The final season of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' and an HBO docuseries about QAnon are also on tap in the next seven days.
The next series up in Marvel's line of Disney+ shows hits screens this week when The Falcon and the Winter Soldier debuts. The next installment of National Geographic's Genius anthology, focused on Aretha Franklin, is also set to premiere in the next seven days, along with Roku's first ever original series and the return of the NCAA basketball tournaments after a year away.
Below is The Hollywood Reporter's rundown of premieres, returns and specials over the next seven days. It would be next to impossible to watch everything, but let THR point the way to worthy options for the coming week. All times are ET/PT unless noted.
The Big Show
Following the successful run of WandaVision (which has been a regular in Nielsen's streaming top 10), Disney+ rolls out its second Marvel series Friday with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The show picks up, more or less, from the epilogue of Avengers: Endgame and follows Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson/Falcon and Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier.
Like WandaVision, the new show deals heavily with the fallout from the movies, with Sam's family playing a sizable role and Bucky still grappling with his past. It also opens with a strong action sequence and, as THR critic Daniel Fienberg notes, not a lot of shared screen time for the two leads in the opening episode. Still, "There's enough here to make one optimistic that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier could emerge as a second Disney+ winner for Marvel."
Also on streaming …
Perhaps you've heard: Zack Snyder's Justice League is now streaming on HBO Max. Also this week: Calls (Friday, Apple) pairs abstract visuals with audio that tells a mystery story. Katharine McPhee stars in family sitcom Country Comfort (Friday, Netflix). The Roku Channel debuts its first original series Friday with spy thriller Cypher.
On broadcast …
Madness: Last year's NCAA basketball tournaments were canceled due to the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. They're back on this year, although instead of games originating from around the country, both the men's and women's events will be centralized (see below for more on the women's schedule). CBS, TNT, TBS and TruTV will once again share coverage of the men's tourney, with the "First Four" games set for Thursday starting at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT on TruTV and TBS and first-round coverage beginning at noon ET/9 a.m. PT Friday on CBS.
Finales: The season ends for CBS' comedy The Unicorn (9:30 p.m. Thursday) and two ABC game shows: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (10 p.m. Sunday) and To Tell the Truth (8 p.m. Tuesday).
On cable …
New: The third season of Nat Geo's Genius centers on Aretha Franklin, chronicling her rise to the top of the music world, her civil rights activism and the impact she left on the world. Cynthia Erivo plays the Queen of Soul, and THR critic Inkoo Kang says the Grammy, Tony and Emmy winner is "a fantastic choice" to take on the lead role. Genius: Aretha premieres at 9 p.m. Sunday and will air for four consecutive nights.
More Madness: ESPN is the NCAA women's tournament, with Stanford, Connecticut, South Carolina and North Carolina State as the top seeds. Coverage begins at noon ET/9 a.m. PT Sunday on ESPN and ESPNU; ESPN2 and ABC will also carry games (all taking place in Texas) in the first and second rounds, which continue through Wednesday.
Also premiering: The final season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians (8 p.m. Thursday, E!); Final Space (10:30 p.m. Saturday, Adult Swim); an animated restoration of 1968's Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep (6 p.m. Sunday, BBC America); HBO's docuseries Q: Into the Storm (9 p.m. Sunday); and season two of Breeders (10 p.m. Monday, FX).
In case you missed it …
Last Chance U: Basketball is, as the title makes clear, focused on a basketball team rather than the football squads who populated the first four seasons. What remains is the series' commitment to both capturing exciting game action and showing much more of its subjects' off-court lives. "It's one of 2021's early standouts," writes THR critic Daniel Fienerg, "for all of the reasons you expect and a few you don't see coming."
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