Friday, July 28 – Thursday, Aug. 3
Beanie Babies, Naked & Afraid Castaways, Streaming ‘Guardians’ & a ‘Jersey Shore’ Vacay
Find out how the Beanie Baby craze became a thing in ‘The Beanie Bubble.’
FRIDAY, July 28
The Beanie Bubble
Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks and Sarah Snook star in this original film about a not-so-distant time in the 1990s past when the world started treating little stuffed animals as adorable pets—and then highly valued collectible investments (Apple TV+).
Heels
Season two begins tonight for the series about a Georgia family of small-town wrestlers. With Stephen Arnell and Alexander Ludwig (10 p.m., Starz).
This Fool
Half-hour comedy series set in South Central Los Angeles returns for season two tonight, with roommates Julio (Chris Estrada) and Luis (Frankie Quinones) embarking on new careers and new love lives (Hulu).
SUNDAY, July 30
Dark Winds
Season two begins tonight, with a largely Native American cast in a new tale of cops stalking a killer in the high desert of Navajo Country (9 p.m., AMC)
Naked and Afraid Castaways
And now yet another way to shed your clothes, shed a few pounds, and scrounge and scrape for survival. This new spinoff of the N&A franchise puts contestants on a tropical island strewn with wreckage and debris, including a shipwreck, abandoned military vehicles and a crashed plane. Can they find what they need, and fashion the rest, to endure 21 days? (8 p.m., Discovery Channel).
MONDAY, July 31
Breeders
Emmy winner Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard return to kick off the fourth and final season of the dramady about parents and their growing kids—a concept based loosely on Freeman’s own experiences (10 p.m., FX).
American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes
Documentary series follows the comeback of pro wrestler Cody Rhodes as he chases the WWE championship title his superstar father, Dusty Rhodes, never attained (Peacock).
Here’s Lucy!
Before the was a TV comedy queen and a television groundbreaker, Lucille Ball was a rising starlet in a slew of Hollywood movies. Watch an all-day marathon of some of her best, including Room Service (1938), Too Many Girls (1940), Without Love (1945), Easy to Wed (1946) and more, including the feature-length “road” comedy The Long, Long Trailer (1954), co-starring her real-life husband Desi Arnez (6 a.m., TBS).
Lucy and Desi star in the 1954 movie comedy ‘The Long, Long Trailer.’
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Tonight, Pat Sajak and Vanna White host as Paul Scheer, Luenell and Mary Lynn Raskub spin the wheel in hopes of winning a cool $1 million for their charities of choice (8 p.m., ABC).
Big Brother
Ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? Well, maybe you’re a contestant on tonight’s kickoff for the 25th season of the voyeuristic competition, in which a new group of “houseguests” are observed, and eavesdropped on, to see who can hang in the longest (9 p.m., CBS).
Physical
Tonight begins season three of the critically hailed streaming dramady series, starring Rose Byrne as a 1980s aerobics instructor now fighting to outrun her competitors—and keep her personal life on a smooth pace (Apple TV+).
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
The hit movie (released theatrically in May) comes to streaming, starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and others in the cosmic band of misfits off on new adventures—this time with a heartrending backstory about Rocket the Racoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper). (Disney+).
THURSDAY, Aug. 3
Jersey Shore Family Vacation
Who isn’t ready for a little vacay? Original Jersey Shores cast member Sammi “Sweetheart” reunites with her former housemates in Philadelphia, where—among other “Shore” shenanigans—Deena makes a trip to the local Margaretville one for the record books! (8 p.m., MTV).