HBO debuts Winning Time and Starz’s Outlander is finally back
Plus: Courteney Cox leads Starz’s Shining Vale, and IFC airs the Independent Spirit Awards
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, March 6. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty (HBO, 9 p.m., series premiere): Created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, with Adam McKay as an EP and director, this sports drama charts the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers on and off the court. The cast includes Adrien Brody, Quincy Isaiah, Solomon Hughes, John C. Reilly, Tracy Letts, and Jason Segel. Noel Murray astutely writes in his last review for The A.V. Club:
This is a portrait of an NBA on the precipice of a major transformation, thanks to new stars and new corporate partners (including Nike, whose failed shoe pitch to Magic is a plot line in one episode). It’s a show about how creating something great and lasting is hard work, and how not everyone involved emerges unbruised. Winning Time is about one of sport’s golden ages, yes, but it’s also about the nebulousness of that very concept. By including a lot of different perspectives, the Winning Time team makes clear that in hindsight, everyone has a different idea about what a golden age was really like—and about when and why it ended.
Outlander (Starz, 9 p.m., season-six premiere): The “droughtlander”—as dubbed by Outlander’s fandom when the show is on hiatus—is almost over. The historical sci-fi drama returns for eight new episodes with a supersized 90-minute premiere, titled “Echoes.” In season six, Claire (Caitriona Balfe), Jamie (Sam Heughan), and their family face new foes at Fraser’s Ridge, all while the Revolutionary War looms on the horizon. Outlander has already been renewed for season seven (and even a prequel is in the works). Keep an eye out for The A.V. Club’s interview with Balfe on the site tomorrow.
Regular coverage
Killing Eve (BBC America, 8 p.m.)
The Walking Dead (AMC, 9 p.m.)
Wild cards
Shining Vale (Starz, 10 p.m., series premiere): Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear, and Mira Sorvino star in this horror-comedy from Jeff Astrof and Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan. Here’s an excerpt from Cristina Escobar’s review of the show:
The best scary stories find their frights in real-life fears, and the genre is rich with ones that explore the feminine grotesque—Black Swan and Rosemary’s Baby come to mind. Shining Vale brings humor to that equation, both laughing at and dramatizing the scary aspects of gender norms. The result is a show that’s smart enough to keep viewers guessing as it pokes fun at modern society, its characters, and even its audience.
Film Independent Spirit Awards (IFC and AMC+, 5 p.m.): Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally host the 2022 Spirit Awards, which will take place at the Santa Monica Pier. The confirmed presenters include Kristen Stewart, Andrew Garfield, Sydney Sweeney, Rhea Seehorn, Bob Odenkirk, Michelle Yeoh, Taika Waititi, among others. Some of the top nominees are The Lost Daughter, Zola, and C’mon C’mon.
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TUAYPCWLOT season seven was thematically great. It may’ve even been its most consistent. They’d better be back for season eight!https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2022/03/03/legends-of-batwoman/Batwoman’s third season also ended better than the last two.I opted not to watch The Batman.Werewolves Within was fun. Cast Milana Vayntrub in more creature features, cowards! She & Kate Easton should play sisters in something.
My VHS of Metropolis started disintegrating, so I had to order a DVD replacement.
I finished watching The Tourist yesterday on HBO. It was a trip seeing Dewey Crowe from Justified play an inspector detective in Australia. I had no idea the actor was Australian and, with Justified being the only show I’ve seen him in, his voice and demeanor being that drastically different was wild. He was really good in it.
He’s in Mr. In-Between too, which airs on FX or FX on Hulu
Yeah, he is amazing. But were there no local redneck actors they could find in the U.S.?
TuaypcwI rewatched half of Dune before I had to return it to the library. The visuals are way better than the SyFy miniseries, but the pacing feels glacial. I still really like it, but I can’t convince myself I need to buy it. I watched the premiere of the new MST3K season, which I like well enough. I appreciate that captions exist, since sometimes I can’t tell the difference between character voices in the movie and the bots.My kids have rediscovered Sarah and Duck (quack), an animated show about a pair of best friends having adventures and quaking at things. I liked it when my oldest could watch it on Netflix, and it’s still fine, but I hate hearing all the ads now that they’re watching it on YouTube and (Pluto? Tubi?).
So, the AV Club just stopped doing this? No updates anymore? Cool. Thanks new AV Club. You’re doing great (Insert eye roll emoji here, in case my sarcasm wasn’t clear)
Rule number 1 of running a website: give people a reason to check for your daily update summarizing new show airings that might continue to drive the habits of readers who have been checking your website regularly since 1999.
I have this open as a tab all the time. I check it pretty much every day and I’m super disappointed that they just stopped doing it with zero warning or explanation. Seriously, whatever the av club has become, it’s not great.
It’s seriously turned into a garbage fire and I’m only here because I can’t think of an alternative. Maybe i09.
Yeah, this one feature was one of the last reasons to come here, and the quality of the selections, the writing (just blurbs, for crying out loud!), and the editing was badly deteriorated. Super annoying that they just stopped bothering with it. There’s little to nothing to click here to read at this point. (Very close to “nothing” on the little-to-nothing scale.)There’s indiewire. Some of their reporting is weak, but they have some good content. There’s a few bylines I never click because the writing is terrible and/or all they are doing is summarizing tweets or other pubs’ reporting, but some of the movie and tv reviewers are smart and cover interesting content.
Does indiewire do a daily wrap of what’s on, tonight? I swore off every other thing on this site because I was that hard pressed to find an alternative that closely replicated what happened here…no luck yet.
Thanks for that. I’ll check them out.
The corpse of Warming Glow over at UpRoxx maybe? They have a what’s on tonight, but it launches very late in the afternoon
I haven’t seen UpRoxx post a What’s On Tonight in a while. But would love to find something similar on another site. Really relied on this one.
You’re right, it’s been since January that they published one. I guess Googling “TV Guide Listing Tonight” will have to do
I have a few other sites I look at, if you just want to see write-ups of what’s airing that night. Hope these help!
https://www.tvinsider.com/author/matt-roush/
https://www.mikehughes.tv/category/daily-best-bets/
https://tvline.com/what-to-watch/
Thanks for this list!
Pajaba maybe, if you’re looking for good comment sections. They also do a daily “What’s on tonight” very similar to this.
Extremely odd that they have chosen to do absolutely nothing anymore.
Um, yeah, are we just done with this column? I’ve come to depend on it. Anyone there?
Something like this should be the easiest no-brainer way to get daily returning traffic with minimum effort. Hey AvClub, you hiring?