What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Channel Zero: No-End House’ and ‘The Good Place’

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“Channel Zero” borrows from another creepy, cultish internet story for its second installment. And Kristen Bell returns to the “good place” with plenty of questions.

What’s on TV

CHANNEL ZERO: NO-END HOUSE 10 p.m. on Syfy. This anthology horror series returns with another rendition of a “creepypasta” tale, a horror story that circulates on the internet. Friends Margot (Amy Forsyth, “The Path”) and Jules (Aisha Dee, “The Bold Type”) venture into an ominous house that has six increasingly frightening rooms. When Margot returns home, she realizes that the “no-end house” is not merely filled with dreadful monsters; the rooms play on visitors’ memories to instill psychological terror that follows them out the door.

BREAKING2 (2017) 8 p.m. on National Geographic. Nike supports three world-class runners as they attempt to break the two-hour marathon barrier in this documentary. Dennis Kimetto of Kenya broke the world record (2 hours, 2 minutes and 57 seconds) for the 26.2-mile distance in 2014. Shoe companies have since funded programs that use the latest scientific, athletic and technological advancements to try to help runners shatter that record. In “Breaking2,” a team monitors the athletes during mock marathons, controlling factors such as draft, temperature and the type of track.

AMERICA’S GOT TALENT 8 p.m. on NBC. Tyra Banks hosts this Season 12 finale, awarding one of the five remaining contestants the $1 million prize. Competitors include Mandy Harvey, a deaf jazz and pop singer; Diavolo, an acrobatic dance troupe; and Angelica Hale, a 9-year-old singer.

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THE GOOD PLACE 10 p.m. on NBC. Warning: A major spoiler lies ahead. This comedy began in what the characters thought was heaven. But an astonishing turn of events in the Season 1 finale upended the plot. Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil) and Jason (Manny Jacinto) were in a pretty bad place, suffering in their own specific way under a wicked scheme by the “good place” administrator, Michael (Ted Danson). When Eleanor uncovered the plan, Michael wiped their memories and rebooted the elaborate deception. In this Season 2 premiere, Eleanor finds a note she left herself before her slate was cleaned. The series returns to its regular time slot next Thursday.

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CAPTURED IN SUDAN (2017) on Vice and fieldofvision.org. When rebels took up arms against the Sudanese government in 2003, they met a counterinsurgency that sparked a genocidal conflict. The journalists Phil Cox and Daoud Hari covered the onset of the war in 2004. After parting ways, they crossed paths years later in New York and returned to Darfur last December to investigate allegations of the use of chemical weapons against civilians. The government issued a $250,000 bounty for their capture. This modest documentary — filmed surreptitiously during the journalists’ abduction — traces the harrowing 40 days of their detention until their release this year.

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