Sunday, Aug. 28: ‘The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family’ Documentary on PBS
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Sunday, Aug. 28
The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family
PBS, 8pm
New Series!
This three-part BBC docudrama combines dramatic reenactments and interviews with historians to tell the story of Britain’s famed Boleyn family. The series focuses on the clan’s peak during the Tudor era when Anne Boleyn (Rafaëlle Cohen), daughter of ambitious Thomas Boleyn (Max Dowler), became the second wife of Henry VIII. The series premiere, “Ambition,” explores Thomas’ determination to elevate the family name, which takes him, his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children into the heart of the Tudor court.
Summer Under the Stars: Cary Grant
TCM, beginning at 6am
Catch a Classic!
Actor Archibald Leach — who, working professionally as Cary Grant, was the quintessential example of a suave, witty, charming, handsome and debonair silver screen star — is celebrated today during Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars with 12 of his films, a lineup that naturally includes the romantic comedies and Hitchcock thrillers with which Grant is most associated. The laughs come from titles such as The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) and Houseboat (1958), with thrills to be had from Hitch’s Suspicion (1941) and North by Northwest (1959). Some Grant-led dramas are also among today’s films, including Penny Serenade (1941), in which the star received a Best Actor Oscar nomination.
Living Smaller
A&E, beginning at 11am
Season Finale!
The first season of this series about creative people transforming their lives by turning spaces into short-term rentals, small homes and vacation destinations comes to a close with “Vintage Vacation Time Capsule.” In it, one couple aims for a home on wheels, while another couple builds a tiny home and lives mortgage-free. A new episode, “Mini Modern Marvel,” precedes the finale.
NFL Preseason Football
NFL Network & CBS, beginning at 1pm Live
The final day of the NFL preseason has the N.Y. Giants at the N.Y. Jets on NFL Network and the Detroit Lions at the Pittsburgh Steelers on CBS.
Little League Baseball World Series: Championship
ABC, 3pm Live
The U.S. and International champions face off today at Howard J. Lamade Stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the 2022 Little League Baseball World Series title.
Styled With Love
UPtv, 7pm
Original Film!
Moving from small-town Iowa to Chicago, an ambitious personal stylist (Rachel Bles) hires a professional photographer (Dennis Andres) to help promote her new fashion venture. This partnership ends up teaching her that when it comes to finding love and success in the city, all you need to do is stay true to the style in your own heart.
MTV Video Music Awards
MTV, 8pm Live
The VMAs are back at New Jersey’s Prudential Center for the first time since 2019. Airing around the world in more than 170 countries, this year’s show will surprise and delight with show-stopping spectacles, epic performances and a fan-filled audience celebrating the biggest stars in music.
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?
TLC, 8pm
Season Premiere!
The couples are back to navigate the next chapter of their relationships. They’ll be put to the test on everything from emotional affairs to disapproving family to immigration issues. With these couples kissing the honeymoon stage goodbye, are they headed toward happily ever after or happily never after?
My Life as a Rolling Stone
EPIX, 9pm
Series Finale!
This four-part docuseries that tells the story of legendary rockers the Rolling Stones through the lens of its members concludes with a look at Charlie Watts, the band’s famed drummer for nearly six decades until his passing in 2021. One of the least-showy percussionists in rock history, Watts was a quiet force who provided the swinging backbeat for the band, and he was often cited by group founders Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as the glue that held the Stones together.
Unthinkably Good Things
Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Drama, & Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 9pm
Original Film!
At a crossroads in her career and love life, Allison needs the love and support of her friends Melina and Reesa. When they visit Allison in Tuscany, the reunion causes each woman to reexamine the state of her own life and relationships. Karen Pittman, Erica Ash and Joyful Drake star.
Killer ’90s: Mary Kay Letourneau: Notes on a Scandal
Investigation Discovery, 9pm
This sex scandal shocked, enthralled and enraged America in the ’90s. Thirty-four-year-old elementary school teacher and married mother of four Mary Kay Letourneau had an affair with a 12-year-old student. They did not deny the behavior and actually embraced the love affair that included rendezvous in her family home. The question on everyone’s mind was: Is this true love, or is Letourneau a pedophile, guilty of child rape?
Guilt
PBS, beginning at 9pm
Season Premiere!
The acclaimed Scottish mystery/thriller returns for Season 2, which will again feature four hourlong episodes, with the first two airing back-to-back tonight. This season, disgraced lawyer Max McCall (Mark Bonnar) is released from prison and tries to rebuild his life in a world where nothing is what it seems, and everyone has a hidden agenda. Also reprising their roles from Season 1 are Jamie Sives and Emun Elliott.
Monday, Aug. 29
Darby and Joan
Acorn TV
Season Finale!
This Australia-set road trip mystery/drama concludes its first season with two episodes available today. In Episode 7, Jack (Bryan Brown) and Joan’s (Greta Scacchi) search for a missing boy is complicated by the surprise arrival of Joan’s daughter, Rebecca (Anna McGahan). Then, in the season finale, the return of a familiar figure from her travels enables Joan to piece together the truth about her husband, while an ominous threat from Jack’s policing days emerges.
Mighty Express
Netflix
Season Premiere!
In Season 7 of the Canadian CGI-animated kids series, Nate (voice of Dylan Schombing), Flicker (Ian Ho) and the rest of the trains raise the rails for more thrilling deliveries, special missions and lighthearted lessons on the track.
Summer Under the Stars: Myrna Loy
TCM, beginning at 6am
Catch a Classic!
Myrna Williams, who became a screen star as actress Myrna Loy, can be seen in 13 movies today as the focus of Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars celebration. Most of Loy’s best-known roles are on hand during this lineup, including two of her six famed appearances as Nora Charles, trading witty and flirtatious banter with William Powell’s Nick Charles in the beloved Thin Man comedic mystery films: the 1934 original The Thin Man and its 1936 follow-up, After the Thin Man. Other highlights: the powerful drama The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), about World War II veterans struggling to readjust to life back at home; and screwball comedies like Libeled Lady (1936), Double Wedding (1937) and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), among other titles.
Tennis: US Open: Early Rounds
ESPN & ESPN2, beginning at 12pm Live
The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York, hosts the year’s final Grand Slam. Russia’s Daniil Medvedev will be permitted to defend his men’s singles title. Great Britain’s Emma Raducanu is the reigning women’s singles champ. ESPN and ESPN2 combine to televise the tournament through Sept. 11.
Don’t Forget the Lyrics!: “Cher the Wealth”
FOX, 8pm
A high school teacher and a mom from Vegas try to sing their way to $1 million in the new episode “Cher the Wealth.”
American Ninja Warrior: “National Finals 3”
NBC, 8pm
The National Finals conclude in Las Vegas as the remaining competitors move on to Stages 3 and 4 for their chance to win $1 million and become the next American Ninja Warrior.
Beat Shazam: “You’re My Best Friend”
FOX, 9pm
Three teams of best friends try to identify the hit songs and claim the $1 million prize in the new episode “You’re My Best Friend.”
Keep This Between Us
Freeform, 9pm
New Series!
This four-part docuseries airing in two segments tonight and tomorrow night follows a woman’s journey as she reexamines a past relationship with a trusted teacher, while exposing the problem of grooming in U.S. high schools.
America’s National Parks
Nat Geo, 9pm
New Series!
If your summer vacation plans weren’t able to include a trip to any of America’s national parks, you still have a chance to explore some of their scenic beauty and fascinating wildlife in this five-part series, with episodes airing each night this week. Narrated and executive produced by Garth Brooks, America’s National Parks comes from the acclaimed production team behind natural history series like Planet Earth and Frozen Planet, and spotlights five parks, some world-famous, others perhaps lesser-known. The series begins tonight with a visit to one of the most renowned: Grand Canyon National Park.
POV: “Faya Dayi”
PBS, 9pm
Jessica Beshir’s documentary immerses viewers into the Oromo and Harari communities of Harar, Ethiopia, and their entwinement with khat — a euphoria-inducing plant that grips the lives and economies of this region.
Claim to Fame: “The Puppies Are Off the Leash”
ABC, 10pm
As the final stretch of the competition approaches, an alliance is solidified between two housemates, while one continues to lead others on with her false identity. The trivia challenge tests pop-culture knowledge, and while the winner isn’t granted immunity, they do get the biggest prize yet when they receive vital information about not one but all of their fellow competitors’ celebrity relatives.
My True Crime Story
VH1, 10pm
Season Premiere!
Grammy-nominated rapper and actress Remy Ma returns to host Season 2 of this docuseries about ordinary people who get caught up in outrageous, scandalous crimes ranging from drug trafficking and steroid production to counterfeiting and jewelry theft. It is told by the people who lived the crimes, shedding light on their rise, fall and redemption.
