What to watch, and more! Week of Friday, July 24 – Thursday, July 30
Happy Birthday, Bugs! Kevin Hart’s bachelor weekend, Elvis on stage & a girl in a coffin!
FRIDAY, July 24
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
The acclaimed big-screen documentary from director Baz Lehrman—with newly unearthed, freshly enhanced and electrifying performance footage, plus Elvis interviews—comes to streaming today (Paramount+).
72 Hours
Kevin Hart stars as 40-year-old executive who hopes to save his flailing career by joining a group of twenty-somethings (below) on a wild three-day bachelor party after he’s accidentally added to their group text (Netflix).
SATURDAY, July 25
Girl in the Coffin
After her mother’s death, a young woman (Tahirah Sharif) fights for survival after waking up…yep, in a coffin (8 p.m., Lifetime).
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
Animated spinoff of the franchise, set in an Asian-inspired fantasy world, features the voices of Dave Bautista, Stephen Yuen and Jessica Matten (Paramount+).
SUNDAY, July 26
Shark Week
Stay out of the water! Tonight kicks off a whole week of bite-tastic programming about the oceans’ most fearsome predators, hosted by actor Ken Jeong (check listings, Discovery).
The Walking Dead: Dead City
Season three begins tonight of the hit post-apocalyptic series starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohen (AMC and AMC+).
Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash
What’s up, Doc? A 24-hour marathon of classic Bugs Bunny, that’s what! And it’s timed to the wascally wabbit’s 86th birthday tomorrow (6 a.m., MeTV Toons).
MONDAY, July 27
Modern Marvels
New three-part limited series explores World War II as the ultimate global arms race, where victory hinges on who can invent, build, and scale the most incredible engineering marvels (10 p.m., History Channel).
Furious
An FBI agent (Emmy Rossum, below) goes on the hunt for a mysterious and calculating female serial killer. But as their lives start to intertwine, the line between right and wrong begins to blur (Hulu).
TUESDAY, July 28
Kitchen Undercover
High-stakes, sneak-attack restaurant rescue series follows chef Antonia Lofaso and sous-chef Nestor Milian as they go undercover to help failing restaurants that are one more bad review away from total collapse (9 p.m., Food Network).
WEDNESDAY, July 29
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Final season of the hit animated streaming series features guest voices including Maria Carey, Ali Wong and Dee Nasty (Disney+).
The Ark
Extraterrestrial sci-fi series enters season three as the team returns to space to find other lost Earth survivors (10 p.m., SyFy).
Life and Death on Pangea
Documentary unwinds the clock back to a time long ago when a catastrophic extinction event wiped out 80% of the life on planet Earth (check local listings, PBS).
THURSDAY, July 30
Home in You
Swedish dramady about a family caught between two worlds as gentrification pushes them out of their Stockholm subdivision (Viaplay).
Presidential 1776 Award
Watch the final round of the first competition for students testing their knowledge of America’s founding principles (8 p.m., CBS).
BRING IT HOME
Two sisters (Kara Young and Mallori Johnson) embark on an epic quest for revenge against their father for disfiguring them as children. Vivica Fox plays their mom, whom they refer to as “God.” Now’s your chance to dig into the critically praised Is God Is (Amazon MGM Studios).
Bob Odenkirk slips back into ultraviolent Nobody mode to star in Normal (Magnolia Home Entertainment) as an unassuming substitute sheriff (in the small town of Normal) who responds to a bank robbery and uncovers something even more explosive. With Henry Winkler and Lena Headey.
It’s Elvis as you’ve never experienced Elvis before, in Epic (Neon/Universal), director Baz Luhrmann’s acclaimed documentary about Presley, put together with newfound in-concert footage, enhanced filmed interviews and other docu-goodies. And, of course, LOTS of Elvis songs! It makes you feel like you’re there, on stage, backstage and at home, with the King.
Based on a true story, I Swear (Sony Pictures Classics) is the funny and moving tale of a young British man with Tourette’s. Robert Aramayo gives a powerful performance as John Davidson, who grew up to be a steadfast advocate for the condition he’d dealt with all his life. BUY HERE
The critically hailed and Oscar-nominated Sirāt is the tale of a Spanish father (Sergi López) looking for his missing daughter, with the aid of a group of partiers headed to a rave in the desert. (Neon Home Entertainment).
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Little readers will enjoy the fun scares scares of Scritch! Scratch! (Random House Books for Young Readers), an illustrated tale about kids hiding from a crafty witch—or maybe it’s just their over-active imagination!