Between networks, cables and streaming, the landscape of modern television is vast. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies that will be aired on TV from June 13th to 19th this week. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
Deadly Friend (1986) 6:15 pm by TCM. Two years after “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” filmmaker Wes Craven said of this artificial intelligence about a young computer with (Michael Sharrett) who had a microchip embedded in the brain of his injured teenage neighbor (Kristy Swanson). Announcing the allegory. The tip aims to save her life — and it’s kind of, but it puts the lives of others at risk. (The story is based on Diana Henstel’s novel.) In a 1986 New York Times review, Carin James praised the film’s “unpredictable stupidity.” She called it “the grandson of Frankenstein, who plays the convention of recent teen horror films, paying homage to the witty ghoul story, a classic starring Boris Karloff.”
American Masters: Brian Wilson — The Long Promised Road 9 pm on PBS (check local list). Reflecting the depth of influence of The Beach Boys singer-songwriter Brian Wilson, this documentary includes Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins (died in March) and star classical music conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Includes interviews with musicians as different as. These interviews, including interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Don Was, and Al Jardine, featured Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine and Wilson’s life driving in Los Angeles. It involves a long conversation with Wilson discussing his career. ..
8th grade (2018) and Lady Bird (2017) Showtime 5:45 pm and 7:25 pm. This is a double feature with enough adult-style awkwardness to fill several college-dominated essay books. Comic and filmmaker Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” follows a very online youth (played by Elsie Fisher) navigating the final week of a suburban middle school. Actress and filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” is a high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) with a school drama (in multiple ways) and her mother (Laurie Metcalf) in the suburbs of Sacramento, California. I am following the balance of the complex relationships of. In the early 2000s.
Thursday
Old man 10 pm on FX. The old soul Jeff Bridges (see “True Grit”, “The Big Lebowski”, “Crazy Heart”) fits naturally into the title role of this new series. He plays Dan Chase, a former CIA operative who abandoned the agency long ago. When we meet him, he grinds and lives off-the-grid. But the past isn’t going to do that, so his past catches up with him and he finds himself being chased by the FBI Director (John Lithgow). Amy Brenneman and Alia Shawkat will also star with Bridges in their first regular role in the series.
Friday
Great performance at MET: RIGOLETTO 9 pm on PBS (check local list). Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher will move Verdi’s “Rigoletto” from Renaissance Italy to Weimar Berlin to stage this version of the dark three-act opera. Opening at the Metropolitan Opera earlier this year, the film features baritone Quinn Kelsey and soprano Rosa Feola as clown Rigoletto and his beloved daughter, Gilda, under the direction of Daniele Rustioni. Anthony Tommasini’s review of the Times was positive, but there were some caveats. “Even though moving the opera from Renaissance Italy to Berlin in the 1920s wasn’t entirely convincing, it was still a detailed and dramatic rendition, full of insights into the characters. “Tom Masini writes. Rustioni added, “It led to a lean and transparent performance with a balance of urgency and lyricism.”
Watergate: White House High Crime 9 pm on CBS. Many Americans heard about the progress of the Watergate scandal, and about the infamous invasion of Washington’s Democratic National Committee headquarters 50 years ago, by CBS reporters such as Walter Cronkite, Lesley Stahl, and Dan Rather. It was from. week. This new feature-length documentary about the event makes use of the large amount of footage in the CBS archives. He also has Stahl, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, FBI agent Angelo Lano, and Hugh W. Sloan, accountant for the Nixon Re-election Commission, which was Woodward’s primary source of information. It also features new interviews with other people, including juniors. And Bernstein.
Saturday
Across the Universe (2007) 8 pm HBO signature. Paul McCartney will be 80 years old on Saturday. Revisit this strange jukebox musical of Julie Taymor and consider tilting his hat (or moptop hairstyle) to him. In this musical, his father and a young American activist (Evan Rachel Wood) are studded with Beatles songs. It’s “Phantasmagoria,” Stephen Holden wrote in a Times review. “Somewhere in the middle,’Across the Universe’ caught my heart,” Holden wrote. “I realized that falling in love with a movie is like falling in love with another person. No matter how obvious the flaws are, falling down makes them a lovely habit.”
Sunday
JUNETEENTH: A global celebration for freedom 8 pm on CNN. Sunday is June 16th, and many networks are lining up programming to recognize holidays. One of the highlights is this blowout concert, which will include roots. Earth, Wind & Fire; Mickey Guyton; Robert Glasper; Yolanda Adams; Billy Porter; and more performers. Questlove and producer, songwriter and instrumentalist Adam Blackstone are the night music directors. Other Juneteenth-related shows throughout the day include: Special Bet: Recipe: Juneteenth BET 1:00 pm.Family Show Juneteenth Episode Young Dairan Nick’s 7 pm.And that 30th Trumpet Award, At 7 pm on Bounce TV, we honor black performers and others (winners this year include actor Courtney B. Vance and Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock).
