What To Watch This Week: 30+ 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 four series premieres (including The Terminal List: Dark Wolf), 10 returning shows (including My Life With the Walter Boys and Upload) and 11 finales (including The Institute and Twisted Metal).

SUNDAY, AUG. 24

πŸ“Ί The Last Rhinos: A New Hope (NatGeo special)
With only two surviving female white rhinoceros, a team of scientists races to create the world's first surrogate rhino pregnancy, using cutting-edge science and unwavering resolve.

πŸ“Ί 8 pm Professor T Season 4 (PBS)
πŸ“Ί 9 pm The Institute Season 1 finale (MGM+)
πŸ“Ί 9 pm The Marlow Murder Club Season 2 (PBS)
πŸ“Ί 10 pm Unforgotten Season 6 (PBS)
πŸ“Ί 10 pm The Yogurt Shop Murders docuseries finale (HBO)

MONDAY, AUG. 25

πŸ“Ί LEGO Disney Princess: Villains Unite (Disney+ special)
After Ariel, Moana, Tiana, Rapunzel and Snow White thwart Gaston's plan to take over all of their kingdoms, he calls upon Ursula, Jafar and the Evil Queen to help take them down once and for all.

πŸ“Ί Upload final season (Prime Video, four-episode binge)
πŸ“Ί 9 pm Doctor Pimple Popper: Breaking Out Season 1 finale (Lifetime)

πŸ“Ί 9 pm Love Island: USA Season 7 Reunion (Peacock special)
The special will feature this season's winners, fan-favorite couples, and this year's bombshells for an up close and personal look back at their experience in the Villa; Ariana Madix and Andy Cohen host.

πŸŽ₯ 9 pm Fame & Fentanyl (A&E documentary)
Ice T explores the devastating impact of fentanyl on our society and culture, including celebrities Prince, Angus Cloud, Tom Petty and Michael K. Williams.

πŸŽ₯ The Friend (Paramount+ Premium)

TUESDAY, AUG. 26

πŸ“Ί With Love, Meghan Season 2 (Netflix, eight-episode binge)

πŸ“Ί 8 pm Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey (ABC special)
Diane Sawyer takes viewers inside Bruce and Emma Heming Willis' relationship, and their family's journey following Bruce's frontotemporal dementia diagnosis.

πŸ“Ί 9 pm Love Thy Nader (Freeform, two-episode premiere)
The docuseries follows the unapologetic lives of the Nader sisters: Brooks, Mary Holland, Grace Ann and Sarah Jane. (All eight episodes drop on Hulu Wednesday.)

πŸ“Ί 9 pm The Snake Season 1 finale (Fox, next day on Hulu)

πŸŽ₯ Ruby Red Handed: Stealing America's Most Famous Pair of Shoes (Hulu documentary)
The film goes inside the wild, fast-paced, often absurd story of how a pair of Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz were stolen and ultimately found.

πŸŽ₯ STANS (Paramount+ documentary)
The Eminem song "Stan" serves as a guiding light for this unconventional and fully authorized feature, which follows a cast of real-life "stans" whose deep personal connections to Eminem mirror some of the many themes found throughout his lyrics.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27

πŸ“Ί Shipwreck Hunters Australia Season 2 (Disney+, six-episode binge)

πŸ“ΊΒ The Terminal List: Dark WolfΒ (Prime Video, three-episode premiere)
The prequel follows Taylor Kitsch's Ben Edwards throughout his journey from the Navy SEALs to the clandestine side of CIA Special Operations.

πŸ“Ί 9 pm Court Cam Season 9 (A&E)
πŸ“Ί 10:30 pm Digman! Season 2 finale (Comedy Central)

πŸŽ₯ Thunderbolts* (Disney+)

THURSDAY, AUG. 28

πŸ“Ί The Barbie Mysteries Season 2 (Netflix, eight-episode binge)

πŸ“Ί Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story (AMC+, two-episode premiere)
A photo shoot in Milan takes a harrowing turn when a model (Nadia Parkes) drugged and abducted by a man who claims to be working for a mysterious crime syndicate.

πŸ“Ί My Life With the Walter Boys Season 2 (Netflix, 10-episode binge)
πŸ“Ί Twisted Metal Season 2 finale (Peacock)
🏈 5:30 pm Thursday Night College Football Season 28 (ESPN)
πŸ“Ί 8 pm Back to the Frontier Season 1 finale (Magnolia Network)
πŸ“Ί 8 pm Hudson & Rex Season 7 finale (UPtv)
πŸ“Ί 9 pm Family Recipe Showdown Season 1 finale (Food Network)
πŸ“Ί 9 pm Love Island: Beyond the Villa Season 1 finale (Peacock)
πŸ“Ί 9 pm Necaxa Season 1 finale (FXX, two episodes)

πŸ“Ί 10 pm Family Lockup (A&E)
Estranged family members tspend two nights in jail to restore broken family bonds.

πŸŽ₯ Imported (Hulu documentary)
After a lifelong dream of playing in the NBA is dashed, three athletes β€” two men, one woman β€” discover unexpected success as international ballers.

πŸŽ₯ The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix movie)
When an unexplained death occurs on their own doorstep, four irrepressible retirees β€” played by Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie β€” find themselves with a real whodunit on their hands.

FRIDAY, AUG. 29

πŸ“Ί Shape Island Season 2 (Apple TV+)
🏈 8 pm Fox College Football Friday Season 2 (Fox)

πŸŽ₯ The Twin (Shudder)

πŸŽ₯ Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (Netflix documentary)
Vulgar, taunting texts blow up the phones of a Michigan teen and her boyfriend. Who's sending them β€” and why?

SATURDAY, AUG. 30

🏈 7:30 pm Big Ten Saturday Night Season 3 (NBC)
🏈 7:30 pm Saturday Night College Football Season 20 (ABC)

πŸ“Ί 8 pm Crossroad Springs (Great American Family)
After a devastating fall leaves a family patriarch (Shaun Johnston) injured, his ER doctor daughter (Emily Alatalo) returns home to find their family ranch in disrepair.

🏈 10 pm PAC-12 College Football Series Season 2 (The CW)
🏈 11 pm CFB on Fox Season 15 (Fox)

πŸŽ₯ 8 pm Catch of the Day (Hallmark Channel movie)
Just before achieving her dream of becoming an executive chef, a woman (Emilie Ullerup) returns home to save her family's struggling restaurant and reunites with an old flame (Michael Rady).

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

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