CBS previews its upcoming daytime cleaning soap Past the Gates with specials all week, together with throughout the primetime On TV: A Black Historical past Month Particular. A sports activities documentary finds the story of faculty basketball gamers who beat the legendary 1992 Olympic “Dream Workforce” in a secret observe scrimmage. Acorn TV launches A Exceptional Place to Die, a thriller sequence set in scenic New Zealand. NBC‘s The Looking Celebration provides chase to a killer searching hunters within the wild.
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Past the Gates: Welcome to the Neighborhood
The daytime drama could also be an endangered community species, however CBS is bucking the pattern by launching the primary major-network daytime cleaning soap since Passions in 1999 with subsequent week’s premiere of Past the Gates, additionally the primary with a predominantly Black solid since 1989-91’s Generations. To whet viewers’ urge for food, a weeklong sequence of daytime specials go behind the scenes, with Leisure Tonight‘s Kevin Frazier and The Speak alum Sheryl Underwood internet hosting. The primary episode peeks behind the gates of Fairmont Crest, introducing the solid and creators.
On TV: A Black Historical past Month Particular (8/7c, CBS): An Leisure Tonight-produced particular options hosts Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner in a survey of previous and current Black illustration on TV, together with interviews with Past the Gates stars and Black performers on present CBS exhibits together with The Neighborhood, NCIS, S.W.A.T., Poppa’s Home, Watson, Elsbeth and Let’s Make a Deal. The particular additionally celebrates milestones together with Isabel Sanford‘s groundbreaking Emmy win for The Jeffersons, Sidney Poitier‘s history-making Oscar win, the primary interracial kiss on Star Trek and All within the Household introducing TV’s first interracial couple.
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We Beat the Dream Workforce
An offbeat documentary reveals an obscure footnote in sports activities historical past, paying homage to 1992’s legendary Olympic “Dream Workforce” of professional superstars together with Larry Chicken, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. What few knew on the time was {that a} “USA Choose Workforce” of faculty gamers, recruited to assist the Dream Workforce put together for the Olympics, really beat the professionals (their solely loss) in a secret scrimmage. To be honest, the “Choose Workforce” had its justifiable share of future stars, together with Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway and Bobby Hurley, who recall the thrilling recreation with the assistance of the only surviving VHS copy of the match.
Acorn TV
A Exceptional Place to Die
The surroundings is attractive, even when suffering from the victims of crime, in a New Zealand crime drama airing over 4 weeks. Chelsie Preston Crayford stars as Anaís Mallory, a murder detective who uproots from Sydney to return to her Queenstown, N.Z. hometown to resolve circumstances whereas wanting into the deaths of her sister and father. Private baggage consists of an ex-fiancé who married her ex-best buddy and a mom (Below the Vines’ Rebecca Gibney) who’s maintaining secrets and techniques. Mallory’s first project: a automobile that went over a cliff carrying a driver who’s been useless for 3 days.
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The Looking Celebration
FBI profiler Bex (Melissa Roxburgh) and her entourage head to Montana to trace Lowe, an escaped serial killer who prefers wolves to folks, searching down and murdering hunters on land that the fugitive holds expensive. Again at HQ, questions proceed to swirl about whether or not warden Oliver Odell (Nick Wechsler), Bex’s ex, had prior data of the Pit jail explosion that freed baddies like Lowe.
INSIDE MONDAY TV:
- The Home of Hanna-Barbera (11 am/10c, MeTV Toons): A every day two-hour programming block is devoted to the enduring cartoon characters immortalized by the Hanna-Barbera animation manufacturing facility, together with Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Secret Squirrel and Snagglepuss. (The Sunday block airs at 1 pm/12c.)
- Thomas Jefferson (8/7c, Historical past): Presidents’ Day alert: A six-hour docuseries, airing by Wednesday, profiles the third U.S. president and Founding Father in all of his good complexities and confounding contradictions, with dramatic recreations and commentary from historians and biographers.
- The Bachelor (8/7c, ABC): Madrid beckons Grant and the remaining 10 girls with native surroundings, a lesson from a matadora and a mechanical bull-riding problem.
- All American (8/7c, The CW): Khalil (Antonio J. Bell) is sidelined because the soccer season will get underway at Beverly and South Crenshaw.
- Rescue: Hello-Surf (9/8c, Fox): Whereas the Hawaii lifeguards rush to the scene of unresponsive cliff jumpers, Em (Arielle Kebbel) and Will (Adam Demos) go in the hunt for rebound relationships.
ON THE STREAM:
- Greatest Intentions (streaming on Acorn TV): A wrenching four-part British drama from Jack Thorne stars Dangerous Sisters‘ Sharon Horgan and Prodigal Son‘s Michael Sheen as mother and father whose household is fractured throughout a authorized battle involving their daughter, who’s affected by a life-threatening sickness and whose physician recommends withdrawing care.
- American Homicide: Gabby Petito (streaming on Netflix): A 3-part true-crime docuseries explores the tragic homicide that made nationwide headlines when 22-year-old Gabby was killed in 2021 by her fiancé whereas on a cross-country highway journey.
- A Merciless Love: The Ruth Ellis Story (streaming on BritBox): Lucy Boynton stars in a four-part docudrama because the infamous nightclub hostess who in 1955 was the final lady to be hanged within the U.Okay. following the taking pictures of her abusive lover (Laurie Davidson). The story was beforehand filmed in 1985 as Dance With a Stranger, starring Miranda Richardson.