What’s on TV Monday: ‘Futurama’ and ‘Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party’

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The “Futurama” gang arrives on Hulu. And Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg return to their kitchens for a second season of dinner parties.

What’s Streaming

FUTURAMA on Amazon and Hulu. Step into the 31st century with this Emmy Award-winning animated series by the creators of “The Simpsons.” After being accidentally cryogenically frozen, Fry (voiced by Billy West), a pizza delivery boy, wakes up 1,000 years in the future and takes a job with Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery service. He finds friends in his elderly descendant, the mad scientist Professor Farnsworth (also Billy West), the sassy Cyclops Leela (Katey Sagal) and the heavy-drinking robot Bender (John DiMaggio). This sci-fi spoof ran for 14 years before wrapping up in 2013. “The fact remains that few shows have been as steadily funny or as relentlessly inventive,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times.

ACCEPTABLE RISK on Acorn TV. When Sarah (Elaine Cassidy) learns that her husband, Lee (Paul Popowich), a salesman for a powerful organization, was murdered during a trip in Montreal, she digs into his past with the help of Detective Byrne (Angeline Ball). This six-part Irish drama follows the incredulous widow as she confronts a global conspiracy that may have included her own family, and she increasingly suspects that Lee’s killing is tied to the death of her first husband.

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MOTHERLAND (2017) 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). This cinéma vérité documentary highlights Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in the Philippines, one of the busiest maternity and newborn tertiary public hospitals in the world. With an average of 60 births a day, the hospital largely serves poor pregnant women who cannot afford contraception or the $60 delivery fee. The Filipino director Ramona S. Diaz candidly captures the highs and lows of its crowded rooms: multiple patients crammed on single beds, nurses counseling mothers-to-be on hygiene and the remarkable act of giving birth. Writing in The Times, Ms. Diaz explained, “More than the hospital, I wanted to tell the stories of the mothers it cares for, and the makeshift communities they forge there sharing profoundly intimate communal spaces with one another.”

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THE VOICE 8 p.m. on NBC. Carson Daly hosts as the contestants begin the battle rounds of this reality talent contest. The vocal coaches — Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Jennifer Hudson and Miley Cyrus — team up with recording artists to prepare singers for their performances.

MARTHA & SNOOP’S POTLUCK DINNER PARTY 10 p.m. on VH1. Television’s oddest pair returns for a second season of star-studded dinner parties, beginning with a birthday celebration for Snoop Dogg. Martha Stewart treats him to her signature birthday sangria, and Jamie Foxx, Patti LaBelle and Charlie Wilson join for pork chops and paella. “One thing about food, it’s a great conversation piece,” Snoop Dogg told The Times. “That’s what’s missing in a lot of the world — conversation.”

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