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 6th to 12th this week. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
Irma Vep 9 pm on HBO. Olivier Assayas revisits the 1996 movie of the same name in this miniseries at Wink. This follows a tragic attempt to recreate the 1910s silent film “Les Vampires”. The show will star Alicia Vikander as an American movie star who signs on to play the heroine of the old story, Irma Vep. Her role in her pervades her own life.
Tuesday
Penny’s from heaven (1981) 10 pm on TCM. Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken and Jessica Harper appear in this quirky musical from the BBC series. Martin plays a sheet music salesman in Chicago during the Great Depression. The romance with that verse is enhanced by the lip-synced expression of popular songs from the 1920s and 1930s. “Neo Brecht Comedy Melodrama with Music” is the label used by critic Vincent Canby in a review of the New York Times in 1981, “with what may best be described as a perplexed interest” movie. I added that I saw it.
Jurassic World (2015) 5:30 pm in FX. How many $ 100 bills do I need to stack to reach the average height of T. Rex? Ask the producer of the “Jurassic World” trilogy. This 2015 entry and its first sequel, Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom (2018), is one of the highest-grossing movies in history. The last entry in the trilogy, “Jurassic World: Dominion” We are planning to land in the theater this weekend. Revisit the first entry about the meltdown of the cloned dinosaur theme park, set more than 20 years after the original Jurassic Park, and the sequel, The Fallen Kingdom, which airs shortly thereafter. This is your chance. With FX.
Thursday
lamb (2021) 8 pm showtime. In this debut of Valdimar Johannsson, the ewes spawn rare creatures in a misty, lonely, dull, glowing Icelandic sheep farm. The farmer’s couple, Maria and Ingvar (Noomi Rapace and Hilmil Snael Gudnason), are raising strange offspring as their own. As it grows, things get tense and strange. As a result, Jeannette Catsoulis, in a review of The Times, is a movie that “plays like a folk tale and makes a fuss like a horror movie.” “Oscar-worthy livestock cast” is included, Catsoulis added.
Friday
Judy Garland movie All day with TCM. Friday was the 100th anniversary of Judy Garland’s birth. To celebrate, TCM is lined with Garland days. The highlights are: Beauty theater (1941), aired at 8am, starring James Stewart and Hedy Lamarr.Busby Berkeley’s musical For me and my gal (1942), Garland starred on the other side of Gene Kelly, and his first feature aired at 2:00 pm. And of course Wizard of Oz (1939), 8 pm, 10 pm Oz’s Great Wizard: 50 Years of Magic (1990), a documentary about the production of the film.
Saturday
Card counter (2021) 8 pm on HBO. Writer and director Paul Schrader once again jumped into the hearts of lonely people in this drama centered around Oscar Isaac’s veteran and professional card player William Tell. (For more information on Schroeder’s loneliness, see his previous film “The Whereabouts of the Soul” and the script for Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver.”) Tell is an old and abusive boss, John John. I am troubled by the memories of Captain Gord (Willem Defor). His life changes when he begins a partnership with a gambling manager (Tiffany Haddish) and meets one of his former military compatriots, a teenage son (Tye Sheridan). “It’s a memorable, moving story of mind and body, sin and redemption, love and death,” Manora Dargis wrote in her review of the Times. “I like playing in the form of movies, but I’m not interested in traditional heroes and beats, and even if I hit the notes I’m used to, I do so with my unstable rhythm and pressure,” Schroeder said. I am.
Sunday
75th Tony Awards 8 pm on CBS. This year’s Tony Awards are the first to recognize a show that took place after the theater was closed during the pandemic blockade. The Pulitzer Prize-winning meta-musical “A Strange Loop” by Michael R. Jackson is in a formidable competition in the best new musical races, but has received the most nominations and enters the night (11 awards). The categories are “Paradise Square”, “Six”, “MJ Musical”, “Girl from the North Country”, “Mr. Saturday Night.” Candidates for the best new play categories are “Clyde”, “Hangmen”, “Lehman”. “Trilogy”, “Minute”, “Skeleton Crew”. The actor categories include Sam Rockwell, Mary-Louise Parker, Billy Crystal, Hugh Jackman, Uzo Aduba, Rachel Dratch, Phylicia Rashad, Ruth Negga, Patti LuPone and many more. Performers are included.
P Valley 10:06 pm on Starz. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall (“Hot Wing King”, “Mountain Top”) is behind this series of drama set in a strip club in the fictional Mississippi town. In the new second season, which began last week, the personal and professional pressures of show characters, such as club owner Uncle Clifford (Nicco Annan) and the dancer Mercedes (Brandy Evans) decorated there, are felt. Will increase. By a pandemic. Hall said in a recent interview with the Times about the show’s intent: Their lives have changed for some reason, “she said. “I wanted to make a black woman look completely human.”
