Baseball’s All-Star Sport, the Balloon Boy Scandal, Emmy Nominations Introduced, a ‘Expertise’ Comeback

MLB All-Star Sport

The baseball stars are shining in Atlanta’s Truist Park for the ninety fifth version of the Midsummer Basic, the place the Nationwide League hopes to upset the American League once more after breaking the AL’s nine-game profitable streak in 2023. (The AL has the benefit, profitable 10 of the final 11 video games.) Whereas megastars together with the Yankees’ Aaron Choose and the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani can be on deck to indicate what they’ve acquired, the occasion can be shadowed by the legacy of the Atlanta Braves’ legendary Hank Aaron, who handed Babe Ruth‘s file along with his 715th homer again in 1974. This historic residence run can be recreated late within the sport with projection mapping and customized pyrotechnics, which might end result within the best seventh inning stretch ever.

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy

Capturing the nation’s consideration as a live-TV occasion on the dimensions of the O.J. Simpson freeway chase, the 2009 spectacle of a do-it-yourself helium-powered flying saucer (described by some as a “Jiffy Pop factor floating throughout the sky”) untethered with a 6-year-old allegedly aboard made nationwide headlines. Particularly as soon as the silver balloon got here right down to Earth with no passenger aboard, setting off a determined seek for little Falcon “Balloon Boy” Heene. The most recent installment of Trainwreck explores the fallout when Falcon was found hiding in his attic, suggesting his father Richard had perpetrated a hoax.

Emmys

Emmy Nominations (11:30 a.m. ET/8:30 a.m. PT): Discover out which sequence and stars are nominated for this yr’s 77th Emmy Awards when What We Do within the Shadows‘ Harvey Guillén and Operating Level‘s Brenda Music announce the highest classes stay from the Tv Academy’s Saban Media Heart. Among the many new sequence anticipated to make a splash: HBO Max‘s The Pitt in drama (and Kathy Bates from Matlock), and in comedy, The Studio from Apple TV+ and No one Needs This from Netflix, with the Netflix restricted sequence Adolescence anticipated to dominate in these classes. Stream the announcement stay at 11:30 am/ET on the TV Academy’s web site or YouTube channel. This yr’s ceremony will air on CBS on September 14, hosted by comic Nate Bargatze.

America’s Received Expertise

Solely 10 years previous when she made her first look on America’s Received Expertise‘s first season in 2006, singer Jessica Sanchez returns to attempt to impress the judges over again as a grown-up. (In between, she made a reputation for herself inserting second to Philip Phillips within the eleventh season of American Idol in 2012.) Different acts of notice embody a ballet efficiency that takes place on high of an individual’s head, and to remind us that it’s by no means too late, an 83-year-old contestant impresses decide Howie Mandel a lot that he predicts this act might win all of it. Adopted by a brand new episode of Vacation spot X (10/9c).

INSIDE TUESDAY TV:

• Jaws (streaming on Netflix): Famously celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this summer season, Steven Spielberg‘s shark thriller and its three sequels arrive on the streaming large.
• The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (8/7c, Historical past Channel): After the group finds more strange clues of their ongoing investigation into alleged UFO exercise on the Utah property, a fancy laser experiment results in one other stunning encounter.
• Bachelor in Paradise (8/7c, ABC): Didn’t get sufficient from Monday evening’s three-hour blowout? ABC retains the responsible pleasure machine buzzing with a particular two-hour Tuesday version.
• Renaissance: The Blood and the Magnificence (9/8c, PBS): Within the historic docuseries’ second episode, the inventive rivalry between Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci heats up in Florence, however the arrival of younger prodigy Raphael might upstage them each.
• Frontline (10/9c, PBS): In “Trump’s Energy & The Rule of Regulation,” veteran documentarian Michael Kirk explores the authorized ramifications of the president’s makes an attempt to develop the boundaries of govt energy.
• Her Final Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit (streaming on Hulu): A 3-part true-crime docuseries follows the 30-year investigation into the disappearance and alleged abduction in 1995 of Iowa information anchor Jodi Huisentruit, who was declared legally useless in 2001.
• The Large Repair (streaming on MHz Selection): An eight-part Swedish drama, impressed by actual occasions, depicts a sports activities fan and gambler who comes beneath scrutiny after he finds a loophole within the state-controlled betting operation.