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Thursday, June 22
The Bear
Hulu
Season Premiere!
Season 2 of the hit kitchen drama starring Jeremy Allen White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach returns this summer to find The Original Beef closed for business and its crew working on opening up a new restaurant. Though the details of the new season are being kept under wraps, the main characters are all set to return, which means there won’t be a shortage of interpersonal drama between this close-knit group as they juggle the bureaucracy of Chicago permits and contracts with the challenges of creating a new menu. All 10 episodes drop today.
And Just Like That…
Max
Season Premiere!
“We are all blissfully unaware when our lives are about to change,” tells Sarah Jessica Parker as the famed Carrie Bradshaw in the Season 2 tease. The three besties (Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis) are back together again for real girl talk and friendship affirmations, and a constant reminder that “life’s too short not to try something new.” Something new this season includes the return of a familiar face: Kim Cattrall, whose Samantha was noticeably absent from Season 1, will briefly reprise her role as the fan-favorite character in Season 2. The first two episodes drop today; new episodes will be available Thursdays.
Downey’s Dream Cars
Max
New Series!
Robert Downey Jr. loves restoring classic cars, but he’s also become dedicated to fighting climate change. So he’s bringing his beloved old cars into the future, making them faster, more powerful and more efficient while keeping their souls intact, and you can see how in this series. Two episodes are available Thursdays beginning today.
Let’s Get Divorced
Netflix
New Series!
This Japanese comedy/drama follows a rookie politician (Tori Matsuzaka) and his actress wife (Riisa Naka), who no longer love each other and decide to get a divorce. They are optimistic that this should be an easy process; however, their parents and agents don’t want them to do it and get in their way, so the couple has no other choice but to work together in order to be apart.
Clean Sweep
Sundance Now & AMC+
New Series!
This Irish suspense thriller is told from the point of view of the killer — who happens to be a self-sacrificing mother and wife. Shelly Mohan (Charlene McKenna) is super mom. She juggles the complex lives and schedules of three kids, ages 10, 11 and 15. Her days are filled with cooking and cleaning, shopping and chauffeuring, and she somehow manages to have a home-cooked meal on the table by the time her husband (Barry Ward), a Galway Garda detective, arrives home every night. It’s chaotic, hectic and mostly thankless, but it is a life Shelly is happy with. However, when a dark secret emerges from her past, she makes a fatal choice to prevent the truth from surfacing. The first two episodes are available today; new episodes drop Thursdays.
2023 NBA Draft
ABC & ESPN, 8pm Live
Teams stock up on rookie talent tonight at the 77th NBA Draft at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The Blacklist: “Wormwood”
NBC, 8pm
Red’s (James Spader) attempt to mediate a meeting between two rival families takes a deadly turn. When an elusive criminal is linked to the incident, the task force races against time to save Red and his associates.
Star of the Month: Katharine Hepburn: “Kate the Great”
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
As Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Thursday night salute to Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn continues this evening, the actress’ female-empowering roles are on display, beginning with the romantic comedy Holiday (1938), costarring Cary Grant and directed by George Cukor in one of his several collaborations with Hepburn. Another of those collaborations came in the next film, an adaptation of the literary classic Little Women (1933). Following that is the Victorian-era drama A Woman Rebels (1936); Undercurrent, a 1946 film noir directed by Vincente Minnelli, and costarring Robert Taylor and Robert Mitchum; and Stage Door (1937), a drama also featuring Ginger Rogers and Adolphe Menjou.
Fix My Flip
HGTV, 9pm
Season Finale!
In “Condemned House Nightmare,” flippers Jackie and Elmer have purchased a house in Diamond Bar, California, that was abandoned and condemned. When Elmer receives a difficult health diagnosis, they turn to real estate expert Page Turner to help Jackie complete the massive renovation while he recovers. Bringing the neglected property up to par with the rest of the neighborhood will require Page to invest a lot more of her time, money and sweat equity, but in the end, her ability to offer support to the couple during a challenging time makes it all worth it. After the monumental renovation is complete, Page hopes to surprise Elmer, a longtime L.A. Dodgers fan, with a personal message of encouragement from baseball great James Loney, but she’ll get an uplifting surprise herself when the visit turns into an emotional reunion.
Before We Die
PBS, 9pm
Season Premiere!
This British crime thriller, which is a remake of a Swedish series, returns for Season 2. In Season 1, Detective Hannah Laing (Lesley Sharp) and crime matriarch Dubravka Mimica (Kazia Pelka), two mothers on opposite sides of the law, both lost sons. Hannah’s son fell in love with Bianca Mimica (Issy Knopfler) and fled overseas, while Dubravka’s son is missing and presumed dead. While Dubravka seeks revenge, Hannah must finish the job her son started and expose the Mimica gang.
Trippin’ With Anthony Anderson and Mama Doris
E!, 10pm
New Series!
Hit sitcom star Anthony Anderson (black-ish) owes his Mama Doris a lot, as she gave up her own dreams of being an actress to raise him. As a token of his appreciation, he is treating her to the trip of a lifetime — a six-week excursion through England, France and Italy — to discover some of Europe’s wonders and luxuries for her first time. Spending this amount of quality time together will be a real test for their relationship, as the pair disagree on most anything and everything in the eight-episode series.
Wild West Chronicles: “Annie Oakley & Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Showdown”
INSP, 10pm
When Buffalo Bill adds another female sharpshooter, Lillian Smith, to his Wild West show, it jeopardizes his relationship with the show’s current star, Annie Oakley. As the rivalry between Annie and Lillian escalates, the future of the show is put at risk.
Friday, June 23
Swagger
Apple TV+
Season Premiere!
Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Isaiah Hill, this sports drama inspired by NBA superstar Kevin Durant’s experiences in youth basketball returns for Season 2. New episodes are available Fridays.
World’s Best
Disney+
Original Film!
In this hip-hop musical comedy adventure, 12-year-old mathematics genius Prem Patel (Manny Magnus), in the midst of navigating the tumultuous hardships of adolescence, discovers his recently deceased father (cowriter/executive producer Utkarsh Ambudkar, who also cowrote the film’s original songs) was a famous rapper and immediately sets out to pursue a career for himself as a rap superstar. While his actions may appear reckless and the quickest way for him to lose everything, Prem, empowered by imaginative hip-hop music-fueled fantasies where he performs with his father, is determined to find out if hip-hop truly is in his DNA.
Through My Window: Across the Sea
Netflix
Original Film!
This sequel to last year’s Spanish teen romantic drama Through My Window follows Raquel (Clara Galle) and Ares (Julio Peña) as they face challenges in the next chapter of their relationship and in their individual lives. Ares has gone to study in Stockholm, and he and Raquel are in a long-distance relationship — which is more challenging than they had expected. When summer arrives and they meet again, the long separation and the people they have met during that time will test what they thought was an unbreakable bond.
I’m a Virgo
Prime Video
New Series!
Filmmaker Boots Riley created, wrote and executive produced this darkly comedic and fantastical coming-of-age comedy about Cootie (Jharrel Jerome), a 13-foot-tall young Black man in Oakland, California. Having grown up hidden away and passing time on a diet of comic books and TV shows, he escapes and embarks on a mythical odyssey to experience the beauty and contradictions of the real world. Walton Goggins, Brett Gray and Kara Young also star. All seven episodes drop today.
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Rackley Roofing 200
FS1, 8pm Live
Zane Smith, Ty Majeski and Ben Rhodes hope to keep their momentum in this Craftsman Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway.
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist & The Exorcist III
MOVIES!, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
With the classic 1973 chiller The Exorcist turning 50 later this year, and a new direct sequel to it being released in October, it’s a good time to revisit a couple of other entries in that horror franchise, and you can do so during the Friday Night Frights lineup on MOVIES! this evening. Up first is 2005’s Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist. This film’s history is a bit confusing; it had been completed by director Paul Schrader before being retooled by the studio into Exorcist: The Beginning, under the hand of director Renny Harlin. That was released in 2004 and not very well received. Dominion was then released, and while it only gained marginally better reviews, that might be because it was tainted by memories of The Beginning, which really isn’t too good. This one is a bit more understated in its horror and exploration of evil, and Stellan Skarsgård is especially impressive as a younger version of Father Merrin, Max von Sydow’s character in the original Exorcist, in a story that takes place nearly 30 years before the events of that film. Following Dominion is The Exorcist III, a 1990 film written and directed by William Peter Blatty, author of the novel The Exorcist, who based this movie on his 1983 book Legion. George C. Scott leads the cast as a police detective investigating a series of murders that ultimately seem connected to the demon that originally possessed young Regan in the first movie. Jason Miller reprises his role as Damien Karras from The Exorcist. The film is an interesting entry in the franchise, and is certainly better than 1977’s Exorcist II: The Heretic (the events of which this production ignores). Blatty does maintain an effectively eerie atmosphere throughout Exorcist III, which also boasts one of the greatest jump-scares in movie history; even if you’ve seen it and know when it’s coming, it can still get you.
The Great American Joke Off
The CW, 9:30pm
Season Finale!
On the last episode of the season, titled “Very Good Milk, Slugs & a Dead Fly,” featured comedians include Natasha Leggero, Matthew Broussard, Glenn Moore and Alonzo Bodden.
Gold Rush: Mine Rescue With Freddy and Juan
Discovery Channel, 10pm
Season Premiere!
Stories this season include numerous series firsts, such as the first “goldstead” rescue with a family running both a homestead and a gold mine on the same land, and the first gold mine intervention after a miner calls the duo to help save his stubborn mine boss.
Saturday, June 24
MLB Baseball
FOX & FS1, beginning at 1pm Live
The MLB London Series on FOX features the Chicago Cubs vs. the St. Louis Cardinals at London Stadium. Baseball continues on FS1 with the N.Y. Mets at the Philadelphia Phillies. FOX’s primetime regional game has either the Houston Astros at the L.A. Dodgers or the Minnesota Twins at the Detroit Tigers.
NASCAR Xfinity Series: Tennessee Lottery 250
USA Network, 3:30pm Live
Catch Austin Hill, John Hunter Nemechek, Chandler Smith and other emerging Xfinity Series drivers as they compete at Nashville Superspeedway.
Into the Wild Frontier
INSP, 6pm
Season Finale!
Season 3 concludes with “Robert Rogers: Frontier Soldier.” Rogers leads an elite fighting force of fearless rangers behind enemy lines to fight French forces in Colonial America, but one mission tests his men as never before when they must trek 200 miles through the wilderness without food.
NCAA Men’s College World Series Finals: Game 1
ESPN, 7pm Live
The best-of-three-game NCAA Men’s College World Series finals begin tonight at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska.
Make Me a Match
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
Vivi (Eva Bourne), an optimistic woman with a substandard romantic history, works for a data-driven matchmaking app. When she discovers that the success rate for matches at her company is low, she hires Raina (Rekha Sharma), an Indian matchmaker, to provide advice on how to improve their numbers. As they embark on this matchmaking journey, Vivi meets Raina’s spontaneous son, Bhumesh (Rushi Kota), and questions whether finding love is something one must take control of or let happen naturally.
2023 Houston Pride Parade
Hulu, livestreams beginning at 8pm
Watch as Houston Pride celebrates its 45th anniversary with this event in downtown Houston. The parade, which draws 750,000 spectators annually, will feature more than 150 entries, boasting the color, pageantry and culture of one of America’s most diverse cities.
Keyshia Cole: This Is My Story
Lifetime, 8pm
Original Film!
Multiple Grammy Award nominee Keyshia Cole makes her acting debut, playing herself, in this new Lifetime biopic, which follows her early days in Oakland honing her musical talents, her rise to a multiplatinum-selling recording artist and television personality, and her complicated yet warmhearted relationship with her mother Frankie Lons, played by Debbi Morgan (All My Children). The film features a new song recorded by the singer-songwriter titled “Forever Is a Thing.”
Homicide for the Holidays: “Deadly Fourth”
Oxygen, 8pm
In the new episode “Deadly Fourth,” an abandoned car filled with blood leads investigators on the trail of a missing woman and her teenage daughter who never showed up to the family’s July 4th party. When their remains are found in a pond, everyone in their small town is a suspect.
Totally Weird and Funny
The CW, 9pm
Season Finale!
On the final two episodes of the season, hosts Mikalah Gordon, Brian Cooper and Noah Matthews show videos of aliens riding motorcycles, people playing basketball with leaf blowers, and dinosaur drummers.
Critter Fixers: Country Vets
Nat Geo Wild, 9pm
Season Finale!
Season 5 concludes with “No Bird Left Behind.” The docs at Critter Fixer lean on their techs more than ever as they try to save a beloved chicken, perform everyone’s least favorite task on a rare dog breed and come up with a solution for a messy feline fiasco. They also take on a menagerie of patients, including a bearded dragon, a parrot and a pig-nosed turtle, and they even attempt introducing some wild bass to a brand-new pond.
Vertigo
TCM, 10pm
Catch a Classic!
