Between streaming and cable, viewers have a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that are airing or streaming this week, July 13-19. Details and times are subject to change.
Assassins, con artists and a comeback.
Based on a novel by Marissa Stapley, the new limited series “Lucky” stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a con artist who has to go on the run after a botched heist. But things also get steamy with the titular character’s husband, played by Drew Starkey. Annette Bening, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Timothy Olyphant round out the cast. The first two episodes will air together, and then the other episodes will roll out weekly. Begins streaming Wednesday on Apple TV.
You know when you’re best friends with someone and share everything about yourself with them, but then you find out that they’re an international assassin? Oh, no? Well, that’s the premise of the new series “Ride or Die.” Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer star as the two best friends Judith Burton and Debbie Claybourne. They find themselves traversing Europe to evade law enforcement, fellow assassins and dangerous criminals. Bill Nighy and Ed Skrein also star. All eight episodes will drop together Wednesday on Amazon Prime Video.
In the new series “The Hawk,” Will Ferrell embodies Lonnie Hawkins, a washed-up golfer looking to make his comeback. As Hawkins, Ferrell has been traveling the East Coast on a bus tour and has even collaborated with Kim Kardashian, all as part of the show’s promotional run. In the show, Molly Shannon plays Hawk’s estranged wife, and Jimmy Tatro stars as his son. Hawkins tries to make amends, get back to his former glory and join the PGA Tour. Begins streaming Thursday on Netflix.
Dancing and beating the heat.
Though we are still a few months out from the next season of “Dancing With the Stars,” a new iteration of the dance competition is premiering this week. “Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro” follows 12 dancers who — while living together and certainly finding themselves in sticky interpersonal situations — vie for a role as the newest professional dancer on the main “Dancing With the Stars.” Last year’s winner of that show, Robert Irwin, is hosting the inaugural season of “The Next Pro.” The ballroom trailblazer Shirley Ballas is serving as a judge alongside her son, Mark Ballas, who has been a pro on the show on and off for 21 seasons. Certain episodes will feature other “D.W.T.S.” cast members, including Derek Hough and Brandon Armstrong, to teach integral parts of the job. Monday at 8 p.m. on ABC.
Sean Evans’s show “Hot Ones,” where he interviews celebrities while they both munch on increasingly spicy wings, has been running on YouTube since 2015. Now the show’s production company, First We Feast, has partnered with Netflix for the spinoff series “Hot Ones: Extra Heat.” The show, which will take place at different locations rather than on Evans’s usual set, has Ferrell and Tatro on as its first guests to promote, you guessed it, “The Hawk.” “Extra heat” will debut right after the livestream of the Home Run Derby put on by Major League Baseball. Monday at 10 p.m. on Netflix.
Two new documentaries.
A murder spree targeting women with red hair that began in the late 1970s and was called “the redhead murders” went unsolved for years. Most of the women’s bodies were found by the side of highways in Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and West Virginia, and most remained unidentified. In the spring of 2018, a sociology class at the Elizabethton High School in Tennessee looked into the case as a school assignment and ended up finding leads that helped law enforcement identify a potential suspect. The story, which was first told in a 10-part iHeartRadio podcast, is now becoming a documentary series, “Murder 101.” Begins streaming Monday on Prime Video.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s portrayal of Jordan Belfort in the 2013 Martin Scorsese-directed movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” has led to an Oscar nomination, couples’ Halloween costumes and extra attention for the real person behind the character. The documentary series “The Real Wolf of Wall Street” offers a different perspective on the tale told in the Scorsese movie, with Belfort sharing his own experience. Begins streaming Tuesday on Paramount+.
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