The first documentary series based on an article in GQ, the new “Last Chance U” (Netflix, streaming) concerns the undefeated East Mississippi Community College football team in tiny Scooba, Miss., where football players who have been having problems in other schools try their best to come back and be recruited by a Division I college team, if not the NFL outright.
It all revolves around the coach Buddy Stephens, flanked by the hard-working academic adviser Brittany Wagner.
Speaking to the TV Critics Association summer press tour on its first day Stephens said, “Getting them to play football is easy. I have the easy job. They all want to play football. None of them want to go to class…and that’s how Brittany has come in.”
and it’s a complete process that we go through. I have the easy job. She has it hard, and she deals with that more than I do.
Said Wagner, “I say to the guys all the time, ‘How many 45 year old men do you see playing football? None. So you better have a plan, because even if you do go on to the NFL, it’s going to end. At some point it’s going to end.”
Also new online is the film “Tallulah” (Netflix, streaming) starring Ellen Page as desperate young woman who tries to get some help from her ex boyfriend’s mother, played by her old “Juno” costar Allison Janney.
The conventions are over but there are still live shows around to talk about it, including “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” (Comedy Central, 11 p.m.) with Sen. Cory Booker as guest; “Real Time with Bill Maher” (HBO, 10 p.m.), with Bernie Sanders, Barney Frank, Alex Wagner, Matt Welch and Cornel West; “The Nightly Show” (Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m.) with guest Gary Johnson, the Libertarian party presidential candidate.
Still going on nightly, though, is “Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle” (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.) which is similar to what the campaign season will sound like. Anthony Jeselnik and Whoopi Goldberg are guest judges.
A 10-year-old girl with political aspirations gets to meet Michelle Obama on a new “All In with Cam Newton” (Nickelodeon).
A new “20/20” (ABC, 10 p.m.) looks at the case of a man arrested for the death of one wife and who had two other missing wives, that was also reported in today’s USA Today.
Weird Victorian food is the challenge on the quarterfinals of “The Great British Baking Show” (PBS, 9 p.m.).
The challenge on “The Rap Game” (Lifetime, 10 p.m.) is to rhyme about hometowns. But one of them struggles, perhaps because she can’t think of what to rhyme with Staten Island.
Rev. Anderson feels increasingly alienated on “Outcast” (Cinemax, 10 p.m.).
The Dancing Dolls compete on “Bring It!” (Lifetime, 9 p.m.).
On “Killjoys” (Syfy, 8 p.m.), Johnny escorts Pawter home from a weird family reunion.
“The Real Housewives of Melbourne” (Bravo, 9 p.m.) go shopping for wedding gifts.
The Android helps the Raza crew track down a foe on “Dark Matter” (Syfy, 9 p.m.).
The month-long salute to the 100th birthday of Olivia DeHavilland concludes with her roles in “The Fifth Musketeer” (8 p.m.), “The Swarm” (10 p.m.), “Light in the Piazza” (12:15 a.m.), “Libel” (2:15 a.m.) and “The Male Animal” (4 a.m.).
Baseball includes Seattle at Cubs (MLB, 2 p.m.), Kansas City at Texas (MLB, 8 p.m.) and Washington at San Francisco (11 p.m.).
Two baseball exhibitions U.S. Women vs. Canada (NBA, 7 p.m.) from from Bridgeport, Conn., and USA men vs. Venezuela (NBA, 9 p.m.) from Chicago.
In Canadian football, it’s British Columbia at Calgary (ESPN2, 10 p.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly Ripa: Margot Robbie, Ato Essandoh, Jerry O’Connell. The View: Marisa Tomei. The Talk: Keegan-Michael Key, Michiel Hulsman. Chelsea Handler: The Go-Go’s Mary Roach, Tatiana Maslany. Ellen DeGeneres: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell (rerun). Wendy Williams: Vanna White, Jacques Torres (rerun). The Real: Taj Jackson, Taryll Jackson, TJ Jackson (rerun). Meredith Vieira: Savannah Guthrie (Rerun).
Late Talk
Jimmy Kimmel: Kristen Bell, Dave Franco, Domo Genesis with Anderson Paak (rerun). Jimmy Fallon: Margot Robbie, Nick Cannon, Martha Stewart. Seth Meyers: Leslie Jones, Carlo Mirarchi, Atom Willard (rerun). James Corden: Kate Beckinsdale, Bill Hader, Catfish & the Bottlemen (rerum). Carson Daly: Jonah Ray, White Mystery, Jay Roach (rerun). Tavis Smiley: Lynn Scarlett, Sam Polk. Trevor Noah: Sen. Cory Booker. Larry Wilmore: Gary Johnson.