Again within the Saddle with Joe Pickett, Time Loops in ‘Lazarus Venture,’ HBO’s ‘Idol,’ TLC Endlessly

Joe Pickett

SUNDAY: In the event you’re mourning the demise of ABC’s Big Sky, or are nonetheless pining for extra TV on the strains of Longmire, take coronary heart. A second season of the terrific sequence adaptation of C.J. Box’s best-selling thriller thrillers has lastly arrived. (Initially a Spectrum Originals unique, it has since moved to the Paramount streamer—and in one other world may have been an enormous hit for a community like CBS.) As soon as once more utilizing Canadian places to move for Wyoming, Joe Pickett stars For All Mankind’s pitch-perfect Michael Dorman because the title recreation warden, a household man of innate decency who guards towards his interior reservoir of violent anger, at all times in peril of being triggered by the corruption in his midst. With lawyer spouse Marybeth (Julianna Guill, great) nonetheless therapeutic from the assault that ended the gripping first season (out there for binge-watching), they stumble throughout a possible serial killer within the new season, launching with two episodes.

SUNDAY: If we may flip again time … seems we will. That’s the premise of this intriguing British sci-fi thriller from Sky Studios, starring I May Destroy You’s Paapa Essiedu as George, an on a regular basis app developer within the U.Okay. who all of the sudden turns into conscious that he’s residing the final six months over. And over. What explains this Groundhog Day phenomenon? The Lazarus Project, in fact, “a top-secret multinational group devoted to stopping and undoing mass extinction occasions,” George learns in an exposition dump. As a result of he’s one of many uncommon people who has detected these manufactured time loops, George is recruited into the save-the-world group. However when tragedy alters his personal private timeline, will George use Lazarus for his personal functions?

SUNDAY: Met with a lower than euphoric response when screened on the Cannes Movie Competition, the place one reviewer likened it to a “sordid male fantasy,” The Idol is the uncommon HBO present premiering with out stateside critics getting an advance look. Make of that what you’ll, however know that Euphoria creator Sam Levinson is reveling within the advance buzz for the immediately controversial show-biz story of pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), whose comeback after a breakdown is engineered by sexually manipulative impresario Tedros (Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye).

SATURDAY: The story of the R&B woman group comprised of Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas and the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes has sufficient drama and heartbreak for a film—and in reality, Lifetime will current the 2013 CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story biopic (first seen on VH1) at 5:30 pm/4:30c earlier than premiering a brand new two-and-a-half-hour documentary. TLC Forever follows the group’s rise to fame and acclaim and the perseverance required to hold on after “Left Eye’s” premature dying in 2002 in a automobile crash.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• Act Your Age (Saturday, 8/7c and eight:30/7:30c, Bounce): With back-to-back episodes launching the second half of the primary season, Age places the highlight on three timeless comedy stars—Kym Whitley, Tisha Campbell and Yvette Nicole Brown—in a sitcom about ladies of their 50s within the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia space who’re determining their subsequent strikes.
• Wedding Season (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Meet cute alert! Stephanie Bennett is a journalist who’s doing triple obligation as bridesmaid to her three finest associates—however possibly a visit down the aisle is in her personal future when her bestie’s brother (Casey Deidrick) turns into her substitute date.
• 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c, CBS): Agatha Christie would love this one. In “The Case of the Poisoned Cheesecake,” Peter Van Sant stories on the 2016 tried homicide of a Queens, N.Y. stylist whose Russian shopper tries to poison her with tainted cheesecake. Their uncanny resemblance to one another might be the clue to a motive.
• 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days (Sunday, 8/7c, TLC): Meet seven new {couples}—and one returning (Gino and Jasmine)—as they determine if there’s a romantic future for them as soon as they cross worldwide borders to start out their lives collectively.
• Battle on the Beach (Sunday, 9/8c, HGTV): The third season of the beachfront dwelling renovation competitors finds mentor Ty Pennington hoping for a primary group win over earlier champs Taniya Nayak and Alison Victoria. After a kick-off problem deciding which home every group will sort out, they go to work on kitchen and eating room makeovers that make it value coming in from the water in Golf Shores, Alabama.
• The Eric Andre Show (Sunday, midnight/11c, Grownup Swim): The raucous spoof of late-night speak interspersed with elaborate pranks is again for a sixth season of outrageous hijinks, with visitors this season together with Jon Hamm, Natasha Lyonne, Raven-Symoné and Tinashe.