What To Watch: Sudeikis Is Ted Lasso, Jamie Foxx Takes On Project Power, Teenage Bounty Hunters And More
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On TV this Friday: Jason Sudeikis reprises his role as Ted Lasso, Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt team on Project Power and Netflix lets loose a pair of Teenage Bounty Hunters. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar; all times are Eastern.
Showtimes for August 14, 2020
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Netflix
Final season premiere (all seven episodes): Maralto and Continente face each other for real, as the three percent inch closer to becoming one-hundred percent.
Boys State
Apple TV+
The documentary chronicles an annual, week-long program in which 1,000 Texas high school seniors convene and build a mock state government.
Muppets Now
Disney+
Scooter discovers that all new Muppets content must be reviewed by a focus group; Statler and Waldorf serve as test audience members.
Project Power
Netflix
Original movie premiere: An Army vet (Jamie Foxx), a cop (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and a teenage dealer (The Deuce's Dominique Fishback) try to take down those responsible for a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers.
Ted Lasso
Apple TV+
Series premiere (first three episodes, then weekly release): The titular college football coach (again played by SNL vet Jason Sudeikis) is hired to oversee a professional soccer team in England.
Teenage Bounty Hunters
Netflix
Series premiere (all 10 episodes): From Orange Is the New Black EP Jenji Kohan comes the story of teenage twins (played by Supernatural's Maddie Phillips and The Gifted's Anjelica Bette Fellini) who juggle life at an elite high school with their unlikely new career as [see title]; Kadeem Hardison (A Different World) co-stars. (Watch trailer.)
World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji
Amazon Prime
Series premiere (all 10 episodes): From exec producer Mark Burnett comes this 11-day competition, in which 66 teams from 30 countries race non-stop across hundreds of miles of rugged terrain, complete with mountains, jungles, rivers and ocean; Bear Grylls hosts.
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The Greatest #AtHome Videos
CBS
Season 1 finale: A Wicked surprise awaits when Kristin Chenoweth helps Cedric the Entertainer plan a video conference for a group of theater fans.
Shark Week
Discovery Channel
Through midnight| Highlights include Lair of the Great White, which examines an aggressive population of sharks off the coast of Western Australia. (View complete schedule.)
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Room 104
HBO
A divorcée (played by Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Melissa Fumero) overhauls her potentially life-changing decision... to get bangs.
