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Thursday, Sept. 11
NFL Football: Washington at Green Bay
Prime Video, 8:15pm Live
Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, brings Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders to take on Jordan Love and the Packers on Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football.
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Zatima
BET+
Season Premiere!
The fourth season of this drama from Tyler Perry picks up again with two episodes available Thursdays through Oct. 9. The series continues to follow Zac (Devale Ellis) and Fatima (Crystal Renee Hayslett) as they prepare for parenthood while navigating deep emotional scars, complicated friendships and explosive entanglements.
Diary of a Ditched Girl
Netflix
New Series!
Carla Sehn leads this romantic comedy from Sweden as Amanda, a 31-year-old who embarks on a summer of intense dating, desperately craving to be loved and trying everything. Together with her friends, they try to find new dates for each other while debating big questions like: Why is it so hard to find love? And how many times can you venture into the world with your heart on your sleeve only to have it stepped on once again?
Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black
Netflix
Season Premiere!
Picking up after the first season cliffhanger, in which Horace (Ricco Ross) announced Chicago club dancer Kimmie (Taylor Polidore Williams) as his new wife, aka the new woman leading the Beauty in Black cosmetics empire, Season 2 of this drama continues Kimmie’s journey as she steps into her power as the newest member of the Bellarie family — which doesn’t sit well with the other members.
Forbidden Planet
TCM, 10:45am
Catch a Classic!
This 1956 sci-fi classic earned an Oscar nomination for its visual effects (which brought to life, among other things, the iconic character of Robby the Robot). But it should also have been nominated for its groundbreaking, all-electronic musical score, and the film’s relatively deep themes (compared to other ’50s sci-fi flicks) rise from it being a loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. While some of its plot may have been inspired by the Bard, the pioneering film also influenced others in its own way, as its ideas and style (including sets of extraordinary scale) would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages in the following decades. Leslie Nielsen (deadly serious here in his days prior to his late-career resurgence as a comedic favorite in spoof films like Airplane!) plays the commander who brings his spaceship crew to the green-skied world that is home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis) … and to a mysterious terror. Forbidden Planet is a highlight among TCM’s lineup this morning and afternoon featuring films that, through their stories and special effects, speculated — some more successfully than others — on how various forms of space travel could be achieved. It is preceded by Queen of Outer Space (1958) and From the Earth to the Moon (1958). It is followed by World Without End (1956), Satellite in the Sky (1956), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its 1984 sequel, 2010. — Jeff Pfeiffer
MLB Baseball
FOX, 7pm Live
Thursday night MLB regional action on FOX gives viewers either the N.Y. Mets at the Philadelphia Phillies or the Kansas City Royals at the Cleveland Guardians.
College Football: NC State at Wake Forest
ESPN, 7:30pm Live
Two North Carolina foes in the ACC meet at Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium in Winston-Salem as the NC State Wolfpack visit the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.
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Friday, Sept. 12
The Wrong Paris
Netflix
Original Film!
Miranda Cosgrove leads this romantic comedy as a young woman who joins a dating show thinking that it takes place in Paris, France — but it is actually in Paris, Texas. She plots a way to get eliminated, until her unexpected feelings for the show’s bachelor (Pierson Fodé) complicate her plans.
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place
Disney Channel, 7pm
Season Premiere!
In Season 2, Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) grapples with the fact that being part of the Russo family might be more complicated than she thought — especially now that she’s not the only wizard in the house. Thanks to Roman and Milo’s (Alkaio Thiele and Max Matenko) new magical powers, Justin (David Henrie) is now tasked with training three young wizards for the Family Wizard Competition. As the stakes rise inside and outside the family, a mysterious new threat emerges, one that could unravel the Russos forever. Selena Gomez returns in her guest-starring role as Alex, and new guest stars include Freya Skye, Kirsten Vangsness and Harvey Guillén.
College Football
ESPN & FOX, beginning at 7:30pm Live
Friday night’s college football action features Colorado at Houston on ESPN and Kansas State at Arizona on FOX.
