Between community, cable and streaming, the trendy tv panorama is an unlimited one. Listed here are a few of the reveals, specials and flicks coming to TV this week, Feb. 28-March 6. Particulars and instances are topic to vary.
Monday
TRAYVON MARTIN: 10 YEARS LATER 8 p.m. on BET. Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Black teenager in Florida, was shot and killed nearly precisely 10 years in the past by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain. Gayle King, the co-host of “CBS Mornings,” hosts this hourlong particular, which commemorates Martin and appears on the activism that his dying continues to assist impress. This system consists of interviews with Martin’s mom, Sybrina Fulton, and different moms whose kids have been killed by the police or by gun violence.
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND 10 p.m. on HBO. The third season of the present, which facilities on a friendship between two women, Lenù and Lila, who come of age in mid-Twentieth-century Naples, will debut on Monday evening. It’s tailored from the third of Elena Ferrante’s 4 Neopolitan books, “These Who Depart and These Who Keep,” and finds Lenù and Lila grappling with careers, marriage and, ultimately, motherhood. This would be the closing season for the actresses Margherita Mazzucco, 19, and Gaia Girace, 18: The fourth guide within the sequence, “The Story of the Misplaced Baby,” which might be the main focus of a possible fourth season, revolves across the characters in center age. “I’ve by no means learn the ultimate pages of the fourth guide,” Mazzucco instructed The New York Instances lately. “I don’t need to know the way it ends.”
STATE OF THE UNION 9 p.m. on numerous networks (test native listings); streaming on Fb, Twitter, WH.gov and YouTube. President Biden is ready to ship his State of the Union speech to Congress on Tuesday evening. Biden will presumably converse to the progress that his administration has made since his first tackle to Congress final yr — together with the passage of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure invoice and the almost $1.9 trillion stimulus package deal — although he’ll have much more to cowl. He’s more likely to tackle Russia’s conflict on Ukraine, the choice of Decide Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court docket and the state of the coronavirus pandemic, because the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention loosen security tips.
THE LARRY DAVID STORY 9 p.m. on HBO. What’s the distinction between Larry David the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” character and Larry David the profitable producer and performer? Primarily based on a trailer for “The Larry David Story,” the reply is a dusting of facial hair and a contact of introspection. David displays on his life and profession on this two-part documentary, which covers his upbringing in Brooklyn, his beginnings in comedy, his success with “Seinfeld” (which he co-created) and his newer work on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” The documentary was directed by the comedian and filmmaker Larry Charles, a workers author on “Seinfeld” whose well-established rapport with David comes via of their conversations.
Wednesday
LA STRADA (1956) 6 p.m. on TCM. When the Oscar for finest worldwide function is handed out on the Academy Awards ceremony subsequent month, the winner will change into a part of a lineage that “La Strada” helped set up: This Federico Fellini traditional was the primary film to win the most effective foreign-language movie honor when that class turned a aggressive award on the Oscars in 1956. The film raised the profiles of each Fellini and his spouse and collaborator, Giulietta Masina, who performs a younger girl who’s offered to a touring circus strongman (Anthony Quinn). “‘La Strada’ is usually sentimental and never at all times convincing however the ending packs a wallop,” J. Hoberman wrote concerning the movie final yr in his “Rewind” column.
Thursday
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (2021) 8 p.m. on HBO Signature. Wes Anderson drew inspiration from the old-school days of The New Yorker for this ornate anthology comedy, which follows a group of eccentric journal writers and their topics — performed by an ensemble that features Invoice Murray, Benicio Del Toro, Léa Seydoux, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton — in a mid-Twentieth-century French metropolis. Typewriters clack. Cocktails disappear.
Friday
AFTER YANG (2022) 9 p.m. on Showtime. In his 2017 function debut, “Columbus,” the filmmaker Kogonada used the modernist structure of Columbus, Ind., to provide a surreal, otherworldly undercurrent to a modest story a few shut friendship. His new film, “After Yang,” takes place solidly sooner or later: It facilities on a mom (performed by Jodie Turner-Smith), father (Colin Farrell) and younger daughter (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) whose humanoid robotic, Yang (Justin H. Min), breaks down. The lack of Yang is basically the lack of a member of the family, however it might be attainable to restore him.
Saturday
F9 (2021) 8 p.m. on HBO. If the “Quick and Livid” films went all-electric, and the grunt of gasoline engines was muted, the sequence might nonetheless depend on Vin Diesel’s voice to fill out the low finish of the sonic spectrum. The newest installment of the sequence launched a brand new villain, performed by John Cena, and introduced again the acquainted faces of Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron. The film additionally noticed the return of the director Justin Lin, a veteran of the franchise who had stepped away for a number of years. Lin makes the film “really feel scrappy and baroque on the similar time,” A.O. Scott mentioned in his overview for The Instances.
Sunday
NBC NEWS PRIMETIME SPECIAL 9 p.m. on NBC. Lester Holt interviews the previous Legal professional Common William P. Barr on this hourlong particular. The 2 focus on Barr’s closing days as Legal professional Common throughout the Trump administration, when he rebuked former President Donald J. Trump’s false claims of a stolen election by acknowledging that the Justice Division had discovered no proof of widespread voter fraud within the 2020 election. The dialog additionally touches on policing in America, amongst different matters.