Younger
Wednesday, 10:30 p.m., TV Land
Kelsey Peters (Hilary Duff) has spent the past three seasons of “Younger” ambitiously climbing the corporate ladder at Empirical Publishing with her coll🅠eague and friend, Liza Miller (Sutton Foster). So when Liza revealed in the Season 3 finale that she’s not 26 years old, but 40 with a college-age daughter, Kelsey suffered a major shock. As Season 4 picks up, she is smarting from the betrayal of trust — which drives her to commiserate with Liza’s heartbroken ex-boyfriend, Josh (Nico Tortorella).
Duff, 29, spoke to The Post about what else to expeꦐct in the new episodes.
How does Liza’s bombshell revelation affect Kelsey?
The thing that I really love about Season 4 is we all kind of ended on bad terms [in Season 3]. I’m not roommates with [Lauren] anymore; that ended kind of strange. My boyfriend basically broke up with me because he thought it was getting too serious. [Josh] and [Liza] are in a bad way. Everything is really s﷽tirred up, it’s very real. In previous season💦s, we haven’t really had fights or too much conflict between the characters. The first half of this season really starts off with a bang.
How does the rift between Liza and Kelsey spill into the office?
I🐬t’s a big betrayal. What Kelsey has to lose is so much bigger than outing Liza — it’s los🐓ing her company. Liza’s a big part of Empirical and [Kelsey] is not about to let anything happen to Empirical. She keeps it under wraps for now.
Trailers seem to be teasing Josh and Kelsey getting closer this season. How does that relationship develop?
There’s a big shocki✨ng twist there that I can’t give away. But they do find comfort in one another’s💧 company; they both have been lied to by someone they really cared deeply for. Kelsey makes a move — not on Josh — that is really bold, and you would be like, ‘Wow I can’t believe she did that.’ It’s not really that wrong, but it’s pretty bold. She’s such an instigator.
The fashions on “Younger” always look great. Do you have any favorite outfits this season?
I wore this pink Gucci dress to a funeral. It was a really funny episode where [Kelsey] finds this old-lady author dead in the bathroom at this restaurant. I also wor꧑e this really cute purple dress with this giant yellow flower on it. That was our Beyoncé night. It was really cute; it looked like it should be a top, but it was actually a dress.
—Andrea Morabito
And here’s what else to watch this week:
American Ninja Warrior
Monday, 8 p.m., NBC
Competitors tackle six obstacles including the brand new Rolling Pin and Wingnuts. Fan-favorites Jessie Graff, Drew Drechᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ🐠ᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsel, and JJ Woods return.
Gypsy
Netflix
Series premiere. Manhattan therapist Jean Holloway (Naomi Watts) is ready to take a walk on the wild side. She is cultivating secret relationships with the people her clients discuss in confidence. Early on, sh🔜e covers her tracks, but her curiosity is bound to get the better of her.
Queen Sugar
Wednesday, 10 p.m., OWN
Charley (Dawn Lyen-Gardner) has a heart-to-h💧eart with Davis (Timon Kyle Durrett) ♛about their custody arrangement; Aunt Violet’s (Tina Lifford) time with Hollywood (Omar J. Dorsey) may be at an end; Ralph (Kofi Siriboe) confronts Jacob (Lea Coco) about spying on his property.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Sunday, 9 p.m., CNN
Season finale. Anthony Bourdain (below far right) visits the northern Portuguese city of P🐼orto. Highlights include a sumptuous pig tripe dinner at A Cozinha do Martinho, an at-home meal of sea l🌄amprey and a stop at Café O Afonso.
The Night Shift
Thursday, 10 p.m., NBC
After rescuing a teenager, new dad Drew (Brendan Fehr) re-evaluates his priorities. Back at the hospital, victims from an amus🌄ement park disaster flood the emergency room. Kenny (J.R. Lemon) tries to put Cain (Mark Consuelos) in his place, but Cain’s deft handling of an emergency shows Kenny he may have met his match.
Prime Suspect: Tennison
Sunday, 10 p.m., PBS
Series premiere. This prequel to “Prime Suspect,” which gave Helen Mirren her greatest role as Detective 𓆏Jane Tennison, takes us back to her early years. As a young policewoman in Hackney, England, Tennison (Stefanie Martini) works on a murder case, finding important clues. All of this is gritty and grand. The sexist side of the job includes having to do the washing in the precinct kitchen for lazy male cops. Jane lets her handsome boss (Sam Reid) kiss her.
Battle of the Network Stars
Thursday, 9 p.m., ABC
Series premiere. Teams of current and classic TV stars in various athletic contests. For week one, we have a🧸 showdown between sitcom adults (Bronson Pinchot, Tom Arnold, Tracey Gold) and current and former sitcom kids (Lisa Whelchel, below, Joey Lawrence, Corbin Bleu, Nolan Gould). The Malibu, Calif., campus of Pepperdine University hosts the games.
