TV highlights (April 28, 2019): ‘ER’ star back in ‘The Red Line’ |

‘ER’ star on ‘The Red Line’

Noah Wyle (“ER”) returns to episodic TV in “The Red Line” (7 p.m., CBS), an eight-part topical melodrama airing in two-episode installments over the next four Sunday nights.

Wyle portrays Daniel, a high school teacher whose husband, a black surgeon, is mistakenly taken for a convenience store robber and shot dead by a Chicago policeman.

Named after a transit line that connects the city’s different neighborhoods, the series examines the police shooting and its aftermath from different points of view.

Daniel’s role as a history teacher allows him to underscore some of the series’ emphatic messaging. As he tells his students, history is not so much a collection of static facts, but the decisions of the millions of people who lived before us.

n Amy and Jonah play hardball with Selina as Super Tuesday nears on “Veep” (10 p.m., HBO). This savage satire has managed to keep its bite by creating a parallel political universe unrelated to the ongoing travails of the current reality-television administration.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

n Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): An interview with acting Homeland Security secretary Kevin McAleenan; Chinese websites that sell fentanyl; Norway’s border with Russia.

n Competitors face deep cuts on “World of Dance” (7 p.m., NBC).

n Kara works both sides of her identity on “Supergirl” (7 p.m., CW).

n Villanelle moves operations to Amsterdam on “Killing Eve” (7 p.m., AMC, BBC America).

n Valjean hopes to make up for his treatment of Fantine by rescuing Cosette on “Les Miserables” on “Masterpiece” (8 p.m., PBS).

n Stan takes his licks on ”Good Girls” (9 p.m., NBC).