Friday’s TV Highlights: ‘Porgy And Bess’ on KOCE

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

The Amazing Race A detour prompts a team to reconsider their options, and a lack of communication results in a meltdown in this new episode. 8 p.m. CBS

Last Man Standing A close call on the highway leaves Boyd (Flynn Morrison) so shaken that he doesn’t want to go anywhere. Mike (Tim Allen), who was with him at the time, and Ryan (Jordan Masterson) have different ideas about how to help him. Nancy Travis and Hector Elizondo also star. 8 p.m. ABC

On the Menu In this new episode of the cooking series, home cooks work with professional chefs to create a new pizza for a major restaurant chain. With Chef Emeril Lagasse and host Ty Pennington. 8 p.m. TNT

Hawaii Five-0 A hired killer from Detroit is “hit” in Hawaii, but McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and his team learn that not everything is as it seems in this new episode. 9 p.m. CBS

America’s Next Top Model Fashion-design icon Bet-?sey Johnson is wowed by a contestant in this new episode. 9 p.m. KTLA

Shark Tank Just in time for Halloween, viewers get an update on a Haunted Hayride business that Mark Cuban took a huge stake in last season. 9 p.m. ABC

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess From San Francisco Opera, one of America’s classic musicals gets a rendering taped at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, with bass-baritone Eric Owens and soprano Laquita Mitchell in the title roles. The standards “Summertime” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So” are included in the George Gershwin score, conducted by John DeMain. Kristin Chenoweth hosts. 9 p.m. KOCE

The Knick In the first season finale, an increasingly paranoid Thackery (Clive Owen) becomes obsessed with solving the riddles of blood-transfusion research in order to beat his rival (Michael Nathanson). 10 p.m. Cinemax

Z Nation The survivors reach a utopian enclave near Branson, Mo., in this new episode of the zombie apocalypse series. 10 p.m. Syfy

SPECIALS

Dane Cook: Troublemaker Both prolific and polarizing, the 42-year-old comic returns to his stand-up roots to share his perspective on the absurdities of modern-day relationships — particularly those entwined in social media. 10 p.m. Showtime

MOVIES

The Monuments Men Director and co-writer, George Clooney also stars in this 2014 true story of art-expert soldiers whose perilous World War II mission was to recover masterpieces stolen by the Nazis. With Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville, Jean Dujardin and Cate Blanchett. 9 p.m. Starz

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Jodi Picoult. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Joan Lunden; Bill Murray; Gerald McRaney; Matt Ryan. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

Good Morning America Emeril Lagasse. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Aretha Franklin; Martin Short; Sara Evans (“Nashville”). (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Michael Bridget Moynahan; Jason Schwartzman; David Muir. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The Dr. Oz Show A doctor says he has been to heaven; a mother of 15 wants to lose weight. (N) 10 a.m. KCOP; 2 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley; James Van Praagh. (N) 11 a.m. KCAL

Wendy Williams Megan Mullally. (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Selena Gomez; Elizabeth Henstridge; Gesine Bullock-Prado. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

Rachael Ray Billy Crudup. (N) 1 p.m. KABC

The Queen Latifah Show Carl Reiner; Jai Courtney. (N) 2 p.m. KCBS

Meredith Vieira Jordin Sparks. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

Dr. Phil Parents are fed up with their adult son. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Channing Tatum, Zoe Saldana and Diego Luna; Rosemarie DeWitt; Devon Still; Jessie J performs. (N) 4 p.m. KNBC

Washington Week U.S. and international response to Ebola outbreak: Josh Gerstein. Turkey and the fight agains ISIS: Hannah Allam. The economy: Eamon Javers. Debates between Senate candidates: John Dickerson. (N) 8 p.m. KOCE

Real Time Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.); David Frum; Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland); David Miliband. (N) 10 p.m. HBO

Charlie Rose (N) 11 p.m. KVCR; 12:30 a.m. KOCE

The Tonight Show Bradley Cooper; Neil Diamond performs. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

Late Show Marcus; Foo Fighters perform. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel LL Cool J. 11:35 p.m. KABC

Tavis Smiley Melissa Etheridge. (N) midnight KOCE

The Late Late Show Sean Hayes; “Weird Al” Yankovic performs. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS