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Thursday, July 18
Lucky 13
ABC, 9pm
New Series!
Hosted by Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez and basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, this new reality competition series will have viewers on the edge of their seats as contestants are tested not only about their trivia knowledge, but also on how well they know themselves: If they can accurately predict how many questions they have answered correctly, they could take home $1 million!
Cobra Kai
Netflix
Season Premiere!
This martial arts comedy/drama based on the original Karate Kid feature films will conclude with a 15-episode season, with five-episode installments released in three parts beginning with Part 1 today. Picking up with Cobra Kai eliminated from the Valley tournament, the senseis and students must decide if and how they will compete in the Sekai Taikai — the world championships of karate. Meanwhile, Cobra Kai founder John Kreese (Martin Kove) is back in play after faking his death and escaping from prison. What could he have planned with his newly found freedom?
Master of the House
Netflix
New Series!
From Thailand comes this soapy and spicy dramatic thriller that follows what happens after a diamond tycoon dies mysteriously, which results in a cutthroat battle over his estate between his ruthless heirs and the housemaid whom their father had recently married.
Golf: The Open Championship: First Round
USA Network, 4am Live
The 152nd Open Championship is at Royal Troon in Scotland, where top golfers Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy and others compete for the Claret Jug in the final major of 2024. The USA’s Brian Harman won his first major with a six-stroke victory last year. USA Network and NBC combine to televise the tournament through Sunday.
Press Your Luck
ABC, 8pm
Season Premiere!
The sixth season of this reality competition series hosted by actress Elizabeth Banks begins airing tonight.
Alone: “Something in the Air”
History, 8pm
One survivor’s tranquil Arctic night is interrupted when a pack of wolves shows up, creating some major trouble.
Star of the Month: Eva Marie Saint
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Thursday night celebration of legendary actress Eva Marie Saint continues this evening with 36 Hours (1964), a World War II thriller costarring James Garner and Rod Taylor; director John Frankenheimer’s racing drama Grand Prix (1966), also featuring Garner and a large international cast; Exodus (1960), the epic historical drama led by Paul Newman and costarring Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Sal Mineo; and Carol for Another Christmas (1964), an Emmy-nominated TV movie modernization of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol written by Rod Serling that also features Sterling Hayden, Ben Gazzara, Robert Shaw and Peter Sellers.
The Real Housewives of Orange County: “Rent and Reputations”
Bravo, 9pm
“Rent and Reputations” are at the forefront of tonight’s episode that finds Tamra and Shannon in each other’s faces, while Gina fears her rep is at risk after she vouches for Jenn. Then, there’s Katie, the new housewife who accidentally fuels more fire when she reveals Jenn harbors a grudge against Gina.
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Friday, July 19
Omnivore
Apple TV+
New Series!
Created and narrated by René Redzepi, the esteemed chef and co-owner of world-renowned restaurant Noma, Omnivore takes viewers on an immersive journey into the world of food, exploring the profound beauty and intricate complexities of the human experience through the lens of the key ingredients that connect us all. Each episode of Omnivore celebrates the cultivation, transformation, and consumption of eight of the world’s most essential ingredients, including banana, chile, coffee, corn, pork, rice, salt, and tuna, revealing how they serve as the cornerstones of global cultural heritage. Redzepi and Emmy Award-winning executive producer Matt Goulding (Anthony Bourdain: Explore Parts Unknown) guide audiences on a globe-spanning odyssey, unveiling intricate stories behind these ingredients that have shaped societies, cultures, beliefs, and the course of human history.
Find Me Falling
Netflix
Original Film!
Harry Connick Jr. leads this romantic comedy as aging rock star John Allman, who, coming off a flop album and his biggest hit’s dwindling popularity, decides to take a break from his career and reclaim his creative spark by moving to an isolated cliffside home on the idyllic Mediterranean island of Cyprus. But his dream of keeping a low profile is derailed when he is routinely confronted by desperate souls and then later faced with even more complicated surprises when an old flame reignites.
