PT. Photo: Justin Stephens/CBS © 2014 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. ORG XMIT: 105443
Miller (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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