Interracial Romance — Part 2
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
After beginning last Friday, Turner Classic Movies tonight airs its second of two lineups of films featuring interracial couples, many of which were produced during times when onscreen portrayals of these loving pairs were considered socially unacceptable at best, if not outright shocking, to many people — and when such real-life relationships were even illegal in some places in America. Tonight’s lineup leads off with One Potato, Two Potato (1964), a drama centering on the romance and marriage between a white woman (Barbara Barrie) and a Black man (Bernie Hamilton). Following that is one of the most iconic entries among movies with this theme: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), Stanley Kramer’s acclaimed and important drama that was one of the earliest American films to feature an interracial marriage in a positive manner. It follows a young white woman (Katharine Houghton) who brings home her Black fiancé (Sidney Poitier) to meet her parents (Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn and Oscar nominee Spencer Tracy in their ninth and final onscreen pairing; Tracy’s final film role), who must grapple with their concerns about the engagement. Next is the TCM premiere of writer/director Spike Lee’s romantic drama Jungle Fever (1991), which explores an extramarital interracial relationship between a Black architect (Wesley Snipes) and his Italian American temp secretary (Annabella Sciorra). Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, and Halle Berry and Queen Latifah in their film debuts costar. Finishing things up in late night and early tomorrow are All Night Long (1962), a British drama based on Shakespeare’s Othello and set in the London jazz scene, led by Paul Harris, Marti Stevens, Patrick McGoohan and Betsy Blair (along with several jazz greats appearing as themselves, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus); and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), a Cannes-acclaimed West German drama about a romance that develops between an elderly German woman (Brigitte Mira) and a Moroccan migrant worker (El Hedi ben Salem). — Jeff Pfeiffer
Lost in the Jungle
Nat Geo, 9pm
After a deadly plane crash strands four young siblings deep within the Colombian rainforest, a dramatic rescue mission unfolds, uniting Indigenous trackers and the military in a race against time. For the first time, this incredible true story that made headlines around the world is told from the children’s perspective, alongside that of the rescuers who scoured the Amazon for a grueling 40 days and nights to find them.
Saturday, Sept. 13
College Football
ABC, CBS, The CW, FOX & NBC, beginning at 12pm Live
Saturday’s best games on the college gridiron include Oregon at Northwestern (FOX), Georgia at Tennessee (ABC), USC at Purdue (CBS), Oregon State at Texas Tech (FOX), South Florida at Miami (The CW), Florida at LSU (ABC) and Texas A&M at Notre Dame (NBC).
NASCAR Cup Series: Bass Pro Shops Night Race
USA Network, 7:30pm Live
The playoffs Round of 16 concludes with this 500-lap race around Tennessee’s famed Bristol Motor Speedway. Four drivers will be eliminated from the playoffs heading into next week’s Round of 12 at New Hampshire.
The Groomsmen: Second Chances
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Network Premiere!
Danny (Jonathan Bennett) finds the courage to admit his romantic feelings for his best friend when he is asked to be the best man at his wedding in Greece.
A Husband to Die For: The Lisa Aguilar Story
Lifetime, 8pm
Original Film!
Newlywed and soon-to-be mother Lisa Aguilar (Keana Lyn Bastidas) discovers her husband (Jon McLaren) is living a double life just before she is viciously attacked in her own home in this thriller based on a true story. When she and her unborn baby are left for dead, Lisa miraculously survives and begins to unravel a horrifying truth: The man she trusted most may have tried to kill her.
Humphrey Bogart & John Huston
TCM, beginning at 8pm
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Two of the most legendary among the several collaborations between star Humphrey Bogart and director John Huston, both from 1948, are featured in tonight’s double feature. First up is The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Huston won Oscars for his screenplay adaptation of B. Traven’s novel of the same name and for directing this masterful study of greed that was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Bogart and Tim Holt star as Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, down-on-their-luck American vagrants in 1925 Mexico who team up with a grizzled prospector named Howard (Huston’s father Walter, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) in search of gold in the central Mexican wilds. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits (who famously “ain’t got no badges”), the elements and, most especially, greed threaten to turn their success into disaster. Following that is Key Largo, Huston’s film noir classic that featured Bogie and Lauren Bacall in the last of their four memorable big-screen pairings together. Bogart plays disillusioned returning Army veteran Frank McCloud, who goes to the title island to visit the family of a man who died under his command in Italy during World War II. The family owns a hotel in Key Largo, and there Frank finds himself tangling with ruthless gangster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) when the two of them and a few other visitors are trapped by a hurricane in the hotel. Lionel Barrymore and Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Claire Trevor also star. — Jeff Pfeiffer
Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller: “Underground Street Racing”
Nat Geo, 9pm
Host Mariana Van Zeller investigates the deadly world of illegal street racing.