Skywalkers: A Love Story
Netflix
Part romance, part thriller, this feature documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival follows a daredevil couple as they take their relationship to terrifying new heights in a wild scheme to climb the world’s second-highest skyscraper and perform a death-defying stunt on the spire.
Too Hot to Handle
Netflix
Season Premiere!
Season 6 of the dating reality series features a new prize fund, new twists and a naughty new sidekick for Lana, who is stirring up trouble among the villa’s sexy singles.
Inspiring America: Team USA
NBC, 8pm
Just ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, which begin July 26, Lester Holt and others on the NBC News team go one-on-one with the biggest American names who will be competing this year.
Cold Case Files: DNA Speaks
A&E, 9pm
New Series!
Narrated by journalist Bill Kurtis, this new 10-part docuseries focuses on unsolved murder cases that were ultimately cracked with DNA evidence, exploring stunning scientific developments and the unwavering dedication of families and investigators who eventually brought the killers to justice. In the premiere episode, “A Fatal Path,” investigators try to uncover who killed 14-year-old Nacole Smith in Atlanta in 1995.
Tell Me How I Died
A&E, 10pm
New Series!
Using autopsies and clues from victims’ own bodies, pathologists work closely with criminal investigators to uncover the truth behind various suspicious deaths in this compelling new docuseries. In the premiere episode, “Unholy Man,” a beloved pastor’s second wife is killed in a car accident, raising suspicions over the death of his first wife, which never sat easy with pathologist Dr. Wayne Ross. Will they discover something new after reopening the case?
Harold and Maude
TCM, 11:45pm
Catch a Classic!
Golden Globe nominees Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon play the title characters in this unorthodox, darkly comic and existentialist 1971 romantic comedy directed by Hal Ashby. Cort plays Harold Chasen, a young man obsessed with death, who finds his life changed when he meets Gordon’s lively septuagenarian Maude Chardin at a funeral. Among the film’s charms, along with its very funny and touching story, is its soundtrack by Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), who wrote two original songs for it, including “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out.”
Saturday, July 20
The Sting
TCM, 5:30pm
Catch a Classic!
Paul Newman and Best Actor Oscar nominee Robert Redford lead this legendary, Best Picture-winning 1973 caper film set in the 1930s and featuring an Oscar-winning soundtrack heavy with classic Scott Joplin ragtime compositions adapted by Marvin Hamlisch. Newman and Redford play a couple of grifters who devise a complicated plot to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). George Roy Hill, who had earned an Academy Award nomination for directing Newman and Redford in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, won a statuette for his directing here, while David S. Ward took home an Oscar for his screenplay. The cast also features Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan and Harold Gould.
MLB Baseball
FOX, 7pm Live
FOX’s Saturday night MLB regional game has either the Boston Red Sox at the L.A. Dodgers or the Arizona Diamondbacks at the Chicago Cubs.
Mammals: “The New Wild”
BBC America, 8pm
The nature documentary series continues with “The New Wild,” which highlights many of the problems faced by mammals in a rapidly changing world. The episode also looks at how species have adapted to living alongside the most successful mammals of all: human beings.
A Very Vermont Christmas
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
A local champion skier (Katie Leclerc) and a Vermont beer aficionado (Ryan McPartlin) team up to create a seasonal microbrew in hopes of saving her family’s business by Christmas.
Vacation House Rules
HGTV, 8pm
Season Finale!
In “Waterfront Wonderland,” homeowners face the challenge of an unfinished cottage following the unexpected passing of their stepfather who was also their contractor. Now, they’re enlisting Scott McGillivray and Debra Salmoni to finish the renovation and carry out their vision for a lakeside getaway.
Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie
Lifetime, 8pm
Original Film!
Power star Naturi Naughton takes a new role as a counselor at an HBCU (historically Black college/university) who notices the sudden disappearance of one of her students. Tanyell Quian (Queen Sugar) plays the ambitious student Shannon, who struggles with paying her tuition and eventually stops attending classes. While others dismissed her absence, believing she just dropped out, her counselor was determined to find out what happened and inadvertently uncovers a trafficking ring targeting students in need.
