This week's TV: ‘The Studio,' ‘MobLand,' and more
The buzzy comedy title will release the first two of its 10 episodes Wednesday, then roll out episodes weekly until its finale on May 21.
What else clicks this week?
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Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers applauds fans after the MLB Tokyo Series game between the Dodgers and Chicago Cubs at Tokyo Dome on March 19, 2025 in Tokyo.
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MLB opening day doubleheader
, Thursday on ESPN: The first ball gets tossed out at Yankee Stadium in the 36th season of the cable network's Major League Baseball coverage. Up at 3 p.m., the New York Yankees with Aaron Judge host the Milwaukee Brewers and Christian Yelich. After that, at 7 p.m., with time for a beer run in between, the 2024 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani welcome the Detroit Tigers and Tarik Skubal to Dodger Stadium.
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Mid-Century Modern
,' Friday on Hulu: Billed as a contemporary gender-switched 'Golden Girls,' the new comedy series from 'Will & Grace' creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick stars Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer, and Nathan Lee Graham. The gay trio become unlikely Palm Springs roommates and a sitcom is born. In the pilot, the late Linda Lavin stars as Lane's mother. Comedy titan James Burrows ('Will & Grace,' 'Cheers') directs all 10 episodes.
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Number One on the Call Sheet,
' Friday on Apple TV+: Actors aspire to carry the narrative arc, to portray a character that changes over a project's course. The clearest external proof of this is where their name falls on the production call sheet: If it's at the top, then they're the lead, and the story's most important player. In this two-part, in-depth look at Black actors rising to that hallowed spot, the documentarians talk to Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cynthia Erivo, Idris Elba, Tiffany Haddish, Halle Berry, and more about their rise to the industry's pinnacle, the costs of getting there, and future opportunities for the next generation of Black talent.
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Wildlife Rehab
,' Saturday on National Geographic at 10 p.m.: The nonfiction 'All Creatures Great and Small' unfolds at the Living Sky Wildlife Rehab Center in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The dramas and delights of caring for animals in distress unfolds as high-stakes ER events. The caretakers' passionate fight to save and protect rescued animals with the goal of rehabilitating them and returning them to their native habitats propels the series that walks, and flies, on the wild side.
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MobLand
‚' Sunday on Paramount+: Producer-director Guy Ritchie ('The Gentlemen') continues developing stellar, action-packed genre television. In his explosive British crime family saga (originally envisioned as a 'Ray Donovan' prequel), the affluent Irish mob family Harrigan is in the midst of a London turf war. The Mr. and Mrs. (Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren) recruit fixer Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy), who gets enmeshed in the Harrigans' battle for loyalty, spoils, and dominance in a global criminal enterprise.
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