Tuesday, Aug. 30
The Patient
Hulu
New Series!
The Patient is a psychological thriller from the minds of Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg (The Americans) about a therapist, Alan Strauss (Steve Carell), who’s held prisoner by a patient, Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson), who reveals himself to be a serial killer. Sam has an unusual therapeutic demand for Alan: curb his homicidal urges. With time running out, Alan fights desperately to stop Sam’s murderous compulsions before he becomes Sam’s next victim.
Untold: “Operation Flagrant Foul”
Netflix
In the summer of 2007, news broke that an NBA referee was being investigated for gambling on his own games, igniting a media storm and sending the NBA, FBI and sports fans into crisis. That referee was Tim Donaghy, and the story didn’t just start and end with him, but wound its way from the small-town bookies of the Philadelphia suburbs to notorious New York crime families and the worldwide sports gambling underworld. For the first time, all three co-conspirators discuss their involvement and, unsurprisingly, their stories don’t all line up.
Summer Under the Stars: Jack Carson
TCM, beginning at 6am
Catch a Classic!
John Elmer Carson is known better by his screen name of Jack Carson. But he is probably even more recognizable by his familiar face, which was frequently seen in movies throughout the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, following his earlier successes in vaudeville and on radio. Carson turned up in many, usually supporting, roles on the big screen during that time, often playing a comedic friend, though he did appear in dramas and musicals, as well. During the ’50s, Carson also set his sights toward yet another medium, television, and became a frequent presence on the small screen in the years prior to his untimely death at age 52 in 1963. The popular and prolific character actor makes his debut in Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars today, with 14 films from his heyday on the big screen — largely comedies, but with some dramas mixed in. The lineup begins with Gentleman Jim (1942), Raoul Walsh’s biopic of boxer James J. Corbett, played by Errol Flynn. Other highlights today include a couple of the comedies in which Carson appeared with Dennis Morgan: Two Guys From Milwaukee (1946) and Two Guys From Texas (1948); three musical comedies also featuring Doris Day: Romance on the High Seas (1948), It’s a Great Feeling (1949) and My Dream Is Yours (1949); and more.
America’s Got Talent: “Qualifiers 4”
NBC, 8pm Live
More performers take the stage live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium as judging is turned over to the viewing audience to vote their favorite performer into the final round. Viewers can vote by using the AGT official app or going to nbc.com. Results air tomorrow night.
Keep This Between Us
Freeform, beginning at 9pm
Series Finale!
“The Burden” concludes this series about a woman looking back on an inappropriate relationship she had with her high school teacher. It examines the difficult battles that are part of a fight for justice. The new episode “Passing the Trash” airs before the finale.
Pawn Stars
History, 9pm
New Episodes!
The long-running unscripted History hit returns with new episodes in its new time slot. In “No Pawn Among Thieves,” a series of stolen and legally questionable items has the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on edge.
America’s National Parks: “Yosemite”
Nat Geo, 9pm
Yosemite National Park rises from lush valley floors to soaring alpine peaks, and with 4 million visitors a year, famed granite faces, giant sequoias and over 400 different animal species, it’s a celebrity in the world of our national parks. Despite its fame, however, Yosemite still holds secrets that are rarely seen. This episode reveals how black bears, coyotes, owls and a host of smaller critters survive in this Californian oasis.
Rise of the Bolsonaros
PBS, 9pm
In this story of power, politics and family like no other, follow the controversial rise of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, the consequences of which are felt not just in Brazil but around the world.
Password: “Chelsea Handler & Jimmy Fallon”
NBC, 10pm
Celebrity guest Chelsea Handler and Jimmy Fallon pair up with contestants and face off over two games. Players from each team guess secret passwords using only one-word clues for a chance to win up to $25,000. Keke Palmer hosts.
Wednesday, Aug. 31
The Croods: Family Tree
Hulu & Peacock
Season Premiere!
In Season 4 of the animated family series, with the kids excluded from the adults-only cave, they create a much cooler kid-cave, which tempts the adults to switch; a freak lightning storm turns Thunk (voice of AJ LoCascio) into a genius; Ugga (Amy Landecker) arranges a “Punch Summit” for peaceful co-existence with the punch monkeys; and when a meteor is found to be hurtling toward the farm, the Bettermans and Croods decide how to spend what could possibly be their last day on Earth.
Club América vs. Club América
Netflix
New Series!
This docuseries explores the past and present of Club América, the winningest and most controversial soccer club competing in Mexico’s top-tier Liga MX division.
I Came By
Netflix
Original Film!
In this neo-noir thriller directed and cowritten by BAFTA Award winner Babak Anvari (Under the Shadow), a rebellious young graffiti artist targets the homes of London’s wealthy elite. When he discovers a dark secret about a prestigious judge, it leads him on a shocking journey that endangers himself and those closest to him. Kelly Macdonald, George MacKay and Hugh Bonneville lead the cast.
Summer Under the Stars: Peter Sellers
TCM, beginning at 6am
Catch a Classic!
Turner Classic Movies’ annual Summer Under the Stars monthlong programming event closes out another year today with 12 films starring legendary British actor Richard Henry Sellers, better known as Peter Sellers. Most of the titles feature Sellers in the comedic roles for which he is most remembered, but there are also some dramas that demonstrate his range. One of his later comedies, on which Sellers was an uncredited director and features him playing two roles, is making its TCM premiere: The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), which was released less than a month after the actor’s passing. Also today is a much more iconic film that had Sellers taking on three roles and earning a Best Actor Oscar nomination in the process — Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 classic dark satire Dr. Strangelove. Sellers’ second Best Actor Oscar-nominated performance can also be seen today, in the 1979 satire Being There. Other highlights: The Mouse That Roared (1959), another satire with Sellers in three roles; the counterculture-themed romantic comedy I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968); the comedy The World of Henry Orient (1964); and more.
DC’s Stargirl
The CW, 8pm
Season Premiere!
Season 3 of the superhero drama will find Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl (Brec Bassinger) dealing with the return of Sylvester Pemberton/Starman (Joel McHale), who was revealed to still be alive at the end of Season 2. Bassinger recently teased that the new season features a murder mystery theme, with the hero and villain trying to figure out who the killer is.
MasterChef: Back to Win: “The Wall/Restaurant Takeover — Spago”
FOX, 8pm
Two new episodes of MasterChef: Back to Win air tonight. The top eight chefs are paired together and tasked with communicating on opposite sides of a wall to create identical dishes in “The Wall.” Then in “Restaurant Takeover — Spago,” the remaining chefs take over Wolfgang Puck’s famous Spago restaurant in Los Angeles.
America’s Got Talent: “Qualifiers 4 Results”
NBC, 8pm Live
Find out which two acts from last night’s live qualifiers are moving on to the final round of the competition.
Tales From the Explorers Club
Discovery Channel, 9pm
New Series!
Josh Gates (Expedition Unknown) takes viewers inside the headquarters of the legendary Explorers Club to relive the epic adventures of members who have pushed the bounds of human possibility by venturing to Earth’s highest peaks, deepest ocean trenches, the North and South Poles, and even into outer space. With exclusive access to the club’s archives, the series profiles daring explorers like Ernest Shackleton, Gertrude Bell and more.
Guy’s Ultimate Game Night
Food Network, 9pm
New Series!
Hollywood celebrities and their closest friends and family join host Guy Fieri in the Flavortown Lounge for an evening of food, drinks and off-the-hook food-related games and trivia like “Dish Pics,” “The Guy-Q Test” and “Charade the Pantry,” as well as hands-on food challenges like “Blind Baker” and “Omelette Offs.” It’s all fun and games as the guests must stay on their toes while they battle for crazy prizes, and the best part is, it’s all in the name of charity.
Farmhouse Fixer: “Fifty and Not So Fabulous”
HGTV, 9pm
Jonathan Knight’s newest renovation tackles a 50-year-old Colonial reproduction. This home needs major help to rid it of the flower wallpaper, old carpet and mice. Jon and designer Kristina Crestin bring in a bright, West Coast design, adding much-needed natural light, a vaulted ceiling and a mudroom of every mom’s dream. Even the bunnies get a luxury bunny condo to hop around in.
America’s National Parks: “Big Bend”
Nat Geo, 9pm
Big Bend National Park is a vast wilderness of mountains, deserts and rivers deep in the heart of Texas. A gift to America from the Lone Star State, this unique and harsh wonderland is a protected sanctuary for life on the southern border, with more species of birds, bugs and cacti than any other national park in the United States.
Thursday, Sept. 1
Pantheon
AMC+
New Series!
AMC Networks’ first traditionally animated series is this sci-fi drama based on a collection of short stories by award-winning author Ken Liu. It is centered on bullied teen Maddie (voice of Katie Chang), who receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David (Daniel Dae Kim), whose consciousness has been uploaded to the cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being — an Uploaded Intelligence, or UI — but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war. Aaron Eckhart, Taylor Schilling, Ron Livingston and William Hurt are also among the voice cast. The first two episodes are available today; new installments then drop on Thursdays.
Rap Sh!t
HBO Max
Season Finale!
The comedy’s first season concludes with “Something for the Road,” written by executive producer Issa Rae and showrunner Syreeta Singleton. After the show, Mia (KaMillion) and Shawna (Aida Osman) find themselves questioning the group’s future. Later, Mia forms an unexpected connection, while Shawna considers an offer.
Love in the Villa
Netflix
Original Film!
A young woman (Kat Graham) takes a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a breakup, only to find that the villa she reserved is double-booked, and she will have to share her vacation with a cynical and very good-looking British man (Tom Hopper).
Sam Morril: Same Time Tomorrow
Netflix
Comedian Sam Morril performs in this hourlong stand-up special.
The Secrets She Keeps
Sundance Now
Season Premiere!
In Season 2 of this Australian psychological thriller, two years after Agatha Fyfle (Laura Carmichael) kidnapped her baby, explosive secrets will spin Meghan Shaughnessy (Jessica De Gouw) onto a catastrophic and ultimately fatal course, while Agatha’s new obsession sees them collide in a way no one will anticipate. All six episodes are available today.
College Football
ESPN, FOX & FS1, beginning at 7pm Live
Thursday primetime college football matchups for opening weekend include West Virginia at Pitt (ESPN), Central Michigan at Oklahoma State (FS1), Penn State at Purdue (FOX) and Cal Poly at Fresno State (FS1).
Press Your Luck: “Zombie Apocalypse Ready”
ABC, 8pm
Host Elizabeth Banks witnesses true sportsmanship in the heat of competition. Banks is joined by contestants Jake Marshall (hometown: Loveland, Colorado), Freddie Walton (San Diego, California) and Rita Bohl (Ione, California).
Mountain Men
History, 8pm
Season Premiere!
In the Season 11 premiere, “Forever Free,” Montana’s Tom and Nancy Oar prepare for the long winter ahead, while Jake Herak battles dense fog and mountain terrain on foot in pursuit of elk. In Wyoming, Josh Kirk attempts to move a 150-year-old log cabin to the heart of his bison ranch, but the hazardous journey threatens to topple the historic structure. And in Alaska, Martha and Elli Tansy each harvest a caribou, sending them on an all-night off-road mission to extract their kills.
Star of the Month: Humphrey Bogart: “Bogie and Huston” & “Bogie and Bacall”
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
Humphrey Bogart, one of the greatest male movie stars of Hollywood’s classic age and whose legendary performances endure and continue to entertain modern audiences, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September. Each Thursday night (and usually well into the following day), the network will spotlight some of Bogie’s most memorable films grouped according to a particular theme. Tonight’s lineup highlights movies featuring Bogart’s collaborations with two people with whom he had his most impactful personal and professional relationships: writer/director John Huston and actress Lauren Bacall. Up first, enjoy Bogie leading five productions directed by Huston: The African Queen (1951), which won Bogart a Best Actor Oscar, and earned a Best Director nomination for Huston, along with a nod for the screenplay he cowrote with James Agee, and a Best Actress nomination for costar Katharine Hepburn; The Maltese Falcon (1941), the iconic film noir with Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, featuring Huston’s Oscar-nominated screenplay adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s novel; the wartime spy film Across the Pacific (1942); the Best Picture Oscar-nominated The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), which earned Huston Academy Awards for directing and his screenplay; and the 1948 film noir Key Largo. That last film was the final onscreen pairing of Bogie and Bacall, which segues nicely into airings of the other three movies that the iconic Hollywood couple made together: To Have and Have Not (1944), their first big-screen collaboration and the production on which they began their famed romance, which was also Bacall’s overall feature film debut and includes her famous “just whistle” quote; The Big Sleep (1946), with Bogie playing his other famous film noir detective, Philip Marlowe; and the 1947 mystery thriller Dark Passage. — Jeff Pfeiffer
Generation Gap: “Bob Dylan Wants to Rule the World”
ABC, 9pm
Host Kelly Ripa is joined by special guest Judd Hirsch on an all-new episode.
No Demo Reno
HGTV, 9pm
Season Finale!
In the season finale, “Work Hard Play Hard,” Jenn Todryk elevates LaTasha and Symone’s kitchen and living room into the perfect place for this mother-daughter duo to make memories before Symone goes off to college. At the same time, Jenn helps the Hogan family find order in the chaos of their twin sons’ playroom.
America’s National Parks: “Badlands”
Nat Geo, 9pm
Nat Geo’s weeklong trip through some of America’s greatest national parks stops at Badlands National Park in South Dakota, a land of rugged beauty that was 75 million years in the making. At its heart is a sea of grass, making up one of the most endangered ecosystems on Earth. The park is also home to iconic rocky spires carved from the ground by wind and rain. Living among these varied landscapes are some of our country’s most iconic animal species, which have evolved to benefit each other.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Prime Video, 9pm
New Series!
Amazon has a lot riding on this epic fantasy series that brings us back to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. The drama has been in development/production and buzzed-about online for nearly five years and is reportedly the most expensive TV series ever made — the first eight-episode season alone is estimated to have cost over $450 million to produce, and the company’s five-season production commitment to the series is thought to be worth at least $1 billion. Rings of Power takes place thousands of years before The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and is largely based off the appendices Tolkien included in LOTR that chronicled some of Middle-earth’s history. It covers major events of the fictional realm’s Second Age that led to all the later drama, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the last alliance between elves and men, and the rise of LOTR’s infamous “big bad,” the dark lord Sauron (who, based on glimpses in an early trailer for the series, will be seen in an earlier, but still creepy, form prior to his manifestation as an all-seeing Eye). Some of the other characters included here will also be recognizable to viewers even if they have only seen Peter Jackson’s popular LOTR movies, such as the long-lived elves Elrond (Robert Aramayo) and Galadriel (Morfydd Clark). The series’ first two episodes drop this evening on a special night. The remaining six episodes of the first season will be available Fridays at 12am ET (early morning) beginning Sept. 9. — Jeff Pfeiffer
Good Trouble
Freeform, 10pm
Season Finale!
“This Is Not My Beautiful House” wraps up Season 4 of this drama about 20-somethings navigating love, sex and relationships in Los Angeles. The episode finds Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) infiltrating Silas’ (Graham Sibley) cult and Gael (Tommy Martinez) deciding what role he wants to play in his child’s life.
True Crime Story: It Couldn’t Happen Here
SundanceTV, 10pm
New Episodes!
The true-crime docuseries hosted by Hilarie Burton Morgan returns with new episodes that explore how major crimes impacted tightknit communities. With empathy and advocacy, Burton Morgan sheds light on previously adjudicated cases where doubt about the existing verdict lingers. The premiere episode, “Dallas, GA,” examines the case of a woman found shot in her bathroom. Was it suicide, as her husband claimed, or murder? Years later, the case remains open, and the town has questions.
Fright Club
Travel Channel, 10pm
Season Finale!
In the Season 2 finale, “Ghost Streakers,” Jack Osbourne and the Ghost Brothers (Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey) tackle a phantom football fan; a shadow person slinks around an abandoned hospital; and special guest Montel Williams lends his signature real talk to couples affected by hauntings.
Race for the Championship
USA Network, 10pm
New Series!
Over 10 episodes, this docuseries tells the story of the 2022 NASCAR Cup season and playoffs, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the elite drivers and teams who are competing, including Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney, Daniel Suárez and more. USA Network will also begin coverage of the 10-week NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs starting this Sunday, Sept. 4.
Friday, Sept. 2
Life by Ella
Apple TV+
New Series!
This kids-and-family drama follows 13-year-old Ella (Lily Brooks O’Briant) as she returns to school with a brand-new perspective, excitement for what the future holds and a major “seize the day” mentality following her stint with cancer. With her best friend by her side, she is ready to tackle everything she was too afraid of before, and determined to not let the minutiae of fake friends and social media status distract her.
Surface
Apple TV+
Season Finale!
The psychological thriller led by Gugu Mbatha-Raw concludes its first season.
Trying
Apple TV+
Season Finale!
Season 3 of the British comedy starring Esther Smith and Rafe Spall comes to a close.
Buy My House
Netflix
New Series!
In this reality series, homeowners from across America come to sell their properties, on the spot, to one of four real estate tycoons: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, Corcoran Group CEO Pamela Liebman, NFL linebacker Brandon Copeland or investment property magnate Danisha Wrighster. Incredible and unique homes are up for grabs as the owners share heartfelt backstories and engage in heart-pounding negotiations.
Dated & Related
Netflix
New Series!
This reality dating series follows pairs of siblings who are seeing each other’s love life up close and personal as they search for “the one” together. Having the person who knows them better than anyone should help them navigate the tricky world of dating. But will each sibling act as the ultimate wingman and help the other find love, or scuttle their plans and call them out on all their BS?
Devil in Ohio
Netflix
New Series!
In this eight-episode, limited-series suspense thriller, when hospital psychiatrist Dr. Suzanne Mathis (Emily Deschanel) shelters a mysterious cult escapee (Madeleine Arthur), her world is turned upside down as the strange girl’s arrival threatens to tear her own family apart.
Ivy + Bean
Netflix
Original Film!
In this live-action family film based on Annie Barrows’ series of children’s books, two young girls with very different personalities — Ivy (Keslee Blalock), who is quiet, thoughtful and observant, and Bean (Madison Skye Validum), who is playful, exuberant and fearless — find that opposites can end up becoming the best of friends when an adventure brings them together. Jane Lynch, Nia Vardalos and Jesse Tyler Ferguson also star.
You’re Nothing Special
Netflix
New Series!
In this fantasy/comedy from Spain, after moving from Barcelona to her mom’s small and boring hometown, a young woman discovers she may have inherited powers from her grandmother, who was rumored to have been a witch.
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul
Peacock
Feature Film Exclusive!
In this satirical comedy that also hits theaters today, Regina Hall plays Trinitie Childs, the proud first lady of a Southern Baptist megachurch who, with her husband, Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs (Sterling K. Brown), once served a congregation in the tens of thousands. But after a scandal forces their church to temporarily close, Trinitie and Lee-Curtis must rebuild their congregation to make the biggest comeback that commodified religion has ever seen.
A Face in the Crowd
MOVIES!, 2:30pm
Catch a Classic!
Andy Griffith gives an extraordinary performance as Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, the lead character of this 1957 Elia Kazan-directed drama that marked Griffith’s screen debut. Although Rhodes is a Southern character like Griffith’s kindly and beloved Sheriff Andy Taylor from the actor’s later classic sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, this man’s charming accent and folksy “aw-shucks” persona is not the genuine article, and instead hides a cruel, ambitious and egomaniacal personality that only grows as the one-time drunken drifter finds himself — thanks to the radio journalist (Patricia Neal) who discovers him (and later regrets the monster she created) — rising as a nationally renowned media personality and political demagogue. If you only know Griffith from his sitcom, check out his dynamic acting range here as Rhodes, a role that helped the actor become a star and really should have earned him an Oscar nomination. Besides being ignored by the Academy, A Face in the Crowd also had mixed reviews on its original release, and wasn’t overly successful at the box office. But time has looked kindly on the film, which was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in 2008, thanks not only to Griffith’s performance but also the story’s look at the volatile intersection of media, celebrity and politics that appears ever more prescient with each passing year.
College Football
ESPN & FS1, beginning at 7pm Live
Friday night college football action features Western Michigan at Michigan State (ESPN), Illinois at Indiana (FS1) and TCU at Colorado (ESPN).
Secret Celebrity Renovation: “Kandi Burruss”
CBS, 8pm
TV personality Kandi Burruss returns home to Atlanta to surprise her aunt with a renovation.
My Lottery Dream Home: “Tri-State Scratch King”
HGTV, 9pm
Cody is the self-professed “scratch king” of the Midwest, who won a total of $600,000 on two different scratchers. Now the busy contractor and single dad is searching for the perfect pad in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, tri-state area. He enlists David Bromstad to help him find something that lives up to his high standards where he can enjoy raising his 5-year-old son.
America’s National Parks
Nat Geo, 9pm
Series Finale!
Nat Geo’s weeklong trek through our country’s greatest national parks concludes in the 50th state with a visit to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, a sacred land born of fire and sea. It is home to the most diverse assemblage of species anywhere on the planet, which navigate living in the ever-changing landscape shaped by the world’s most active volcanoes — from humpback whales to carnivorous caterpillars.
