What To Watch: A Fire Country Ex Visits, Waverly Place Finale 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.

On TV this Friday: Constance Zimmer sizzles on Fire Country, Selena Gomez returns to Wizards Beyond Waverly Place and Robin Roberts hosts Countdown to the Oscars.

Showtimes for February 28, 2025

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I'll Be Right There

Peacock STREAMING PREMIERE

A woman (Edie Falco) tries to balance her busy life including her eight-month pregnant daughter's wedding and heaps of relationship problems; Bradley Whitford and Michael Rapaport co-star.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim

Max STREAMING PREMIERE

Set 183 years before the original trilogy, this anime tells the story of Rohan king Helm Hammerhand (voiced by Succession's Brian Cox), who unintentionally kills a neighboring leader and starts a war.

Severance

Apple TV+

The origins of an old romance intersect with a deadly present threat. (Read Episode 6 recap and post mortem.)

Surface

Apple TV+

Eliza and Sophie rekindle their relationship; an unexpected guest shows up to Quinn and Grace’s engagement party. (Premiere earned reader grade of "B.")

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place

Disney+

Season 1 finale: Billie is missing and the Russos must work together to rescue her from an evil villain; Selena Gomez returns as Alex. (Also airs on Disney Channel at 8/7c.)

Yellowjackets

Paramount+ With Showtime

The Yellowjackets attempt to spin a hundred suspicions into proof; Coach Scott has an existential meltdown.

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Countdown to the Oscars With Robin Roberts

ABC

Roberts sits down with Oscar nominees, including Cynthia Erivo, Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore and Jesse Eisenberg, ahead of Sunday's main event.

NCIS: Sydney

CBS

The team is thrown into the murky world of online conspiracies after a car owned by a U.S. Navy cyber engineer explodes.

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Fire Country

CBS

Station 42 responds to a fire in the dugout before an annual county baseball rivalry game; Vince's ex-girlfriend (played by Constance Zimmer) drops a bomb.

The Way Home

Hallmark Channel

The Landry women pick up the pieces of their past, each wishing they could read Colton's mind; Jacob harbors a secret.

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S.W.A.T.

CBS

During a hiking trip, Powell and Gamble stumble upon an illegal weed farm and face off against a dangerous cartel. (Read preview.)

ON THIS DAY IN TV HISTORY

47 years ago, ABC's Happy Days got a visit from Mork (from Ork), played by Robin Williams. The spinoff Mork & Mindy premiered that September.

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