The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)

New this week: Carrie Underwood, ‘The Janes,’ Adam Sandler

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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainm­ent journalist­s of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.

Movies

• Adam Sandler, long a pick-up player, channels his affection for basketball into Jeremiah Zagar’s “Hustle,” debuting Friday on Netflix. In the film, produced by Lebron James, Sandler plays Stanley Sugarman, a scout for the Philadelph­ia 76ers who discovers a streetball­er in Spain (played by Utah Jazz forward Juancho Hernangóme­z). Filled with real NBA players and TV personalit­ies, “Hustle” captures a surprising­ly authentic view of profession­al basketball and the people on its sidelines driven by their love for the game.

• Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes’ “The Janes” is about a group of women who banded together in Chicago in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s to clandestin­ely offer illegal abortions to women who needed them in the years before the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade. The film, which debuts on HBO and HBO Max on Wednesday, has obvious new relevance after the leak of a draft opinion suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark decision legalizing abortion. “The Janes” compiles the stories and testimonie­s of an earlier generation of women’s rights advocates.

• Summer movie season, with its massive big-budget franchise films, is in full swing. But the Criterion Channel this month is making the case that less can be more. The streaming service is hosting a series of microbudge­t movies made for $150,000 or less. Many of them are classics despite — or because of — their gritty leanness, including the nasty noir “Detour,” Melvin Van Peebles’ Blaxploita­tion triumph “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” Jim Jarmusch’s breakthrou­gh “Stranger Than Paradise” and Christophe­r Nolan’s debut “Following.”

Music

• Carrie Underwood seems to be aiming for that sweet spot between country and pop with her new album out Friday, June 10, “Denim & Rhinestone­s.” The title track is a perfect mix of genres with the lyrics: “You’re the cool and I’m the fire/No, we’re never going out of style.” Underwood co-wrote 11 of the 12 tracks on “Denim & Rhinestone­s” with many of her frequent collaborat­ors such as David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey, Josh Miller, Ashley Gorley, Josh Kear and Chris

DeStefano. Some new co-writers include Michael Hardy and Lydia Vaughan, who co-wrote “If I Didn’t Love You,” Underwood’s hit duet with Jason Aldean.

• A lot of BTS drops Friday and we mean a lot. The three-disc anthology album, “Proof” includes 48 tracks featuring many of the band’s hit singles as well as three brand-new songs, including “Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment).” In addition, the collection will feature an entire disc of previously unreleased demos and fan-favorite tracks, including solo versions of hits “Spring Day” and “DNA.” Look also for individual song takes like “Friends” by Jimin and V, Jungkook’s “Euphoria” and “Intro: Persona” by RM, among others.

• Summer means the return of cherries and how appropriat­e that the sweet sound of Neneh Cherry songs arrives this week. A collaborat­ion of covers, “The Versions,” contains Cherry classic hits by women artists inspired by her work. The first two singles from the album are Robyn’s take on “Buffalo Stance” and Sia’s reworking of “Manchild.” Other artists on the album include Anohni, Greentea Peng, Seinabo Sey, Kelsey Lu, Honey Dijon, Jamila Woods and Sudan Archives. Cherry’s daughter, Tyson, bringing her own sensual attitude to mom’s “Sassy.”

Television

• “All Rise” was canceled by CBS after two seasons, but the verdict was reversed when the OWN channel gave the legal drama a new home. Simone Missick stars as Lola Carmichael, a respected former deputy district attorney who’s making waves as a new judge. “All Rise,” debuting Tuesday, picks up six months after season two’s conclusion as it follows the personal and profession­al lives of Judge Carmichael and the prosecutor­s, public defenders and others in the beehive of a Los Angeles courthouse. Wilson Bethel, Jessica Camacho and Marg Helgenberg­er are part of the cast.

• Stephen Merchant moves onto radically different turf with BritBox’s “The Barking Murders,” a three-part drama based on the real-life story of a British serial killer, how police investigat­ed the crimes and their effect on the gay community he targeted. Merchant is known as a comedy creator and actor (the original “The Office,” “Extras”) who’s appeared in dramas (“Logan,” as Caliban), but here he takes on the lead role of Stephen Port, who’s serving a life sentence for rape and four murders. “The Barking Murders” debuts Tuesday on the streaming service.

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