Boxing: Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford
Netflix, 9pm Live
Two of boxing’s most dominant forces — undisputed Super Middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Álvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs) and undefeated four-division superstar Terence Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) — will face off in a fight for the unified Super Middleweight championship at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Sunday, Sept. 14
WNBA Playoffs: First Round
ABC & ESPN, beginning at 1pm Live
The WNBA playoffs first round tips off today with three games on ESPN and one on ABC.
Ocean’s 11
TCM, 2:15pm
Catch a Classic!
The Rat Pack was at the pinnacle of their film appearances in this very enjoyable 1960 heist comedy about World War II vets Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) and Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford), who recruit nine of their former military comrades to help them rob five Las Vegas casinos on New Year’s Eve. The fun ensemble cast also includes Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson, Cesar Romero, Norman Fell and plenty more.
77th Emmy Awards
CBS, 8pm Live
Comedian Nate Bargatze hosts this year’s Emmys, whose field is led by Apple TV+’s Severance with 27 nominations. Just behind is HBO’s The Penguin, with 24 nominations, followed by The White Lotus on HBO, and The Studio on Apple TV+, with 23 each. Outstanding Comedy Series nominees are Abbott Elementary (ABC), The Bear (Hulu), Hacks (HBO Max), Nobody Wants This (Netflix), Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), Shrinking (Apple TV+), The Studio (Apple TV+) and What We Do in the Shadows (FX). Outstanding Drama Series nominees are Andor (Disney+), The Diplomat (Netflix), The Last of Us (HBO), Paradise (Hulu), The Pitt (HBO Max), Severance, Slow Horses (Apple TV+) and The White Lotus.
Doc
FOX, 8pm
Sneak Preview!
Catch this special premiere of Season 2 before the series begins its regular run on Tuesdays next week. Dr. Amy Larsen (Molly Parker) continues to rebuild her life after a car crash erased eight years of her memory. This season, she has to restart her medical journey as an intern in the hopes of becoming the doctor she once was.
The Chicken Sisters: “A Woman Always Knows, Y’all”
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
When Gus (Wendie Malick) needs help, Nancy (Lea Thompson) begins to wonder if Clayton (David James Elliott) is ready to support her; doubts also start to crowd Mae’s (Genevieve Angelson) mind about Clayton’s presence in town.
Professor T: “You Can’t Kill Me”
PBS, 8pm
An actress is stabbed onstage and the director’s daughter is also attacked, so Jasper (Ben Miller) asks Helena (Juliet Stevenson) for help, as she knows the family involved.
NFL Football: Atlanta at Minnesota
NBC, 8:15pm Live
U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis is the site of tonight’s Week 2 Sunday Night Football clash between the Atlanta Falcons and the Minnesota Vikings.
The Great North
FOX, 9pm
Season Finale!
Season 5 of the animated comedy following Beef Tobin (voice of Nick Offerman) and his colorful family in Alaska wraps up with two episodes. As of presstime, FOX has not announced if The Great North will return for Season 6.
The Marlow Murder Club: “Death on the Close: Part 2”
PBS, 9pm
As details about a newly discovered skeleton’s identity emerge, Judith (Samantha Bond), Suzie (Jo Martin) and Becks (Cara Horgan) realize they may have been looking in the wrong direction all along.
Unforgotten
PBS, 10pm
With the details of Gerry Cooper’s life becoming clearer and one suspect already being questioned for his murder, the Bishop Street Station team finds suspects further afield; if Mel (MyAnna Buring) and Asif (Elham Ehsas) have nothing to hide, why do they claim not to remember Gerry?
Ride With Norman Reedus
AMC, 11:15pm
Season Premiere!
Motorcycle enthusiast Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead, returns for a seventh season of epic road trips around the world with a fellow actor, musician or friend. Guests this season include Robert Patrick (Tulsa King), Kim Coates (The Walking Dead: Dead City) and Zahn McClarnon (Dark Winds), with special appearances by Melissa McBride and others.
Monday, Sept. 15
NFL Football
ABC & ESPN, beginning at 7pm Live
Week 2 of the NFL season wraps up with a Monday Night Football doubleheader featuring the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Houston Texans (ABC & ESPN) and the L.A. Chargers at the Las Vegas Raiders (ESPN).
