Whatâs on TV This Week: âThe Donut King,â Ariana Grande and more
SUNDAY
Treat yoâ self to a third season of Aziz Ansariâs Emmy-winning comedy series âMaster of None.â Anytime, Netflix
For the record:
11:13 a.m. May 24, 2021An earlier version of this post gave the title of a new Amazon Prime series as âDonât Panic.â The new series is âPanic.â
The mononymously monikered Pink and Drake each collect career kudos at the â2021 Billboard Music Awards.â Nick Jonas hosts. 5 p.m. NBC
âAmerican Idolâ crowns its latest champion in the singing competitionâs season finale. Ryan Seacrest hosts. 8 p.m. ABC
âAmerican Godsââ Ian McShane lends his voice to âThe Simpsonsââ season finale. 8 p.m. Fox
The Ultimate Warrior, the pro wrestler whose reign was preceded by that of the Penultimate Warrior, is remembered on a new âBiography.â 8 p.m. A&E
Oh, what a tangled web she wove in the TV movie âA Motherâs Lie.â 8 p.m. Lifetime
âMrs. Americaâsâ Uzo Aduba is your friendly neighborhood therapist as the drama âIn Treatmentâ returns after a 10-year layoff. 9 and 9:28 p.m. HBO; also Monday.
Itâs Ford versus GM versus Honda versus Mercedes versus you get the idea in the two-night special âThe Cars That Built the World.â 9 p.m. History Channel; also Monday.
Well, the south side of Chicago is still the baddest part of town in a fourth season of Windy City-set drama âThe Chi.â 9 p.m. Showtime
Don Cheadle suits up for Season 3 of âBlack Monday,â the dark comedy about Wall Street movers and shakers in the late 1980s. 9:55 p.m. Showtime
Say bye-bye to the Big Easy as the âNCISâ spinoff âNCIS: New Orleansâ offers its series finale. 10 p.m. CBS
No sleep till Brooklyn! Two best buds are living their best lives in that NYC borough in the comedy series âFlatbush Misdemeanors.â 10:25 p.m. Showtime
The gang from Riverdale comes in for a ribbing in âThe Bleepinâ Robot Chicken Archie Comics Special.â Midnight, Adult Swim
MONDAY
Thereâs a spot of bother in a quaint English village, as there so very often is, in the mystery drama âWhitstable Pearl.â Anytime, Acorn TV
âThe Voiceâ also crowns its latest champion in the singing competitionâs two-night season finale. Carson Daly hosts. 8 p.m. NBC; also Tuesday.
âQueer Eyeâsâ Carson Kressley and funnyman Mo Rocca are featured on another celebrity edition of âAntiques Roadshow.â 8 p.m. KOCE
Gillian Anderson, âLovecraft Countryâsâ Jurnee Smollett and âWandaVisionâsâ Kathryn Hahn are among the stars featured in âLifetime & the Hollywood Reporter Present Women in Entertainment: The Next Generation.â 8 p.m. Lifetime
Everyoneâs favorite âWandaVisionâ theme song, âAgatha All Along,â has charted on Billboard and iTunes. Hereâs how actress Kathryn Hahn reacted.
