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‘The Night Of’s Bill Camp hunts terrorists in hard-hitting al-Qaeda miniseries

Bill Camp as FBI agent Robert Chesney.Hulu

The Looming Tower

Wednesday, 3 a.m., Hulu

Longtime theater actor Bill Camp impressed viewers with his quietly intense portrayal of Dennis Box in the 2016 summer series “The Night Of” on HBO. Box was a detective who was about to retire from the NYPD when he took on the case of an American-born Muslim arrested for a brutal murder. Camp earned himself an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie.

Camp plays another law-enforcement professional about to hang up his spurs in the Hulu limited series “The Looming Tower,” an exploration of how the turf war between the FBI and the CIA may have helped Osama bin Laden advance his mission against the US. As fictitious FBI agent Robert Chesney, Camp displays frightening interrogation skills in a scene with one of the two men responsible for the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Filmed in South Africa, the series also stars Jeff Daniels and Alec Baldwin as CIA director George Tenet.

The actor, who lives in Brooklyn with his wife, actress Elizabeth Marvel (“Homeland”), spoke to The Post from Florida, where they were on vacation together.

Who is Bob Chesney?

He is an FBI agent who has a lot of experience working domestically in terms of organized crime in the US, but he’s fast-approaching retirement.

Spouses Elizabeth Marvel and Bill Camp have both played the US president.Patrick McMullan via Getty Image

The series establishes a chain of disasters that leads to 9/11. Do you think viewers will find those events painful to watch now?

I think it’s going to be difficult for viewers who remember what happened. As difficult as that is, I think it’s important as a citizenry to look at the show and see if we can learn from the mistakes we have made.

Your wife is playing the US president on “Homeland.” Has that changed her personality?

No. It’s been very exciting and fun for us. Working on that “Homeland” team has been an extraordinary experience for her. We had a period of time when we were both playing the president. I play the president in a film you’ll see in the next year [he won’t give the name].

Will there be new episodes of “The Night Of”?

That would be a great gig. To work with Richard [Price, executive producer] and HBO and John [Turturro] again. These are all things I dream of.


And here’s what else to watch this week:

The Good Doctor

Monday, 10 p.m., ABC

Dr. Murphy’s (Freddie Highmore) teenage patient has been confined to her home her entire life due to a rare heart condition. Despite her malady, she has cultivated a large online following and hopes that the surgical team can find a way to give her the life she has always dreamed of having.

Scandal/How to Get Away With Murder

Thursday, 9 and 10 p.m., ABC

Two Shondaland divas — Viola Davis (below left) and Kerry Washington (below right) — compete in the overacting sweepstakes in back-to-back crossover episodes. Olivia (Washington) gets a surprise visitor while packing up at the White House: attorney Annalise Keating (Davis), who seeks her help in fast-tracking a judicial reform class action suit to the Supreme Court. Expect some shouting and, perhaps, a runny nose.

ABC

Atlanta

Thursday, 10 p.m., FX

Season premiere. The award-winning comedy created by Donald Glover returns with the further adventures of successful rapper Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles (Brian Tyree Henry) and his cousin/man-ager, Earn Marks (Glover), as they navigate the music scene in Atlanta.

Will & Grace

Thursday, 9 p.m., NBC

Grace (Debra Messing) realizes she’s dated three men from the same family. Will (Eric McCormack) and Karen (Megan Mullally) get on each other’s nerves at the office until they bond over watching — and producing — their own telenovela.

Good Girls

Monday, 10 p.m., NBC

Series premiere. A trio of suburban moms (Retta, Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman) rob a supermarket to get a little cash to help them and their families out. Unfortunately, the supermarket is in the territory of a local gang, and the women find themselves in hot water.

Modern Family

Wednesday, 9 p.m., ABC

When Jay (Ed O’Neill) overhears Gloria (Sofía Vergara) talking about spanking on the telephone, he assumes she is frustrated in the bedroom. When he attempts to light the spark again by giving her exactly what he thinks she wants, he realizes he may have made a big mistake.

Unreal

Monday, 10 p.m., Lifetime

Season premiere. With the dating show “Everlasting” on the brink of cancellation, executive producer Quinn King (Constance Zimmer) persuades fellow producer Rachel Goldberg (Shiri Appleby) to return to the set as a new contestant arrives. She is Serena (Caitlin FitzGerald), a celebrity entrepreneur who is no pushover for the diabolical schemes usually cooked up by Quinn and Rachel. Co-starring Craig Bierko.