2024 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game
ABC, 8:30pm Live
This year’s showcase of the best in women’s basketball is at Footprint Center in Phoenix, where All-Stars on the USA Basketball Women’s National Team will face a team made up of the remaining WNBA All-Stars.
Sunday, July 21
Golf: The Open Championship: Final Round
NBC, 7am Live
The 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon in Scotland concludes with the final round and the presentation of the Claret Jug to the winner.
NASCAR Cup Series: Brickyard 400
NBC, 2pm Live
NASCAR celebrates 30 years of racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the return of the Cup Series Brickyard 400 to the famed 2.5-mile oval.
Professor T
PBS, 8pm
Season Finale!
In “Attachment Issues,” a woman is found dead at a car crash scene but wasn’t killed by the accident; the professor (Ben Miller) investigates.
Olympic Greats
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
The 2024 Summer Olympic Games begin this Friday (July 26), and ahead of that major international sporting event, Turner Classic Movies is airing two acclaimed historical dramas based on notable real-life Olympic athletes. Up first is Chariots of Fire (1981), which dramatizes the story of two British runners at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris: Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. The film was nominated for seven Oscars and won four, including Best Picture and for Vangelis’ iconic and stirring musical score. Tonight’s second film is Jim Thorpe — All American (1951), led by Burt Lancaster as the titular Native American athlete who won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and also excelled at a variety of other sports, including football and baseball. Parts of the film, which was directed by Michael Curtiz, use archival footage featuring the real Thorpe at the 1912 Games as well as at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Snowpiercer
AMC, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Following the action-packed finale of Season 3, this dystopian thriller set on a luxury train housing the remainder of the world’s population begins its last run with a fourth and final season, in which half of the train’s inhabitants have ventured into the unknown outside world of New Eden.
The Food That Built America: “Citrus Soda Stars”
History, 9pm
Small-time St. Louis soda maker Charles Leiper Grigg dared to take on corporate giants Coke and Pepsi when he introduced a clear, lemon-lime soda he called “7-Up.” Only problem was that two brothers in Tennessee, Ally and Barney Hartman, concocted an almost identical soda that would be introduced as “Mountain Dew.” It’s a collision-course story with a lot of fizz.
Grantchester
PBS, 9pm
Alphy and Geordie’s (Rishi Nair and Robson Green) investigation into the murder of an archaeologist uncovers a tangled web of betrayal and deceit.
In the Eye of the Storm: “Derecho Superstorm”
Discovery, 10pm
What is a derecho superstorm? You’re about to find out and witness one as this episode shares the hundreds of home videos that capture the storm at its peak and document people’s frightening attempts to escape it when it blasts through Nebraska and Iowa in 2020.
D.I. Ray
PBS, 10pm
Season Finale!
In “Enemy Within,” following the discovery of the missing gun, D.I. Ray’s (Parminder Nagra) lens turns back to the Chapman family.
Forbidden Love
TLC, 10pm
New Series!
Embark on a journey of love and faith in TLC’s all-new relationship series, which will follow four couples deeply in love who must come to terms with the one major hurdle complicating their relationships — religion. Hailing from different faiths, one partner from each couple is converting or has decided to relinquish their family of origin and culture entirely. Facing such intense traditional differences, can their relationships endure the trials of converting, or will their love falter under the pressure? In the series premiere, Elmer’s transition out of the Amish leads to an unsavory addiction. Laurie struggles with the pressures of converting to Orthodox Judaism. Ashley sets out to ease the tension between her conservative Catholic family and her Muslim husband.
Monday, July 22
Candice Renoir
Acorn TV
Season Premiere!
In Season 9 of this French crime drama, after infringing the law by hiding Antoine’s (Raphaël Lenglet) amnesia, Candice (Cécile Bois) is disciplined and not allowed to take part in any investigations. She’s told to either end her relationship with her superior or be transferred to the other end of France. Reduced to performing administrative tasks and sidelined in a tiny ground floor office, her unit is now headed by a top-notch investigator named Pénélope Vallier (Maëlle Mietton). But Inspector Renoir has more than one ace up her sleeve as she fights her way back and does her best to kick her rival out of her old office. All 10 episodes drop today.
