Brooklyn Nine-Nine returns, now living under an assumed name in Florida

Here’s what up in the world of TV for Tuesday, September 20. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Brooklyn Nine-Nine/New Girl (Fox, 8 p.m./8:30 p.m.): Fox’s stalwart Tuesday night sitcoms are properly reunited after a couple years of Sunday reshufflings and The Grinder (R.I.P.). Brooklyn Nine-Nine has a particularly intriguing opening to its fourth season, with a three-part arc following Peralta and Holt as they remain living in Florida as part of Witness Protection. Meanwhile, New Girl’s premiere finds Nick returning from a summer away and Schmidt and Cece looking to buy a house, both of which sound like good reasons to go ahead and sound the “wacky complications ensue” claxon. LaToya Ferguson is back on the Brooklyn Nine-Nine beat, while Erik Adams hands off his New Girl duties to new reviewer Emily L. Stephens.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC, 10 p.m.): The fourth season begins with S.H.I.E.L.D. once more stepping out of the shadows as a legitimate organization, which must be nice for them. That does mean Agent Coulson has to step aside as director—because Nick Fury just sees the guy as a B+ player, we guess—but that just frees up his schedule to go tracking down Inhumans. Also, Fitz and Simmons are looking to move ahead in their relationship, which seems kind of inevitable, given how perfect a couple’s portmanteau they always had together. Alex McCown-Levy will keep continue to keep tabs with weekly episodic reviews.
Defying The Nazis: The Sharps’ War (PBS, 9 p.m.): This two-hour documentary looks at the Sharps, Unitarian minister Waitstill and social worker Martha, who were posted to Czechoslovakia during World War II and used their position to help hundreds of refugees flee the Nazis. This ought to be just the right mix of inspiring and heartrending.
SmackDown! SmackDown! SmackDown!
WWE SmackDown Live (USA, 8 p.m.): Intercontinental Champion the Miz has resumed his feud with his former protégé and current general manager Daniel Bryan by demanding a new contract that reflects his status as the Blue Brand’s biggest star, with him even threatening to walk out if he doesn’t get what he wants.
And you know what? LaToya Ferguson might think the Miz is being a stupid idiot, but we’ve always said we should model ourselves on the A-Lister, so it’s high time we make some demands of our own. Time for us to be recognized as the greatest What’s On Tonight correspondent of them all, dammit! We’re waiting, A.V. Club management!
Premieres and finales
NCIS (CBS, 8 p.m.): While we’re waiting for negotiations to begin, we might as well check in on the start of the 14th (14th!) season of NCIS, which apparently features a car explosion that has something to do with “an NCIS special agent who disappeared six months ago while on a deep undercover assignment in Argentina.” There’s, uh, a lot of call for American Naval officers to go investigating crimes in Argentina, is there? Look, if this all ends with the team somehow reigniting the Falklands War, we won’t complain.
Bull (CBS, 9 p.m.): Can a show with as ribald a tagline as “He’ll get you off”—complete with one hell of a scoundrel’s smirk—really fit in when sandwiched between a pair of morally upright NCISes? Well, since the show is all about how “renowned psychologist Dr. Jason Bull heads a prolific trial consulting service” and is somehow loosely based on the life of Dr. Phil, we’re going to say… yes. A million times yes.