HOW WE INVENTED THE WORLD
Discovery, 9:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: This new series about interconnected scientific discoveries asks how the smartphone was made possible by, for example, Frankenstein’s monster, movie star Hedy Lamarr, and the Titanic? There’s no need asking, though how they invented How We Invented the World. In theory, it’s a ripoff of James Burke’s classic science series of the 1970s, Connections.