RM: This is for the week ending today. I hope to get next week's list out tonight or tomorrow. My mom was formally diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease this week, and I have been working on arranging overnight coverage by health care aides, as she's had a number of falls recently and her doctor recommends 24/7 observation if possible.
Previously released:
None.
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Monday, June 23
Streaming:
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything (documentary) (12:01 am, Hulu)
From Taylor Swift, the Kardashians, and the Menendez brothers to presidents, world leaders, the famous and the infamous everybody talked to Barbara Walters! Now, experience the raw and deeply personal new documentary on her incredible life. 1h 35m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u8UCNCDszMhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt32751543/Giada in My Kitchen (special) (12:01 am, Prime Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502hxN5jzGkHead Over Heels [new] (12:01 am, Prime Video)
Seong-A is a student by day and a shaman by night. She's looked down upon by others for seeing and dealing with ghosts, but she smiles and perseveres. She's used to being different. Handsome Gyeon-U is like a candle in the wind, plagued by misfortune, and Seong-A vows to protect him the day he walks into her shrine upside-down. This is a story about first love and how love conquers all. Korean series; episodes released on Monday and Tuesday. 12 episodes?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0FCKRP9W4/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37146661/I'm Your Venus (documentary) (3:01 am, Netflix)
A moving and timely documentary following the unsolved 1988 murder of Venus Xtravaganza, star of the legendary film Paris Is Burning, as Venus' two families - biological and ballroom - come together to seek answers and celebrate her legacy. 1h 25m.
https://www.netflix.com/title/82045298https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32150607/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Xtravaganza Broadcast and cable:
POV (season 38 premiere) (10 pm, PBS)
Relative Secrets (season 1 finale) (10 pm, BBC America)
From serial-killer parents to the hidden lives of loved ones long thought dead, award-winning actress Jane Seymour and archaeologist Natasha Billson team up to explore the remarkable mysteries and dark legacies that haunt ordinary families.
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Tuesday, June 24
Streaming:
Panchayat (complete season 4) (12:01 am, Prime Video)
Panchayat is a comedy-drama, which captures the journey of an engineering graduate Abhishek, who for lack of a better job option joins as secretary of a panchayat office in a remote village of Uttar Pradesh. Indian series; 8 episodes.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DK3MHG33/Steph Tolev: Filth Queen (comedy special) (3:01 am, Netflix)
https://www.netflix.com/title/81764903Ironheart [new] (9 pm ET, Disney+)
Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) returns home to Chicago to build her own armored suit and becomes entangled with Parker Robbins/The Hood (Anthony Ramos) after the events in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever". The six-episode series also stars Alden Ehrenreich and Lyric Ross, while guest stars include Sacha Baron Cohen and Jim Rash. Three episodes stream today and the remaining three stream next Tuesday, July 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpW36ldAqnMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6j-wSIqJJ0https://www.metacritic.com/tv/ironheart/[score 57]
Broadcast and cable:
Enigma (documentary) (9 pm, HBO)
Chronicling the divergent paths of iconic pioneers April Ashley, Amanda Lear, and others, acclaimed filmmaker Zackary Drucker explores questions of identity and survival, revealing the disparate but intertwined stories of women whose lives helped shape trans culture and history. Their experiences, varied and complex, highlight the costs associated with living their truths and explore what is gained and lost by defining their identities.
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Wednesday, June 25
Streaming:
Countdown [new] (12:01 am, Prime Video)
Amazon's latest action series stars Jensen Ackles as an LAPD detective recruited for a secretive, multi-agency task force after a Homeland Security officer is murdered in broad daylight. The conspiracy thriller also stars Eric Dane and Jessica Camacho. 13 episodes; three stream today, followed by single-episode weekly releases through Sept. 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t72R6wZ0zQ8https://www.metacritic.com/tv/countdown-2025/[score 44; viewer rating 6.2]
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0F4R1QJMY/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32559610/[rating 7.0]
The Ultimatum: Queer Love (season 2 premiere) (3:01 am, Netflix)
Six couples put their love to the test by moving in with other partners. Are they ready for marriage or is "the one" actually someone else?
https://www.netflix.com/title/81598495The Bear (complete season 4) (8 pm ET, Hulu)
10 episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOyRo-Yjr2Qhttps://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-bear/season-4/[score 73; viewer rating 5.2]
Broadcast and cable:
Human Footprint (season 2 premiere) (9 pm, PBS)
Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton travels the globe to explore our Human Footprint and to discover how the things we do reveal who we truly are. Six episodes running through July 30.
