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Wednesday, July 24
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.
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.
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.
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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.