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What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Broad City’ and ‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’

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Abbi Jacobson, left, and Ilana Glazer in Season 4 of “Broad City.”

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Despite their new jobs and hairdos, the feminist slackers of “Broad City” have yet to grow up. And the late-night comic Samantha Bee returns for a third run.

What’s on TV

BROAD CITY 10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central. Yass, queen! Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are back for Season 4, starring as 20-something New Yorkers who breeze through their millennial lives, despite the city’s many frustrations and their laughable bad luck. The actors’ chemistry is what makes their onscreen friendship worth watching: Ms. Glazer plays an outgoing, pot-smoking slacker whose exuberance loosens up the uptight and timid Ms. Jacobson. Set in 2011, the first episode of the new season traces the horrible events that led to the best friends’ first meeting.

SUITS 9 p.m. on USA Network; also on iTunes and Amazon. Old rivalries come back to haunt the lawyers at Pearson Specter Litt in this Season 7 finale. Mike (Patrick J. Adams) and Harvey (Gabriel Macht) are cornered when Harvey’s past stifles Mike’s plan to take on a corporate case and go after a well-known attorney general. And after Robert (Wendell Pierce) asks Rachel (Meghan Markle) to collaborate on a pro bono case, his explosive behavior reveals an ulterior motive.

MARLON 9:30 p.m. on NBC. In this family sitcom loosely inspired by his life, the comedian Marlon Wayans plays a zany father dedicated to raising his children with his former wife Ashley (Essence Atkins), whom he can’t quite let go of. Season 1 ends with Marlon and Ashley revisiting their first date on their first wedding anniversary since their divorce. Pair it with “NAKED,” on Netflix, a film starring Mr. Wayans as a groom who’s stuck in a humiliating nightmare.

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Samantha Bee, with President Trump onscreen.

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FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE 10:30 p.m. on TBS. The late-night host Samantha Bee returns with her Emmy Award-winning satirical news program, tackling the recent hurricanes and President Trump’s move to end the Dreamers program for young immigrant arrivals.

What’s Streaming

IN THE VAULT on go90. Most students begin college with the typical anxieties of making friends and getting good grades. But the Woodlawn College students in this new mystery series face a more daunting task: solving a murder. After a freshman is found dead outside a party one month into the semester, dorm residents turn on one another as they try to weed out the killer.

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A scene from “The Confession Tapes.”

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THE CONFESSION TAPES on Netflix. Six people who claim they were wrongly convicted of crimes recount the questionable investigations and interrogation sessions that led to their confessions in this new documentary series. Through harrowing images of the crimes coupled with interrogation recordings, the episodes convey how the suspects reached breaking points that landed them behind bars.

CONTACT (1997) on iTunes, Amazon, Hulu and Netflix. In this adaptation of the 1985 Carl Sagan novel, Jodie Foster stars as a radio astronomer intent on becoming the first human to communicate with extraterrestrials. Matthew McConaughey plays a minister who challenges her mission.

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