WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK
NEW ON DVD
“Onward”: Pixar’s new animated adventure finds two teenage elf brothers embarking on a quest to see if there is still some magic left in the world. With voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer. Rotten Tomatoes: 88% fresh.
“The Way Back”: Ben Affleck plays an alcoholic former high school basketball star who takes a coaching job at his alma mater. Rotten Tomatoes: 84% fresh.
“Emma”: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn and Josh O’Connor star in this comedydrama, based on Jane Austen’s 1815 novel, about a young woman who interferes in the love lives of her friends. Rotten Tomatoes: 86% fresh.
“Sonic the Hedgehog”: Sonic, mercifully redesigned after the outrage over the trailer, comes to Earth only to be chased by the government after causing a massive power outage. Rotten Tomatoes: 64% fresh.
“Brahms: The Boy II”: Sequel to 2016 horror film “The Boy” follows the story of a young boy and the porcelain doll that’s part of a dark, haunted history. With Katie Holmes. Rotten Tomatoes: 10% fresh.
NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
Steve Earle & the Dukes, “Ghosts of West Virginia”: The alt-country legend’s 20th studio album explores the historical role of coal in rural communities and centers on the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion that killed 29 men in that state in 2010.
Indigo Girls, “Look Long”: For their 16th album, the Georgia folk-rock duo worked again with John Reynolds, who produced their 1999 album, “Come on Now Social.” Emily Saliers said of their attitude going in, “We’re still a bar band at heart.”
The 1975, “Notes on a Conditional Form”: Singer Matthew Healy told BBC Radio 1 that the British band’s fourth album, a 22-song collection, was inspired by British nighttime culture.
The Airborne Toxic Event, “Hollywood
Park”: First album in five years from the LA alt-rock band arrives alongside a new literary work of the same name by frontman Mikel Jollett, who chronicles an early childhood and upbringing of poverty and emotional abuse before finding his voice.
WHAT’S ON TV
“Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything” (now, Netflix): New special from the Emmy- and Grammy-winning comedian has him embracing his 50s, including an anecdote about how attending his daughter’s second grade art show cost him the chance to board a fullscale Millennium Falcon.
“Celebrity Escape Room” (8 p.m. Thursday, WPXI): Kicking off a full night of programming devoted to Red Nose Day, an annual fundraising event to end child poverty, this new one-hour special taps into a current pop culture party phenomenon, in which a group of people work together to successfully
escape from a locked room. Host Jack Black “traps” guests Ben Stiller, Adam Scott and former “Friends” co-stars Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow in a series of surprising puzzle rooms. Immediately following, the two-hour “Red Nose Day Special” features an all-star cast doing their bit for the cause.
“Burden of Truth” (8 p.m. Thursday, WPCW): Season 3 of this legal drama, which opens a year after the events of Season 2, finds Joanna Chang (Kristin Kreuk) and Billy Crawford (Peter Mooney) working together at Crawford Chang, their boutique law firm.
“Holey Moley” (9 p.m. Thursday, WTAE): Joe Tessitore and professional wise guy Rob Riggle return as the on-camera commentators, with Jeannie Mai acting as the sideline correspondent, as this delightful minigolf competition series — one of last season’s most improbable reality show hits — returns for Season 2.
“Labor of Love” (9 p.m. Thursday, WPGH): As a contestant on Season 11 of “The Bachelor,” Kristy Katzmann didn’t succeed in finding a true love match, but she’s hoping for better luck as the female in the spotlight of this new relationship series, hosted by former
“Sex and the City” star Kristin Davis.
“To Tell the Truth” (10 p.m. Thursday, WTAE): Host Anthony Anderson (“black-ish”) returns for the Season 5 premiere of this witty reimagining of a vintage game show from the golden age of television.
“The Lovebirds” (Friday, Netflix): Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani play a couple experiencing a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery.
“AKA Jane Roe” (9 p.m. Friday, FX): FX Networks’ first documentary feature profiles Norma McCorvey, the defendant in the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case in 1973.
“Naked and Afraid XL” (8 p.m. Sunday, DSC): Contestants on this harrowing reality competition series never have had an easy time of it, but the 12 new survivalists introduced in the two-hour season premiere will confront unprecedented challenges during their 40 days on the scorching savannah of South Africa.
“sMothered” (10 p.m. Sunday, TLC): Two new mother-and-daughter pairings are introduced as this hit reality series opens Season 2 with a premiere called “What Mom Wants, Mom Gets.”