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 a nine series debuts (including Julie Plec's We Were Liars and Kevin Williamson's The Waterfront), a dozen returning shows (including The Buccaneers, Grantchester and Somebody Feed Phil) and 10 finales (including Adults and Love Hotel).

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📺 The Chosen Season 5 (Prime Video, two-episode premiere)
📺 8 pm America's Funniest People (ABC special)

📺 8 pm Patience (PBS)
A detective (Laura Fraser) takes a neurodivergent woman (Ella Maisy Purvis) under her wing to assist with complex criminal investigations.

📺 9 pm Grantchester Season 10 (PBS)
📺 9 pm Bravo's Love Hotel Season 1 finale (Bravo)
📺 9 pm The Mortician docuseries finale (HBO)

📺 9 pm Underdogs (NatGeo)
Ryan Reynolds narrates this five-part nature docuseries celebrating the unique behaviors of the animals who don't usually get to be the stars of the show.

📺 10 pm Hazardous History With Henry Winkler (History)
Each episode tells stories of pastimes, practices and products that were once allowed — even encouraged — which you will never see again in modern America.

📺 10 pm Sister Wives Season 19 finale (TLC)

📺 8 am Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends Season 4 (Disney Jr.)
📺 8 pm Walking With Dinosaurs Season 2 (PBS)
📺 9 pm The Playboy Murders Season 3 finale (Investigation Discovery)

📺 9 pm Super Mega Cakes (Food Network)
Team Duff Goldman goes up against six teams of the country's best cake artists over the course of four days — all at once.

📺 10 pm Love It or List It Season 20 finale (HGTV)
📺 10 pm Toxic Season 1 finale (Investigation Discovery)

🎥 9 pm Sally (NatGeo documentary, next day on Disney+ and Hulu)
The film honors the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to space.

🎥 Love Me (Paramount+ With Showtime)

📺 Chopper Cops Season 2 (Paramount+, 10-episode binge)

📺 Hell Motel (Shudder, two-episode premiere)
True-crime obsessives (including Eric McCormick) are invited to the site of an unsolved, satanic mass murder where history repeats itself and a killing spree ensues.

📺 9 pm Castle Impossible Season 1 finale (HGTV)

🤣 Justin Willman: Magic Lover (Netflix comedy special)

🎥 9 pm Surviving Ohio State (HBO documentary)
The film tells the story of the male victims of Dr. Richard Strauss, a sports medicine physician and serial sex abuser employed by The Ohio State University (OSU) from 1978 to 1998. 

📺 America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Season 2 (Netflix, seven-episode binge)
📺 The Buccaneers Season 2 (Apple TV+)

📺 Outrageous (BritBox, two-episode premiere)
The six-part drama is inspired by the lives of the aristocratic Mitford sisters – six headstrong women who frequently made headlines around the world.

📺 Somebody Feed Phil Season 8 (Netflix, eight-episode binge)

📺 We Were Liars (Prime Video, eight-episode binge)
A teenager (Emily Alyn Lind) and her tight-knit inner circle — nicknamed the Liars — spend the summer on her grandfather's private island.

📺 9 pm Adults Season 1 finale (FX, two episodes)
📺 9 pm Children Ruin Everything Season 4B (The CW, two-episode premiere)
📺 9 pm Expedition Unknown Season 15 (Discovery Channel)
📺 10 pm AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to Francis Ford Coppola (TNT special)
📺 10 pm Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch Season 5 (Discovery Channel)

📺 10 pm Sports Gone Wrong (Vice)
The docuseries delves into unexpected and bizarre moments in sports — from misbehaving athletes to streaking fans and headline-making brawls.

📺 Scrublands Season 2 finale (AMC+)

📺 The Waterfront (Netflix, eight-episode binge)
Melissa Benoist stars in this Kevin Williamson drama about a family's efforts to retain control of their crumbling fishing empire.

📺 The Bravest Knight Season 2B (Hulu, seven-episode binge)
📺 Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical (Disney+ special)
📺 10 pm Missing Presumed Dead Season 1 finale (NatGeo)

🎥 A Minecraft Movie (Max)

🎥 Noah's Arc: The Movie (Paramount+ With Showtime movie)
Noah (Darryl Stephens) and Wade (Jensen Atwood) are expecting twins and must shift gears when each is offered their dream job.

📺 8 pm Kids' Choice Awards (Nickelodeon)

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