Name That Tune: “Texas Hold Em!”
FOX, 8pm
A social worker from Dallas plays the musical guessing game against a sales executive from Rochester, New York, and a healthcare consultant from Chicago plays against a sports marketer from Fort Worth, Texas, in the new episode “Texas Hold Em!”
American Ninja Warrior: “Semifinals 1 & 2”
NBC, 8pm
The semifinals begin in Los Angeles, where the ninjas will race head-to-head for a spot in the finals. Competitors will face up to six challenging obstacles, including Home Run and Spin Hopper. The two fastest ninjas of the night will race for the safety pass going into the national finals.
TCM Spotlight: The Hays Gaze (90th Anniversary of the Hays Code)
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Monday night remembrance of the Motion Picture Production Code (aka the Hays Code) that was instituted in Hollywood between 1934 and 1968 continues with more double features of various themes considered to be controversial during the era, contrasting one made before enforcement of the Code with another made when the Code was more fully in effect. The first pairing looks at two films in which religion plays a big role in the story: director Frank Capra’s pre-Code romantic drama The Miracle Woman (1931), featuring Barbara Stanwyck as a clergyman’s daughter who teams with a con man (Sam Hardy) and performs fake miracles for profit, followed by Boys Town (1938), the Best Picture Oscar-nominated biographical drama starring Best Actor winner Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J. Flanagan, alongside Mickey Rooney. After that are two adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — the pre-Code 1931 version followed by the 1941 version — each of which handled the sex and violence found in the story in very different ways. Playing the titular dual personalities in the 1931 film is Fredric March, who won the Best Actor Oscar (tying with Wallace Beery in The Champ), with Tracy portraying the characters in the 1941 production. Two films about bosses and secretaries conclude things early tomorrow: the pre-Code romantic drama The Office Wife (1930), starring Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone and Natalie Moorhead, and Wife vs. Secretary (1936), a romantic comedy led by Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy.
61st Street
The CW, 9pm
Season Premiere!
The legal drama that originally aired on AMC, following attorney Franklin Roberts (Courtney B. Vance), makes its network premiere tonight with the first episode of its second season. In Season 2, after Officer Logan (Mark O’Brien) kills an innocent man, Franklin agrees to represent him in hopes of putting Logan’s corrupt department on trial.
The 1% Club: “Your Mummified Turtle Is Proud of You”
FOX, 9pm
A fighter jet engineer, a theme park mascot and a boat captain are among 100 contestants competing in the quiz show for the chance to win up to $100,000. Patton Oswalt hosts the new episode “Your Mummified Turtle Is Proud of You.”
History’s Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman
History, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Host Morgan Freeman is back in Season 2 of this series that looks at some of the most incredible real-life prison breaks in history. In tonight’s season premiere, “Fleeing Parchman,” a lone-wolf prisoner with aspirations to write crime novels ends up the star of his own breakout story when he figures out how to escape from one of Mississippi’s oldest and most notorious prison farms, Parchman Penitentiary.
Fatal Affairs
Investigation Discovery, 9pm
New Series!
From workplace flings to Tinder trysts and love triangles galore, psychologist Dr. Michelle Callahan leads viewers through various cases of deadly love affairs where one lover ends up paying the ultimate cost in this new docuseries.
My Life Is Murder
BBC America, 10pm (stream on Acorn TV)
Season Finale!
The two-part finale, “The Widows Club,” airs back-to-back tonight. Alexa (Lucy Lawless) and her brother Will (Martin Henderson) infiltrate an exclusive country club where a group of wealthy golf widows have the men running scared. Alexa investigates the murder of a man incinerated in a hyperbaric chamber at the club, but finds herself on the wrong side of the murder investigation, fighting to clear her own name.
Tuesday, July 23
Beat Shazam: “We’re Ready, But Is Shazam Ready?”
