What to watch
WEDNESDAY
June 29, 2022
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
Baymax!
Disney+ ■ New Series
Baymax, the beloved character from the Oscar-winning 2014 computer-animated feature-film hit Big Hero 6, stars in his own series. In each of the six episodes, the affable and inflatable healthcare companion robot sets out to do what he was programmed to do: help others, even if they don’t necessarily want to be helped. All episodes are available today.
Beauty
Netflix ■ Feature Film Exclusive
In this 1980s-set drama written and coproduced by Lena Waithe (The Chi), a gifted young Black woman (Gracie Marie Bradley) struggles to maintain her voice and identity after she’s offered a lucrative recording contract, setting off a fierce battle between her family, label and closet friend to determine who will guide her on her journey toward stardom. Beauty made its premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and also stars Niecy Nash, Giancarlo Esposito and Sharon Stone.
All Star Shore
Paramount+ New Series
Described as a “party competition series,” All Star Shore brings 14 of the world’s biggest reality superstars — from Jersey Shore, Love Is Blind, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bachelor in Paradise, Geordie Shore, Love Island, Rio Shore and more — together for an epic vacation at a shore house in the Canary Islands. There they engage in a series of epic party-style challenges, like Party Pong and Shots and Found, for a cash prize and global bragging rights.
The Flash
The CW, 7 p.m. ■ Season Finale
After a yearlong race to cure wife Iris’ (Candice Patton) time sickness and the tragic loss of villain-turned-ally Frost (Danielle Panabaker), surely things can’t get worse for speedy superhero Barry (Grant Gustin), right? Oh, just wait.
Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution
A&E, 8 p.m.
This interview-packed two-nighter traces the history of boundary-pushing Black comedians, from Foxx and Pryor to Haddish and Key & Peele.
Bargain Block
HGTV, 8 p.m.
In “Zen and Dollhouse,” a Japanese Zen bungalow gone awry and a decrepit dollhouse duplex have Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas scrambling to keep their budgets from flying sky-high.
More Power
History, 9 p.m. ■ New Series
Home Improvement co-stars Tim Allen and Richard Karn are back together as co-hosts, along with DIY YouTube star April Wilkerson, of this half-hour nonfiction series that celebrates the evolution of the coolest and most iconic tools, from the handheld and basic to the industrial and mighty. The series kicks off with two back-to-back episodes: “Power Under Pressure,” in which the team gets into the driver’s seat of a fleet of heavy machinery at Bobcat; and “Blades,” which features a home-milling machine being made in Tim’s workshop before the trio hits the road to check out massive industrial blades.