This classic 1958 psychological thriller is not only often regarded as Alfred Hitchcock’s most masterful film, but also as one of the greatest movies ever. James Stewart plays retired detective Scottie Ferguson, who, after an incident on the job, has acquired vertigo and a fear of heights. Hired by an old friend to uncover the secret his wife (Kim Novak) is keeping from him, Scottie finds a forbidden romance, a deadly plot and an obsession that transcends the grave. Hitchcock’s brilliant direction is accompanied by terrific performances; stunning, Oscar-nominated art direction; and a swooning musical score from the great Bernard Herrmann that all help carry viewers to the heights of suspense.
Sunday, June 25
Pride Across America
Hulu, livestream beginning at 11am
Gio Benitez and Alex Perez host this streaming event that features live anchored coverage from Pride marches across the country, including New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
Pride and Prejudice
TCM, 2:15pm
Catch a Classic!
Jane Austen’s timeless 1813 novel of unlikely romance is richly adapted in this lavish Academy Award-winning 1940 classic, which also draws from Helen Jerome’s 1935 stage adaptation of the book. Greer Garson portrays spirited Elizabeth, one of five Bennet sisters hoping for matrimony. Laurence Olivier plays Darcy, whose arrival at a nearby estate sets maiden hearts aflutter. But first impressions can mean so very much. Elizabeth and Darcy find reasons to view each other with disdain, setting in motion a velvet struggle of pride and prejudice, perception and reality, forgiveness and love.
NASCAR Cup Series: Ally 400
NBC, 7pm Live
Top Cup Series stars Ross Chastain, Christopher Bell, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick race for 300 laps around Nashville Superspeedway for the Ally 400.
BET Awards 2023
BET, 8pm Live
The annual event that recognizes the triumphs of Black artists, entertainers and athletes in a variety of categories returns to Los Angeles for this year’s ceremony, which will celebrate a huge cultural milestone — the 50th anniversary of hip-hop music. Drake leads this year’s nominees with seven nods, followed by GloRilla with six, 21 Savage and Lizzo with five apiece, and Beyoncé, Burna Boy, Chris Brown, Ice Spice and SZA each with four. Announced performers include Big Daddy Kane, Fat Joe, Ja Rule, Kid ’N Play, Percy “Master P” Miller, Soulja Boy, The Sugarhill Gang, Trina, Tyga, Uncle Luke, Yo-Yo and more. Fans can cast votes for the 2023 Viewer’s Choice Award until later this evening at bet.com/viewerschoice23.
Silos Baking Competition
Magnolia Network, 8pm
Season Finale!
The first season of this baking competition hosted by Joanna Gaines concludes and reveals which of the season’s home bakers will claim the $100,000 cash prize and have their treat featured at Magnolia’s Silos Baking Co. (starting tomorrow through Sept. 4).
Ridley: “The Peaceful Garden, Part 2”
PBS, 8pm
Ridley (Adrian Dunbar) and Farman (Bronagh Waugh) continue their investigation centered around a 13-year-old missing-persons case and its possible connection with the recent murder of a farmer.
Wicked Tuna
Nat Geo, beginning at 9pm
Season Finale!
Season 12 concludes with back-to-back episodes. This season has been a tight race to the finish where every catch matters in the quest to end up on top. With the quota dwindling, the fight to be named the G.O.A.T. all comes down to the last 24 hours. The commercial fishermen fight for one last bite from the “monstah bluefin,” in one of the tightest races in the show’s history. In “Final Countdown,” time is running out. Rumors swirl that the quota is coming to an end, and that the plug could be pulled on the season at any moment. With the finish line in sight, most of the fleet steams down to Chatham to try to catch a big one while they still can, and end the season on top. The time to catch is now! Then in “The G.O.A.T,” with nearly every boat still in contention on the season’s last day, the fleet races against the clock to land one final bluefin. Hot Tuna, Fat Tuna, Badfish and Wicked Pissah head to Chatham while the rest of the fleet stays close to home as each captain hopes to make the move that will earn them the title of the G.O.A.T.
Endeavour: “Uniform”
PBS, 9pm
As Morse (Shaun Evans) digs up an old crime scene, a confounding series of new deaths is centered on a group of rowdy aristocratic students and a popular TV crime series that is currently in production in the area. On the personal front, the detective makes a date with Joan (Sara Vickers), even as her ex-soldier brother, Sam (Jack Bannon), descends into drug abuse and despair.
Monday, June 26
Cannes Confidential
Acorn TV
New Series!
