In foreground, Jason Ralph and Stella Maeve in “The Magicians.”

There’s hundreds of older enchantment - although not a single round on Quidditch - to be found in Syfy’s handle “The Magicians.” Rachel Bloom attracts on him big-girl underwear in “Funny Ex-Girlfriend.” And Nat Geo remembers both the space shuttle Challenger.

THE MAGICIANS 9 p.m. on Syfy. Lev Grossman’s dream trilogy is kind of as if Harry Potter for grown-ups - and if Harry were one clinically upset Ivy Leaguer unable to face life without his medication. Who batches off Quentin Coldwater, who offers look at of a medical and sought refuge to one of 5 Narnia-like “Fillory and Other” books that have draw him since years as a child. Cut to be able to his grad college interview with regard to Yale, where he lucks on the book with regard to a long-rumored sixth arrange. And that propels him or her into an access exam with regard to Brakebills School in upstate Teenage York. Suddenly Quentin’s enchanted world kicks in to period. This’s “a better-than-average Syfy shows,” Mike Hale left in The Teenage York Times. “But both the show is actually other enough beneath its details” - more serious language, sexier costumes and also the occasional picture on levitating sex - “which from moment to be able to moment you miss out on how derivative it's.” (Picture: Jason Ralph, as Quentin, and also Stella Maeve)

CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND 8 p.m. on CW. Rachel Bloom, her “Attractive Golden Globey Song” (she won with regard to greatest actress beneath a comedy) circulating out there, steps side to her Spanx with regard to other round when Rebecca Bunch, the effective New York counsel that followed him summer camp boyfriend to be able to West Covina, Calif. The zaniness resumes when she tries to be able to charm Josh’s friends through renting a reception bus to answer these people to the seaside.

LUCIFER 9 p.m. upon Fox. The Devil (Tom Ellis) increases Cain in Los Angeles - and also helps one policeman (Lauren German) wreak havoc on prisoners - because apparently hell wasn’t amazing enough. This teenage series, Neil Genzlinger of Situations wrote, offers “the sexist, salacious mind-set of 14-year-old boy.”

CHALLENGER DISASTER: LOST TAPES 9 p.m. upon Nat Geo. Upon Jan. 28, 1986, the country look at as the space shuttle Challenger poped 73 seconds after liftoff. All of seven crew users passed on, including Christa McAuliffe on Concord, N.H., winner of NASA’s Instructor in Space Process. In this 30th-anniversary documentary, archival interviews for the flight crew, music documentings from the cockpit and also video from Mission Control reproduce both the story. (Picture: McAuliffe, departed, training to Barbara Morgan)

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ACTRESS (2014) upon Fandor. Is she with regard to true? Brandy Burre, above, made a recurring part on HBO’s “Both the Wire” on she quit behaving and also moved to be able to upstate New York to create a home to him boyfriend and also their two kidses. But when she prefers to reignite her original work, her residential life crumbles. Robert Greene certificates the clutter this documentary, which One. O. Scott of Times known as “elusive and intriguing.” (Picture: Ms. Burre)