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On TV this Thursday: Taika Waititi is Blackbeard, Kate McKinnon channels Carole Baskin and Amanda Seyfried embodies Elizabeth Holmes. Here are 15 programs to keep on your radar; all times are Eastern.
Limited series premiere (first three episodes): Amanda Seyfried plays Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, whose health-technology company was infamously exposed to be a scam. (Watch trailer; should this have been a two-hour movie instead?)
Narrated by Succession‘s Kieran Culkin, the two-part docuseries explores the historic 2021 short squeeze of GameStop. (Watch trailer.)
Limited series premiere (all eight episodes): The Tiger King dramatization casts Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin and John Cameron Mitchell as chief rival Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel. (Watch trailer.)
Series premiere (first three episodes): Exec producer Taika Waititi co-stars as Blackbeard in this comedy loosely based on the adventures of 18th Century would-be pirate Stede Bonnet (played by Rhys Darby). (Watch trailer.)
After some tinkering, Stewart returns in a new weekly format. First up, an episode focused on the Stock Market.
Season 2 premiere: Members of Picard’s former crew discover an anomaly in space that threatens the entire galaxy. (Read preview; watch trailer.)
Series premiere (all six episodes): Fifty Shades‘ Jamie Dornan plays a man who finds himself being pursued by a vast tank truck in the heart of the Australian outback. (Watch trailer.)
Film premiere: Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) plays a woman accused of killing her best friend during a weekend getaway to Croatia.
Season 19 premiere (75 minutes): Fifteen of the nation’s best chefs arrive in Houston ready for culinary battle.
Feisty officer Cassie Perez (new series regular Ashley Reyes) mistakes Cordell for a suspect. (Read preview, get prequel casting scoop!)
Special time: Gina struggles to keep Valley Hills running smoothly after Mrs. Ludlum leaves for a rival facility. (United States of Al airs at 9:30.)
Schmitt endures a Morbidity & Mortality conference; Meredith convinces Nick to scrub in on a surgery in Seattle; Jo faces her feelings.
Sarah and Jodie learn of a local mom’s scandalous OnlyFans FansOnly page; Amy grows exhausted when Henry is suddenly unable to keep his hands off of her.
Season 2 premiere: John and David must find a legendary stolen recipe… for pimento cheese. (Season 1, which we’re told existed, is streaming on Hulu.)
In an episode being teased as the “final showdown” between Wheatley and Stabler, Bernie gets caught up in her son’s mess.
