All-Star Drag Race, ‘Nice Performances’ on Stage, ‘Grosse Pointe’ Cleanup, Dig in at ‘Nonnas’

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars

The runway is getting crowded. For the tenth season of the all-star competitors, a document 18 seasoned queens from previous Drag Race seasons compete for a $200,000 grand prize. A brand new “Match of All Stars” format divides the divas into teams of six, who’ll face off in three episodes every, with the highest three from every group advancing to the semi-finals. The competition opens with two episodes, joined by visitor judges Ice Spice and actor Colman Domingo, with challenges together with a heavy metal-inspired Nineteen Eighties-style music video and performing improv within the whodunit “Homicide on the Dance Flooring.” Nobody doubts these queens can slay.

Nice Performances

The annual “Broadway’s Finest” sequence returns with acclaimed stage productions from the Nice White Manner and past. First up is Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, filmed final fall in London’s West Finish. Caissie Levy (from Broadway’s Frozen) leads the forged as a spouse and mom scuffling with grief and bipolar dysfunction, not your typical subject material for a musical. There’s little that’s regular about this deeply transferring and finally uplifting present.

Grosse Pointe Backyard Society

Seeded with darkly farcical issues and one dangerous resolution after one other, the mystery-comedy approaches subsequent week’s Season 1 finale with the Backyard Membership 4 (as they might be recognized if tabloids ever caught wind of their antics) frantically making an attempt to cowl up the unintended calamity that claimed the lifetime of a relative harmless (who deserves higher than the undignified remedy the physique will get right here). It’s onerous to muster a lot sympathy for these boobs and their messy lives, however the plot mechanics will hold those that’ve stayed with the present engrossed.

Nonnas

Hearts and stomachs will probably be full by the top of this completely timed (for Mom’s Day) heart-warmer about a mean Joe (Vince Vaughn) who, in honor of his not too long ago handed mom and grandmother, opens a really conventional Italian restaurant on Staten Island with 4 feisty “nonnas” (grandmothers) serving up their savory specialties within the kitchen. The nonnas are performed by The Sopranos’ Lorraine Bracco, The Godfather‘s Talia Shire, character actor suprema Brenda Vaccaro and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon, not a slouch amongst them. The supporting forged contains Joe Manganiello as Joe’s greatest buddy Bruno, Sopranos alum Drea de Matteo as Bruno’s spouse, and Linda Cardellini because the woman Joe let get away.

Summer time of 69

Comic Jillian Bell co-writes and makes her directing debut in a sweetly raunchy coming-of-age comedy (suppose a contemporary and gender-swapped model of Summer time of ’42). Sam Morelos stars as Abby, an inexperienced high-school senior whose crush on a boy named Max (Matt Cornett) evokes her to enlist an area stripper, Santa Monica (Saturday Evening Dwell‘s Chloe Fineman), to point out her the metaphorical ropes of carnal ardour. What she learns from her “sexual fairy godmother” has extra to do with self-acceptance than seduction.

INSIDE FRIDAY TV:

• Energy E book III: Elevating Kanan (8/7c, Starz): Baltimore Ravens MVP Lamar Jackson guest-stars because the imposing “E-Tone” in Season 4’s penultimate episode, wherein Kanan (Mekai Curtis) suspects Raq (Patina Miller) may be concerned in queen bee Krystal’s (Aliyah Turner) disappearance.
• S.W.A.T. (9/8c, CBS): Within the final episode earlier than subsequent week’s two-part sequence finale, the motion crime drama sends Hondo (Shemar Moore) and his colleagues seeking his cousin, who went AWOL from primary coaching after witnessing an unlawful arms deal.
• True Crime Watch: On Dateline NBC (9/8c), Keith Morrison presents new particulars in regards to the 2022 murders of 4 College of Idaho college students. ABC‘s 20/20 (9/8c) revisits the 2004 stabbing homicide of 21-year-old Johnia Berry in Knoxville, Tennessee and her mom’s years-long campaign for solutions and justice.
• Gold Rush: Mine Rescue With Freddy & Juan (9/8c, Discovery): Gold restoration consultants Freddy Dodge and Juan Ibarra return for a brand new season, with their first go to to Washington state, the place tapping a hard-rock mine at 4,000 ft within the Cascades requires a 180-foot chute.

ON THE STREAM:

• Lengthy Manner House (streaming on Apple TV+): Finest buds Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman traverse continental Europe of their fourth made-for-TV bike travelogue. Within the first two episodes, McGregor retools a classic police bike earlier than they embark by way of the Netherlands to Germany.
• Your Mates & Neighbors (streaming on Apple TV+): With Coop (Jon Hamm) underneath investigation, he and his ex, Mel (Amanda Peet), revisit outdated and happier instances whereas on a school discipline journey with their children, a momentary escape from the actual world that’s closing in on him.
• Burden of Proof: The Case In opposition to Diddy (5:30 pm/ET, additionally 6:30 pm/ET and eight:30 pm/ET, streaming on ABC Information Dwell): GMA3 co-anchor Eva Pilgrim hosts a every day 30-minute present with updates on the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, with chief investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky and authorized contributor Brian Buckmire including insights.
• A Lethal American Marriage (streaming on Netflix): A real-crime documentary explores the brutal 2015 killing of Jason Corbett in North Carolina by his spouse Molly and her ex-FBI agent father Thomas in what they declare was self-defense in opposition to Jason’s allegedly abusive conduct.
• Love Hurts (streaming on Peacock): The motion comedy starring Oscar winners Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose makes its streaming debut.