The Parade Preview: What to Watch, Rent or Buy May 23 – 29

MONDAY, MAY 23

Whose Line Is It Anyway

The iconic series returns for a new season hosted by comedian Aisha Tyler and featuring cast members Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie, along with a guest comedian each week, all putting their funny bones to work in spontaneous improv games (9 p.m., The CW).

Dancing With The Stars

Who will twirl, whirl and spin their way to the top? Host Tom Burgeron and co-host Erin Andrews oversee the two-night season finale leading to the crowing of the season’s best celebrity-and-pro dancing pair-up (9 p.m., ABC).

TUESDAY, MAY 24

General Hospital

The daytime drama’s annual Nurses Ball, one of fictional Port Charles’ most glamorous charity events, begins three days of stunning red carpet glitz and glamour, musical performances, cameo appearances from real-life TV personalities—and, of course, plenty of good ol’ soap-opera passion and intrigue (2 p.m., ABC).

Virtually in Love

Follow young, hopeful romantics as they embark on journeys to break away from their “screens” and finally meet face-to-face and in-person with the real people they’ve been dating via texts and social media (9 p.m., Oxygen).

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25

Wayward Pines

Season two of executive producer M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological-thriller series about the strange goings-on in a remote Idaho town stars Jason Patric, Djimon Hounsou, Hope Davis, Terrence Howard, Carla Gugino, Toby Jones and Melissa Leo (9 p.m., Fox)

Douglas Family Gold

This new reality show follows U.S. Olympics gold metal gymnast Gabby Douglas and her tight-knit family-based support team as she prepares to head back to the 2016 Games in Rio (10 p.m., Oxygen).

THURSDAY MAY 26

500 Questions

Dan Harris of Nightline and the weekend edition of Good Morning America hosts this new game show, in which some of the smartest people in America are challenged to answer 500 of the most difficult general-knowledge questions ever devised—without getting a single one wrong (8 p.m., ABC).

Red Nose Day Special

A star-studded cast of Hollywood’s who’s who—hosted by Craig Ferguson, with appearances by Ellen DeGeneres, Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan, Key & Peele, Seth Rogen, Ellie Kemper, Adam Devin and many others—comes together for this live comedy and musical special as part of a global initiative to raise funds for programs to keep children and young people safe, healthy and educated (9 p.m., NBC).

FRIDAY, MAY 27

Bloodline

The new season of the hit thriller-drama series starring Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn and Linda Cardellini begins with the Rayburn family struggling to conceal an unthinkable crime as a mysterious stranger from the past arrive with a dangerous agenda (streaming live today, Netflix).

National Geographic Bee

CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca hosts this final competition between 54 fourth- to eighth-grade whiz kids from all over the country, all vying for a $50,000 college scholarship and a travel expedition to Alaska (8 p.m., National Geographic Channel & Nat Geo Wild).

SATURDAY, MAY 28

Madoff

Richard Dreyfuss stars as the former investment advisor who pulled off one of the greatest Ponzi-scheme scams in history, and Blythe Danner plays his wife, Ruth, in this miniseries rebroadcast from February (8 p.m., ABC).

Rabid

A look at the rabies virus examines animals known to carry it and communities and individuals who have suffered from it (9 p.m., Animal Planet).

SUNDAY, MAY 29

Celebrity Food Fight

Fast-paced trivia games and food-themed challenges are on the menu as stars like Tom Arnold, Andy Dick, Jennie Garth, Penn Jillette, Kevin Jonas, Dr. Drew Pinsky and Kendra Wilkinson pair up and square off for fine good, great company and lots of laughs in this new culinary game show (10 p.m., Food).

American Ninja Warrior

It’s a first-time all-star special with super-sized obstacles—including a giant peg board, the Fllying Shelf Grab and the Mega Wall—and two five-member teams, selected by hosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila, in a spectacular smackdown for bragging rights and a championship trophy (9 p.m, NBC).

NEW ON DVD

Grab your life preserver and hang on. The Finest Hours (Disney Home Entertainment) stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Eric Bana, Ben Foster and Holliday Grainger in the true tale of one of the most daring sea rescues in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard, after a pair of oil tankers were destroyed in a 1952 blizzard. Bonus content include a documentary about the real-life heroes behind the story, making-of featurettes and deleted scenes.

Zoo who? Zoo 2! Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson reprise their roles as clueless fashionitas in the outrageously over-the-top Zoolander No. 2: The Magnum Edition (Paramount Home Entertainment), which comes packaged with behind-the-scenes features, secrets behind the sequel and other goodies.

Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees—like you’ve never seen them before. To commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the ABC-TV show that launched Monkee-mania in 1966, the fine folks at Rhino Records have re-mastered and released all 58 episodes of the beloved series in a splendid Blu-ray collection, which also includes the group’s 1968 cult-classic feature film HEAD, episode commentary from all four Monkees, TV commercials, a vintage prime-special and other goodies. (Available at Monkees.com) And there’s more! A brand-new Monkees CD, Good Times!, the act’s first new album in 20 years, features all three surviving members (Mickey Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork) on all-new songs, plus previously unreleased 1960s gems completed in new Monkee recording sessions.

Continuing the milestone centennial celebration for Frank Sinatra (born Dec. 15, 1915), a new DVD combo recalls his heyday of swinging primetime TV specials from decades past. Sinatra and Friends / The Man and His Music (Eagle Rock Entertainment) features two network specials, from 1977 and 1981, with the Chairman and his genre-spanning special guests, including Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Natalie Cole, Loretta Lynn, Count Basie and John Denver.

There are right ways to be single, wrong ways to be single—what’s a single person to do? In How To Be Single (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment), Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Damon Wayans Jr., Anders Holm, Alison Brie, Jake Lacy and Leslie Mann try to sort out all the comedic variations as they navigate love in the Big Apple.

READ ALL ABOUT IT

Marlene Dietrich, the sultry German-born actress and singer who rose to movie fame in America and went on to become an icon of Hollywood’s Golden Era, is reimagined in Marlene (William Morrow), author C.W. Gorner’s sweeping novel of historical fiction that creatively fleshes out the details of her life, including her impoverished beginnings; her roots in Berlin’s gender-bending cabarets and drag balls; her rise to American stardom; and her pre-World War II rebuff of Hitler’s efforts to lure her back to Germany to make propaganda films for the Reich.

One of the bands that defined the music scene of the 1990 was Pearl Jam, the Seattle-based group fronted by Eddie Vedder, whose hits included “Black,” “Jeremy” and “Even Flow.” Find out everything you ever wanted to know—and more—in Pearl Jam FAQ (Backbeat Books) by Thomas Edward Harkins and Bernard M. Cobert, which covers the band’s earliest days, how they got their name, all their recordings, their squabbles with Ticketmaster, their social activism, their internal struggles and how they transitioned from the scrappy Northwest grunge scene to become an international touring act.

AT THE MOVIES

Since the beginning of time, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Sure seems like the X-Men (including Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman and Sophie Turner) have their work cut out for them in X-Men: Apocalypse.

Director Tim Burton is back behind the camera for Alice Through the Looking Glass, his sequel to Alice in Wonderland (2010), as Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and all its quirky characters, traveling back in time in an attempt to save the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp).