Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is vast. Here are some of the shows, specials, and movies that will air on TV this week, August 22-28. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
Kevin can fuck himself 9pm at AMC. Returning this week for a second season, the show is two shows rolled into one. Alison McRoberts (Annie Murphy) puts up with her husband Kevin (Eric Petersen). in many other sitcoms. Their scenes together are set to classic sitcom laugh tracks and upbeat music, but when Alison is separated from her husband, she joins a completely different show, where plotting to kill Kevin. The series “shows us the horror of what we’ve been trained to see as harmless, even when we have to flip our heads over it,” James Poniewozik wrote of the show’s first season. As subtle as it may be, it’s an original meta-critique of television.”
Tuesday
Cinderella: Reunion, 20/20 Special Edition 8 p.m. on ABC. Twenty-five years ago, ABC aired a remake of Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.” This week, ABC will hold a reunion. The movie starred Brandy as Cinderella. Other cast members included Whitney Houston as Fairy Godmother, Jason Alexander as Lionel, and Whoopi Goldberg as Queen Constantina. “The virtually racial casting works so smoothly that it becomes one of the show’s happiest effects,” Caryn James wrote in her 1997 review. Multiracial, Ms. Goldberg’s Black Queen, Victor Garber’s White King, and Filipino-born Paolo Montalban are their sons.” Featuring behind-the-scenes footage.
Homeland: Fort Salem Freeform at 10pm. The series concludes its third and final season this week. The show was first set 300 years after the Salem Witch Trials because women were on the front lines defending their country.Raelle Collar (Taylor Hickson), Tally Craven (Jessica Sutton), and Abigail Bellweather (Ashley Nicole Williams) , is a witch who enlists in the military and uses supernatural gifts against threats to national security. The series finale promises a supreme battle between the Unit (this group of witches) and the Camarilla (an ancient organization of witch hunters).
Wednesday
mysteries deciphered 8 pm CW. Over the past two seasons, US Navy veteran turned private investigator Jennifer Marshall has explored the inexplicable. Her episodes this season include her examining descriptions of the Lake Champlain monster, Cecil her hotel in Los Angeles, the so-called “magic” house in Rhode Island, and more. This week’s episode, which concludes the second season, focuses on the mysterious UFO event of 1997, the Phoenix Lights.
Katrina Babies 9 p.m. on HBO. Edward Buckles Jr. takes an intimate look at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He was 13 years old when Hurricane Katrina occurred. He spent his next seven years talking to his peers, documenting the lives of children whose lives and communities were uprooted in this documentary devastation.
Thursday
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) 6pm at TCM. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, this film follows film producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) as he uses the people around him to succeed. His path includes actress (Lana Turner), director (Barry Sullivan) and screenwriter (Dick Powell). The film won five of the six Academy Awards it was nominated for. Critic Bosley Crowther wrote in his review for The Times, “Through this harrowing demonstration of the wretched guts of men, The Doctor also shows the guts of Hollywood.
22 Jump Street 8pm on FX. In 21 Jump Street, Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) go undercover at a high school.new synthetic drugs. This leads the duo to fraternity parties, slam poetry nights, and spring break events. Manohra Dargis, in her review for The Times, wrote, “As with the first film, the comic pointers here are an ironic appearance of detachment followed by a claim of sincerity that is as compelling as it is dishonest.” “It’s a destabilization strategy that allows filmmakers to have their own cake and scarf it down.”
Saturday
NASCAR Cup Series: Daytona 7 p.m. on NBC. On Saturday, the NASCAR Cup Series continues the 2022 season at Daytona International Speedway. The 160-lap (or 400-mile) race is attended by drivers who qualified from the previous night’s race. The Cup series begins his late June and runs through mid-September.
Sunday
The Boleyns: Scandalous Family 8 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). This three-part series originally aired on the BBC in the UK in 2021 and will land in the US via PBS. This fictional version of the Boleyn family, including Anne Boleyn, her second wife to Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I, features a young Anne, played by Raphael Cohen, and her brother, Mary Boleyn (Elizabeth Macaque). Fati) and George Boleyn. (Sam Retford), and her father, Thomas Boleyn (Max Dowler). The show uses narration from scholars, along with actors reenacting certain scenes.
MTV Video Music Awards 8 p.m. on MTV. The awards are back this year and will be broadcast live from Newark’s Prudential Center on Sunday nights. LL Cool J, Nicki Minaj and Jack Harlow will be MCs for the show. Other performers include Blackpink, Lizzo, Jack Harlow, Maneskin, J Balvin, Marshmello, Khalid and Panic! At Disco and Kane Brown. Kendrick Lamar, Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow have the most nominations with seven nominations.