HBO debuts Winning Time and Starz’s Outlander is finally back
Plus: Courteney Cox leads Starz’s Shining Vale, and IFC airs the Independent Spirit Awards
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, March 6. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty (HBO, 9 p.m., series premiere): Created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, with Adam McKay as an EP and director, this sports drama charts the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers on and off the court. The cast includes Adrien Brody, Quincy Isaiah, Solomon Hughes, John C. Reilly, Tracy Letts, and Jason Segel. Noel Murray astutely writes in his last review for The A.V. Club:
This is a portrait of an NBA on the precipice of a major transformation, thanks to new stars and new corporate partners (including Nike, whose failed shoe pitch to Magic is a plot line in one episode). It’s a show about how creating something great and lasting is hard work, and how not everyone involved emerges unbruised. Winning Time is about one of sport’s golden ages, yes, but it’s also about the nebulousness of that very concept. By including a lot of different perspectives, the Winning Time team makes clear that in hindsight, everyone has a different idea about what a golden age was really like—and about when and why it ended.