Raid the Cage (season 2 finale) (9 pm, CBS)
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Thursday, June 26
Streaming:
Nelly and Ashanti: We Belong Together [new; complete season 1] (3:01 am, Peacock)
8 episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRzY7QykYhM Broadcast and cable:
The Wrong Marriage (movie) (8 pm, LMN)
Carrie escapes an abusive marriage, leaving behind her old life, her mother and her identity. With the help of her best friend and criminal defense attorney, Kim, she obtains new identification and leaves town, adopting a new name and working as a waitress. But when a mysterious stranger moves in next door, sparks fly, and Carrie begins to feel an unexpected connection. As their relationship intensifies, her dark past resurfaces, threatening to destroy the life she’s fought so hard to rebuild. Can she outrun her secrets, or will they finally catch up to her? Vivica A. Fox, Jackee Harry, Alicia S. Mason, and Hector David Jr. star.
https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/the-wrong-marriagehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt37071005/CMA Fest (music special) (8-11 pm, ABC)
Police 24/7 (season 2 finale) (8 pm, CW)
Welcome to Wrexham (season 4 finale; renewed for season 5) (9 pm, FX)
Butchers of L.A. [new] (10 pm, Sundance TV)
Three killers. Three different M.O.s, but similar targets. One city gripped by fear. In the early 1970s, gay men were being brutally murdered and dumped along Los Angeles freeways. At first, police suspected a hate-driven serial killer. But the truth was even darker: three murderers, each acting alone, yet all aware they weren't the only predator on the hunt. As the body count rose, so did the pressure on investigators to connect the dots and bring the truth to light. "Butchers of L.A." unravels a chilling true crime saga of overlapping paths, dark secrets, and shocking twists. Three episodes broadcast weekly through July 10; also released on AMC+ and Sundance Now.
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Friday, June 27
Streaming:
Marry My Husband [new] (12:01 am, Prime Video)
Misa has been a supporting character all her life, blindly trusting her best friend and husband. When she discovers their affair, the betrayal results in her death. Waking up ten years in the past, Misa vows to become the main character of her own story. She plans to ruin her betrayers by making them marry each other, but after meeting her director at work, starts to consider who she truly is. Japanese series.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DTFTNSWY/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26628595/[score 7.8]
Smoke [new] (12:01 am, Apple TV+)
This based-on-a-true-story crime drama—adapted from the podcast Firebug—follows an arson investigator (Taron Egerton) and a troubled police detective (Jurnee Smollett) as they attempt to track down a pair of serial arsonists. Rafe Spall, Anna Chlumsky, John Leguizamo, and Greg Kinnear also star. Nine episodes; two stream today, followed by weekly single-episode releases through August 15.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdX456spjeAhttps://www.metacritic.com/tv/smoke/[score 61]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24163532/[rating 6.6]
Squid Game (complete final season 3) (3:01 am, Netflix)
Six episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgGTVaG2UiQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLPwT05kYjwhttps://www.metacritic.com/tv/squid-game/season-3/[score 66]
Squid Game in Conversation (special) (3:01 am, Netflix)
Take a seat with the director and cast of Squid Game. Discover key moments, hear untold stories and see what this entire journey meant to them. 32 min.
https://www.netflix.com/title/82027101The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (movie; streaming premiere) (3:01 am, Max)
1h 31m.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15352542/[rating 6.9]
Pati [new; complete season 1 plus season 2 premiere) (3:01 am, Max)
Patrycja "Pati" Cichy is a young woman who must take care of her younger siblings as well as a mother caught up in crime and drugs. Season 1 has six episodes; the six season 2 episodes are being released weekly. Polish series.
