Saturday TV: Meerkat Descendants Return
“Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty” (BBC America, 8 p.m.) has a pedigree with the original true nature from South Africa’s Kalahari Desert that ran from 2005-08. Its star is…
Also on Friday: Antler Boy in ‘Sweet Tooth’
A new series adapted from a DC comic series, “Sweet Tooth” (Netflix, streaming) concerns a future where kids are half human, half animal and are feared because they might cause…
Thursday TV: Bright ‘We Are Lady Parts’
The delightful new “We Are Lady Parts” (Peacock, streaming) is a six-episode comedy from London about a Muslim female punk band and the very shy woman they want to enlist…
Wednesday: The Pandemic 40 Years Ago
The scourge from two generations back gets the spotlight in the two hour documentary “Vice Versa: The Neglected Pandemic, 40 Years of HIV & AIDS” (Vice, 9 p.m.), hosted by…
Tuesday TV: ‘The Jihadist’ on ‘Frontline’
A new “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) profiles a former al-Quaida commander who now wants to help the West. The 16th season begins for “America’s Got Talent” (NBC,…
Monday TV: New Cartoon is ‘HouseBroken’
Fox has so many animated shows on Sunday, they’ve spilled to Monday with the new “HouseBroken” (Fox, 9 p.m.), a show about pets which seems to have a lot of…
Sunday TV: Remembering Tulsa’s Horrors
It’s testament to faulty education — and a concentrated effort to bury it — that so many people weren’t aware of the 1921 massacre of a successful black neighborhood in…
Friday TV: Paying More to Stay Home
“Cruella” (Disney +, streaming), the seemingly unnecessary prequel story of Ms. De Vil, starring Emma Stone, is supposed to be one of the first big blockbusters as movie theaters reopen.…
Also on Thursday: New Look for ‘Rugrats’
The beloved old Nickelodeon cartoon “Rugrats” (Paramount+, streaming) is revived, except this time they’re in weird computer-generated forms. A lot of the voice cast is the same, though, from E.G.…
Wednesday: ‘Crime Scene Kitchen’ Debut
Summertime beckons and with it comes game shows and weird hybrids like “Crime Scene Kitchen” (Fox, 9 p.m.) in which competing bakers must also decode what kind of dessert was…