What To Watch: Painkiller Premiere, Challenge: USA Returns, Strange New Worlds Finale And More
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On TV this Thursday: Uzo Aduba headlines opioid crisis drama Painkiller, The Challenge: USA returns for Season 2 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds wraps its sophomore voyage. Here are 11 programs to keep on your radar. (Also check out our weekly TVLine-Up of premieres and finales, plus our monthly streaming guide.)
Showtimes for August 10, 2023
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Average Joe
BET+
In the penultimate Season 1 episode, Joe and Leon search for Jennifer in Nicolai's cabin.
Cookie Monster's Bake Sale
Max
Cookie Monster hosts a special baking competition with celebrity chef Eddie Jackson to help raise money for a sports team needing new uniforms.
Love in Taipei
Paramount+
Movie premiere: An aspiring dancer (played by Fuller House's Ashley Liao) becomes distracted by two different boys who are vying for her attention; Ross Butler (13 Reasons Why) and Nico Hiraga (The Power) co-star. (Watch trailer.)
Painkiller
Netflix
Limited series premiere (all six episodes): Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black), Matthew Broderick (The Producers) and Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights) headline the (latest) opioid crisis drama. (Watch trailer.)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Paramount+
Season 2 finale: The U.S.S. Enterprise investigates an attack at the edge of Federation space; an enemy returns and challenges Pike & Co. (We almost got a Klingon opera!)
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Fight to Survive
The CW
Series premiere: Seventeen competitors must survive on a remote island for 25 days and compete against each other to win $250K; Akbar Gbajabiamila (The Talk) hosts.
Generation Gap
ABC
Contestants get a surprise from the Bionic Woman herself, Lindsay Wagner.
Season 2 premiere: MTV vets — including Wes Bergmann and Johnny "Bananas" DeVenanzio — compete against CBS reality all stars. (See full cast list; read Tori Deal Q&A.)
Tacoma FD
TruTV
Two shifts must share duties at Station 24, igniting a challenge to see which shift is the chief's favorite.