French TV actress Lucie Lucas, Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) and singer/actor Tamara Marthe lead this six-part international crime drama set along the Côte d’Azur in the south of France. Two episodes are available Mondays beginning today. The detective series blends comedy, mystery, crime and romance as it follows the bickering and bantering relationship between no-nonsense detective Camille Delmasse (Lucas) and charming international con man Harry King (Bamber). Camille and Harry are thrown together solving crimes on the French Riviera, with their chemistry complicated both by her colleague and wingwoman, Léa Robert (Marthe), and by a deal they make to free Camille’s ex-chief of police father from corruption charges. Cannes Confidential had unprecedented access to film in the city of Cannes through an exclusive partnership, and it is the first English-language procedural drama to be produced and set on the Cote d’Azur since the 1970s. The series promises to introduce viewers to a rarely seen view of Cannes, with its fishing boats, local tradesmen and working-class characters alongside the yachts and A-listers that are more commonly associated with this area.
Average Joe
BET+
New Series!
This dark comedy follows blue-collar plumber Joe Washington (Deon Cole), who discovers that his recently deceased father lived a secret, second life and stole millions of dollars from dangerous people just before he died. Now those people think Joe knows where the money is, and a bloody and violent confrontation triggers a chain of events that forces him and his close-knit circle of family and friends out of their very average and mundane lives into a life-or-death race against time to find the truth and the millions. Ashley Olivia Fisher, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams and Malcolm Barrett also star. New episodes are available Mondays.
TCM Birthday Tribute: Eleanor Parker
TCM, beginning at 6am
Catch a Classic!
Turner Classic Movies remembers famed actress Eleanor Parker on what would have been her 101st birthday (she was born June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio; she passed away Dec. 9, 2013, at age 91, in Palm Springs, California) with an eight-film lineup. Enjoy Parker in the following films starting this morning and into the early evening: Many Rivers to Cross (1955), a Western costarring Robert Taylor; another Western, Escape From Fort Bravo (1953), which also features William Holden and John Forsythe; The Very Thought of You (1944), a romantic drama also with Dennis Morgan; One for the Book (1947, aka The Voice of the Turtle), a romantic comedy costarring Ronald Reagan and Eve Arden; Of Human Bondage (1946), a drama based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel that also stars Paul Henreid; the film noir Lizzie (1957); Valley of the Kings (1954), an adventure film that again pairs Parker and Taylor; and Scaramouche (1952), a swashbuckler set around the time of the French Revolution that costars Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh and Mel Ferrer.
Claim to Fame
ABC, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Cohosted by siblings Kevin and Frankie Jonas, this reality competition series houses celebrity relatives together under one roof in a challenge to step outside their famous family members’ shadows. Season 2 premieres tonight with a new cast of celebrity-adjacent contestants whose celebrity relationships are hidden from one another.
The Rising: “Episode 5”
The CW, 8pm
Neve (Clara Rugaard) must gain Alex’s (Nenda Neururer) trust to secure an arrest and realizes an even darker force haunts her.
Stars on Mars: “Life on Mars?”
FOX, 8pm
The nine remaining celebrities learn a strange lifeform has been detected, and William Shatner from Mission Control tasks them with a mission that will test their perseverance and force two of them back to Earth in the new “Life on Mars?” double elimination episode.
American Ninja Warrior: “Qualifiers 5”
NBC, 8pm
The qualifying rounds continue in L.A. with ninjas from across the country taking on the world’s most challenging obstacle course. Competitors as young as 15 return to take on veterans and will have a chance to face a taller Mega Warped Wall.
The Bachelorette
ABC, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Fan favorite Charity Lawson from Season 27 of The Bachelor returns to reality TV this summer in Season 20 of The Bachelorette, which will make its debut during a new time slot. Lawson is a family therapist from Columbus, Georgia.
Barons: “The Dream Factory”
The CW, 9pm
Dani (Sophia Forrest) struggles to get a loan for the surf shop and is confronted when a secret lover shows up.
Crime Scene Kitchen: “Classically-Trained: Going Plum Crazy”
FOX, 9pm
Five teams return to the kitchen to solve two more culinary crimes, including an elimination bake with a seasonal dessert of Yolanda Gampp’s choosing in the new episode “Classically-Trained: Going Plum Crazy.”
The Wall: “David and Chris”
NBC, 9pm
Capitol police officer David and his godbrother Chris, from Washington, D.C., face the Wall and the pressure to leave triumphant.
The Great American Recipe: “Episode 2”
PBS, 9pm
The competition heats up as the home cooks are challenged with a best-in-a-pinch recipe and a noodle dish that represents their heritage. All kinds of dishes show up on the plate, but one cook is ready to impress by making their own pasta.
