Donald Duck at 90, The Vampire’s First Interview, Sports Spectacles, ‘Lazarus’ Rises Again

D.I.Y. Duck

Film Premiere

SUNDAY: Donald Duck, essentially the most excitable creature within the Disney menagerie, is trying awfully good for 90, and the corporate is celebrating the animated character’s milestone yr with new merchandise and particular occasions. An undisputed spotlight is the primary all new Donald-centric animated brief since 1961. In D.I.Y. Duck, voice recordings of Disney Legend Clarence “Ducky” Nash might be heard as Donald quacks his method by way of a sequence of home-improvement calamities. The brief was written and directed by incoming Disney Legend and animator Mark Henn earlier than his retirement in 2013. Additionally new to Disney+: two newly restored classics from 1950: Loopy Over Daisy and Out on a Limb, the place Donald tangles with the mischievous Chip and Dale.

Interview With the Vampire

SUNDAY: The sensuous supernatural drama leaves Nineteen Forties Paris behind for an enchanting change-of-pace episode that focuses on the primary assembly of journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) and his topic, vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), flashing again to the drug-addled Nineteen Seventies in San Francisco. “Did we …?” Daniel wonders as they play again their erotically charged encounter, with a curious and really younger Daniel getting Louis to defy his vampire lover Armand (Assad Zaman) by revealing his undead origins. Daniel’s preliminary response is horror—“Are you the Zodiac killer?” he screams—whereas this fateful interview turns into a turning level within the relationship of the passion-driven vamps.

French Open

Sports activities Roundup: Day and evening, this weekend is overrun with main sports activities occasions. From Europe, the French Open concludes with the ladies’s singles remaining between three-time winner Iga Swiatek and Jasmine Paolini on Saturday (9 am/ET, NBC) and the boys’s remaining match on Sunday (9 am/ET, NBC). Defending USFL Champion Birmingham Stallions tackle the Michigan Panthers within the USFL Convention Championship (Saturday, 3 pm/ET, ABC), with the St. Louis Battlehawks dealing with the San Antonio Brahmas within the XFL Convention Championship (Sunday, 7 pm/ET, Fox). There received’t be a Triple Crown winner this yr, however as the ultimate race of the triumvirate, the Belmont Stakes (Saturday, 4 pm/ET, NBC) from Saratoga Race Course bears watching. The primary sport of hockey’s Stanley Cup Finals (Saturday, 8 pm/ET, ABC) pits the Florida Panthers towards the Edmonton Oilers. In prime time on Sunday, the NBA Finals (8 pm/ET, ABC) continues with Sport 2, with Boston Celtics main the Dallas Mavericks.

The Lazarus Challenge

SUNDAY: Haven’t we seen this earlier than? That’s type of the purpose on this sci-fi motion thriller, returning for Season 2 with the world caught in a seemingly infinite three-week time loop. The Lazarus workforce is racing towards time to avert international destruction, whereas guilt-burdened agent George (Paapa Essiedu) hopes to redeem himself with the group he betrayed within the title of affection.

The Woman Locked Upstairs: The Tanya Kach Story

Lifetime’s Girls in Peril: The community gives a twofer of its signature “based mostly on a real story” cautionary tales, beginning with The Woman Locked Upstairs: The Tanya Kach Story (Saturday, 8/7c), based mostly on the lifetime of Tanya (Jordyn Ashley Olsen), a bullied 14-year-old who’s befriended by her center faculty’s safety guard (Robert Baker)—till he lures her to his house and retains her captive there for greater than a decade. Adopted by a Behind the Headlinesparticular at 10/9c. Sunday’s Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story(8/7c) stars government producer Jana Kramer as Morgan, whose marriage to childhood sweetheart Rodney (Austin Nichols) takes fairly just a few sinister turns.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• D-Day: America’s Secret Catastrophe (Saturday, 8/7c, Smithsonian Channel): A daylong marathon of warfare documentaries marking the invasion’s 80^th anniversary contains six hours of WWII Battles in Shade specials (beginning at 2 pm/1c) and a examine of the disastrous Train Tiger rehearsal six weeks earlier than D-Day that claimed greater than 700 American lives. Adopted by D-Day and the Battle of Normandy (9/8c) and two extra D-Day associated specials.
• A. Delight Parade (Sunday, 2 pm/1c, 11 am/PT, streaming on Hulu): Grand marshals of the annual Delight Month occasion embrace Star Trek alum George Takei, professional wrestler Cassandro El Exótico and LAFD’s Kristin Crowley.
• The Entire Story with Anderson Cooper (Sunday, 8/7c, CNN): In “Drag Struggle,” correspondent Randi Kaye explores the right-wing backlash towards drag performers in her house state of Florida, together with an interview with RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and Fulbright Scholar Sasha Velour.
• The Chosen (Sunday, 9 pm/8c, 6 pm/PT, BYUtv): Again-to-back episodes launch Season 4 of the historic Biblical drama.
• Gordon Ramsay Uncharted (Sunday, 9/8c, Nationwide Geographic): The chef heads to the massive island of Hawai’i to forage native substances from the rainforests and ocean earlier than dealing with off with native grasp Makani Carzino.
• Screams Earlier than Silence (Sunday, 9/8c, Jewish Life Tv): Producer Sheryl Sandberg’s documentary options survivors, eyewitnesses and launched hostages of the Oct. 7 Hamas bloodbath to disclose the sexual violence dedicated that day and amongst Israeli captives in Gaza.