ESPN
ESPY Awards
Honoring the very best gamers on the planet of sports activities, and saluting athletes who’ve gone the additional mile off the court docket, the ESPYS is among the many yr’s most inspiring awards specials. Comic Shane Gillis hosts from L.A.’s Dolby Theatre, with music from Busta Rhymes, Clipse and Gelo, with Tobe Nwigwe and David Michael Wyatt main an In Memoriam tribute. But it surely’s the athletes who’re the celebs of this present, with Simone Biles, Caitlin Clark, Saquon Barkley, Coco Gauff and Ilona Maher among the many high nominees. Particular honors go to former girls’s basketball and soccer stars Diane Taurasi and Alex Morgan, every receiving the Icon Award. Different honorees embody former NBA star Oscar Robertson, accepting the Arthur Ashe Award for Braveness for his battle to ascertain free company; Pennsylvania State College’s girls’s volleyball head coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley accepting the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance for main her group to win the NCAA Ladies’s Volleyball Championship whereas battling breast most cancers; and Olympic swimmer David Walters and former soccer goalkeeper Erin Regan receiving the Pat Tillman Award for Service, acknowledging their post-career vocation as members of the Los Angeles County Fireplace Division.
Apple TV+
The Buccaneers
Wedding ceremony bells are sounding extra like funeral chimes currently on TV’s interval romances. First we watched Gladys Russell (Taissa Farmiga) take her very solemn vows on The Gilded Age, and now one other reluctant bride approaches the alert within the present the place American debutantes cross the pond (as a substitute of vice versa) within the 1870s to make love (or quasi-love) matches in Jolly Olde England. The main focus this week is on stunning Lizzy (Aubri Ibrag), who’s betrothed to good however uninteresting Hector Robinson (Jacob Ifan), although she’s clearly head over heels — typically actually — for deserted Duke Theo (Man Remmers). With runaway Duchess Nan (Kristine Froseth) getting back from Italy to disrupt this doubtlessly scandalous flirtation, and the marriage date imminent, what path will Lizzy select?
Prime Video
The Summer time I Turned Fairly
Extra tortured romance is on show within the third and closing season of the coming-of-age beachy drama, promising to disclose which of the Fisher brothers “Stomach” Conklin (Lola Tung) will select. (If this had been a TLC present, she may in all probability go along with each.) The brand new season picks up on the finish of Stomach’s junior yr of faculty, with summer time beckoning for her and her soulmate Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno). However when her old flame and Jeremiah’s older sibling Conrad (Christopher Briney) reenters the image, all bets are off.
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It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia
Even by this wacky present’s requirements, their newest outing is quite a bit to digest. And never simply because everybody appears obsessive about scorching peppers, together with Dennis (Glenn Howerton) and Mac (Rob Mac), who’re impressed to placed on EMT uniforms after watching emergency employees save a collapsed patron of Paddy’s who ate considered one of Frank’s ghost peppers. Microdosing throughout their first coaching session isn’t the very best thought, and neither is commandeering a decommissioned ambulance: “The illegality of what we’re doing is spicy sufficient to get me off,” Mac crows. In the meantime, Frank (Danny DeVito) spars with The Lawyer (Brian Unger) whereas Dee (Kaitlin Olson) tries a aspect gig in meals supply and Charlie (Charlie Day) channels The Bear together with his too-hot-to-handle delicacies. If solely somebody would say, “NO, Chef!”
Disney+
Miley Cyrus: One thing Stunning
The licensed “Disney Legend” brings her newest venture, a “visible album,” to Disney+ and Hulu, that includes 13 authentic songs. One thing Stunning is billed as a pop opera fueled by fantasy, which appears very on model for this pop princess.
INSIDE WEDNESDAY TV:
- Sullivan’s Crossing (8/7c, The CW): The grand opening of Rob’s (Reid Value) new restaurant is the setting for the Season 3 finale, with Cal (Chad Michael Murray) suspecting that Maggie (Morgan Kohan) misses her surgical profession greater than she’s telling everybody.
- MasterChef: Dynamic Duos (8/7c, Fox): It’s a culinary recreation of “Phone” when the groups are cut up up for a relay, with one chef starting the dish and the opposite, ready in a separate room, swapping locations halfway by the problem.
- Expedition Unknown (9/8c, Discovery): Josh Gates scours the swamps of South Carolina searching for feminine pirate Anne Bonny’s misplaced treasure.
- Tyler Perry’s Sistas (9/8c, BET): The ninth season of the dramedy opens with the women racing to the hospital within the wake of a citywide blackout after studying one thing’s unsuitable with Karen’s (Ebony Obsidian) being pregnant.
ON THE STREAM:
- Stick (streaming on Apple TV+): Is younger golf protégé Santi (Peter Dager) prepared for the professional leagues? He’ll discover out within the sports activities comedy’s penultimate episode when he enters an Invitational Event, ignoring all of the “zygote” cracks as Pryce (Owen Wilson) and the crew cheer him on. CBS Sports activities broadcaster Jim Nantz and former professional Trevor Immelman play themselves, calling the pictures.
- Outrageous (streaming on BritBox): The docudrama concerning the notorious Mitford sisters ends with a secret marriage, an engagement and an eventful household reunion.
- Amy Bradley Is Lacking (streaming on Netflix): A 3-part true-crime docuseries follows the cold-case investigation into the 1998 disappearance of 23-year-old Amy Bradley, who vanished throughout her household’s cruise-ship trip to the Caribbean.
- Countdown (streaming on Prime Video): The duty drive heads to the California desert to observe a brand new lead whereas Volchek (Bogdan Yasinski) places the following section of his lethal plan into movement.