FOX, 8pm
Teams of firefighters, best friends and a father/son duo play the musical guessing game to take home the $1 million prize in the new episode “We’re Ready, But Is Shazam Ready?”
America’s Got Talent: “Auditions 8”
NBC, 8pm
The auditions come to an end as a variety of acts and contestants of all ages try for the chance to win $1 million. There are more Golden Buzzers than ever before, each sending one lucky act directly to the live shows to compete for America’s vote.
The Quiz With Balls: “School of Splash”
FOX, 9pm
The McGlothin and Bowser families test their knowledge of animal science, film and TV, starry nights, and sports in an effort to stay dry in the new episode “School of Splash.” Jay Pharoah hosts.
Gods of Tennis
PBS, 9pm
New Series!
Beginning with Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe, this new three-part docuseries revisits the 1970s and ’80s golden age of tennis when a handful of incredible athletes became global superstars both on and off the court. Featuring archival footage as well as exclusive new interviews, the show will explore how the iconic players revolutionized the game of tennis.
Password
NBC, 10pm
Season Finale!
Who better to help us warm up for the Paris Olympics than Alpine ski darling Lindsey Vonn competing against Jimmy Fallon, before the game show goes on hiatus.
Jaws
Syfy, 10:30pm
Catch a Classic!
Steven Spielberg’s classic, Best Picture Oscar-nominated 1975 thriller wasn’t his first feature film, but it was the one that truly put him on the map as a director who could not only artfully helm a film, but also do so to massive popular success. The adaptation of Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel about a rogue great white shark terrorizing a New England beach community ultimately became the first U.S. film to gross over $100 million at the box office, with most of its total coming during a summer release that also served to scare many viewers away from beaches that season. With a terrific cast led by Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw, Spielberg’s film wisely jettisoned superfluous plot elements, and the rather abrupt ending, from Benchley’s novel to pare things down into a merciless and entertaining thriller/sea adventure. The young (he was just in his late 20s when he made the film) Spielberg somehow did not receive a Best Director Oscar nomination even though it was his steady creative hand in the midst of technical difficulties that made the film as successfully suspenseful as it is. But the film did win Academy Awards for its sound and editing, and for John Williams’ iconic musical score — the other major factor that has made the movie an influential and enduring thrill ride.
Wednesday, July 24
Resurrected Rides
Netflix
New Series!
Comedian Chris Redd works with a dream team of car experts to breathe new life into worn-out rides with stunning customized makeovers.
Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars
FOX, 8pm
Season Finale!
This is it for the final five entrepreneurs, as Gordon Ramsay and Lisa Vanderpump task them with creating a mass-market product for U.S. grocery stores. In the two-hour finale, the challengers will create everything — the product packaging, branding, flavor profile, business proposal and more. Only the top three will get a shot to win the $250,000.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Just a couple of days ahead of what would have been legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s 96th birthday (he was born July 26, 1928, and died March 7, 1999, at age 70), Turner Classic Movies is airing four renowned movies that he directed. Up first is his third feature, The Killing (1956), a film noir heist that he also cowrote with Jim Thompson, adapting Lionel White’s novel Clean Break. Sterling Hayden leads the cast. Next is Paths of Glory (1957), the iconic World War I-set anti-war drama starring Kirk Douglas. Following that is the Best Picture Oscar-nominated dystopian sci-fi/crime film A Clockwork Orange (1971), which earned Kubrick Oscar nods for directing and for his screenplay adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel. Malcolm McDowell delivers his most legendary performance as Alex, one of the gang members who engages in “ultra-violence.” Another Best Picture nominee closes out tonight’s lineup: Barry Lyndon (1975), an epic historical drama led by Ryan O’Neal as the title character. Kubrick again received Oscar nominations for directing and for his screenplay, based on William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon.
The Real CSI: Miami: “Out of Thin Air”
CBS, 10pm
The new episode “Out of Thin Air” revisits the bizarre and unexpected death of Alan Jay Abrahamson in 2018. As the crime scene investigators worked the case, the evidence didn’t seem to add up, leading them to suspect that this was more than a robbery gone wrong.