Celebrity Name That Tune
FOX, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Season 5 of the musical guessing game show features celebrity contestants. Jane Krakowski returns as host with bandleader Randy Jackson.
Celebrations With Lacey Chabert
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Lacey Chabert and her crew of party planners and designers who surprise deserving families with larger-than-life parties return for a second season. Each episode will profile unsuspecting local heroes who inspire hope and have set out to do some good for their communities.
Star of the Month: Peter Sellers
TCM, beginning at 8pm
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Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Peter Sellers celebration continues with four titles, including one of his most famous films: Best Director nominee Stanley Kubrick’s Best Picture-nominated dark comedy/political satire Dr. Strangelove (1964), in which Sellers earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for portraying three classic characters — the titular German doctor, U.S. President Merkin Muffley and British RAF officer Lionel Mandrake. Following that are The World of Henry Orient (1964), a comedy with Sellers as the title character; another famed Kubrick-helmed dark comedy, 1962’s Lolita, with Sellers in a Golden Globe-nominated performance; and Carol for Another Christmas (1964), a TV movie updating of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol written by Rod Serling and led by Sterling Hayden as a Scrooge-like businessman. — Jeff Pfeiffer
Celebrity Weakest Link
FOX, 9pm
New Series!
The popular game show moves from NBC to FOX, but the format remains the same. Hosted by Jane Lynch, the rapid-fire quiz show will see eight celebrities competing to win up to $1 million for a charity of their choice.
POV: “Black Snow”
PBS, 10pm
In this episode of the long-running docuseries, a journalist investigates an environmental catastrophe in a remote Siberian coal mining city.
Tuesday, Sept. 16
50 Ways to Catch a Killer
FOX Nation
New Series!
This new six-part true-crime series hosted and executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson offers viewers a deep journey inside investigative units as they unravel real-life murder mysteries and uncover critical breakthroughs all leading to the prime suspect and pursuit of justice. “True crime is powerful because it’s real cases, real people and real justice,” Jackson says. “With this series, I want viewers to experience the intensity of these investigations and the relentless work it takes to uncover the truth. We’re bringing these stories to life in a way that’s both gripping and authentic.” Each episode offers unprecedented access into the step-by-step process of solving a murder case, from the first clue to the decisive moment that changes everything. Every story spotlights a unique tactic, expert insight or pivotal piece of evidence that ultimately leads to an arrest or conviction. From cutting-edge forensics to classic old-school detective work, each investigation reveals a different path to the truth. Jackson personally selects the cases, introduces the players, and guides viewers through the twists and turns, ending each story with an update on the defendant’s fate. Two new episodes release weekly through the end of the month. Tonight’s episodes examine the 2017 case of pregnant schoolteacher Laura Wallen, and the 2018 case of hairdresser and single mom Joleen Cummings.
Dancing With the Stars
ABC, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Season 34 of the long-running competition series where professional dancers are paired with celebrities to train and compete in ballroom dancing begins tonight, with returning hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough.
The 1% Club
FOX, 8pm
Season Finale!
All of tonight’s contestants were eliminated on a past episode but are getting another shot at a massive cash prize in the two-part Season 2 finale “Second Chance: I Put on My Redemption Wig” and “Second Chance: You Gotta Risk It for the Biscuit.” Joel McHale hosts.
100 Day Dream Home
HGTV, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Husband-and-wife duo Brian (the developer) and Mika (the real estate agent) Kleinschmidt are back helping their clients build their dream homes in 100 days. In the premiere episode, they help Jason and Iris, who are building an addition on their home so Jason’s mom can move in. But design sparks fly when he wants all white, and Iris craves bold color in their new main suite.
The Chrisleys: Back to Reality
Lifetime, 8pm
Season Finale!
The series has shared a raw and unfiltered look at the Chrisley family’s legal battle and road to pardon. As the series concludes, we’ll continue to see what navigating their new chapter looks like.
