BMF, the latest offshoot of Power, comes to rule over Sundays
Plus, the Tonys, Walking Dead, and Scenes From A Marriage
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, September 26. All times are Eastern.
Top Pick
BMF (Starz, 9 p.m., season-one premiere): Joshua Alston is really impressed so far with this Power offshoot, the third of four planned spin-offs. BMF (or Black Mafia Family) is a family drama set against the rise of a drug-dealing enterprise; or maybe it’s vice versa. “BMF is itself a distant planet in the Power universe, with [Curtis] Jackson once again executive producing and supplying its boom-bap theme song, and former Power writer Randy Huggins manning the keyboard. But what sets the show apart is its real-life inspiration: Detroit-born brothers Demetrius ‘Big Meech’ Flenory and Terry Flenory, the Black Mafia Family of the show’s abbreviated title. The Flenory boys, since given stiff prison sentences following a 2005 FBI raid, wrested control of the coke market in the ’90s in Motor City and beyond. By the time the brothers were swept up in a racketeering dragnet, they had expanded nationwide and were distributing nearly three tons of product every month.”
Regular Coverage
Scenes From A Marriage (HBO, 9 p.m.)
The Walking Dead (AMC, 9 p.m.)