Saturday, Sept. 3
Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror: UFOs
discovery+
Jack Osbourne’s latest two-hour Night of Terror special finds him teaming up with his actor friends Jason Mewes and Jamie Kennedy to seek answers behind the strange activity reported in Utah’s Uinta Basin. Home to the infamous paranormal hotspot Skinwalker Ranch, this desert landscape is shrouded in supernatural mystery, and sightings of otherworldly visitors date back centuries. Armed with state-of-the-art technology and gathering intel from witnesses and experts, including UFO expert Ben Hansen, Osbourne and his friends try to figure out why strange activity seems to be so concentrated in this area.
The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
Paramount+, beginning at 11:30am Live; highlights special on CBS at 10pm
Rock band Foo Fighters and the family of their late drummer, Taylor Hawkins, who passed away March 25 at age 50, come together with Paramount to present this all-star global music event, which streams live on Paramount+ from London’s Wembley Stadium, with an hourlong compilation of highlights from the event airing on CBS later this evening. The concert will feature some of the biggest names in music joining together to celebrate Hawkins’ life, music and love. Announced performers include Foo Fighters, Travis Barker, Liam Gallagher, Brian May, Lars Ulrich, Violet Grohl and many more, with surprise guests and appearances to be announced.
College Football
ABC, CBS, ESPN, FOX & FS1, beginning at 12pm Live
College football Saturdays are back! Top games to watch today include Colorado State at Michigan (ABC), Cincinnati at Arkansas (ESPN), Oregon vs. Georgia in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta (ABC), Arizona at San Diego State (CBS), UTEP at Oklahoma (FOX), Utah at Florida (ESPN), Illinois State at Wisconsin (FS1), and a huge matchup in Columbus as Notre Dame visits Ohio State (ABC).
MLB Baseball
FOX, 7pm Live
Viewers will see either the Seattle Mariners at the Cleveland Guardians or the Minnesota Twins at the Chicago White Sox on FOX’s Saturday MLB regional coverage.
Marry Me in Yosemite
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
Successful photojournalist Zoe receives an assignment from her publisher to work on a book about Yosemite National Park. While there, she meets Jack, an intriguing tour guide who opens up her eyes to new possibilities as they take a journey together. Stars Cindy Busby and Tyler Harlow.
James M. Cain Double Feature
TCM, beginning at 8pm
Catch a Classic!
In addition to having critical acclaim and a popular readership for his famous hardboiled crime fiction novels, author James Mallahan Cain also had several of his works adapted into equally well-regarded films; two of the most famous of these film noir adaptations air tonight on Turner Classic Movies. Up first is Best Director Oscar nominee Billy Wilder’s Best Picture-nominated Double Indemnity (1944), led by Best Actress nominee Barbara Stanwyck as one of the screen’s most iconic femme fatales. She plays a housewife who seduces an insurance representative (Fred MacMurray) into a scheme involving insurance fraud and murder. Wilder also received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay adaptation of Cain’s novel that he cowrote with Raymond Chandler, another famed mystery/crime author. The second feature on tonight’s Cain double bill, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), features another great femme fatale, this time portrayed by Lana Turner. She stars as a married woman who falls for a drifter (John Garfield), with the two eventually plotting to murder her husband.
Help! I Wrecked My House: “Take Me Out of My Reno”
HGTV, 9pm
First-time homeowners Kendall and Broderick have big DIY dreams but not enough spare time to make them happen, a lesson they learned after ripping apart their entire kitchen and living room making their house uninhabitable. Jasmine Roth has exactly six weeks and $100,000 to completely transform their kitchen, living room and bedroom into a beach house oasis. When she discovers termite damage in the subfloor, it could throw the timeline off the rails.
911 Crisis Center
Oxygen, 9:30pm
Season Premiere!
Season 2 of this true-crime docuseries set at Chagrin Valley Dispatch in Ohio offers more fly-on-the-wall coverage of the community’s most intense moments as it takes viewers inside the call center. In the premiere episode, “Mama Bear to Grizzly Bear,” a staff member takes a 911 call from a concerned grandfather looking for his missing newborn grandchild. New episodes air at 9pm beginning Sept. 10.
First Home Fix
HGTV, 10pm
New Series!
Design duo and real-life couple Austin Coleman and Raisa Kuddus create custom, one-of-a-kind renovations for their millennial clients in this new docuseries. Austin and Raisa show first-time homeowners how to stretch a tight budget using sweat equity and strategic, personalized design decisions, transforming dated properties into dream homes.
