All About the Piano Man, Fox’s ‘Fixer,’ ‘Alien’s Daddy Issues, a Snoopy Musical

Billy Joel: And So It Goes

One of many nice entertainers and songwriters of our time sits at — the place else — the piano to replicate on his life and noteworthy six-decade profession in a sensational and expansive two-part biographical documentary (concluding subsequent Friday) from Susan Lacy (Spielberg) and Jessica Levin. The primary half traces the evolution of a Jewish working-class outsider from Lengthy Island to the Grammy-winning pinnacle of superstardom. Beneficiant clips from concert events and recording periods in addition to house motion pictures and images underscore his private and turbulent working relationship together with his first spouse, Elizabeth Weber, who would change into his supervisor as Billy Joel rises to the highest. Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney are among the many musical luminaries expressing their admiration for this singular expertise.

The Fixer

Famed entrepreneur and investor Marcus Lemonis believes within the three P’s: folks, course of and product. That’s the enterprise philosophy he shares with small companies at a crossroads, every searching for his knowledge and maybe some working capital in a brand new actuality sequence. Just like the sharks in Shark Tank, this knowledgeable hopes to make a revenue as he delivers laborious truths to those enterprise house owners. Within the two-part opener, Lemonis visits a health studio specializing in trampoline and dance cardio exercises, then lends his experience to an auto equipment firm.

Resident Alien

From NewsRadio and King of the Hill to Barry, Stephen Root has established himself as certainly one of TV’s most reliably amusing character actors. That streak continues when he guest-stars as Harry’s (Alan Tudyk) belligerent alien father, who has custody of his son’s tube of “alien power” and isn’t about to present it as much as the offspring who was despatched to Earth to destroy all people however as a substitute turned one. “You went delicate,” he scoffs to this “weak human embarrassment, a weenie boy,” telling Harry that if he needs to get his alien mojo again, he’ll should do one thing drastic that’s towards his newly humanistic nature. Elsewhere within the city of Endurance, the search continues for the incognito alien Mantid, and Asta (Sara Tomko) begins to query her life selections.

Snoopy Presents: A Summer time Musical

With music from two Emmy-nominated skills, composer Jeff Morrow and singer-songwriter Ben Folds, the Peanuts gang heads again to summer time camp for the franchise’s first musical particular in 35 years. Charlie Brown brings a nervous Sally to camp for the primary time, whereas Snoopy and Woodstock go on a treasure hunt. However after they be taught the camp is in peril of closing, the gang rallies to host a live performance to avoid wasting their favourite summer time vacation spot.

Dexter: Resurrection

The nerve! As Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Corridor) notes, “This city isn’t sufficiently big for 2 Darkish Passengers,” and he units his sights on the “imposter” who’s stolen his murderous alter ego’s identify, a mysterious backseat driver who’s been throttling and beheading ride-share drivers all through New York’s boroughs. Whereas Dexter snoops and stalks, his son Harrison (Jack Alcott) is grilled by the detectives investigating the homicide and dismemberment of a lodge visitor. “You’re not not a suspect,” says the spookily pushed Detective Wallace (Kadia Saraf). The episode airs Sunday on Showtime.

Inside Friday TV:

• Planet Bizarre (8/7, Nat Geo WILD): The season finale of the offbeat nature sequence options such oddities because the camouflaging coconut octopus, finches with a style for blood, and bats whose breath can erode a cavern wall.
• My Lottery Dream House (9/8c, HGTV): David Bromstad returns for an 18th season of serving to lottery winners lock in on the property of their goals. Adopted by the Season 2 premiere of Zillow Gone Wild (9:30/8:30c), with 30 Rock alum Jack McBrayer searching for the wackiest on-line real-estate listings, together with a Pennsylvania home formed like an enormous shoe.

On the Stream:

• RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (streaming on Paramount+): Within the season finale, the ultimate eight queens lip sync for the crown — and a $200,000 grand prize.
• Smoke (streaming on Apple TV+): John Leguizamo makes his first look on the slow-burning arson thriller as Dave’s (Taron Egerton) resentful former cop accomplice, who backs Calderone’s (Jurnee Smollett) suspicions that there’s one thing awfully shady about Dave.
• Zarna Garg: Sensible Folks Win (streaming on Hulu): The Indian American comedian regales a San Francisco viewers with a colourful stand-up set. Within the custom of early Roseanne, she says she tells her youngsters to cease attempting to observe their bliss when they need to be monetizing their distress.