What's on TV this week—Stuart Fails To Save The Universe and Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender premiere

Welcome to What’s On, our weekly roundup of notable shows. Here is what’s happening on TV from Sunday, July 19 to Saturday, July 25. All times are Eastern.

Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat (AMC, Sunday, 9 p.m., season-three finale) The end of the tour is nigh, but the ongoing saga of Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) continues with the season three finale of Interview With The Vampire—yes, even after those unexpected decapitations. The third season, which adapts the second novel in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, has centered on Lestat’s adventures in glam-rock stardom; fittingly, its final episode will take place during the rock god’s last concert and will hopefully shed a little light on that dark duplicity from Armand (Assad Zaman) and Daniel (Eric Bogosian). Sink your teeth into The A.V. Club’s finale recap on Sunday. 

Stuart Fails To Save The Universe (HBO Max, Thursday, series premiere) Spinning off from The Big Bang Theory, this sci-fi comedy stars Kevin Sussman as the titular Stuart Bloom, a comic-book shop owner who—courtesy a malfunction of a machine built by Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter—accidentally bringing about a multiverse Armageddon. Tasked with restoring reality, Stuart is joined by girlfriend Denise (Lauren Lapkus), geologist pal Bert (Brian Posehn), and quantum physicist Barry Kripke (John Ross Bowie), along with some alternate-universe versions of characters and cast members you already know from The Big Bang universe. The A.V. Club’s season review touches down on Thursday. 

The Dink (Apple TV, Friday, movie premiere) Jake Johnson and Ben Stiller team up for this sports comedy flick directed by Josh Greenbaum (Barb And Star Go To Vista Del Mar) and written by Sean Clements (Hollywood Handbook), which gives the pickleball explosion the Happy Gilmore treatment. Johnson stars as Dusty Boyd, a washed-up tennis pro who turns to the less-esteemed paddle game to rehab an injury at his father Chuck’s (Ed Harris) suburban country club. With the help of his new pickleball partner (Mary Steenburgen), Dusty finds himself actually enjoying the dink life, but soon is haunted by the ghosts of his athletic past. The stacked ensemble also includes Chloe Fineman, Patton Oswalt, Aaron Chen, Chris Parnell, Christine Taylor, and real-life tennis legends John McEnroe and Andy Roddick.