Cruel Summer: “All I Want for Christmas”
Freeform, 10pm
In the summer of 1999, Isabella (Lexi Underwood) is rocked by a surprise visit from her past.
POV
PBS, 10pm
Season Premiere!
Season 36 of this documentary film series begins with “After Sherman,” director Jon-Sesrie Goff’s feature debut about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history. The film explores coastal South Carolina as a site of pride and racial trauma through Gullah/Geechee cultural retention and land preservation.
Tuesday, June 27
Myrna Loy Icon-a-Thon
MOVIES!, beginning at 1:45pm
Catch a Classic!
Hollywood icon Myrna Loy stars in four classics airing this afternoon and evening on MOVIES! The first two titles feature her with frequent costar William Powell: the crime film Manhattan Melodrama (1934), which also features Clark Gable, and the screwball comedy Libeled Lady (1936), with Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. Rounding out the lineup are two Loy-led comedies: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), also featuring Cary Grant, and Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), costarring Clifton Webb.
Superman & Lois
The CW, 8pm
Season Finale!
The last episode of Season 3 about this dynamic superhero family, titled “What Kills You Only Makes You Stronger,” airs tonight, when all of Smallville comes together to view a meteor shower, and Lex Luthor (Michael Cudlitz) makes his move.
Daughter of the Bride
FOX, 8pm
In this romantic comedy film, Diane (Marcia Gay Harden) and Kate (Halston Sage) are mother and daughter, but more than that, they are close friends. That seeming closeness is shaken when Diane reveals her engagement to a mystery man, a blockbuster announcement that will upset the balance that exists. Aidan Quinn also stars.
America’s Got Talent: “Auditions 5”
NBC, 8pm
The auditions continue as a variety of acts featuring contestants of all ages audition for the chance to win the $1 million prize. The Golden Buzzer is back, allowing one lucky act to go directly to the live shows to compete for America’s vote.
Gotham Knights
The CW, 9pm
Series Finale!
The last episode of this show about Bruce Wayne’s adopted son and the children of Batman’s enemies forming an alliance known as the Gotham Knights airs tonight when Harvey (Misha Collins) is faced with an impossible decision that could have devastating consequences. The CW did not pick up the show for a second season.
American Experience: “Casa Susanna”
PBS, 9pm
This moving film looks back at the hideaway in the Catskills region of New York where, in the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender men and women, and cross-dressing men, found freedom, acceptance and a refuge from persecution during an era when laws criminalizing cross-dressing were common across the United States.
Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge: “Need for Speed vs. Fight Car”
NBC, 10pm
Hot Wheels superfans Caroline Johnson and Angela Arnold face off in transforming an ordinary vehicle into an extraordinary Hot Wheels showstopper, inspired by personal stories, interests and pop culture touchstones. Joel McHale serves as guest judge.
Wednesday, June 28
Hijack
Apple TV+
New Series!
Idris Elba stars as Sam Nelson, an accomplished negotiator who needs to use his skills aboard a hijacked plane to try to save the lives of the passengers over the course of a seven-hour flight to London, while counterterrorism officer Zahra Gahfoor (Archie Panjabi) becomes part of the investigation on the ground in this seven-episode thriller series. Costars include Christine Adams, Max Beesley, Eve Myles and Jasper Britton. The first two episodes are available today; new episodes drop Wednesdays.
D.O.A.
TCM, 3pm
Catch a Classic!
Edmond O’Brien leads this classic 1949 film noir as Frank Bigelow, a man who, after finding out he has been fatally poisoned, spends his remaining days and hours desperately trying to find out who did it, and why. The movie’s promotional poster touted that it is “A picture as excitingly different as its title!” and it still does feel like it stands out a bit from others in its genre. From the opening sequence where Frank reports his own murder to police, and throughout his story, which is told in flashback up until its inevitable conclusion, D.O.A. delivers plenty of suspense.
Nancy Drew: “The Oracle of the Whispering Remains”
The CW, 8pm
The crew discovers a clue in an unexpected place and calls in someone from George’s (Leah Lewis) past to help.
LA Fire & Rescue: “Three Alarm”
NBC, 8pm
Inglewood Station 172 tackles a career-defining fire in an industrial warehouse. Meanwhile, Calabasas Station 125 responds to a multicar collision before ending their day on a residential call to remove a slithering creature from a fearful family’s home.
The Wonder Years: “Blockbusting”
ABC, 9pm
Bill (Dulé Hill) and Lillian (Saycon Sengbloh) consider moving into the first integrated neighborhood in Montgomery.
