Shark Week’s Dance Fever, ‘Endurance’ Finale, Chrissy Metz Finds ‘Religion within the Flames,’ WNBA All-Star Recreation

Dancing With Sharks

SUNDAY: It’s in all probability an excessive amount of to count on a foxtrot when scuba-diving shark specialists tango with sharks in a cheeky stunt kicking off the 37^th version of Shark Week. Tom Bergeron, the primary and nonetheless unsurpassed host of Dancing with the Stars, emcees this offbeat competitors during which skilled scuba-diving shark specialists carry out underwater routines, partnering with precise sharks. (Guess who takes lead?) Judges embrace a Dancing and So You Assume You Can Dance? veteran, Allison Holker, alongside adventure-TV host and shark conservation advocate Kinga Phillips and, reminding us to not take all of it too severely, comic Pete Holmes. Following this particular, Shark Week will get again on model with a brand new installment of Air Jaws: The Hunt for Colossus (9/8c) and a report on Nice White Assassins (10/9c), during which Shark Week veteran Dickie Chivell poses as an orca to see how nice whites react. Not nicely, I think about.

Endurance

SUNDAY: The compelling British crime drama, primarily based on the French sequence Astrid et Raphaëlle, ends its first season with DI Bea Metcalf (Laura Fraser) defying her bosses’ order to cease investigating the demise of a person who collapses after a coughing match on a bus, his fingerprints chemically eliminated. She additionally places her well being in danger, however not earlier than piquing the curiosity of her autistic helper, Endurance (Ella Maisy Purvis), telling her, “I can’t go away a puzzle unsolved any greater than you possibly can.” Endurance additionally grapples with a puzzle that might make clear the mom who left her throughout her childhood.

Religion within the Flames: The Nichole Jolly Story

SATURDAY: This Is Us alum Chrissy Metz stars within the fact-based story of Nichole, a heroic nurse who rises to the horrific event when wildfires devour her city of Paradise, California. Whereas going above and past her duties to guard her sufferers and evacuate them from the encroaching catastrophe, she’s additionally determined to study the destiny of her husband Nick (Colin Moss) and their youngsters.

WNBA All-Star Recreation

SATURDAY: Followers of the WNBA are identified to exhibit Caitlin Fever, after famous person shooter Caitlin Clark, whose staff, the Indiana Fever, is internet hosting this yr’s all-star girls’s basketball recreation at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Sadly, a groin harm has sidelined Clark from enjoying, although she’s one of many groups’ captains. Clark says she’ll be there, serving to head coach Sandy Bordello of the New York Liberty as they tackle a rival staff of all-stars, captained by Napheesa Collier of the Minnesota Lynx, whose head coach Cheryl Reeve will carry out related duties throughout this matchup of high expertise.

The Gilded Age

SUNDAY: The honeymoon doesn’t final lengthy for Gladys (Taissa Farmiga), the brand new Duchess of Buckingham, upon arriving on the household fort and discovering that her nouveau riche background in New York Metropolis hasn’t fairly ready her for adjusting to British traditions courting again to 1612. Whereas her sister-in-law Woman Sarah (Hattie Morahan) makes Gladys really feel like a 3rd wheel in her personal marriage, her dad and mom Bertha (Carrie Coon) and George (Morgan Spector) again dwelling surprise how their daughter is coping. However George has different enterprise complications to take care of, and their son Larry (Harry Richardson) pursues his personal romantic future.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• Love & Marriage: Huntsville (Saturday, 8/7c, OWN): The fact sequence returns for a ten^th season, charting relationship and parenting highs and lows within the Alabama neighborhood.
• Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (Saturday, 9/8c, Nationwide Geographic): The Emmy-winning investigative sequence opens its fifth season with journalist Mariana van Zeller exposing the operation and affect of Mexican cartels inside the USA.
• CBS Information Sunday Morning (Sunday, 9 am/ET, examine native listings): Ben Mankiewicz interviews Kathy Bates, nominated this week at age 77 as excellent lead actress for Matlock, and Luke Burbank profiles Someone Someplace star Bridget Everett, who wasn’t so lucky within the TV comedy sweepstakes.
• Collector’s Name (Sunday, 6:30/5:30c, MeTV): With the brand new Smurfs film now in theaters, what higher time to go to superfan Andrew Somer and his spectacular treasury of Smurf memorabilia.
• The Entire Story with Anderson Cooper (Sunday, 8/7c, CNN): In “Change Amplified: Reside Music and the Local weather Disaster,” chief local weather correspondent Invoice Weir explores the development of latest music stars and festivals which are attempting to scale back their eco footprint.
• Nautilus (Sunday, 9/8c, AMC): Disaster piles upon disaster within the interval journey because the crew tangles with an enormous electrical eel that drags the submersible dangerously near a volcanic “Ring of Fireplace,” whereas spores ship the shipmates into hallucinatory trances.
• Grantchester (Sunday, 9/8c, PBS): Alphy’s (Rishi Nair) birthday celebration is marred by, what else, a homicide when a neighborhood rocker is discovered lifeless in a “working males’s membership.” The investigation triggers the vicar’s curiosity concerning the letter his delivery mom left him. And whereas one relationship seems to finish, one other takes an enormous leap ahead.
• The Institute (Sunday, 9/8c, MGM+): “What’s that place?” freelance evening cop Tim (Ben Barnes) wonders concerning the top-secret Institute on the outskirts of small-town Dennison, Maine. Clearly Tim doesn’t but know he’s the hero of a Stephen King story, during which adolescent mentalists like Luke (Joe Freeman) are trapped within the sinister facility, being examined and tortured to use their psychic skills.