This week: ‘The Morning Show’ returns; marriage in the ‘Wilderness’; ‘The Other Black Girl’ debuts
1. “Wilderness,” a UK production based on the 2017 novel by B.E. Jones, gives us Jenna Coleman far away from her “Victoria” reign. She plays Liv, who travels to an American national park with her disloyal husband, Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). Wait, is that fury and revenge behind her eyes as she hikes? And who exactly is that couple they “accidentally” run into? The six-episode thriller series premieres Friday on Amazon.
2. With “The Other Black Girl,” Blackness in the workplace gets a satirical going over. In this adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’s 2021 novel, Nella (Sinclair Daniel) is the only Black employee at a publishing house, until Hazel-May (Ashleigh Murray) shows up. Instant allies? It’s more complicated than that; there may be something sinister going on company-wide. Also starring Erick McCormack, Bellamy Young, the show premieres with all 10 episodes Wednesday on Hulu.
3. The cuckoo-est of streaming dramas, Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show,” returns for its third season with something new: Jon Hamm, playing an Elon Musk-level billionaire who has a yen to own a network. Meanwhile, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston continue to follow the writers’ whims, which take them into all kinds of big Emmy-reel dramas. The series is back on Wednesday.
4. Due Sunday on Paramount+, the six-episode BBC action drama “The Gold” fictionalizes one of the largest thefts in British history, the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery of gold bullion, diamonds, and cash from a Heathrow warehouse. It also chronicles the events that followed. Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Spencer, Sean Harris, Jack Lowden, and Tom Cullen star.
5. On Tuesday at 8 p.m., the “MTV Video Music Awards” will air live on Comedy Central, Nick, BET, Logo, VH1, and oh yeah MTV. Nicki Minaj is hosting for a second time, and performers will include Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Wayne, Demi Lovato, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and Doja Cat. Sean “Diddy” Combs will receive the Global Icon Award, and Shakira will receive the Video Vanguard Award, and both will perform during the show.