The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

24 Hours in the ER

Dozens of cameras were operating 24 hours a day for four weeks at a London hospital to capture the footage used in this 14-part series, which tracks dramas both great and small inside one of England’s busiest emergency rooms. In the two-part opener, the staff’s challenges include a student badly injured when he was dragged under a bus, and a motorcyclist who had a head-on collision with a car. Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 9 p.m., BBC America

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This documentary is the third part of an acclaimed trilogy that has followed three generations of one family living in the slums of Jakarta. As the film focuses on a teenage granddaughter the family hopes will be their first member to go to college, it reveals greater religious, economic, and social trends in the world’s largest Muslim nation. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m., HBO2

Luther

Idris Elba has been justly nominated for a lead-actor Emmy for his work in this brooding British police drama about a detective who habitually intervenes in the lives his cases touch, often to his sorrow. In the season opener, Luther matches wits with a serial killer and tries to rescue an old acquaintance’s young daughter from a life of prostitution. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 10 p.m., BBC America

The Latino List

This documentary marks Hispanic Heritage Month by offering intimate and often irreverent thumbnail portraits of prominent American Latinos in business, public service, and the arts. Among the interviewees: Honduran-American actress America Ferrera, former astronaut José Moreno Hernández, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, rapper Pitbull, and Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, a son of Cuban immigrants. Thursday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m., HBO

In Her Corner: Latino in America

Having already won six national championships, 22-year-old Mexican-American boxer Marlen Esparza now has her sights set on representing the U.S. in the 2012 Olympics, when women’s boxing will be an event for the first time. Correspondent Soledad O’Brien traces how Esparza overcame opposition from her parents, negative stereotypes, and a lack of financial backing to achieve success in her male-dominated sport. Saturday, Oct. 1, at 8 p.m., CNN

Other highlights

Terra Nova

Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of this ambitious new science-fiction series about a family from a dystopian future that is attempting to colonize the prehistoric past. Monday, Sept. 26, at 8 p.m., Fox

MythBusters

The Emmy-nominated science series returns for a new season of fact-checking popular beliefs. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 9 p.m., Discovery

Great Performances: Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk—A Celebration of New Orleans Blues

The star of House displays his musical chops while performing with Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, and Tom Jones. Friday, Sept. 30, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings