What to watch
FRIDAY
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Palmer
Apple TV+ Original Film
After 12 years in prison, a former high school football star (Justin Timberlake) returns home to put his life back together.
The Little Things
HBO Max Feature Film Exclusive
Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto star in this psychological thriller about two California sheriffs embroiled in the search for a killer targeting women.
Jann
New Series
Hulu
Canadian singer/songwriter Jann Arden plays a fictionalized, self-deprecating version of herself in this series. Seasons 1 and 2 are available today.
Below Zero
Netflix Original Film
When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge (Javier Gutierrez) must fight for survival against those inside and outside while also dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.
The Great Escapists
Amazon Prime Video New Series
In this six-episode series, two of pop-science TV’s greatest minds — Richard Hammond of The Grand Tour and Tory Belleci of MythBusters—
face the engineering challenge of their lives when they are shipwrecked together on a desert island and must rely on nothing but their smarts and their scrap shipwreck for survival. Can they invent themselves off the island?
The Dig
Netflix Original Film
When a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate burial mounds on her estate, they uncover history-changing treasure. Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes star.
Finding ‘Ohana
Netflix Original Film
A summer in rural Oahu turns exciting for two Brooklyn-raised siblings when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an epic adventure that leads them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.
We Are:
The Brooklyn Saints
New Series
Netflix
From Emmy-winning filmmaker Rudy Valdez (The Sentence) comes this four-part documentary series following a youth football program in the heart of inner-city East New York, Brooklyn.
NBA Basketball
ESPN, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Live
Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks are in the Big Easy for a battle with Zion
Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans. ESPN’s second game features Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks in Salt Lake City for a showdown with Bojan Bogdanovic and the Utah Jazz.
Self-Made Mansions
HGTV, 7 p.m.
In “Hometown Heroes,” Clinton Kelly helps Jeresha White, creator of a childcare empire, and Travis and Cathleen Rivera, owners of a nationally renowned coffee company, find the homes of their dreams.
The Blacklist NBC, 7 p.m.
As Red (James Spader) and the task force search for Liz (Megan Boone), she sets a new plan in motion that has catastrophic consequences.
Little Women: Atlanta
Lifetime, 8 p.m. Season Premiere
The Southern sextet face their biggest challenges yet in Season 6: dealing with the pandemic and the loss of Ashley “Minnie” Ross, who died in a car crash in April. An aftershow follows.
Fright Club
Travel Channel, 8 p.m.
In “Hide Your Kids,” Jack Osbourne and the Ghost Brothers compete to freak each other out with eerie evidence, including a haunted preschool, a chunk of Bigfoot’s hair and a furniture-destroying ghost.