DAVID WIEGAND
On TV THURSDAY
ABC resurrects “Battle of the Network Stars” at 9 p.m., pitting sitcom stars against kids’ TV stars. Mike Greenberg and Joe Tessitore of ESPN will host, with Cassidy Hubbarth and Cari Champion of ESPN as sideline reporters. Super Bowl 50 winner DeMarcus Ware and former UFC champion Ronda Rousey will be the team captains. New episodes of “Gay for Play,” the game show hosted by RuPaul, resume on Logo at9 p.m.
The third season of the CBS drama “Zoo” starts at 10 p.m. The show stars James Wolk. Season nine of “Nick Cannon
Wild ’n Out” hits the air on MTV at 11 p.m.
Will Ferrell guests on “Watch What Happens: Live” with Andy Cohen at 11 p.m. on Bravo.
FRIDAY
Naomi Watts stars as a shrink who gets a little too involved with her patients in the Netflix drama
“Gypsy,” whose first season is available today. I watched five episodes, but it was a struggle. Watts is very good, but the show moves slowly and has a kind of detached sterility about it.
Also available from Netflix, the special “Little Witch Academia.” Amazon’s streaming offerings include the complete second season of “All or Nothing: A Season With the Arizona Cardinals,” and the complete first season of “Danger and Eggs.” Season three of “Killjoys” launches on the SyFy channel at 8 p.m., and season seven of “Masters of Illusion” begins at the same time on the CW.
SATURDAY
AXS TV airs the live broadcast of“New Japan Pro Wrestling,” the first ever US event, the “G1
Special in the USA,” at 5 p.m. from the Long Beach Convention Center. AXS will air the second night, a four-hour special, at 5 p.m. July 7. “Doubt” returns from hiatus at 8 p.m. on CBS. The show has been axed, and the network will begin airing the remaining 11 episodes of the show tonight. The show stars Katherine Heigl.
The “Doctor Who” season wraps at a special time, 8:30 p.m., with a 90-minute episode on BBC America. Animal Planet offers the specials “Raised Human — Zamba the Lion” at 9 p.m, and “Raised Human — Boris the Chimp” at 10. The 11th season of “The Incredible Dr. Pol” launches on the National Geographic Wild Channel at 9 p.m.
SUNDAY
The new docuseries “America in Color” airs on the Smithsonian Channel at 8 p.m. It will be followed by the premiere of “First Ladies Revealed” at 9 p.m. Note, Comcast does not carry the Smithsonian Channel, but it is available on other service platforms. Season three of “The Good Witch” flies away at 9 p.m. on the Hallmark Channel.
TV NEWS
Congratulations to AMC. “Better Call Saul” has been renewed for a fourth season. Josh Charles has signed on to the new twig in the “Law & Order” franchise, “Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Brothers.”
Netflix has canceled “Girlboss” after one limp season. The show was based on the memoir by Sophia Amoruso, who built a business in San Francisco selling vintage clothes on eBay and then founded Nasty Gal fashions, which then went bankrupt. The show started out bankrupt.