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Between community, cable and streaming, the trendy tv panorama is an enormous one. Here are a number of the exhibits, specials and films coming to TV this week, Feb. 19 – 25. Details and instances are topic to alter.
Monday
THE PROPOSAL (2009) 5:30 p.m. on FX. Though this film starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock is marketed as a romantic comedy, it actually may very well be a horror film. Imagine your imply boss has proposed that you just commit a criminal offense for her — the penalties of that are a possible wonderful of $250,00 and 5 years in jail. Scary, proper? The rom-com follows the guide editor Margaret Tate (Bullock), who convinces her assistant Andrew (Reynolds) to marry her in order that she will get a fiancé visa and keep away from being deported to Canada. While Bullock’s character lacks a sure pleasant, well mannered Canadian allure, Reynolds (like me, a real-life Canadian) is oozing with it because the accommodating assistant whose household lives in Alaska.
Tuesday
CRIME NATION 8 p.m. on The CW. This new anthology collection is the primary unique true crime collection from the CW. Each two-hour episode focuses on a criminal offense that was broadly coated on social and conventional media, together with the dying of Gabby Petito, and the Gilgo Beach and Delphi murders; armchair specialists, podcast hosts and true crime followers talk about the circumstances.
THE GOOD DOCTOR 10 p.m. on ABC. This is the seventh and closing season of the medical present starring Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy, a superb surgeon who has autism. Because Dr. Murphy simply grew to become a father, it’s seemingly that this final season will give attention to his new function as a dad in addition to his generally sophisticated relationship together with his sufferers and hospital colleagues.
Wednesday
DOLLY PARTON’S PET GALA 9 p.m. on CBS. Dolly Parton hosts a two-hour particular dedicated to canine that includes performances by nation singers like Lainey Wilson, Carly Pearce and Chris Janson, in addition to KC of KC and the Sunshine Band — all singing traditional Dolly songs. In a preview, the nation legend explains that she loves canine and wished to indicate all of the issues they will do, from enjoyable to extra critical work. Puppies are set to stroll a runway whereas modeling the most recent types in doggy-fashion and accompanying particular visitors embody Kristen Bell, Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Simpson and extra.
Thursday
SUMMER HOUSE 9 p.m. on Bravo. If you’re a Bravo fan juggling a number of actuality exhibits proper now — “Below Deck,” “Vanderpump Rules,” “Housewives” — it might appear as if it’s Andy Cohen’s world and we’re simply dwelling in it. This week one other collection returns: The “Summer House” crew is again, together with franchise favorites Kyle Cooke, Amanda Batula, Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard. Jesse Solomon and West Wilson are the brand new solid members becoming a member of the home within the Hamptons. It appears seemingly that a lot of the season — filmed final summer season — will give attention to Radke and Hubbard, who ended their engagement simply months later.
Friday
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (2004) 7:45 p.m. on IFC. Close your eyes and film this: Motorola had simply launched the Razr, Jude Law was People’s Sexiest Man Alive and each different particular person on the road was carrying a Livestrong bracelet, a pair of Uggs and a “Vote for Pedro” T-shirt, impressed by this very film. The story follows Napoleon Dynamite, who in an try to get out the home after his bizarre uncle, Rico, strikes in, befriends the brand new child at his highschool, Pedro. Together they launch a marketing campaign for Pedro to turn out to be class president.
PRISCILLA (2023) 8 p.m. on HBO. The years 2022 and 2023 gave us two totally different Elvises in two totally different tales. The first, Austin Butler’s portrayal within the Baz Luhrmann movie “Elvis,” tells the story of the “king of rock ’n’ roll,” his rise to fame and his subsequent spiral. In the opposite, directed by Sofia Coppola, Elvis’s roller-coaster of a profession is within the background (right here he’s portrayed by Jacob Elordi), because the story focuses on the lifetime of his former spouse Priscilla, performed by Cailee Spaeny. “Die-hard Elvis followers will little question name a number of the characterization in ‘Priscilla’ slander, however a part of the achievement right here is that Elvis just isn’t merely a monster,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her assessment for The New York Times. “Fame has merely given him the superpower of not having to concentrate to anybody else.”
Sunday
THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE 9 p.m. on AMC. For anybody retaining observe, along with the unique present on this zombie franchise, there have been six spinoff exhibits. At the top of season 10 of the unique “Walking Dead,” Michonne (Danai Gurira) left the group to search out her husband, Rick (Andrew Lincoln), who was presumed dead. This brand-new spinoff is a little bit of a romance, as Michonne reconnects with Rick, and can characteristic different acquainted faces.
VEGAS: THE STORY OF SIN CITY 10 p.m. on CNN. After Las Vegas hosted the largest evening in leisure, the Super Bowl, for the primary time final weekend, viewers could also be questioning how the distinctive metropolis we all know immediately grew to become what it’s. This CNN unique collection dives into town’s historical past with interviews from Vegas mainstays like Wayne Newton and Paul Anka, in addition to showgirls, historians and journalists.