Hispanic Heritage — Part 1
TCM, beginning at 8pm
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Hispanic Heritage Month 2025 began yesterday, Sept. 15, and continues through Wednesday, Oct. 15. To celebrate, Turner Classic Movies will be airing lineups of films important to or about Hispanic history, and/or starring or created by notable Hispanic performers and filmmakers, beginning tonight and continuing next Tuesday, Sept. 23. Featured tonight are several movies led by the always “mah-velous”-looking (to quote Billy Crystal’s parody) Argentine American actor Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos, better known simply by his professional name of Fernando Lamas. The lineup starts with The Law and the Lady (1951), in which Lamas plays a suave and exotic-seeming man who tries to woo Greer Garson’s character. Michael Wilding costars in a dual role as twin brothers. After that, in the musical comedy Dangerous When Wet (1953), Esther Williams’ character is torn between two potential lovers: her coach for a swimming/aquatic performance show (Jack Carson) and a handsome Frenchman (Lamas). Another musical comedy follows: Rich, Young and Pretty (1951), also featuring Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey and singer Vic Damone in his film debut. The lineup concludes in late night/early morning with The Merry Widow (1952), an adaptation of the operetta with Lamas as a dashing count alongside Lana Turner, and Rose Marie (1954), a Western adaptation of another operetta, in which Lamas appears with Ann Blyth and Howard Keel. — Jeff Pfeiffer
Truck Dynasty
Discovery Channel, 9pm
Season Finale!
In “Shaq’s Super Truck,” NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal shows up unannounced at Apocalypse to order a custom 4×4 truck. Jerry Jr. is ecstatic — he has been trying to get Shaq’s attention for over a year. Joe’s team begins work on Shaq’s customized Juggernaut truck, but Jerry repeatedly sticks his nose into the process, forcing Ashley to step in and make peace.
Top Guns: The Next Generation
Nat Geo, 9pm
New Series!
Going inside the U.S. Navy’s toughest fighter pilot school, where every flight is a test and futures hang in the balance, this docuseries follows one group of students as they undertake a series of dynamic aerial challenges known as Advanced Phase. They must excel in bombing, low-level flying and carrier landing before the iconic dog-fighting test. Fail, and their dreams of being a strike pilot are over.
High Potential
ABC, 10pm
Season Premiere!
Season 2 of the hit crime drama series starring Kaitlin Olson as a genius savant/single mother working as a police consultant will return with a new police captain — played by Steve Howey — and a potential romance between her and Detective Karadec (Daniel Sunjata). Though, with all that baggage between the two of them, it may take a while to get there.
Wednesday, Sept. 17
Family Law
The CW, 8pm
Season Finale!
Two back-to-back new episodes close out the season. First, in “Take My Advice,” a few cases with unexpected turns are followed by a shocking demand. Then, in “Second Chances,” a bombshell drops regarding the merger.
MasterChef: Dynamic Duos
FOX, 8pm
Season Finale!
Find out which pair of chefs claim victory and the title of MasterChef in the two-hour season finale.
Big Cats 24/7: “A Pride Divided”
PBS, 8pm
Under attack from a growing number of intruder male lions, the lionesses with young cubs must find the rest of the pride; leopard mom Lediba risks it all for a meal; and the cheetah cubs face danger during a vital lesson in survival.
TCM Spotlight: Edith Head
TCM, beginning at 8pm
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Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Wednesday night spotlight on legendary costume designer Edith Head continues with another lineup of titles representing just some of her domination in both Oscar nominations and wins following the creation of the Best Costume Design category in 1948. Up first is A Place in the Sun (1951; Best Costume Design winner), the first of three films for which Head designed Elizabeth Taylor’s outfits. That is followed by the TCM premiere of an episode from the early television magazine show Mary McAdoo at Home (1953). It’s unclear what this entails, but perhaps Head was a guest on the installment. More of Head’s Oscar-recognized film work can then be seen in Roman Holiday (1953; winner), the first of four classics for which Head designed wardrobes for Audrey Hepburn; the Bob Hope/Lucille Ball-led romantic comedy The Facts of Life (1960; winner, shared with Edward Stevenson); and the Sean Connery/Michael Caine-led adventure film The Man Who Would Be King (1975), on which Head received her second-to-last Oscar nomination. — Jeff Pfeiffer
Sin City Rehab
HGTV, 9pm
New Series!
Popular Chicago designer Alison Victoria will take on the bright lights and high stakes of the Las Vegas real estate scene in this new eight-episode series that documents Alison, best known for her popular Windy City Rehab, taking the biggest gamble of her career as she expands her successful design business out West. Alison will bet on herself for lofty rewards, diving headfirst into multimillion-dollar client projects and risky flips all while building a team and reputation from the ground up in a flashy new market.
