Return of the American Gladiators, Baez in Boston, Godzilla Awakens, Attenborough’s Gorilla Story

American Gladiators

Consideration, all warriors! The sector is open once more for enterprise in a revival of the bruising competitors franchise that first started in 1989, ran in syndication for a lot of the Nineties, and returned briefly (on NBC) in 2008. A brand new technology of 16 ultra-fit Gladiators, whose credit embrace professional wrestling, soccer, and (naturally) actuality TV, takes on novice contenders in a collection of battles based mostly on video games outdated (Joust, Powerball, Cling Robust, The Wall) and new (The Ring, Collision). The final man and lady left standing win $100,000 and the title of American Gladiator Champion. The collection performs out over three weeks: three episodes this and subsequent Friday, with the four-episode finale on Might 1. Might the most effective Gladiator win!

Boston Blue

Danny Reagan’s (Mark Wahlberg) favourite former companion, Blue Bloods’ Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez), travels north to pay one other go to to Beantown, following a lead from a murder in Brooklyn. She groups up once more with Danny and his new companion, Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced), to unravel the case whereas defending a sufferer. Followers who nonetheless miss the unique collection by no means object to this form of Bloods transfusion.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Persistence pays off on this sporadic motion collection from the Godzilla-Kong “Monsterverse.” With the fearsome Titan X beast beached after making landfall in a distant space of Australia, Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell) units off a gamma ray sign to awaken from the deep the creature of all creatures: Godzilla itself. Shaw desires to see the monsters battle it out and finish the Titan X risk, whereas his colleagues Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) and Cate (Shōgun‘s Anna Sawai) plead a special technique: save the brand new Titan by returning it to its migratory route. However different forces are at work as properly, all taking a again seat to the climactic conflict of the Titans.

A Gorilla Story

Sir David Attenborough, the silky-voiced dean of nature TV, turns 100 in Might, and he nonetheless has tales to inform. In a transferring documentary directed by My Octopus Instructor‘s James Reed and produced by Life on Our Planet‘s Alastair Fothergill, Attenborough displays on one in all his most memorable animal encounters early in his outstanding profession. He reads from his 1978 journals as archival footage depicts his first assembly with the newborn gorilla Pablo within the Rwandan mountains as seen in his breakthrough documentary, 1979’s Life on Earth. Practically 50 years later, filmmakers revisit the Silverbacks of Rwanda, filming over 250 days and several other years to supply an enchanting replace on Pablo’s descendants. Take it from Attenborough: “There’s extra which means and mutual understanding in exchanging a look of the gorilla than with some other animal I do know.”

Your Pals & Neighbors

Coop (Jon Hamm) is caught red-handed, his cat-burglar act captured on digital camera by his mysterious and ultra-wealthy new neighbor Owen Ashe (James Marsden). “I like a man who colours outdoors the field,” Ashe says, however what he actually likes is having one in all Westmont Village’s internal circle below his thumb. Or, as Coop sees it, the newest instance of “my unmatched capacity to take a foul scenario and make it a lot worse.”

INSIDE FRIDAY TV:

• RuPaul’s Drag Race (8/7c, MTV): Miley Cyrus joins RuPaul on stage to crown a $200,000 winner within the Season 18 grand finale.
• Outlander (8/7c, Showtime): Fergus (César Domboy) and his household obtain new threats whereas Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitríona Balfe) wrestle with the thriller surrounding Religion.
• Sheriff Nation (8/7c, CBS): After Deputy Cassidy Campbell (Michele Weaver) is kidnapped, Sheriff Mickey (Morena Baccarin) and her group spring into motion. Adopted by Hearth Nation (9/8c), with an explosive oil properly fireplace difficult a number of crews in an episode directed by collection star Jules Latimer (Eve).
• Joyful’s Place (8/7c, NBC): Bobbie (Reba McEntire) and Isabella (Belissa Escobedo) ask Steve (Pablo Castelblanco) to discover a method to save the tavern some cash. Changing him with an AI accountant might be not what that they had in thoughts.
• Ramy Youssef: In Love (9/8c, HBO): The comedian-actor’s third HBO comedy particular regales an viewers at Chicago’s intimate Hideout with riffs on marriage, AI and faith.
• True Crime Watch: On Dateline NBC (9/8c), Keith Morrison interviews former MLB pitcher Dan Serafini, who insists he’s harmless after his conviction for capturing his in-laws in 2021 in Lake Tahoe. ABC‘s 20/20 (9/8c) explores the disappearance and dying of a Las Vegas showgirl.
• Now Hear This (9/8c, PBS): Scott Yoo celebrates the enduring attraction of ragtime pioneer Scott Joplin, together with a Twenty first-century revival of his opera Treemonisha.

 ON THE STREAM:

• NBA Play-In Event (7:30 pm/ET, streaming on Prime Video): The Charlotte Hornets tackle the Orlando Magic, adopted by the Golden State Warriors vs. the Phoenix Suns, with every victor incomes an 8 seed.
• Full Swing (streaming on Netflix): With Rory McIlroy‘s back-to-back Masters wins nonetheless contemporary in golf followers’ reminiscences, the fourth season of the sports activities docuseries relives highlights of the 2025 season.
• Roommates (streaming on Netflix): A school comedy follows awkward freshman Devon (Sadie Sandler) via a turbulent 12 months along with her extra worldly roomie Celeste (Chloe East).
• Hive (streaming on Tubi): Shades of Weapons in a supernatural thriller starring Xochitl Gomez as a teenage babysitter battling sinister forces in a playground.
• Night time Patrol (streaming on Shudder): Jermaine Fowler (Superior Donuts) stars in a horror film as an LAPD officer with a street-gang background who discovers the lethal secret behind a violent activity pressure that solely operates at evening. You do the maths.