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

To help you navigate the best of broadcast, cable and streaming TV, TVLine offers curated daily, weekly and monthly What to Watch columns, along with an overview of every new TV show premiering in 2025.

This week, you'll find six series premieres (including The Girlfriend and Task), seven returning shows (including Only Murders in the Building and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon) and 10 finales (including Foundation and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds).

🏆 8 pm MTV Video Music Awards (CBS & MTV)

📺 9 pm Task (HBO)
Set in the working class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) heads a task force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Tom Pelphrey). 

📺 9 pm The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3 (AMC)

📺 Dr. Seuss's Red Fish, Blue Fish (Netflix, five-episode binge)
One fish, two fish, meet Red Fish and Blue Fish! From there to here — and from here to there — these friends find opposites everywhere!

📺 Irish Blood Season 1 finale (Acorn TV)
📺 8 pm LEGO Masters Jr. Season 1 finale (Fox, next day on Hulu)
🏈 8:15 pm Monday Night Football Season 56 (ABC & ESPN)
📺 9 pm The Quiz With Balls Season 2 finale (Fox)

📺 9 pm Secrets of Celebrity Sex Tapes (A&E, two-episode premiere)
The eight-part docuseries revisits some of the most infamous celebrity sex tapes of our time, including Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, Kim Kardashian, Colin Farrell, Farrah Abraham, and Mimi Faust.

🎥 The Wedding Banquet (Paramount+)

📺 Guts & Glory (Shudder, two-episode premiere)
The competition blends the intensity of a horror film with the pressure of a reality show survival game, confronting the contestants' fears, skill and intellect in various scenarios.

📺 Only Murders in the Building Season 5 (Hulu, three-episode premiere)

📺 10 pm Songs & Stories With Kelly Clarkson Season 1 finale (NBC, next day on Peacock)

🎥 9 pm Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television (HBO Max documentary)
The documentary takes audiences on a two-part journey through the history of Black representation on TV, showcasing how Black artists and creators shaped and revolutionized the medium.

🎥 10 pm Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect (PBS documentary)
The documentary explores the life and legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the nation's first African American Supreme Court Justice.

🎥 Thirst Trap: The Fame. The Fantasy. The Fallout. (Paramount+ documentary)
The line between real connection and online fantasy is blurred when 21-year-old TikToker William White gains millions of followers. 

🤣 Jordan Jensen: Take Me With You (Netflix comedy special)

📺 The Girlfriend (Prime Video, six-episode binge)
Laura's (Robin Wright) seemingly perfect life begins to unravel when her son brings home a girlfriend (Olivia Cooke) whose intentions spark a tense and sinister battle of trust and perspectives.

📺 Helluva Boss: Mission: Zero (Prime Video special)
The standalone episode follows the I.M.P. as they plan their very first assassination.

📺 8 pm Match Game Season 6 finale (ABC, next day on Hulu)

📺 9 pm Downton Abbey Celebrates The Grand Finale (NBC special, next day on Peacock)
The one-hour telecast features conversations with the cast of the third and final film, who share never-before-told secrets from the franchise's 15-year journey.    

📺 9 pm Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service Season 1 finale (Fox, next day on Hulu)

🎥 aka Charlie Sheen (Netflix documentary)
With seven hard-fought years of sobriety behind him, Charlie Sheen leaves it all on the table, and revisits the very public peaks and valleys of his life.

📺 Beauty in Black Season 2 (Netflix, eight-episode binge)
📺 Sesame Street Season 55 finale (HBO Max)
📺 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 finale (Paramount+)
📺 Wolf King final season (Netflix, eight-episode binge)
📺 Zatima Season 4 (BET+, two-episode premiere)
🏈 8:15 pm Thursday Night Football Season 19 (Prime Video)

📺 Foundation Season 3 finale (Apple TV+)
📺 7 pm Wizards Beyond Waverly Place Season 2 (Disney Channel, two-episode premiere)

📺 8 pm Vampirina: Teenage Vampire (Disney Channel, two-episode premiere)
A tween vampire girl leaves the safety of Transylvania to attend a performing arts boarding school.

📺 9 pm Magic City: An American Fantasy docuseries finale (Starz)

🎥 Screamboat (Peacock)
🎥 Warfare (HBO Max)

🎥 The Wrong Paris (Netflix movie)
A young woman (Miranda Cosgrove) joins a dating show thinking it's in Paris, France, but it's actually in Paris, Texas.

🎥 9 pm Lost in the Jungle (NatGeo documentary)
After a deadly plane crash strands four young siblings deep within the Amazon, a dramatic rescue mission unfolds, uniting Indigenous trackers and the Colombian military in a race against time.

🤣 Andrew Santino: White Noise (Hulu comedy special)
🤣 Larry the Cable Guy: It's a Gift (Prime Video comedy special)

🎵 3 pm Grace for the World (Disney+, Hulu & ABC News Live)
📺 8 pm Cold Justice Season 8 (Oxygen)
🏆 8 pm Creative Arts Emmys (FXX)
🤼‍♂️ 9 pm Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford (Netflix live event)

What are you watching this week? Leave your lists in a comment below.