What To Watch This Week: 40+ Premieres, Finales And More

To help you anticipate and navigate all that television has to offer across broadcast, cable and streaming, TVLine offers daily, weekly and monthly What to Watch digests, as well as an overview of every new TV show premiering in 2025.

This week, you'll find 25 premieres (including the debuts of Adults, The Better Sister and The Librarians: The Next Chapter, and the returns of America's Got Talent, And Just Like That... and Rick and Morty), 15 finales (including Doctor Who, The Last of Us and the very last episode of The Handmaid's Tale) and so much more.

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📺 8 pm 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing Season 2 finale (Food Network)
📺 9 pm The Last of Us Season 2 finale (HBO)

📺 10 pm The Librarians: The Next Chapter (TNT)
The Librarians spinoff centers on Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), a Librarian from the past who time-traveled from 1847 and now finds himself stuck in the present.

📺 10:30 pm The Rehearsal Season 2 finale (HBO)
📺 11 pm Rick & Morty Season 8 (Adult Swim)

📺 CoComelon Season 13 (Netflix, three-episode binge)

📺 Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders (Netflix, three-episode binge)
Who really laced Tylenol with cyanide? The docuseries examines alarming theories behind the unsolved killings — and tracks down a key suspect.

📺 8 pm American Music Awards (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
📺 9 pm America's Most Wanted Season 3 finale (Fox, next day on Hulu)

📺 9 pm Kevin Costner's The West (History, two-episode premiere)
Costner provides a fresh look at the sweeping and complex history of the American West through a wide range of conflicts – all driven by the desperate struggle to control the land itself.

📺 9 pm Rachael Ray's Meals in Minutes Season 3 (FYI)
📺 10 pm Live PD: K9 Patrol Season 2 (A&E, two episodes)

🤣 Mike Birbiglia: The Good Life (Netflix comedy special)

📺 The Handmaid's Tale series finale (Hulu)
📺 The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy Season 2 (Prime Video, eight-episode binge)
📺 8 pm America's Got Talent Season 20 (NBC, next day on Peacock)
📺 8 pm Down Home Fab Season 3 (HGTV)
📺 9 pm Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 finale (Fox, next day on Hulu)

📺 9 pm Sitting Bull (History, two-episode premiere)
Narrated by Mo Brings Plenty (Yellowstone) and starring Michael Spears (1923), the two-night docuseries event charts the heroic life and legacy of the renowned leader of the Lakota people from his origins as a tribal warrior, to his involvement in defending native lands, to his leadership in guiding the Lakota people through a tumultuous time in American history.

📺 10 pm Destination X (NBC, next day on Peacock)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan hosts this adventure competition, which finds contestants embarking on the road trip of a lifetime with no idea of their location.

📺 F1: The Academy (Netflix, seven-episode binge)
The adrenaline-fueled docuseries follows 15 female drivers across all five F1 Academy teams. 

📺 Government Cheese Season 1 finale (Apple TV+)

📺 9 pm Adults (FX, two-episode premiere)
A group of twentysomethings in New York try to be good people, despite being neither "good" nor "people" yet.

📺 9 pm Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster (Discovery Channel special)
📺 9 pm Summer House Season 9 reunion (Bravo, two-week event)
📺 10 pm Everybody's Live With John Mulaney Season 1 finale (Netflix)
📺 11 pm In the Kitchen With Harry Hamlin Season 2 finale (IFC)

🎥 Captain America: Brave New World (Disney+)

📺 The Better Sister (Prime Video, eight-episode binge)
Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks star in this limited series about the terrible things that drive sisters apart and ultimately bring them back together.

📺 Dept. Q (Netflix, nine-episode binge)
A brash but brilliant detective (Matthew Goode) leads a cold case unit in this Edinburgh-based drama.

📺 Earnhardt docuseries finale (Prime Video, two episodes)
📺 Scrublands Season 2 (AMC+)
📺 8 pm Bob's Burgers Season 15B (Fox, next day on Hulu)
📺 8 pm Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Season 8 (MTV)
📺 8:30 pm Grimsburg Season 2B (Fox, next day on Hulu)
📺 9 pm And Just Like That... Season 3 (Max)
📺 9 pm Family Guy Season 23B (Fox, next day on Hulu)
📺 9 pm Hacks Season 4 finale (Max)
📺 9 pm 100 Foot Wave Season 3 finale (HBO)
📺 9:30 pm The Great North Season 5B (Fox, next day on Hulu)

📺 Lulu Is a Rhinoceros (Apple TV+ special)
📺 Your Friends & Neighbors Season 1 finale (Apple TV+)
📺 8 pm Mama June: From Not to Hot Season 7 (WEtv)

🎥 Bono: Stories of Surrender (Apple TV+ documentary)
In this reimagining of Bono's one-man stage show, the U2 frontman pulls back the curtain on a remarkable life and the family, friends and faith that have challenged and sustained him.

🎥 Dog Man (Peacock)

🤣 Rickey Smiley: Fool-ish (Hulu comedy special)

📺 2 pm Doctor Who Season 15 finale (Disney+)
📺 8 pm Netflix Tudum 2025 (Netflix special event)

🎥 8 pm Mountainhead (HBO movie)
A group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis; Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef star.

What are you watching this week? Take stock of everything above, then drop a comment with your lists below.