Between community, cable and streaming, the trendy tv panorama is an enormous one. Listed here are a number of the exhibits, specials and films coming to TV this week, Aug. 8 — 14. Particulars and occasions are topic to alter.
Monday
MOULIN ROUGE (2001) 5:49 p.m. on Starz. Over twenty years earlier than Baz Luhrmann was centered on “Elvis,” he directed this whimsical, pop-music crammed love story. Set in Paris in 1899 Christian (Ewan McGregor), a author, meets Satine (Nicole Kidman), a cabaret dancer, at Moulin Rouge and tries to impress her so as to have the ability to carry out his play on the now-iconic venue within the outskirts of Montmartre. They find yourself falling in love regardless of the connection Satine is faking with a Duke (Richard Roxburgh) who helps fund the membership. “‘Moulin Rouge’ will likely be accused of getting no coronary heart,” Elvis Mitchell wrote in his evaluate for The New York Instances. “However the fact is simply the other. The film has a lot coronary heart that the poor overworked organ explodes in each scene.”
PASSWORD 10 p.m. on NBC. In 1961, CBS aired its first episode of this recreation present. After a 14-year run, the present ended and as a substitute turned an occasional phase on Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Present.” This Tuesday, the present is coming again with Fallon as an govt producer and Keke Palmer because the host. Every episode will function Fallon teaming up with a celeb visitor (to call a couple of: Chelsea Handler, Heidi Klum and Martin Quick), and they are going to be enjoying in opposition to two contestants to guess a secret password utilizing one-word codes. The primary episode of the present will honor Betty White, who initially performed the sport on the present in 1961 — which can also be the place she met her husband, Allen Ludden, who hosted the present.
HARD KNOCKS: THE DETROIT LIONS 10 p.m. on HBO. With a brand new group and new season, soccer followers are getting one other inside look into what goes on at coaching camp — this season follows the Detroit Lions. Every season of this long-running present follows a distinct NFL group’s gamers and coaches of their private {and professional} lives. This yr, cameras adopted the Lions at their coaching camp in Allen Park, Mi. Later this fall, there will likely be one other new season that includes the Arizona Cardinals.
Wednesday
RESIDENT ALIEN 10 p.m. on SYFY. After a midseason break, this present is again on Wednesday to tie up unfastened ends from the primary half of the second season. Within the sequence, which relies on a comic book e book of the identical identify, Alan Tudyk performs Harry Vanderspeigle, an alien who was dropped to earth on a mission to destroy all life however can not do this till he fixes his spaceship. Within the meantime, he pretends to be a small city physician. The present has already been renewed for a 3rd season.
Thursday
BUMP 8 p.m. on the CW. Coming all the way in which from Australia, this present about an sudden teen being pregnant is airing within the U.S. for the primary time this week. The sequence begins when a 17-year-old woman named Olympia (Nathalie Morris) is rushed to the hospital for intense cramps and finds out she is definitely in labor. She then has to reassess her ten-year plan when she realizes the infant’s father will not be her boyfriend. The unique run on Stan in Australia completed after two seasons.
Friday
CHILDREN OF THE UNDERGROUND 8 p.m. on FX. Within the late Eighties into the early Nineteen Nineties, Faye Yager was making a secret community of ladies and youngsters who she was serving to defend from alleged abuse by the hands of their husbands or fathers when the prison justice system didn’t step in. In 1992, she went to trial herself, for kidnapping and emotional cruelty of the kids she was claiming to assist. Although she was acquitted of all costs, public opinion has not determined whether or not she was hurting or serving to the households she labored with. This unique documentary is diving deep into who Yager was and what she was attempting to perform on this five-part unique sequence.
Saturday
THE PRINCESS (2022) 8 p.m. on HBO. Aug. 31 will mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the demise of Diana, Princess of Wales. Although there was no scarcity of particulars surrounding her premature demise within the years that adopted, this documentary makes use of archival interviews and pictures to focus on key moments within the princess’s public life and lay out the small print as in the event that they have been occurring in actual time. The movie focuses on the general public adoration of the princess in addition to the extreme media scrutiny she confronted.
Sunday
WESTWORLD 9 p.m. on HBO. This present, which was first set in a futuristic park meant for rich individuals in search of a trip, is wrapping up its fourth season this week. The present first premiered in 2016, and viewers skilled a seven-year time bounce within the present between season three and the present season. This season consisted of eight episodes, and there’s no phrase from HBO but about whether or not will probably be renewed.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? 7 p.m. on NBC. It seems that Zachary Quinto, who performed Commander Spock in “Star Trek Past,” wasn’t the primary particular person in his household to say the long-lasting greeting “reside lengthy and prosper” — his great-grandfather, P.J. McArdle, wrote a letter to the editor in a newspaper printed in 1899 that ends with the phrase: “Might it reside lengthy and prosper.” That is simply one of many issues that Quinto finds out about his historical past on this present, govt produced by Ancestry, which is ending up its eighth season this week. This season comprised six episodes that includes Billy Porter, Nick Offerman, Allison Janney, Zachary Levi and Bradley Whitford.
GRANTCHESTER 9 p.m. on PBS (examine native listings). The seventh season of this sequence is about in the summertime of 1959. There are many murders occurring within the metropolis of Grantchester, which provides the detective inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Inexperienced) and his good friend, the Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) numerous crime fixing to do. The present, which initially aired on ITV in Britain, has not but confirmed whether or not there will likely be an eighth season.