IN THE SPOTLIGHT
New this Week: ‘This Is Us,’ RuPaul album, ‘The Tender Bar’
MOVIES
— Ben Affleck has another winning turn in “The Tender Bar,” the George Clooney-directed adaptation of J.R. Moehringer’s memoir about growing up on Long Island that starts streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, Jan. 7.
— If you’ve already made it through Season 2 of “Emily in Paris” and all your romantic comedy mainstays on Netflix, why not change things up a little bit with an Italian spin on the genre, “Four to Dinner,” coming to the streamer on Wednesday, Jan. 5? Four single friends try different pairing combinations in this new flick starring Matteo Martari, Matilde Gioli, Giuseppe Maggio, Ilenia Pastorelli, Luís Filipe Eusébio and Elmano Sancho.
— The Criterion Channel has a series of documentaries from Lee Grant (yes, the actor Lee Grant) available starting on Monday, Jan. 3. In 1986’s “Down and Out in America,” which won an Oscar, she focuses on poverty in the 1980s. In “What Sex Am I,” from 1985, she looks at the transgender experience. And in “A Father … A Son … Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” she focuses in on the lives of Kirk and Michael Douglas.
MUSIC
— RuPaul is an all around entertainer with a flourishing VH1 reality competition series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and a longtime music career that includes the classic song “Supermodel (You Better Work).” Now, the drag queen titan will take another musical step further with the performer’s 14th studio album “Mamaru,” out Friday. It’s led by the single “Blame It On the Edit,” which appears to explore the editing process of the “Drag Race” series.
— The Wombats pushed the release of their forthcoming album “Fix Yourself, Not the World,” but the English rock band will give a sneak peak of the album a week early in an intimate tour. The band will kick off the tour in Kingston Upon Thames in the United Kingdom on Jan. 6. The band will make seven other stops before ending the tour in Brighton on Jan. 12 — two days before the release of their fifth album.
TELEVISION
— The stage is set for the sixth and final season of NBC’s “This Is Us.” The series returns Tuesday (9 p.m.) for the 18-episode last chapter.
— A father-daughter relationship is the beating heart of CBS’ “Good Sam,” debuting 10 p.m. Wednesday.
— A wrenching chapter in U.S. civil rights history is the focus of two ABC programs. “Women of the Movement” dramatizes Mamie Till-Mobley’s crusade for justice for her 14-year-old son Emmett’s 1955 racially motivated Mississippi killing. The limited series, starring 2021 Tony Award-winner Adrienne Warren as Till-Mobley, will air from 8-10 p.m. on three consecutive Thursdays starting this week. It’s paired with “Let the World See,” an ABC News docuseries that includes a detailed account of Till-Mobley’s effort to bring her son’s body home to Chicago and hold an open-casket funeral to expose the brutality of his death. The three-episode “Let the World See” will follow “Women of the Movement” each Thursday at 10:01 p.m.