Riverdale: “Chapter One Thirty: The Crucible”
The CW, 9pm
Panic ensues after Archie (K.J. Apa) and the gang learn that Mrs. Thornton (Frances Flanagan) is accused of being a communist.
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
HBO, 9pm
This documentary offers an intimate portrait of actor Rock Hudson, one of Hollywood’s most celebrated leading men of the 1950s and ’60s, whose diagnosis of, and eventual death from, AIDS in 1985 shocked the world and subsequently shifted the way the public perceived the AIDS pandemic. The film explores the story of a man leading a double life, one whose public persona was carefully manufactured by his handlers and orchestrated by the studio system, while he feared a potentially career-ending discovery that he was privately living as a gay man.
Grown-ish
Freeform, 10pm
Season Premiere!
The sixth season of this black-ish spinoff about college life premieres tonight with the episode “Shoot My Shot,” in which the crew goes to a music festival and Andre (Marcus Scribner) suffers from “analysis paralysis” about choosing a major.
Thursday, June 29
Lace
ALLBLK
Season Premiere!
Season 2 continues to follow the courtroom, boardroom and bedroom chess matches of high-profile lawyer Lacey McCullough (Maryam Basir) as she and her firm navigate clients, cases, exclusive escort services and their personal lives.
Hoff the Record
BritBox
New Series!
This semi-improvisational comedy shot in a documentary style finds David Hasselhoff playing a fictionalized version of himself — complete with a previously unknown German son and an oddball entourage — as he arrives in the U.K. to try to reignite his career.
The Witcher
Netflix
Season Premiere!
The fantasy drama is back for its third season, which will be divided into two parts, with the first part, consisting of Episodes 1-5, dropping today. This season, as monarchs, mages and beasts of the Continent compete to capture her, Geralt (Henry Cavill) takes Ciri (Freya Allan) into hiding, determined to protect his newly reunited family against those who threaten to destroy it. Vol. 2 of The Witcher’s third season, containing Episodes 6-8, will be released July 27.
Golf: Capital One’s The Match
TNT, 6:30pm Live
The eighth installment of Capital One’s The Match golf competition features NFL and NBA superstar duos going head-to-head. Kansas City Chiefs teammates Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce face off against the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson over 12 holes at Wynn Las Vegas.
Generation Gap
ABC, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Kelly Ripa returns for a second season to host this game show that groups family members of different generations who must work together to answer questions about each other’s generations.
The Blacklist: “Room 417”
NBC, 8pm
A cryptic tip from Red (James Spader) leads the task force to uncover a security breach within the U.S. government. Meanwhile, Rep. Hudson (Toby Leonard Moore) takes major steps to uncover the inner workings of the force.
Star of the Month: Katharine Hepburn: “Hepburn and Tracy”
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
This final evening in Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Thursday salute to legendary star Katharine Hepburn offers a lineup of five of the nine films that she made with longtime partner and frequent costar Spencer Tracy (a few others have already aired earlier in the month). The first four of tonight’s featured titles are romantic comedies; the evening concludes with a drama. The lineup features Desk Set (1957), the couple’s eighth onscreen pairing; Without Love (1945), which marked the third time they appeared together; Pat and Mike (1952), in which Hepburn gives a Golden Globe-nominated performance in her seventh onscreen pairing with Tracy; Adam’s Rib (1949), the pair’s sixth time working together; and Keeper of the Flame (1942), Hepburn and Tracy’s second film.
The Chase
ABC, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Season 4 of this fast-paced trivia game show adapted from the British program of the same name begins tonight.
Christina on the Coast
HGTV, 9pm
Season Premiere!
In “Growing Families,” Christina Hall helps a couple transform their home to better serve their growing family of five. Also, Christina’s best friend, Cassie, and husband, James, have a surprise for Christina leading up to her daughter’s first birthday party.
Before We Die: “Episode 2”
PBS, 9pm
Bianca (Issy Knopfler) is unceremoniously shipped back to the U.K. like a piece of cargo, and as punishment for her desertion, she is imprisoned in the family home. Meanwhile, Nicky (Priyanga Burford) is back on the hunt for Christian (Patrick Gibson), who is one step ahead of her; Hannah (Lesley Sharp) and Billy (Vincent Regan) uncover the leak at police headquarters and strike a deal with them to reveal all; and Dubravka (Kazia Pelka) swears vengeance after Davor’s body is found.
Revealed
HGTV, 10pm
Series Premiere!
