Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is vast. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, August 8-14. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
Moulin Rouge (2001) 5:49 p.m. on Starz. More than twenty years before concentrating on ‘Elvis’, Baz Luhrmann directed this whimsical, pop music-filled love story. Christian (Ewan McGregor), a writer, is set in Paris in 1899 and meets Satine (Nicole Kidman), a cabaret dancer, at Moulin Rouge and tries to impress her in order to perform his piece in the now iconic location in the suburbs of Montmartre. They fall in love, despite the relationship Satine feigns with a duke (Richard Roxburgh) who helps fund the club. “‘Moulin Rouge’ will be accused of having no heart,” Elvis Mitchell wrote in his review for DailyExpertNews. “But the truth is exactly the opposite. The movie has so much heart that the poor overworked organ explodes in every scene.”
PASSWORD 10 p.m. on NBC. In 1961, CBS broadcast the first episode of this game show. After a 14-year run, the show ended and instead became an occasional segment on Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show”. This Tuesday, the show returns with Fallon as executive producer and Keke Palmer as host. In each episode, Fallon will team up with a famous guest (to name a few: Chelsea Handler, Heidi Klum, and Martin Short), and they will play against two contestants to guess a secret password using codes from one. word. The show’s first episode will honor Betty White, who originally played the game on the show in 1961 – where she also met her husband, Allen Ludden, who hosted the show.
HARD KNOCKS: THE DETROIT LIONS 10 p.m. on HBO. With a new team and a new season, football fans get a new look at what goes on at training camp – this season the Detroit Lions follow. Each season of this long-running show follows a different NFL team’s players and coaches in their personal and professional lives. This year, cameras followed the Lions at their training camp in Allen Park, Mi. Later this fall, another season will come with the Arizona Cardinals.
Wednesday
RESIDENT ABROAD 10 p.m. on SYFY. After a mid-season hiatus, this show will be back on Wednesday to tie up the loose ends of the first half of the second season. In the series, which is based on a comic book of the same name, Alan Tudyk plays Harry Vanderspeigle, an alien who is dropped on Earth on a mission to destroy all life, but can’t until he repairs his spaceship. Meanwhile, he poses as a village doctor. The show has already been renewed for a third season.
Thursday
BUMP 8 p.m. on the CW. All the way from Australia, this show about an unexpected teenage pregnancy airs for the first time in the US this week. The series begins when a 17-year-old girl named Olympia (Nathalie Morris) is taken to the hospital with severe cramps and discovers that she is in labor. She then has to revise her ten-year plan when she realizes that the baby’s father is not her boyfriend. The original run at Stan in Australia ended after two seasons.
Friday
CHILDREN OF THE UNDERGROUND 8pm on FX. In the late 1980s through the early 1990s, Faye Yager created a secret network of women and children who helped protect them from alleged abuse by their husbands or fathers when the criminal justice system failed to intervene. went to court herself for kidnapping and emotional cruelty to the children she claimed to be helping. Although she was cleared of all charges, public opinion has not decided whether she hurt or helped the families she worked with. This original documentary delves deep into who Yager was and what she was trying to achieve in this five-part original series.
Saturday
THE PRINCESS (2022) 8 p.m. on HBO. August 31 marks the 25th anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales, who died. While there was no shortage of details about her untimely death in the years that followed, this documentary uses archival interviews and footage to highlight key moments in the princess’s public life, portraying the details as if they were happening in real time. The film focuses on the public adoration of the princess and the intense media coverage she faced.
Sunday
WEST WORLD 9 p.m. on HBO. The show, which first took place in a futuristic park intended for wealthy vacationers, is closing its fourth season this week. The show first premiered in 2016, and viewers experienced a seven-year time jump on the show between season three and the current season. This season consisted of eight episodes, and there’s no word from HBO yet about whether it will be renewed.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? 7 p.m. on NBC. As it turns out, Zachary Quinto, who played Commander Spock in “Star Trek Beyond,” wasn’t the first person in his family to say the iconic “live long and prosper” greeting — his great-grandfather, PJ McArdle, wrote a letter to the editor in a newspaper published in 1899 that ends with the sentence, “May it live long and prosper.” This is just one of the things Quinto learns about his history on this show, executive produced by Ancestry, which wraps up its eighth season this week. This season consisted of six episodes starring Billy Porter, Nick Offerman, Allison Janney, Zachary Levi and Bradley Whitford.
GRANCHESTER 9pm on PBS (check local listings). The seventh season of this series takes place in the summer of 1959. A lot of murders take place in the town of Grantchester, which leads Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green) and his friend, the Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) to solve a lot of crime. to do. The show, which originally aired on ITV in the UK, has not yet confirmed whether there will be an eighth season.