https://www.max.com/shows/pati/6bd4976d-d098-43b9-87ce-75a697a4c49ehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt27562193/The Woman in the Yard (movie; streaming premiere) (3:01 am, Peacock)
A mysterious woman repeatedly appears in a family's front yard, often delivering chilling warnings and unsettling messages, leaving them to question her identity, motives and the potential danger she might pose. 1h 28m.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31314296/[rating 5.0]
Please Don't Feed the Children (movie) (3:01 am, Tubi)
After a deadly viral outbreak, a group of orphans flees in search of a new life, only to be taken hostage by a woman hiding a sinister secret. Stars Michelle Dockery, Giancarlo Esposito, Zoe Coletti, Andrew Liner, Dean Scott Vazquez, Regan Aliyah, Emma Meisel, Joshuah Melnick, and Vernon Davis. 1 hr 34 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RupOIypSdawhttps://tubitv.com/movies/100040092/please-don-t-feed-the-childrenhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt27208407/ Broadcast and cable:
My Boyfriend's Wife is Dead (movie) (8 pm, LMN)
After a tough divorce, Helena enters into a throuple with glamorous couple Iris and Dean for some harmless fun. When Iris is brutally murdered, all eyes are on Helena. She fights to prove her innocence, but is the real killer closer to home than she thinks? Brianna Cohen, Donny Boaz, and Nicole Marie Johnson star.
https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/my-boyfriends-wife-is-deadhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt37041016/My Mom Jayne (documentary) (8 pm, HBO)
Mariska Hargitay makes her feature directorial debut with a profile of her mother, actress Jayne Mansfield, who was killed in a car accident when Hargitay was just three years old. 1h 45m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZM6m_GJhr8https://www.metacritic.com/movie/my-mom-jayne/[score 73]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36464353/[rating 8.7]
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Saturday, June 28
Pretty Hurts (movie) (8 pm, Lifetime Channel)
To win scholarship money for college, Lauren enters the same beauty pageant her mom once dominated in her youth. Lauren is thrust into a dark, toxic world of cutthroat competition and manipulation. Too preoccupied with the pageant, Lauren doesn’t realize that her best friend Rae is falling seriously ill with an uncommon and potentially deadly disease meningitis B prompting her to turn the pageant platform into a tool for awareness. Haylie Duff, Sarah Borne, Kaci Barker, Cyane Gan and Haley Gosserand star. GSK [GlaxoSmithKline] has provided both financial and content support for this program. Intended for US audiences only. Not on IMDb.
https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/pretty-hurtshttps://www.tvinsider.com/1198997/haylie-duff-hilary-pretty-hurts-lifetime-meningitis/A Machu Picchu Proposal (movie) (8 pm, Hallmark Channel)
Katie (Rhiannon Fish) agrees to join her brother Dan and his girlfriend Luciana on a trip to Peru. Dan plans to propose to Luciana in a grand way at Machu Picchu at the end of the week and needs Katie’s Spanish speaking skills to ask Luciana’s Peruvian father for his blessing. However, when Luciana’s friend, Chef Carlos (Alec Santos), arrives, he accidentally ruins each proposal attempt. Refusing to give up, Katie does everything in her power to make this proposal happen, until Dan calls it off. Katie must lean into Chef Carlos’ spontaneity to not only save the day and the proposal, and Carlos may just win Katie’s heart too!
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Sunday, June 29
Technically Yours (movie) (7 pm, UPtv)
After pretending to date "Brad" online, a tech whiz asks her work rival to be Brad at her sister's wedding. Real feelings emerge as the charade unfolds. Stars Kristi Murdock and Thomas Gipson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32083760/https://uptv.com/movies/technically-yours/My Sister's Double Life (movie) (8 pm, Lifetime Channel)
When Chelsea’s sister vanishes after a late night shift at a diner, she has to convince the police to believe someone’s taken her. As she races against the clock, she discovers not only her sister’s life in danger, but the captor is now after her … and they’ll stop at nothing until both women are dead. Stars Sarah Grey, Amalia Williamson, Cody Ray Thompson, Nathan Dales and Anna Hopkins.
https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/my-sisters-double-lifehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt33350000/Nautilus [new] (9 and 10 pm, two episodes, AMC)
Originally ordered by Disney+ but then dropped in a cost-cutting move, this 10-episode adventure series serves as a prequel to the Jules Verne novel 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" and depicts the origin story of Captain Nemo (played here by Shazad Latif) and his pioneering submarine as he seeks revenge against the East India Mercantile Company, which has falsely imprisoned him. Regular time is 9 pm only until August 17, when the last two episodes are shown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AjVpIqK6U8https://www.metacritic.com/tv/nautilus/[score 64]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15286302/[rating 6.6]
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