Wayne Brady: The Family Remix
Freeform, 10pm
New Series!
TV host/actor Wayne Brady takes fans behind the scenes into his home life in this new unscripted series following his blended family, alongside ex-wife Mandie Taketa and their 21-year-old daughter Maile, as well as the 3-year-old son Taketa shares with her current partner, Jason Fordham.
Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine, A NOVA Special Presentation
PBS, 10pm
New Series!
This new docuseries explores how European settlers changed the Gulf of Maine, causing a lasting impact hundreds of years later.
The Ark: “Kill or Be Killed”
Syfy, 10pm
The arrival of new crew members presents questions of who can be trusted and what to do with them.
Thursday, July 25
The Decameron
Netflix
New Series!
The Black Death strikes the Italian countryside hard in 1348, and a handful of nobles retreats to a grand villa with their servants. But what starts as a wine-soaked sex romp descends into a race for survival in this soapy dark comedy loosely inspired by the 14th century story collection The Decameron.
Kleo
Netflix
Season Premiere!
In the new season of this German thriller set around the reorganization of Germany and Europe at the end of the Cold War, the hunt for the red suitcase continues. But it’s not just Kleo (Jella Haase) who is after the secret documents — the CIA and KGB are also suddenly looking for them. As the search goes on, Kleo is not only going to uncover more information as to why she was once sent to prison, but also learn about her own past.
Tokyo Swindlers
Netflix
New Series!
This crime drama/thriller from Japan follows a cunning group of land scammers who use real estate sales as bait to steal large sums of money.
Adam Sandler Movie Marathon
TNT, beginning at 4pm
Catch four of Adam Sandler’s funniest films from the 1990s tonight, beginning with Billy Madison, in which Sandler plays a privileged adult who must repeat every school grade in order to inherit his father’s company. The marathon continues with sports comedies Happy Gilmore and The Waterboy, and wraps up with The Wedding Singer, with Sandler as a bandleader dealing with serious heartbreak in the 1980s.
Don’t Forget the Lyrics!
FOX, 8pm
Two new episodes of the musical guessing game air back-to-back tonight with a cruise ship singer playing in “The Human Jukebox!” and an Air Force veteran going for the $1 million prize in “Top Gun vs. Top Model.”
Star of the Month: Eva Marie Saint
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Thursday night celebration of legendary actress Eva Marie Saint concludes this evening with The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), the Best Picture Oscar-nominated Cold War comedy also featuring Carl Reiner and Best Actor nominee Alan Arkin; The Stalking Moon (1968), a Western led by Gregory Peck and also featuring Robert Forster; Loving (1970), a comedy/drama costarring George Segal, Sterling Hayden and Keenan Wynn; and the TCM premiere of director Garry Marshall’s comedy/drama Nothing in Common (1986), headlined by Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason in his final film role.
The Real Housewives of Orange County: “Red Flags and Flag Football”
Bravo, 9pm
Nothing is better for rich, beautiful housewives who harbor a lot of tension than an aggressive game of flag football.
COBRA: Rebellion
PBS, 9pm
Season Premiere!
The third season of this drama series featuring the British prime minister and his Cabinet Office Briefing Room A (COBRA) committee begins airing tonight, with British PM Robert Sutherland (Robert Carlyle) discovering his daughter (Holly Cattle) is involved with an environmental protest group while his office is preparing for a visit from a Persian Gulf royal family.
Friday, July 26
Elite
Netflix
Season Premiere!
In the eighth and final season of this Spanish drama set at the prestigious Las Encinas school, the arrival of siblings Emilia and Héctor Krawietz (Ane Rot and Nuno Gallego), leaders of the Las Encinas alumni association, shakes the school’s foundations. Influential, powerful, corrupt and corrupting, the Krawietzes will scatter chaos wherever they go and destroy the lives of those who fall prey to them. Only Omar (Omar Ayuso) will be able to face them and be willing to do anything to see them fall, because in the end, they represent everything that has always been wrong at Las Encinas.
Wonderland
Netflix
Original Film!
