Shark Week Begins, Return to Walking Dead’s ‘Dead City,’ A New ‘Airbender,’ More ‘Dragon’ Intrigue

K-Pop Shark Heroes

SUNDAY: Just once you thought it was protected to surf the waves of summer time TV … Discovery Channel revives its most well-known (or probably notorious) franchise, Shark Week, for its thirty eighth annual deep dive into the mystique and menace of the watery predators. Kicking issues off is comic/actor/Masked Singer panelist Ken Jeong, returning to his ancestral homeland of South Korea for a K-Pop Shark Heroes particular, utilizing Ok-Pop (courtesy of singer/rapper Rei Ami) to demystify the creatures prowling the East Asian waters. They’ve even provide you with an “Om-a-Nom (Shark Week)” theme track. Opening evening continues with the most recent Air Jaws installment (9/8c), subtitled Red, White and Breach, as filmmakers discover an upsurge in nice white sharks breaching in California. Last however not least, Invasion of the Mega Sharks (10/9c) travels to Nova Scotia seeking “Big Rose,” a mammoth nice white rumored to be stalking the North Atlantic.

The Walking Dead: Dead City

SUNDAY: “Choose the fight or choose the light.” That’s the philosophy of Renata (Aimee Garcia), a hopeful newcomer to the Walking Dead world who urges longtime hero Maggie (Lauren Cohan) to put apart her anger and assist construct a brand new metropolis in zombie-ridden New York City. The third season of the Dead spinoff as soon as once more asks us to imagine Maggie would resolve her “differences” with reformed arch-villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who brutally murdered her husband and father of Hershel (Logan Kim), and change into allies of their struggle towards the evil Dama (Lisa Emery) and the authoritarian New Babylon troops battling for management of town. The Season 3 opener additionally introduces Raúl Castillo as Renata’s physician brother Luis and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld) as Dillard, a wry bartender who’s by some means saved his spirits up by these darkish instances.

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender

SATURDAY: Avatar Aang (voiced by Eric Nam) is now a younger grownup because the animated Last Airbender fantasy franchise returns in a lavish new movie that picks up 13 years after the Hundred-Year War ended with the defeat of the Fire Lord. Turns out Aang has firm when he discovers an historical airbender, Tagah (Dave Bautista), frozen in ice, and collectively they seek for a relic that might restore their misplaced tradition. But first, they’ll want to tackle a insurgent group calling themselves The Denied, who search the ability this mysterious workers might bestow.

House of the Dragon

SUNDAY: All is just not properly in King’s Landing — so what else is new — because the Game of Thrones prequel assesses the most recent chess strikes within the battle between Queen Rhaenyra’s (Emma D’Arcy) Blacks and the Greens supporting the nonetheless MIA King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) and his line of succession. While warrior Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) makes his final stand on the battlefield, the royals proceed to stew of their separate retains. “My patience has its bounds,” laments Rhaenyra as Ormund Hightower (James Norton) plots treachery from throughout the market city of Tumbleton. We understand how she feels.

Grantchester

SUNDAY: With just one extra episode remaining within the beloved British Masterpiece thriller collection, disillusioned vicar Alphy Kottaram (Rishi Nair) is busy making amends to his nearest and dearest, and it’s not a second too quickly. His record consists of lately promoted Detective Inspector pal Geordie Keating (Robson Green), who’s in his closing days of fieldwork. His final case hits dwelling when his spouse Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth) and Mrs. C (Tessa Peake-Jones) are taken hostage of their boutique by armed robbers.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• Christmas in July! (Saturday, 1 pm/12c, Movies!): Ho-ho-ho and go the sunscreen! Fans of vacation classics can snuggle up to a daylong marathon of yuletide treats, beginning with 1971’s Oscar-winning animated quick A Christmas Carol, adopted by two extra diversifications of the Dickens favourite: 1979’s Depression-era An American Christmas Carol (1:30/12:30c), starring Henry Winkler because the Scrooge-like Benedict Slade, and Albert Finney within the 1970 musical Scrooge (3:35/2:35c). Angela Lansbury stars within the 1996 made-for-TV musical Mrs. Santa Claus (6/5c) with an unique Jerry Herman rating, and TV’s favourite blended household gathers for 1988’s A Very Brady Christmas (8/7c).
• Love Under the Mistletoe (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): The vacation vibes proceed in a romance between a small-town workaholic inside designer (Jen Lilley) and the big-city monetary advisor and former highschool crush (Nick Bateman) who comes dwelling to promote his grandmother’s historic dwelling.
• Girl in the Coffin (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): A grisly ordeal awaits Jasmine (Tahirah Sharif), who discovers too late that the kindly however obsessively smitten funeral director (Downton Abbey‘s Robert James-Collier) who helped bury her mother wasn’t kidding when he stated he needed to maintain her shut.
• WNBA All-Star Game (Saturday, 8:30 pm/ET, ABC): Marking the league’s thirtieth anniversary, groups of star gamers face off at Chicago’s United Center.
• Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash (Sunday, 6 am/5c, MeTV Toons): The rascally animated icon is popping 86 and celebrating with a 24-hour marathon of animated shorts and specials.
• The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (Sunday, 8/7c, CNN): Jake Tapper reviews “Ben Sasse Is Going Home: Lessons of Life and Death,” interviewing the previous Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse and his spouse Melissa as they confront the politician’s mortality whereas he contends with a terminal most cancers prognosis at age 54.
• Patience (Sunday, 8/7c, PBS): The crew investigates the puzzling homicide of a monk in a monastery, and this publicity to a religion group evokes Patience (Ella Maisy Purvis) to comply with her coronary heart — however first she’s being requested to go outdoors her consolation zone and converse in public.
• The Great Food Truck Race (Sunday, 9/8c, Food Network): The nineteenth season opens in Nashville, with eight vehicles specializing in candy or savory treats competing for $50,000. The first problem includes promoting music-inspired dishes and trying to find Nashville-inspired components in a honky-tonk style problem.
• The Westies (Sunday, 9/8c, MGM+): West Side mob boss Eamon Sweeney (J.K. Simmons) argues with deputy Jimmy Roarke (Tom Brittney) over the cocaine commerce, unaware that John Gotti (Hamish Allan-Headley) has put a goal on his again.
• President Curtis (Sunday, 11:30/10:30c, Adult Swim): The animated Rick and Morty spinoff options Keith David voicing the title function of President Andre Curtis, whose wacky crises are out of this world.