What's on TV this week—The Five Star Weekend and Little House On The Prairie premiere
Plus, a fiery Burning Man docuseries hits HBO.
Alice Halsey as Laura Ingalls in Little House On The Prairie
Welcome to What’s On, our weekly roundup of notable shows. Here is what’s happening on TV from Sunday, July 5 to Saturday, July 11. All times are Eastern.
Trying (Apple TV, Wednesday, season five premiere) Esther Smith and Rafe Spall are back as couple Nikki Newman and Jason Ross for yet another round of exploring modern parenthood, but the British comedy’s fifth installment comes with the added complication of Kat (Charlotte Riley)—the biological mother of their adopted kids Princess (Scarlett Rayner) and Tyler (Cooper Turner)—turning up at their doorstep to shake up their happily settled family life. Along with those returning players, the eight-episode fifth season will welcome some new faces, including Celia Imrie, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Colin Morgan, Danielle Vitalis, and Leah Brotherhead.
The Man Will Burn (HBO and HBO Max, Thursday, 9 p.m., series premiere) Even if you’re not a festival diehard, you’ve surely heard of Burning Man, the groovy desert gathering that has long since grown from its early hippie principles of community and creativity to become a big tech-bro confab. Directors Jehane Noujaim (The Vow) and Vikram Gandhi (The Grass Is Greener) explore that polarizing evolution in this four-part HBO Original documentary. With exclusive access to Burning Man leadership and years of video archives, the pair dig into the challenges organizers have faced to preserve the event’s original counterculture ethos.
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