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IMAGINE THIS SCENE on your favorite soap: The leading man leans in to his beloved and, as music swells, he bestows a passionate kiss on…a blow-up doll? Don’t laugh—new protocols to get shutdown series back in production are bringing big changes. On J

ABC and NBC recently announced their 2020–21 schedules, joining CBS, Fox and The CW. Premiere dates are TBD, but here’s how fall is shaping up. ABC is shifting the blue-collar hit from Tuesday to anchor Wednesday at 9/8c—a move that’s “a no-brainer,”

@TVGMMattRoush The chase thriller’s second season sends new teen killers into the field SEASON PREMIERE Friday, July 3, Prime Video SPY FANS FIGURED it was only a matter of time before the genetically enhanced fugitive Hanna (the quietly intense Esmé

DON’T TRY THIS at home! Summer’s craziest show may come with the standard warning, but the stunts on Cannonball are so insane, your pool would never cut it anyway. To adapt the international hit for America, the competition’s producers built an extre

1 The starting price is…free. Yep, viewers can watch 7,500 hours of programming—including hit movies (Jurassic Park), TV classics (NBC sitcom Frasier and PBS drama Downton Abbey) and a sample of Peacock originals (see No. 4)—without plunking down a d

SERIES PREMIERE Wednesday, July 8, 8/7c, CBS PHIL KEOGHAN CAN’T help but get carried away when speaking about the inspiring new reality competition Tough as Nails, a show he’s been trying to launch for a decade that celebrates America’s unsung heroes

8/7c, HBO From Game of Thrones to the game of love: Emilia Clarke, the former Mother of Dragons, takes on a decidedly different role in this rom-com from last year. As the title suggests, cowriter Emma Thompson (yep, that Emma Thompson—the Oscar winn

Newly Available Documentary Narrator Helen Mirren revisits Anne Frank’s powerful diary in this 2019 documentary, in which Mirren also recounts the ordeals of five of Frank’s peers. Season 1, Part 2 The docuseries all about how tiny tots develop retur

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE Tuesday, July 14, 9/8c, HBO PICK OF THE WEEK! LONG BEFORE SHE played a murderous robot on Westworld, Evan Rachel Wood was a child actress (Thirteen) who spent a lot of time by herself on set in the mid-’90s. “You know somebody’s

8/7c, NBC The extreme sports competition has upped the ante with its fun Season 2 twist: After a pair of super-fit contestants go head-to-head in a series of brutal physical tests, the victor must run the obstacle course known as Mount Olympus agains

8/7c, Oxygen The “woman scorned” murder case at the center of USA’s Dirty John is explored via archival footage and interviews with cops, legal experts and friends of the late San Diego attorney Dan Broderick, who was fatally shot along with new wife

2:50/1:50c Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Retroplex 3/2c Selma (2014) FXM 5:55/4:55c Minority Report (2002) Showtime Showcase 8/7c Us (2019) Cinemax 9/8c Being John Malkovich (1999) Indieplex 10:15/9:15c The Grapes of Wrath (1940) TCM 11/10c Gra

8/7c, HBO An all-star cast heads up this thrilling 2019 biopic centered on abolitionist and women’s suffrage icon Harriet Tubman, played by the redoubtable Cynthia Erivo (above). The drama opens in 1849, when Tubman is known as Araminta “Minty” Ross

It’s an intense time for you, and a lot of the drama is workcentered. Your best bet is to meditate more and yell less! Count to 10 and breathe if someone irritates you. One of your life lessons now is to learn how to be calm even when provoked. If yo

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@damianholbrook for bringing Hamilton home. Not one to miss their shot, the studio relocated the filmed performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (above, with Phillipa Soo) Tony-winning Broadway hit from a 2021 theatrical release to its Disney+ streaming s