NOVA: Human
PBS, 9pm
New Series!
This five-part coproduction between the BBC Studios Science Unit and NOVA documents the complex story of humanity, beginning 300,000 years ago when Homo sapiens emerged in Africa as one of at least seven human species alive at the time. It shows how closely related we are to other, now-vanished ancestors like Neanderthals, using cutting-edge science to reveal just how “human” they were, and how we outlasted them, even though, as series host Ella Al-Shamahi, a paleoanthropologist, says, we may have been “arguably the underdog of the group.”
Sacred Planet With Gulnaz Khan: “Stopping the Desert”
PBS, 10pm
Environmental journalist Gulnaz Khan travels across Africa’s Sahel, where desertification threatens entire communities. Muslims and Christians join forces with scientists, refining traditional practices that promise to hold back the Sahara and its shifting sands.
Thursday, Sept. 18
Sounds of Summer (Sommartider)
Viaplay
This film is the high-energy, music-filled and “almost true” story of Swedish pop sensation Gyllene Tider, one of the country’s most successful bands ever. Fronted by Per Gessle, who would later become the cofounder of Roxette, the band lit up the charts with infectious pop-rock anthems in the early 1980s. It begins with Gessle’s (Valdemar Wahlbeck) all-consuming love for music, and his bond with fellow teenage musicians who begin jamming together in their small town of Halmstad, sparking big dreams of pop stardom. Even with a sickly father dismissing Gessle’s ambitions and constant jibes about his singing or lack of a “real job,” Per becomes even more determined to prove them wrong. Sounds of Summer captures the band’s highs and lows on the road to chart-topping fame — sweaty rehearsals, intimate local gigs and recording sessions that would yield Swedish pop classics. We see their clashes with skeptical record executives in Stockholm, their early tours around Sweden, and their growing bond as friends and musicians. Their perseverance culminates in the runaway success of “Sommartider” in 1982, cementing their place in Sweden’s pop culture history. Although they officially disbanded in 1985, Gyllene Tider has reunited several times since. With heart, humor, and plenty of toe-tapping music, Sounds of Summer is a love letter to the power of friendship, determination, and chasing dreams.
Black Rabbit
Netflix
New Series!
Set against the backdrop of New York City’s high-pressure nightlife scene, this dramatic thriller centers around two brothers who learn just how far family, and the pursuit of success, can push them to the edge. Jake Friedkin (Jude Law) is the charismatic owner of Black Rabbit, a restaurant and VIP lounge that is poised to become New York’s hottest spot. But when his brother, Vince (Jason Bateman), returns to the business unexpectedly, trouble soon follows.
MLB Baseball
FOX, 7pm Live
Viewers will see either the N.Y. Yankees at the Baltimore Orioles or the Chicago Cubs at the Cincinnati Reds on FOX’s Thursday night MLB regional broadcast.
NFL Football: Miami at Buffalo
Prime Video, 8:15pm Live
AFC East foes clash at Buffalo’s Highmark Stadium as the Miami Dolphins take on Josh Allen and the Bills on Thursday Night Football.
Dolphins Up Close With Bertie Gregory
Nat Geo, 9pm
Famed wildlife cinematographer Bertie Gregory is in the Azores, a marine sanctuary and vital pit stop for migrating ocean predators off the coast of Portugal. It’s feeding season, and thousands of normally elusive predators, including dolphins, join forces to hunt and feed on super-shoals of fish known as “bait balls.” Gregory and his team are challenged by the vast ocean and storms as they attempt to film this spectacular feeding frenzy.
The Best Years of Our Lives
TCM, 9pm
Catch a Classic!
This powerful drama about World War II veterans readjusting to life back home earned William Wyler a Best Director Oscar along with wins for Best Picture, Best Actor (Fredric March) and Best Supporting Actor (Harold Russell, an actual war veteran who had lost both hands during his service). The film is part of an evening devoted to Wyler and classics that he directed; it is preceded by a 2025 documentary called 40 Takes Willy, and it is followed by the films Friendly Persuasion (1956) and Ben-Hur (1959).
