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 19 series premieres (including Leanne Morgan's self-titled Netflix sitcom and the Jason Momoa epic Chief of War), 13 returning series (including The Challenge, Freeform-bound Project Runway and Anne Burrell's final season as host of Worst Cooks in America) and 13 finales (including The Chi, Rick and Morty, and the last-ever episode of The Sandman).

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📺 8 pm Naked and Afraid: Apocalypse (Discovery Channel)
For the first time ever, 12 battle-tested survivalists take on a scorched, apocalyptic wasteland where they must scavenge ruins to survive.

📺 9 pm BBQ Brawl Season 6 finale (Food Network)

📺 9 pm Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time (NatGeo)
The docuseries exposes how a natural disaster became a national tragedy through archival footage and firsthand accounts. (All five episodes drop on Disney+ and Hulu Monday.)

📺 10 pm In the Eye of the Storm Season 2 (Discovery Channel)
📺 11 pm Rick and Morty Season 8 finale (Adult Swim)

📺 Adaptive (Peacock, three-episode binge)
The docuseries follows the journey of four Team USA Paralympians – Ezra Frech (Para track & field), Jamal Hill (Para swimming), Courtney Ryan (Wheelchair basketball) and Josie Aslakson (Wheelchair basketball) — to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

📺 The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball (Hulu, 20-episode binge)
Whether he's battling an evil fast-food empire, facing off against a sentient A.I. in love with his mom or trying to stop Banana Joe from wearing pants, Gumball Watterson drags his brother Darwin, sister Anais, and the rest of the town of Elmore along for the ride.

📺 8 pm Animals on Drugs (Discovery Channel)
From drunk bears to meth-addled gators and Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos," this three-hour event reveals how human vices are wreaking havoc on the animal kingdom.

📺 8 pm Christmas at Sea docuseries finale (Hallmark Channel)
📺 8 pm LEGO Masters Season 5 finale (Fox, next day on Hulu)
📺 9 pm Worst Cooks in America Season 29 (Food Network)

📺 Dope Girls (Hulu, six-episode binge)
After WWI, London evolves with empowered women shaping Soho's nightlife; Julianne Nicholson and Eliza Scanlen star.

📺 Hell Motel Season 1 finale (Shudder)
📺 Trainwreck docuseries finale (Netflix)

📺 WWE: Unreal (Netflix, five-episode binge)
For the first time ever, step into the WWE writers' room and outside the ring with your favorite WWE Superstars, where the drama is just as intense offstage as it is under the spotlight.

📺 7 pm Running With Wolves (ESPN, two-episode premiere)
The four-part docuseries follows Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa as they dive headfirst into the high-stakes world of Italian football — not as spectators, but as team owners. (Parts 3 and 4 air Thursday.)

📺 8 pm Mud Madness Season 2 (Discovery Channel)

📺 9:30 pm The Proof Is Out There: Unexplained Edition (History)
Tony Harris explores some of the most astonishing phenomena ever captured on camera — from UFOs and cryptids, to eerie encounters and unexplained forces.

📺 10 pm Destination X Season 1 finale (NBC, next day on Peacock)

🤣 Dusty Slay: Wet Heat (Netflix comedy special)

📺 Conversations With a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes (Netflix, three-episode binge)
This chilling new chapter of Conversations With a Killer delves into one of the most infamous cases in American history: the 44-caliber killer, David Berkowitz.

📺 Mr & Mrs. Murder (Hulu, four-episode binge)
The docuseries explores the mysterious disappearance of Tallahassee man Mike Williams, who fails to return from a duck hunting trip and is soon presumed dead.

📺 8 pm The Challenge Season 41 (MTV)

📺 9 pm Chasing the West (HGTV)
The Property Brothers take families who wish to escape hectic city life (or own land) to discover the incredible attributes and unique challenges of ranch living.

📺 9 pm Human Footprint Season 2 finale (PBS)

🎥 War of the Worlds (Prime Video movie)
Ice Cube fights aliens to save his family — and the world — in this modern-day adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel; Eva Longoria and Clark Gregg co-star.

📺 Leanne (Netflix, 16-episode binge)
Comedian Leanne Morgan headlines the Chuck Lorre multi-cam about a woman whose husband of 30+ years leaves her for another woman.

📺 The Sandman series finale (Netflix)
📺 Twisted Metal Season 2 (Peacock, three-episode premiere)
🏈 8 pm NFL Hall of Fame Game (NBC)
📺 8 pm Lost Treasures of Rome Season 3 (NatGeo)
📺 9 pm Lost Treasures of Egypt Season 6 (NatGeo)
📺 9 pm Project Runway Season 21 (Freeform, two-episode premiere)

📺 Built in Birmingham: Brady & The Blues (Prime Video, five-episode binge)
American football legend and minority owner Tom Brady stars, as Birmingham City fights to instill winning culture.

📺 The Chi Season 7 finale (Paramount+ Premium)

📺 Chief of War (Apple TV+, two-episode premiere)
Jason Momoa plays a warrior who tries to unify the Hawaiian islands before Western colonization in the late 18th Century.

📺 Eyes of Wakanda (Disney+, four-episode binge)
The animated series follows the adventures of brave Wakandan warriors throughout history.

📺 Perfect Match Season 3 (Netflix, six-episode premiere)
📺 Stillwater Season 4 (Apple TV+, 10-episode binge)
📺 8 pm Deadliest Catch Season 21 (Discovery Channel)
📺 8 pm Love After Lockup Season 6B (We TV)
📺 8 pm Ready to Love Season 10B (OWN)
📺 9 pm Killer Cases Season 7 finale (A&E)
📺 10 pm Taking the Stand Season 4 finale (A&E)

🤣 8 pm Marc Maron: Panicked (HBO comedy special)

🎥 Final Destination: Bloodlines (HBO Max)

🎥 My Oxford Year (Netflix movie)
An ambitious young American woman (Sofia Carson) sets out for Oxford University to fulfill a childhood dream and meets a charming and clever local who profoundly alters both of their lives.

📺 11:30 am Oceanfront Property Hunt Season 1 finale (A&E)
📺 4 pm WWE Summerslam Day 1 (Peacock live event)

📺 8 pm Providence Falls (Hallmark Channel, three-week event)
A thief (Lachlan Quarmby) is transported from 1844 Ireland to the present day to correct the timeline by helping a modern reincarnation of his lost love (Katie Stevens) fall for the man (Evan Roderick) she was originally destined to marry.

📺 9 pm Heart & Hustle: Houston (OWN)
The docuseries follows an incredible sisterhood of Black women thriving in the heart of Texas.

📺 10 pm Naming the Dead (NatGeo)
The investigative series captures the relentless pursuit of truth by a dedicated team of genealogists, detectives, coroners and journalists to identify the remains of unmourned and unnamed bodies. (All six episodes drop Sunday on Disney+.)

🎥 8 pm If I Run (Lifetime movie)
The Terri Blackstock adaptation follows a fugitive (Kat Graham) framed for her best friend's murder, and a war-weary investigator (Evan Roderick) who uncovers a far more complex truth.

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