This sci-fi/fantasy movie from South Korea takes place in a simulated universe where people can reunite with their departed loved ones using the artificial intelligence technology of the “Wonderland” video call service.
TCM Morning & Afternoon Movies: The Olympic Spirit
TCM, beginning at 6am
Catch a Classic!
The 2024 Summer Olympics begin today, and Turner Classic Movies is offering a look back at previous Summer Games this morning and afternoon via several notable documentary films. Up first is The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 (1925), a roughly three-hour silent film that covers notable events and athletes at those games, including Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, who would later be famously dramatized in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. Next is Games of the XXI Olympiad (1977), which runs about two hours and chronicles the 1976 Games that were held in Montreal, spotlighting legendary athletes like three-time gold medal-winning Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci and gold medal-winning American decathlete Caitlyn Jenner (known at that time and competing in men’s events, prior to her gender transition, as Bruce Jenner). The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles are the subject of the next documentary, director Bud Greenspan’s award-winning 16 Days of Glory (1985), which runs over four-and-a-half hours and features footage of athletes such as Americans Carl Lewis (four-time gold medalist in track and field events) and Greg Louganis (two-time gold medalist in diving events). After that comes one of the most acclaimed Olympics documentaries, the Japanese film Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which, over its nearly three hours, not only captures events held at the 1964 Games in the title city but also weaves a rich, colorful and lovely dramatic tapestry while doing so. As today’s lineup concludes, we switch seasons with the half-hour 1980 short Olympic Spirit, which briefly chronicles the Winter Games that were held in Lake Placid, New York, notable for the United States’ “Miracle on Ice” win over the Soviet Union during the ice hockey tournament’s medal round.
2024 Paris Olympics: Opening Ceremony
NBC, 1:30pm Live
The Summer Olympics opening ceremony will be held outside an Olympic stadium for the first time, as the Seine River banks and the Jardins du Trocadéro, a green space across the river from the Eiffel Tower, will attract hundreds of thousands of spectators. Boats and barges will carry the 10,500 athletes down the Seine in the Parade of Nations. NBC’s primetime Olympics coverage tonight includes an encore airing of the opening ceremony.
Antiques Roadshow Recut
PBS, 10pm
Season Premiere!
The fourth season of this half-hour series featuring shorter versions of Antiques Roadshow episodes begins airing tonight, with two new episodes back-to-back.
Saturday, July 27
Lolita
TCM, 1:45pm
Catch a Classic!
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, this 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial classic novel details the consequences of forbidden love. While attempting to romance young “nymphet” Dolly Haze (Sue Lyon), middle-aged professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) must contend with her mother’s (Shelley Winters) advances and a mysterious rival suitor. Overwhelmed by passion, Humbert’s actions lead to a shocking and tragic conclusion. Peter Sellers also stars in this film that netted Nabokov a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination (however, although the author was officially credited with the screenplay, most of what he wrote was actually eschewed in favor of rewrites by Kubrick and producer James B. Harris).
MLB Baseball
FS1 & FOX, beginning at 4pm Live
FS1’s Saturday MLB game has the San Diego Padres in Baltimore to face the Orioles. FOX’s primetime regional game features either the N.Y. Yankees at the Boston Red Sox or the Seattle Mariners at the Chicago White Sox.
Mammals: “Water”
BBC America, 8pm
Very few mammals have managed to lose all ties with land and conquer life in water, one of the greatest challenges for an air-breathing animal. The new episode “Water” dives in with whales, dolphins and other aquatic mammal species.
Mind Your Business
Bounce TV, 8pm
Season Finale!
The first season of this half-hour comedy, whose premiere episode ranked as Bounce TV’s most-watched series premiere ever when it debuted last month, concludes tonight. Columbus Short, Drew Sidora and BeBe Winans lead the cast.
An Ice Palace Romance
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
A journalist (Celeste Desjardins) faces old fears when she returns to her hometown ice rink to cover a story. With the help of the owner (Marcus Rosner) and his young daughter, she begins to reevaluate her life’s purpose.