Friday, Sept. 19
Dreamscape
MOVIES!, 10:35pm
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About three months before the original A Nightmare on Elm Street was released in November 1984, this other terrific and more underrated film about bad dreams came out and is worth a look or re-look. It stars Dennis Quaid as a young man with psychic abilities who is recruited into a university’s sleep-research program — whose leaders are played by Max von Sydow and Kate Capshaw — that has come up with a way for certain people to mentally enter the dreams of others and help them overcome fears or other psychological issues. Unfortunately, a shadowy government operative (Christopher Plummer) takes over the project with a more sinister use in mind — he wants to be able to assassinate people by killing them in their nightmares, and one of his planned targets is the president of the United States (Eddie Albert). Like Elm Street, Dreamscape has some creatively imagined nightmare sequences, and is also accompanied by a cool, synth-based musical score (by Maurice Jarre). It isn’t as violent as Wes Craven’s slasher film, but it does have its intense moments (Dreamscape was the second film to be released with the new PG-13 rating in the summer of ’84), especially within the president’s bad dreams about a nuclear holocaust, and in a troubled boy’s recurring nightmares about being pursued by a horrifying snake-man. — Jeff Pfeiffer
Billionaires’ Bunker
Netflix
New Series!
Described as “an excessive and surprising emotional X-ray of billionaires living in a ‘golden hole,’” this Spanish thriller is about a group of ultra-rich people who are forced to coexist in a luxury bunker designed to withstand any imaginable catastrophe after accidentally locking themselves in due to the threat of an unprecedented global conflict. Isolated underground and with no possibility of escape, they reveal their personalities and uncover their most unconfessable secrets. But the most unexpected alliances also emerge.
Haunted Hotel
Netflix
New Series!
Matt Roller (Krapopolis, Rick and Morty) created this adult animated comedy about a single mother of two (voice of Eliza Coupe) who struggles to run the Undervale, a hotel that happens to be haunted. Luckily, she has some help from her estranged brother (Will Forte) … who is now one of the ghosts and thinks that his fellow phantoms have some pretty good ideas.
She Said Maybe
Netflix
Original Film!
In this German romantic comedy/drama, Mavi, a German-raised woman, learns of her Turkish noble heritage and enters a world of luxury, which challenges her relationship as she navigates her newfound identity.
College Football
ESPN & FOX, beginning at 7pm Live
The Tulsa Golden Hurricane visit Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater for a Friday night tussle with the Oklahoma State Cowboys on ESPN. On FOX, the Iowa Hawkeyes are at the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in a Big Ten matchup.
CBS Fall First Look
CBS, 8pm
Get a star-studded preview of the new shows and returning favorites coming to CBS this fall TV season.
Scariest House in America
HGTV, 9pm
Season Premiere!
Season 2 of this fun series finds Retta touring three scary homes in the Eerie East, each vying for the chance at a $150,000 makeover by designer Alison Victoria. It’s between a haunted mansion with a scary urban legend, an old jail still haunted by former inmates and a horrifying historical home with a frightening surprise in the attic.
Saturday, Sept. 20
College Football
CBS & NBC, beginning at 3:30pm Live
Highlights of Saturday’s college football action include Michigan at Nebraska (CBS), Purdue at Notre Dame (NBC) and Washington at Washington State (CBS).
The Groomsmen: Last Dance
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Network Premiere!
Jackson (Tyler Hynes) moves to Italy to be near his daughter, but a chance meeting with a café owner and some meddling friends may lead to a second chance at love.
The Girl Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story
Lifetime, 8pm
Original Film!
Based on the true story of Alina Thompson, this 1980s-set thriller follows an aspiring teenage model (Brielle Robillard) in Los Angeles who gets caught in a dangerous web of obsession when she sneaks off to attend an amateur casting call and meets up-and-coming photographer — and serial killer — William Bradford (Steve Byers).
Lucy & Desi
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, of course, most famously costarred in the classic TV sitcom I Love Lucy, but they also appeared together on the big screen, including in the films that make up tonight’s double feature: the musical comedy Too Many Girls (1940) and the comedy The Long, Long Trailer (1953, made during the height of their TV show’s popularity), in which they play newlyweds who buy a trailer home and take it on the road for their honeymoon, only to run into various misadventures.
Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller
Nat Geo, 9pm
Season Finale!
Season 5 concludes with “Shark Hunters,” in which host Mariana Van Zeller investigates the underground market for shark fins.