TV shows, new DVDs, movies and books you’ll want to check out this week!
(All times Eastern.)
MONDAY, Nov. 9
Supergirl
Supergirl’s powers are put to the test when one of her cousin Superman’s archenemies arrives on Earth—just as Tribune media mogul Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart) is preparing an exposé on her (8 p.m., CBS).
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Women of Honor
First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the vice president, make appearances in this tribute to female veterans and caregivers in in the military community (8 p.m., Lifetime).
TUESDAY, Nov. 10
Republican Presidential Primary Debate
Fox personalities Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto moderate the candidates live from the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wis. (9 p.m., Fox Business Network).
Iwo Jima
Actor Ryan Phillippe hosts this Veteran’s Day Eve journey back to the site of one of World War II’s fiercest battles for a historic reunion of American and Japanese serviceman who once fought and now come together in peace (8 p.m., PBS).
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Hunting Hitler
Did Adolph Hitler survive—and pull off the greatest disappearing act of all time? This new eight-part series begins tonight by following a team of investigators as they reopen World War II’s most intriguing cold case (10 p.m., History).
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11
Law and Order
The hunt for a missing girl takes an emotional toll on Sgt. Dodds (Andy Karl), while DNA evidence becomes crucial in finding her abductor (9 p.m., NBC).
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Criminal Minds
The journalist daughter (Amber Stevens West) of Rossi (Joe Mantegna) investigates the disappearance of a college student; the team is alarmed when an informant dies in prison after warning Morgan (Shemar Moore) about a group of hit men; J.J. (A.J. Cook) returns from maternity leave (9 p.m., CBS).
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Nashville
Rayna (Connie Britton) has concerns about a business venture between Deacon (Charles Esten) and an old friend from AA (Mark Collie), and the relationship between Luke (Will Chase) and Colt (Keean Johnson) is jeopardized in the wake of recent events (10 p.m., ABC).
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THURSDAY, Nov. 12
Project Runway Junior
The next generation of up-and-coming fashionistas, ages 13-17, are mentored by cohost Tim Gunn and supermodel Hannah Davis while Kelly Osborne, designer Christian Siriano and Cosmopolitan/Seventeen magazine fashion editor Aya Kanal judge who makes the grade (9 p.m., Lifetime).
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2 Broke Girls
In the season five premiere, Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs) team with the diner in a frantic effort to keep it and their cupcake business up and running when the city targets them both for the wrecking ball (9:30, CBS).
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FRIDAY, Nov. 13
Unforgettable
This new crime drama stars Poppy Montgomery as a NYPD detective with a rare memory condition that helps her and her partner (Dylan Walsh) unravel some of the city’s most baffling—and dangerous—offenses (8 p.m. A&E).
Grimm
Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) race to find Rosalle (Bree Turner) after she’s taken by a band of orphaned children who see her as the mother figure they always wanted (9 p.m., NBC).
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Hawaii Five-0
The Five-0 team must work with a charming con man (Kristoffer Polaha) to find a killer when his female partner is murdered on the job (9 p.m., CBS).
SATURDAY, Nov. 14
Alaska Vet
Dr. Dee Thornell flies from Fairbanks to a remote village to set up a spay-and-neuter marathon at a local Laundromat—and later struggles to deliver a calf at one of the state’s largest cattle ranches (9 p.m., Animal Planet).
Democratic Presidential Debate
You’ve watched the Republicans wrangle, now see the Democrats duke it out. The first national broadcast this campaign season—live from the campus of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa—featuring Democratic contenders Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley will be moderated by Face the Nation anchor John Dickerson, joined by panelists Nancy Cordes of CBS News, KCCI (Des Moines) anchor Kevin Cooney and Des Moines Register political columnist Kathie Obradovich (9 p.m., CBS).
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Spotless
After accidentally witnessing a double murder, two London brothers (Marc-André Grondin and Denis Ménochet) jeopardize their crime scene cleaning business by becoming entangled in a darkly comic web of organized crime in the first episode of this new series. (10 p.m., Esquire).
SUNDAY, NOV. 15
UFOs Declassified
The team of Canada-based UFO investigators looks into widely documented 1980 reports of unexplained lights near a military base in Rendelsham Forest in England, an event that has come to be known as “Britain’s Roswell” (8 p.m., Smithsonian).
CSI: Cyber
When a woman is murdered while video-chatting with her parents, the skills of Avery (Patricia Arquette) are tested when she finds out the only witness (guest star Tristan Jenkins) has PTSD from seeing the incident (10:30 p.m., CBS).
NEW ON DVD
As the universe aligns for the new Star Wars movie coming in December, fans can now own all five previous Star Wars movies—The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back—in commemorative new Blu-ray hard-case “steelbook” editions, with new character artwork and bonus features (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment).
In the outrageously funny Trainwreck (Universal Pictures Home Entertaiment), comedian Amy Schumer stars as a commitment-adverse, party-gal journalist who falls for a sports doctor (Bill Hader), with appearances by Brie Larson, LeBron James, Tilda Swindon, Colin Quinn and John Cena.
The acclaimed U.K. television series starring Michael Kitchen a British detective chasing down criminals in the aftermath of World War II comes to DVD in Foyle’s War: The Complete Saga (Acorn), with six hours of bonus content, including documentaries, making-of features and a TV retrospective.
Mark Wahlberg stars as an English professor leading a double life with some serious, life-threatening odds in The Gambler (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment), also featuring John Goodman, Brie Larson and Jessica Lange.
Back in 1995, director Michael Bay teamed with actors Will Smith and Martin Lawrence for Bad Boys, and then its follow-up eight years later, about a couple of hip, flip detectives. Now both flicks are available on Bad Boys I & II: The 20th Anniversary Collection (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment).
In Self/Less (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment), a dying millionaire (Ben Kingsley) undergoes a radical medical procedure that implants his consciousness into the body of a strapping young man (Ryan Reynolds)…with some wild side effects for which he wasn’t prepared.
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Actor John Leguizamo, whose lengthy resume includes the movies, TV and Broadway, turns his life story into a touching and sometimes hilarious graphic novel, Ghetto Klown (Abrams Comic Arts), based on his one-man stage show, which was later adapted into a 2014 HBO special.
You’ve seen him portrayed on TV and in the movies by Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch. Now you dive deeper into the world of pop culture’s most famous fictional detective with The Sherlock Holmes Book (DK), an encyclopedic, illustrated exploration of the entire canon of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of Sherlock and Dr. Watson.
Who’s the best Bond? You don’t have to choose—they’re all here in Bond vs. Bond: The Many Faces of 007 (Race Point Publishing), author Paul Sampson’s extensive, generously illustrated new guide to the various actors who’ve portrayed the suave superspy across the decades, plus the girls, guns, gadgets, villains and more.
NEW AT THE MOVIES
Antonio Banderas headlines an international cast in The 33, based on the inspiring true story of the 2010 Chilean mining disaster that that became an international rescue rally… Real-life husband and wife Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Pitt star as a 1970s couple who ship off to the Mediterranean to iron out wrinkles in their marriage in By the Sea… A gridiron underdog (Finn Whitrock) faces an even bigger challenge after leading the Texas Longhorns to a championship season under the leadership of a legendary coach (Aaron Eckhart) in My All American.
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