The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

The outspoken chef returns for an eighth season of his Emmy-winning travel series, which is often as refreshingly forthright as its host. In Mozambique, he not only celebrates the vibrant local cuisine, but also visits a defunct hotel teeming with unfortunates displaced by the country’s 16-year civil war. (Bourdain will also be popping up on Tuesday night, on TCM, as the evening’s guest programmer.) Monday, April 9, at 9 p.m., Travel Channel

Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved

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This documentary journeys to the wreck site of the Titanic, chronicling a 2010 expedition that yielded the first comprehensive map of the ship’s 15-square-mile debris field. The team’s findings then allow computer experts to create a holographic reconstruction of the ship and propose a definitive explanation of how and why the liner sank in the North Atlantic a century ago. Sunday, April 15, at 8 p.m., History

Masterpiece: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

“Things never turn out as we hope,” an opium-den proprietor remarks to protagonist John Jasper in this hectic adaptation of Charles Dickens’s unfinished final novel. A convincing Matthew Rhys stars as the drug-addicted Jasper, a choirmaster who dreams of murdering his nephew Edwin Drood and claiming the hand of Drood’s fiancée. The twists come fast and furious. Sunday, April 15, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings

NYC 22

Created by novelist Richard Price (Clockers), this ensemble police drama harks back to such classics of the genre as Hill Street Blues. The premiere, in which a crop of rookie New York cops face such challenges as gang tension and a domestic hostage crisis, gets melodramatic at times, but the series’s engaging characters carry it through. Standouts among the cast include Adam Goldberg, Leelee Sobieski, and Terry Kinney. Sunday, April 15, at 10 p.m., CBS

Girls

Lena Dunham is fearless. In her new series, the 25-year-old creator of the indie hit Tiny Furniture plays a self-absorbed wannabe artist while offering a droll, subversive, and often painfully frank look at the lives of young, single women in New York. Dunham once again directs, writes, and stars. Her co-stars prove to be equally fine and funny. Sunday, April 15, at 10:30 p.m., HBO

Other highlights

Deadliest Catch

An eighth season begins for this docuseries about hazardous fishing in the Bering Sea. Tuesday, April 10, at 9 p.m., Discovery

Peter O’Toole: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival

The actor looks back at his career in an hour-long chat with TCM host Robert Osborne. The Lion in Winter, which brought O’Toole an Oscar nomination, follows at 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, at 8 p.m., TCM

Independent Lens: When the Drum Is Beating

This documentary makes the beloved Haitian band Orchestre Septentrional the centerpiece of a look back at more than a half century of the nation’s turbulent, often tragic history. Thursday, April 12, at 10 p.m., PBS; check local listings