TV Top Picks This Week
Don’t Miss: Shark Week — It’s again time to sink our teeth into the fin-tastic summer programming event that brings us face-to-face with those fearsome creatures of the deep. The schedule will run for eight nights with host Eli Roth capping off each evening with his late-night talk show, “Shark After Dark.” But the real, over-the-top draw figures to be “Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White.” It’s a special that pits Olympic swimming champ Michael Phelps in a race against the ocean’s most efficient predator. Really. No joke. Here’s hoping Phelps doesn’t become chum. 8 p.m. Sunday, Discovery Channel.
Other bets:
Sunday: In its freshman season, “Insecure” established itself as one of prime time’s best comedies. As Season 2 begins, Issa (Issa Rae) is trying her best to embrace the post-breakup single life, but, of course, there are bumps along the way. 10:30 p.m., HBO.
Monday: “Somewhere Between” is a new suspense thriller that follows a San Francisco TV news producer (Paula Patton) helping police hunt down a serial killer. After the suspect strikes close to home, a twist of fate allows her to go back in time one week before the murder. Can she prevent the tragedy from happening?
10 p.m., ABC.
Monday: “People of Earth,” the twisted comedy about a group of alien abductees, returns for its second season. We have no idea what’s about to go down in the little town of Beacon, N.Y., but we expect it to make us laugh.
10:30 p.m., TBS.
Tuesday: Things are getting pretty brutal on “World of Dance,” where The Cut round continues. Ballerina Misty Copeland drops by to serve as a guest judge. 10 p.m., NBC. mystery-box challenge in which they randomly select a different body part of a cow and use it as the main ingredient of a dish. 8 p.m., Fox.
Thursday: Things get crazier by the week on “Zoo.” Tonight, Jamie manipulates Mitch and Logan into helping her hunt “shepherds” — members of a secretive group responsible for sterilizing humans.
10 p.m., CBS.
Friday: “Room 104” is a new scripted anthology series from brothers Mark and Jay Duplass that tells the tales of the offbeat characters who pass through a single room of a typical American chain motel. Let’s just hope Norman Bates isn’t involved.
11:30 p.m., HBO.
Saturday: In the finale of “Still Star-Crossed,” a “shocking discovery” is revealed. But it’s probably not shocking enough to win this lowrated sequel to “Romeo and Juliet” another season. 10 p.m., ABC.