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From Netflix premieres to reality's first family to Emmy-winning fixers, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week
Settle in for some good old-fashioned Kardashian antics as the family returns for season 14. This year follows Kim as she re-enters public life following a self-imposed hiatus, as well as Khloé, whose relationship with pro hoopster Tristan Thompson grows more serious.
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call? No, not them. Care to try again? Never mind: the answer is Adam Scott and Craig Robinson, who are both stars and executive producers of Fox’s Sunday night supernatural comedy, Ghosted. And before you ask, no, they’re not trying to steal Ghostbusters‘ thunder, although they freely admit that they’re fans of that particular franchise. I think we take some inspiration from how great Ghostbusters is and how they are able to balance the paranormal with the comedy and grounded world that it all takes place in, said Scott, during the series’ panel at this summer’s Television Critics Association press tour. But as far as measuring ourselves towards it, we would never even consider doing that.
Ghosted revolves around Max Jennifer (Scott), who not only believes in the paranormal but is convinced that his wife was abducted by aliens, while Leroy Right (Robinson) is a former missing persons detective who serves as the skeptic to Max’s true believer. As far as what to expect from the series, Scott used the Robert De Niro/Charles Grodin film Midnight Run as a major source of inspiration for the relationship between Scott and Robinson. That relationship in that movie was hilarious to be sure, said Scott, but it also had its moments of out-and-out drama or even moments where it was really moving. I think, from the beginning, we were all kind of hoping that Ghosted, at its best, ideally, would be the baby of something like Midnight Run and Stranger Things.
Six years after fans said a reluctant goodbye to curmudgeon Larry David and his group of colourful friends, the comedian who brought us Seinfeld returns with a ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It’s a different world than the one we left off in, but Larry—and his desire to share his brutally honest opinions—appears to have stayed the same.
Despite the fact that Family Guy has picked up a few Emmys over the course of its 15 seasons, Peter Griffin is still feeling snubbed. And so it’s a lucky break that in tonight’s season 16 premiere, the Griffin patriarch bumps into Emmy-magnet comedian Louis C.K. (voicing himself) and takes the opportunity to get some advice on how his show can earn the favour of the Academy. The result is a series of crude, raunchy riffs on such Emmy faves as Breaking Bad and Modern Family, complete with cameos from Modern Family stars Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell and Sofía Vergara, as well as HBO late-night funnyman Bill Maher.
Other guest voices to look forward to this season include Kristen Bell as a love interest for Brian, Sir Ian McKellen as Stewie’s psychologist and Ryan Reynolds, presumably once again voicing a comically unhinged version of himself.
A Peabody Award winner and Grammy nominee, this HBO production chronicles the life and times of music legend James Brown. Co-produced by Mick Jagger, the film explores Brown’s impoverished childhood as well as his career highs, beginning with his 1956 single Please, Please, Please.
While Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm returns to HBO Canada this week after a six-year hiatus, the Seinfeld co-creator is also featured in Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series that shakes the family trees of various celebrities to see what falls loose. Also featured in the season premiere of Finding Your Roots is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, whom David hilariously portrayed last season on SNL—only to find out in this show that they’re related. We traced all the lines and everything, and they told me later on that Bernie Sanders was part of that line somehow, somewhere, explained David during an appearance at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Probably some distant cousin. I don’t know. Maybe a third cousin or something, he added, revealing that his participation in Finding Your Roots also brought about the revelation that his forebears had owned slaves—which would actually make for a great plot on Curb!
The Heck family kicks off their final season on ABC, but with Frankie, Mike, Axl, Sue and Brick knowing the end is nigh, expect the show to go out with a bang.
As the multitude of Confederate flags and swastikas displayed by white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville demonstrated, race continues to be a sticky issue in America, a nation that was built—quite literally—with slavery.
And while the well-documented struggles of the Civil Rights Movement may be a half-century in the past, racism remains alive and well, and few TV series have made such pointedly hilarious observations about this hot-button issue as black-ish.
Returning for its fourth season, black-ish kicks things off with a special episode that offers a musical homage to Broadway sensation Hamilton, opening discussion of a little-known celebration known as Juneteenth, a.k.a. June 19, a.k.a. the date in 1865 when slavery was abolished in the U.S.
Speaking from the set of black-ish in early August, series creator Kenya Barris explained that the genesis of the idea came when his son returned home from school to inform him that famed explorer Christopher Columbus never set foot in North America—despite the fact that most Americans credit him for discovering the continent, and celebrate him each October on Columbus Day.
I was like, why are we having a holiday for this? said Barris, who began wondering why Juneteenth wasn’t celebrated in the same way as July 4, 1776, when the United States of America declared independence from Britain. How is that Independence Day if everyone wasn’t free? he asks. Like, shouldn’t the real Independence Day in America be the day that every American was actually free?
The idea behind this episode, said Barris, is to make America embrace America, embrace who we are—the good, the bad and the ugly. We’re all a part of what this country is… when you guys see this, I think you’re going to be blown away.
Ever since Kerry Washington proved to the world that it was OK to eat popcorn for dinner while dangerously drinking red wine in a white pantsuit, people have been handling problems in the most awesome ways possible. In fact, Olivia Pope has become such an iconic TV character that it’s almost hard to believe she’s about to go off the air for good. But it’s true, this seventh season of the political (and oftentimes romantic) drama also marks the final run in the show’s history, as creator Shonda Rhimes has decided it’s time to wind down the action on these iconic characters. Considering some of the twists and turns we’ve experienced over the years, there are definitely those who feel it’s about time, but then again the concluding episode of season six finally delivered the ultimate goal: making Olivia the most powerful person in the world after Mellie (Bellamy Young) named her as the new White House Chief of Staff. Of course, with the resurrection of B613 and former president Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn) realizing just how dangerous Liv has become we’re sure she’ll have lots of obstacles before fully realizing that position. As the show returns this week, the premiere explores the first 100 days of Mellie’s presidency in an episode that Rhimes wrote herself, hoping to mirror some of the real-world issues going on in America today. In that way, you could argue that the show has come full circle for Rhimes as a sounding board for her own personal feelings. As for Olivia Pope? Well, let’s just hope that all of this newfound power doesn’t mean she actually turns into her worst nightmare: her father Eli (Joe Morton).
Ribald comedian Chelsea Handler brings her trademark combination of politics and punchlines back to Netflix. Weekly episodes of the show feature celebrity sit-downs and explore everything from her irreverent take on news of the day to her disdain for US President Donald Trump.
