Los Angeles Times

TV THIS WEEK

- By Matt Cooper 10 p.m. HBO 8 p.m. HBO A local hero (Joe Alwyn) comes home from the Iraq War in director Ang Lee’s 2016 drama With Vin Diesel, Chris Tucker and Kristen Stewart. 8 p.m. Starz

SUNDAY

A new installmen­t of “The Nineties” revisits such decade-defining events as the 1992 L.A. riots and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. 6 p.m. CNN

Discovery Channel launches its annual “Shark Week” with the special “Great White Serial Killer,” then immediatel­y proceeds to jump said shark with “Phelps vs. Shark,” in which Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps races against one of the fearsome ocean predators. 7 and 8 p.m. Discovery Channel

A teen (Sarah Grey) caught up in sex-tape scandal tries to put her life back together in the new TV movie “Story of a Girl.” “The Closer’s” Kyra Sedgwick directs, and her reallife husband Kevin Bacon also stars. 8 p.m. Lifetime

Dwayne Johnson is still calling the shots on the third-season premiere of “Ballers.” 10 p.m. HBO

Despite clearly being all that, our girl Issa (Issa Rae) is still a little “Insecure” as this quirky comedy returns for a sophomore season. 10:30 p.m. HBO MONDAY

The disappeara­nce of a Texas teen is probed in the premiere of the true-crime series “Gone.” 9 p.m. Investigat­ion Discovery

A psychic on the lam (Francois Arnaud) is not the only mysterious personage lurking about in the town of “Midnight, Texas” in this new supernatur­al drama. 10 p.m. NBC

Paula Patton (“Precious”) plays a TV news producer trapped “Somewhere Between” past, present and future in this new “Groundhog Day”-like mystery drama. 10 p.m. ABC; also Tue.

A new “POV” tells the tales of Holocaust survivors in the documentar­ies “Joe’s Violin” and “Shalom Italia.” 10 p.m. KOCE

Britain’s Prince William and Prince Harry open up about their shared loss in the documentar­y “Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy.” WEDNESDAY

Turner Classic Movies’ “50 Years of Hitchcock” celebratio­n, which ends Friday, continues and includes the director’s dizzying 1958 thriller “Vertigo” starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. 5 p.m. TCM

What’s black and white and migrates all over? Why, zebras, of course, and they’re up next on “Nature’s Great Race.” 9 p.m. KOCE

Aspiring hip-hop artists do whatever it takes to get “Signed” to a record deal in this new competitio­n series. 9 p.m. VH1

The spirited new reality series “So Sharp” follows coach Todd Sharp and his national-champion University of Louisville Ladybirds dance team. 10 p.m. Lifetime THURSDAY

“Community” creator Dan Harmon is back with a second season of the “Dungeons & Dragons”-inspired live-action/animated online comedy “HarmonQues­t.” Guest players this season include Patton Oswalt and “Community’s Gillian Jacobs. Any time, Seeso

Will they stick together, or is its Splitsvill­e? Find out on the season finale of the reality series “Married at

First Sight.” 8 p.m. Lifetime It’s like the 1970s all over again when “The Partridge Family’s” Danny Bonaduce and “The Brady Bunch’s” Barry Williams join the fray on “Battle of the Network Stars.” 9 p.m. ABC FRIDAY

The new four-part documentar­y series “Daughters of Destiny” follows five impoverish­ed young girls in India as the try to break free from the bonds of that country’s oppressive caste system. Any time, Netflix

A tale of Tinseltown: Kelsey Grammer, “White Collar’s” Matt Bomer and “To the Bone’s” Lily Collins star in “The Last Tycoon,” a new series based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished final novel. Any time, Amazon

“Daily Show” correspond­ent Jessica Williams plays a single gal lookin’ for love in the Big Apple in the 2017 indie comedy “The Incredible Jessica James.” Any time, Netflix

That Ol’ Man River, he just keeps rollin’ along in the 1951 film version of the classic American musical “Show Boat.” With Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner and Howard Keel. 8 p.m. KCET

What happens in “Room 104” stays in Room 104 of your basic budget motel in this new anthology series from “Togetherne­ss” cocreators and siblings Jay and Mark Duplass. 11:30 p.m. HBO SATURDAY

The period drama “Still Star-Crossed,” Shonda Rhimes’ sort-of sequel to Shakespear­e’s “Romeo and Juliet,” airs what is likely its last episode. 10 p.m. ABC

Danny Glover, Gabrielle Union and Mo’Nique don their gay apparel for the 2016 dysfunctio­nal-family holiday comedy “Almost Christmas.” “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”

 ?? MCA/Universal Home Video ?? JAMES STEWART stars in the 1958 Hitchcock thriller “Vertigo” on Turner Classic Movies.
MCA/Universal Home Video JAMES STEWART stars in the 1958 Hitchcock thriller “Vertigo” on Turner Classic Movies.

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