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From GTL on the shore to a finale for JLo, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week
They’ve figured out a way to efficiently bypass L.A. traffic, travelled through outer space, done a tour of Europe and joined together political parties at a time of great partisanship, but this time the Sharknado does what no man (or shark, to our knowledge) has done before—it’s going back in time!
Fin ?(Ian Ziering), April (Tara Reid) and their trusted allies realize that the only way to put an end to this recurring nightmare ?is to travel back in time and prevent the first Sharknado from happening. From dinosaurs to Nazis, Fin and the sharks will encounter all sorts of historical figures, which—as always—includes cameos from stars who have become ?fans of the series. In the Old West, Dee Snider of Twisted Sister is the meanest sheriff in town. Darrell Hammond portrays George Washington, Leslie Jordan plays Benjamin Franklin and The Brady Bunch‘s Christopher Knight has a mystery cameo that should delight fans of both franchises. There is a nod to Ziering’s old stomping grounds, Beverly Hills 90210, with Tori Spelling appearing as Fin’s mother, while her real-life husband Dean McDermott is Fin’s father (Who knew?!). And Chris Owen from American Pie reunites with Reid. But one of the most joyous cameos for Mullen was Neil deGrasse Tyson as Merlin in Camelot.
Even the hottest, steamiest affairs can’t last forever. If they did, they would more appropriately be called marriages (and even then, there’s often a shelf life on them). That in mind, this week marks an important milestone in this critically acclaimed series as it not only comes to the close on its fourth season, but sets viewers up for its fifth and final season next year.
Showrunner and creator Sarah Treem confirmed as much to Variety recently when she revealed that creatively the show that revolves around a tumultuous tryst and the impact marital indiscretion has on others, often for years, is reaching the natural end of its storytelling arc. There’s basically one more turn of this wheel, she said. We would need one more season to basically bring these characters through an epic [moment] in their lives. To an end of an era, and then to release them into an era which we will not see on television. My feeling is just that the story isn’t quite over yet, but it also doesn’t have that far to go. We don’t yet know what the denouement will entail, but if we know TV (and we do), there’s going to be a moral to the story, and it’s going to hurt.
Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta’s much-publicized foray into the televised world of law enforcement comes to ?a close with this week’s series finale, capping the corrupt-cop drama after three seasons. In it, Harlee finally faces the police commission while Wozniak and the crew do their best to help her from the outside.
Back in the ’80s, video killed the radio star—a brutal crime for which video went unpunished. But while music videos remain on the lam, justice has caught up with their accomplice: music TV channels, which have been all but hobbled by the Internet, forced to pivot and revamp their programming with reality and scripted fare. Even so, MTV remembers its roots, and continues celebrating the hottest songs, artists and vids year in, year out. Leading ?the pack at the 2018 VMAs is? Cardi B: the rapper and new? mom has 10 nominations. ?Power couple Beyoncé and? Jay-Z aren’t to be left out, ?though—they’re right behind? with eight noms each, while? Drake and Childish Gambino? are tied with seven. The?trophies will be doled out to? some of the world’s best-?dressed and richest extroverts ?live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
One of the long-haired freaky people so despised by governments everywhere, Lennon and his counterculture views put him into the crosshairs of U.S. president Richard Nixon, who tried everything to get the NYC dweller deported.
If you’re a fan of international dramas, you’ll want to set a reminder for the release of this new Finnish series. It revolves around a female detective who, still reeling from a devastating loss in?her personal life, sets out to solve the murder of a woman with ties to a Helsinki construction company.
There was a time when the ?name Buzzfeed immediately brought to mind things like ?lists masquerading as articles, funny videos and countless quizzes about increasingly ridiculous topics. Indeed, some would argue that time is still ongoing, which may be a big reason behind Follow This, a new Netflix short-form documentary series that—during the course of 20 15-minute episodes?—will take viewers behind the veil, as it were, and give them a look at the journalists of Buzzfeed as they tackle various stories.
It doesn’t come as a huge surprise that the reintroduction of a group of GTL-loving partiers has revived ratings over at MTV, so it also doesn’t come as ?a shock that the show is already back for a second season. Also back? Original cast member Angelina Pivanick, a.k.a. the dirty little hamster who opted out of the original Jersey Shore following a slew of arguments in the second season. She returned to make peace with her former co-stars in the first season of Family Vacation, when she memorably had a bit of an accident involving ?a bowel movement in the backseat of a cab. (Here’s hoping for her sake that there won’t be a repeat this time around.)
Thankfully, it does seem like the reality star has learned her lesson, in more ways than one. I wanted to be part of that family, she told People magazine. All those years went by and I was watching them get closer and closer and closer—and I wasn’t a part of that. That really upset me…You’re going to have your disagreements with your family, of course, everything isn’t going to be all peaches and cream and rainbows all the time… I was supposed to be their family—whether they like it or not.
The Blumhouse production machine has been pumping out some truly great horror flicks lately, from Get Out and the Purge flicks ?to Hush and Unfriended. So it was really only a matter of time before it made the transition to television, as it does this week with the debut of a three-part Netflix offering.
Ghoul follows the story of a prisoner who arrives at a remote military interrogation centre but quickly turns the tables on his interrogators, setting forth a demonic? chain of events that exposes some of the centre’s darkest secrets. Not only does the jump to TV mark a first for Blumhouse, it’s also the first Indian horror series to be presented on the streamer. By the way, the word ghoul is of Arabic origin and refers to an evil spirit or phantom, especially one supposed to rob graves and feed on dead bodies. Yum.
When you start out watching a show featuring two star- crossed lovers escaping?the shackles of their lives and the meddling of their repressive families in order to explore their forbidden romance, it’s easy to imagine you’re in for a modern-day take on Romeo and Juliet. That is until the Juliet of the piece starts violently convulsing and turning into a bearded Norwegian man!
What sounds crazy and borderline comedic turns out to be a story so emotional and intriguing that turning away seems impossible. Sorcha Groundsell plays June?—a teenage girl who thinks she is suffering from epilepsy but who discovers she in fact a shape-shifter. While firmly committed to his own essential human nature, June’s boyfriend Harry, played by Percelle Ascott, is also struggling with his own concept of who he is, and the two decide to risk everything for a better life away from the meddling crowd. And that’s when things take a turn for the truly strange.
