Monday's Best Bets on TV

“Secret Access: Air Force One” (8 p.m., History): Cameras go into the president’s plane to see what’s inside.

“The Black List: Volume One”(9 p.m., HBO): This new documentary series provides compelling portraits of notable black Americans, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, author Toni Morrison, basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, comedian Chris Rock, and others. Elvis Mitchell conducts the interviews.

“America’s Toughest Jobs” (9 p.m., NBC): From the producer of “Deadliest Catch” and “Ice Road Truckers,” TV’s booming tough-guy-and-gal genre adds a game-show twist with “America’s Toughest Jobs.” Described as an extreme competition series, it dares 13 men and women to venture out of their safe, conventional careers to compete in dangerous and demanding jobs like, well, extreme fishing (in the premiere episode) and driving 18-wheelers above the Arctic Circle (on week 2). At the end of each episode, their current boss and co-workers size them up, and contestants who don’t make the cut are sent packing. The annual salary of each job will be thrown into the winner’s pot until the finale of the 10-episode series, when one surviving rookie will claim it all.