http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/arts/television/empire-pitch-what-to-watch.html 2016-10-03 19:42:31 What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Empire’ and ‘Pitch’ From the Watching team, expert TV and movie recommendations for the next few days. === Welcome to Watching, The New York Times’s what-to-watch guide. We comb through releases big and small to email readers twice a week with our timely recommendations. You can browse previous guides Dear Watchers, I feel about a well-stocked DVR/Netflix queue the way others feel about a well-stocked pantry. Knowing there are some more episodes of “Marvel’s Luke Cage” waiting for me, some “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team,” a “ This week there’s a ton of great stuff to watch, and some not-great stuff I’ll probably watch anyway. Stay rad, kitty cats. “Timeless,” 10 p.m., NBC (New Series) To its credit, “Timeless” seems to know that its setup is too stupid to withstand any kind of scrutiny, so it tries to blow past it as quickly as possible and just get to the wacky “we’re in the past!” hijinx. The show crams in melodrama, family drama, righteous monologizing, hand-wavey sci-fi nonsense and pertinent facts about the Hindenburg, plus it’s basically a cops-and-robbers show. It comes up short on most of these fronts, and I genuinely said “Oh, brother,” out loud, in real life, three times during the episode. But the show is so gung-ho about everything that you almost fall for its gumption. “Conviction,” 10 p.m., ABC (New Series) It’s not a bad idea for a show per se, but every second of the execution is hacky and predictable, and the show slides between insultingly stupid and just regular stupid. Let “Conviction” and ABC’s Thursday-night show “Notorious” serve as important lessons: Doing a Shondaland-type show is much harder than it looks. “The Mindy Project,” season premiere, Hulu In the Season 5 premiere, Mindy tries to “decide” between Danny and Jody, even though Danny is engaged, and this is the story the show has already been telling for a whole season. I will continue to watch out of devotion to Morgan and a lingering sense of good will toward a show I once adored, but this is not the “Mindy” many of us fell in love with. “No Tomorrow,” 9 p.m., The CW (New Series) “No Tomorrow” is earnest and bubbly, and moves with an easy rom-com rhythm, giving supporting characters in particular just enough of a little quirk. Plus, Sasse is all earthy-heartthrob charm. The show is based on a Brazilian series, which alleviates some of the concerns about plotting. The Vice-Presidential Debates “Empire,” 9 p.m., Fox “Frequency,” 9 p.m., The CW (New Series) “Pitch,” 9 p.m., Fox “Project Runway,” 9 p.m., Lifetime “Best of Enemies” “Best of Enemies” interweaves the wittiest hits from the debates with an exploration of the men’s backgrounds, personalities and similarities. For politics and history buffs, this documentary is a must. ( “The Witch”