Between community, cable and streaming, the trendy tv panorama is an unlimited one. Listed below are among the reveals, specials and films coming to TV this week, March 7 -13. Particulars and occasions are topic to alter.
Monday
THE THING ABOUT PAM 10 p.m. on NBC. The slurp of a Large-Gulp-size beverage turns into one thing sinister on this true-crime restricted sequence, which stars Renée Zellweger as a Missouri lady, Pam Hupp, who’s implicated in a homicide that in the end reveals a bigger illicit scheme. It’s a juicy position for Zellweger, who squares off with Judy Greer (as a prosecutor) and Josh Duhamel (a protection legal professional). For extra true crime, see the two-part documentary UNDERCURRENT: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KIM WALL, debuting on HBO at 9 p.m., which appears on the killing of Wall, a Swedish journalist, in 2017 whereas she was reporting a narrative aboard a submarine.
Tuesday
THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021) 7 p.m. on Showtime. You’ve most likely already seen a film about King Arthur — or a minimum of have heard the tales, or baked with the flour. You’re much less more likely to have seen the story of Arthur’s nephew Gawain — the topic of the nameless 14th-century poem “Sir Gawain and the Inexperienced Knight” — on the massive display screen. This aesthetically pleasing adaptation from the filmmaker David Lowery stars Dev Patel as Gawain, who goes on a quest to seek out an enormous. In his assessment for The New York Instances, A.O. Scott referred to as the film “luxurious, ragged and creative.”
Wednesday
DOMINO MASTERS 9 p.m. on Fox. Bold domino builders sq. off on this new competitors present, through which contestants vie to create probably the most spectacular toppling-domino preparations, Rube Goldberg model. Anticipate the exactitude required right here — the place a false transfer can fully break a mission — to create some tense moments. Think about a actuality cooking present through which cooks should juggle their culinary creations earlier than the judges sit all the way down to eat.
FREE STATE OF JONES (2016) 7:40 p.m. on FXM. The composer Nicholas Britell and the actor Mahershala Ali labored on two notably completely different motion pictures launched in 2016: Barry Jenkins’s Oscar-winning up to date coming-of-age story “Moonlight” and Gary Ross’s historic drama “Free State of Jones.” In Ross’s film, Ali performs a person named Moses, who’s a detailed pal and confidant of the movie’s topic, Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), a Southern dissident who established a homespun military that rebelled in opposition to the Confederacy in Mississippi, and whose work on behalf of African American rights prolonged past the warfare. In his assessment for The Instances, A.O. Scott praised what he referred to as Ross’s “uncommon respect for historic fact,” and wrote that he does “a superb job of balancing the factual file with the calls for of dramatic storytelling.” One other of Ross’s motion pictures, the jockey drama SEABISCUIT (2003), can even air on Thursday, at 4 p.m. on Showtime.
Friday
JULIA (1977) 6 p.m. on TCM. Jane Fonda performs a fictionalized model of the playwright and creator Lillian Hellman on this historic drama. Tailored from a slice of Hellman’s 1973 e-book, “Pentimento: A Ebook of Portraits,” the movie takes place within the lead-up to the Second World Conflict, centering on a friendship between Hellman and a personality recognized solely as Julia (Vanessa Redgrave), a younger American lady from a rich household who makes use of her cash to help anti-Nazi efforts. The film was additionally the function debut of Meryl Streep, who has a small position as one other pal of Hellman’s.
Saturday
WEST SIDE STORY (2021) 8 p.m. on HBO. The previous few years have introduced two makes an attempt to reinvigorate “West Aspect Story.” On Broadway in 2020, the Belgian experimental theater director Ivo van Hove introduced a model that injected the musical with projected video and thin denims. Much more lately, we acquired this big-screen rethink from Steven Spielberg, which reworks some components whereas sticking nearer to the unique Broadway and Hollywood productions, a minimum of on the floor (take one have a look at the units and haircuts right here, and you understand we’re in mid-Twentieth-century New York Metropolis). However this model of the forbidden-love story between Maria (Rachel Zegler) and Tony (Ansel Elgort) nonetheless has quite a lot of new concepts, thanks largely to its substantial remodeling of Arthur Laurents’s e-book by the playwright Tony Kushner and its new choreography by Justin Peck. In his assessment for The Instances, A.O. Scott wrote that the brand new film makes the musical really feel “daring, shocking and new,” even because the performances and the transitions between musical numbers and different scenes may be uneven. “The seams — becoming a member of previous to current, comedy to tragedy, America to dreamland — generally present,” Scott wrote. “However these seams,” he added, “are a part of what makes the film so thrilling. It’s a blinding show of filmmaking craft that additionally feels uncooked, unsettled and alive.”
THE 27TH ANNUAL CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS 7 p.m. on the CW and TBS. Awards season will proceed on Sunday night time with this broadcast of the Critics Selection Awards, which this 12 months comes simply two weeks earlier than the Oscars. The nominees for greatest image on the Critics Selection awards largely overlap with the Oscars — “West Aspect Story,” “CODA,” “Don’t Look Up,” “Dune,” “King Richard,” “Licorice Pizza,” “Nightmare Alley” and “The Energy of the Canine” are all nominated for the highest prize in each competitions — with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick … Growth!” taking the place of the Haruki Murakami adaptation “Drive My Automotive” on the Critics Selection awards. There are additionally variations in the most effective actor and actress classes, which right here embody nominations for Nicolas Cage (“Pig”), Peter Dinklage (“Cyrano”), Woman Gaga (“Home of Gucci”) and Alana Haim (“Licorice Pizza”), none of whom will likely be up for an appearing award on the Oscars. Taye Diggs and Nicole Byer host.