In “Telling Our Story,” a couple wants to turn their multi-level home into something that represents more of their culture and ancestry. Veronica Valencia finds inspiration in their African roots and rich family history to redesign their kitchen, den, dining room and living room.
Wild West Chronicles
INSP, 10pm
Season Finale!
Season 3 concludes with “The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight.” After two Mexican vaqueros cross the border in search of their stolen cattle, they are gunned down by the rustlers. When El Paso’s newly appointed marshal arrests local ranch hands for the murders, he sparks one of the West’s most infamous gunfights.
Friday, June 30
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Prime Video
Season Premiere!
The fourth and final season finds Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) on his most dangerous mission yet, facing enemies both foreign and domestic. As the CIA’s new acting director, Ryan is tasked with unearthing internal corruption, and in doing so, uncovers a series of suspicious black ops that could expose the vulnerability of the country. As Ryan and his team investigate how deep this corruption runs, they discover a far-worse reality: the convergence of a drug cartel with a terrorist organization, and a conspiracy much closer to home that tests Ryan’s belief in the system he has always fought to protect. Two episodes air Fridays beginning today.
Children of the Corn
Shudder
In this new adaptation of Stephen King’s short story, a 12-year-old Nebraska girl is possessed by a spirit in a dying cornfield and recruits the other children in her small town to go on a bloody rampage and kill all the adults, as well as anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won’t go along with the plan is the town’s only hope for survival.
TCM Morning & Afternoon Movies: “Beach Party”
TCM, beginning at 7:15am
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Summer is officially here, and if you can’t physically head to the beach or a tropical island for some fun in the sun, check out the next best thing — this morning and afternoon’s lineup of beach-themed films on Turner Classic Movies. The cinematic beach party features Pagan Love Song (1950), a musical led by Esther Williams and Howard Keel; On an Island With You (1948), another Williams-led musical, also starring Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalbán and Cyd Charisse; Girl Happy (1965), the Elvis Presley musical comedy costarring Shelley Fabares; You’re Only Young Once (1937), the second entry in the Andy Hardy series of comedies starring Mickey Rooney as young Andy; Catalina Caper (1967), a comedy/mystery led by Tommy Kirk; Where the Boys Are (1960), the influential teen comedy starring Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, George Hamilton and Yvette Mimieux; and Palm Springs Weekend (1963), a comedy starring Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens.
The Articulate Hour
PBS, 10pm
Miniseries Finale!
This three-part miniseries concludes with “Marking Time.” So much of human behavior is governed by our sense of time, yet questions about time’s fundamental nature remain unanswered. In this episode, artists and experts discuss the tension between scientifically measured, socially constructed and individually perceived time.
Saturday, July 1
Cycling: Tour de France: Stage 1
NBC, 8am Live
The world’s most prestigious cycling race gears up in Bilbao, Spain, where the peloton starts a grueling three-week odyssey over 2,115 miles. NBC, USA Network and Peacock have live and tape-delayed coverage through July 23.
MLB Baseball
FS1 & FOX, beginning at 2pm Live
Saturday MLB action on FOX Sports opens with the N.Y. Yankees at the St. Louis Cardinals in an afternoon game on FS1. In primetime on FOX, viewers will see either the Cleveland Guardians at the Chicago Cubs, the L.A. Dodgers at the Kansas City Royals or the Tampa Bay Rays at the Seattle Mariners.
Winchester ’73
TCM, 6:15pm
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This 1950 classic was the first Western film collaboration between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann, and it’s a winner — a movie unique and important enough to have been added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Stewart plays Lin McAdam, a cowboy searching for his father’s killer and the family rifle that was used against him. As the gun falls into the possession of new owners, their stories are depicted, all leading to a dramatic conclusion. The cast also includes Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Shelley Winters, Will Geer, and Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis in small early roles.
My Professor’s Guide to Murder
Lifetime, 8pm
Original Film!
A bestselling murder-mystery writer (Landon Ashworth) is invited to be a guest lecturer at a prestigious university when a graduate student (Rae DeRosa) begins to suspect he is responsible for a grisly campus murder.
USFL Football: Championship
NBC, 8pm Live
The second season of the new USFL comes to an end with the championship game at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio.
Extraordinary Birder With Christian Cooper: “Hawaii”
Nat Geo Wild, 10pm
Christian Cooper sets out to explore the outstanding birdlife on the Big Island of Hawaii. Among lush rainforests and rocky lava terrain, he meets a majestic Hawaiian hawk, feeds adorable baby white terns and joins a wild goose chase — all while learning what makes Hawaii’s feathered residents so exceptional.