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The holidays are months away, but we have an early Christmas request: an explanation as to why, in Disney+’s The Santa Clauses Season 2 family portrait, Scott Calvin (Tim Allen, far right, with Elizabeth Allen-Dick, Austin Kane and Elizabeth Mitchell

Great heavens! After four years, Prime Video is finally releasing more episodes of the laughout-loud British fantasy comedy Good Omens (July 28). The perfectly mismatched duo of angel Aziraphale (a spot-on Michael Sheen) and demon Crowley (devilishly

@TVGMMattRoush ANYONE SEEKING FLAVOR in their TV menu should sample without delay the delectable treats FX is serving up this summer, either on the traditional FX cable network or on its streaming platform Hulu, where many of the company’s newer high

Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip With Sam and Graham SEASON PREMIERE Friday, Aug. 11, 9:30/8:30c, Starz Season 1’s competitive spirit infuses these four episodes too, but, says Heughan (left), “Graham does have a home-field advantage.” (McTavish’s role in th

Before The Chosen hit The CW, the epic biblical tale about Jesus Christ was already a sensation The Chosen Sundays, 8/7c, The CW TALK ABOUT A 21st-century miracle. This faith-based series has converted a mass of impassioned viewers to rival any Yello

THURSDAY, AUG. 10 ORIGINAL DRAMA OxyContin was promoted as a nonaddictive pill that would end pain. Instead, it brought agony. This six-episode series dramatizes how the prescription opioid, manufactured by drug company Purdue Pharma, led to a massiv

Summer Under the Stars Begins Tuesday, Aug. 1, 6am/5c, TCM DIM THE LIGHTS! It’s time to settle in for that most welcome annual film festival you’ve already punched your ticket to—TCM’s Summer Under the Stars. As its done every August since 2003, Turn

Bird Box Barcelona (2023) NETFLIX ORIGINAL You’ll want to close your eyes during this fright fest about a mystery force that makes people take their own lives if they see it. Happiness for Beginners (2023) NETFLIX ORIGINAL Luke Grimes and Ellie Kempe

SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, July 30, 9/8c, Discovery ROUGH SEAS AHEAD! Or at least a few waves of drama. Nine people from all walks of life set sail in this new reality show—based on a 50-year-old social experiment—that tests not only their survival skil

SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c and 8:30/7:30c, The CW MATT’S PICK While The Goldbergs may be history, those seeking a gentler dose of ’80s-era family-sitcom nostalgia are advised to check out this low-key charmer from Canada. Based on the coming-of-age memoir

THE WEST WING REUNION! 9/8c, ABC Actors Dulé Hill and Bradley Whitford are forever bonded, having worked together on NBC’s revered 1999–2006 drama The West Wing. But this week, it’s a shared love for jazz that launches a friendship between musician B

SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, AMC “There’s monsters everywhere,” announces upright tribal cop Lt. Joe Leaphorn (a perfect Zahn McClarnon) on the compelling 1970s crime drama set in the Navajo Nation’s stark deserts and based on Tony Hillerman’s novels. Is he

SERIES PREMIERE Monday, July 31, 8:30/7:30c, The CW THE SUBURBS HAVE gotten a bad rap. “When they were shown on television, suburbs were a place where people went to die. [They were] so mundane and boring,” says Andrew Phung, star and cocreator of th

10/9c, Showtime Season 1 of Marc Cherry’s anthology—which streamed on CBS All Access in 2019—is running on Showtime in all its darkly comic glory. Ginnifer Goodwin, Lucy Liu and Kirby Howell-Baptiste (above, from left) star as three married women, li

8:30/7:30c, CBS Summer is the perfect time to tackle your wouldashoulda-coulda viewing list, so if you’re not living and breathing Ghosts—with its crack comedy ensemble—start tonight! The spectral residents of Woodstone B&B (including Sheila Carrasco

MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime If these walls could talk, they’d say run! Unsettled Alisa Jensen (This Is Us’ Ryan Michelle Bathe, above center, with Cassandra Sawtell, Mikkal Karim-Fidler and Luke Camilleri) feels someone watching her in her family’s

SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, CBS We demand a Hall Brawl! That would be the classic Challenge elimination battle requiring two contestants to race full-tilt at each other in a claustrophobic “hallway” in order to erupt out of the other end and be first to r

SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, A&E It’s lit! Longtime pals Anthony Anderson (black-ish) and Cedric the Entertainer (The Neighborhood) are turning up the heat on their AC Barbeque brand with this series exploring the ins, outs and burnt ends of the grilling in

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@damianholbrook Cheers to The Lazarus Project. TNT’s clever thriller about a cabal of scientists who can reset time to save mankind from disasters is breathing new life into smart sci-fi, making it intriguing…and addictive. Cheers to General Hospital