âBlack Lightning,â we hardly knew ye. This superhero drama starring Cress Williams ends its three-season run. 9 p.m. The CW
All hail âThe Donut King.â A Cambodian refugee who made big bank selling those tasty treats is profiled in this 2020 documentary on âIndependent Lens.â 10 p.m. KOCE
TUESDAY
The true-crime series âBetween Black and Blueâ reopens the case of two NYPD detectives convicted in the 1975 murder of a Colorado businessman. Anytime, Sundance Now
Up-and-coming chefs are put through their paces in the new spinoff âChopped Next Gen.â Anytime, Discovery+
The docuseries âMike Tyson: The Knockoutâ presents a no-punches-pulled profile of the previously pugnacious pugilist. 8 p.m. ABC; concludes June 1
The special âBars and Ballads for George Floydâ memorializes the African American man whose murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020 helped spark a national reckoning on race. With Nas, Anthony Hamilton and Jon Batiste. 8 p.m. BET
Itâs all in the mind in a second season of the competition series âMental Samurai.â Rob Lowe hosts. 9 p.m. Fox
âTyler Perryâs House of Payne,â âTyler Perryâs Assisted Livingâ and âTyler Perryâs Lemonade Standâ â OK, we made that last one up â are back with new episodes. 9 and 9:30 p.m. BET
Wedding bells are ringing for Kevin and Madison (Justin Hartley, Caitlin Thompson) in the Season 5 finale of âThis Is Us.â 10 p.m. NBC
The special âRace Matters: America After George Floydâ also considers where we as a nation are headed in the wake of last summerâs protests for racial justice. 10 p.m. KOCE
Donât mess with âMr. Inbetween.â This Aussie-made dark comedy about a former felon and sometime family man returns. With Scott Ryan. 10 and 10:30 p.m. FX
âChad,â the sitcom starring âNew Girlâsâ Nasim Pedrad as the titular Persian American lad, wraps its freshman season. 10:30 p.m. TBS
WEDNESDAY
Theyâre ready to leave the nest â finally! â in the real estate series â40 Year Old Property Virgin.â Anytime, Discovery+
The docuseries âHigh on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed Americaâ explores the roots of soul-food favorites like ribs, cornbread and .... mmm, mac and cheese. Anytime, Netflix
Here are Black-owned restaurants, coffee shops, fitness centers, lifestyle brands and other businesses to support.
Efforts to apprehend a far-right extremist who terrorized minority communities in 1990s London are revisited in the documentary âNail Bomber: Manhunt.â Anytime, Netflix
âThe Masked Singerâ also crowns its latest champion in the singing competitionâs season finale. Nick Cannon hosts. 8 p.m. Fox
Saying âenhanceâ to a computer screen isnât going to help these chefs solve the mysteries of the âCrime Scene Kitchenâ in this competition series. âCommunityâsâ Joel McHale hosts. 9 p.m. Fox
The âGreat Electric Airplane Raceâ is on, as soon they can find a charger big enough and somewhere to plug it in, in this new episode of âNova.â 9 p.m. KOCE
âThe Bold Typeâ is back in business for a fifth and final season of this comedy-drama set in the world of magazine publishing. 10 p.m. Freeform
THURSDAY
Boys from a hurricane-ravaged Mexican orphanage enter a high-stakes fishing tournament in the fact-based, feel-good 2021 tale âBlue Miracle.â With Dennis Quaid. Anytime, Netflix
Meet the new âRugrats,â sort of the same as the old Rugrats. The original voice cast returns in a now computer-animated reboot of the 1990s-era cartoon series. Anytime, Paramount+
Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd ⌠and Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, et al. perform at the â2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards.â Usher hosts. 8 p.m. Fox
FRIDAY
The most vile villainess in Disneyâs entire stable gets an origin story in the live-action 2021 tale âCruella.â Emma Stone stars. Anytime, Disney+ (for an additional fee)
Emma Stone stars as wicked Cruella de Vil in Disneyâs â101 Dalmatiansâ spinoff, âCruella.â See the first trailer for the film, also starring Emma Thompson.
Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin remain friends to the end in the third and final season of âThe Kominsky Method.â Anytime, Netflix
Unsupervised teens in a small Texas town take part in a potentially fatal rite of passage in the dark YA drama series âPanic.â Anytime, Amazon Prime
Oops! A possibly pregnant teen decides to go with âPlan Bâ in director Natalie Moralesâ 2021 road-trip comedy. Anytime, Hulu
âInside the Met,â the docuseries about NYCâs storied but shaken Metropolitan Museum of Art, concludes. 9 p.m. KOCE
A veteran comic cracks wise about COVID-19 and other topics in the standup special âLavell Crawford: The Comedy Vaccine.â 10 p.m. Showtime
SATURDAY
Norwegian diplomats attempt to facilitate peace negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians in the 1990s in the fact-based 2021 drama âOslo.â With Ruth Wilson. 8 p.m. HBO
âDaddyâs Perfect Little Girlâ is sugar and spice and everything nice â not! â in this new TV movie. 8 p.m. Lifetime
Movies on TV this week: May 23: âJawsâ on HBO; âWALL-Eâ and âWreck-It Ralphâ on Freeform; âTangledâ on ABC and more
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