The Parade Preview: What to Watch, Rent or Buy Aug. 1 – Aug. 7

All times Eastern.

MONDAY, AUG. 1
Supergirl
The action-adventure series starring Melissa Benoist, based on the DC Comics character who happens to be the cousin of Superman, announces its switch to a new network with a repeat of the show’s entire first season kicking off tonight, leading up to the Oct. 10 premiere of season two (8 p.m., The CW).

Fameless
How far will some people go for a moment in the spotlight and a shot at “fame”? Host David Spade returns to find even more willing, unsuspecting subjects in season two of this faux-reality parody-prank show (10 p.m., TruTv).

TUESDAY, AUG. 2
Bachelor in Paradise
Former fan favorites and controversial characters from past episodes return for season three of the popular series, looking for second chances at love in a tropical romantic paradise and hoping to turn a summer fling into the real thing (8 p.m., ABC).

Guy Fieri’s Cuban Adventure
The colorful gastronomic guru embarks on a historic trip to Havana, bringing along his wife and his parents to explore the restaurant scene in Cuba’s capital city, pay homage to its most famous chef and indulge in some of its signature dishes (11 p.m., Travel Channel).

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3
Killer Hornet Swarm
Bee aware: If you come across a swarm of super-sized Japanese Giant Killer Hornets, you’d better run—fast!!! They’re the size of a human thumb and each packed with enough toxic venom to cause anaphylactic shock, even death (8 p.m., Smithsonian).

How to Build…Everything
The gonzo do-it-yourselfers show how to make a spacesuit, build a jet wing flyer and construct your own aerial tramway (10 pm., Science Channel).

THURSDAY, AUG. 4
Greatest Hits
In the two-hour live al-star finale of the first season of the prime-time music series hosted by comedian Arsenio Hall and country singer Kelsa Bellerini, Sheryl Crow, Celine Dion, Adam Lambert, Cyndi Lauper and Nelly will perform their hits, and Ariana Grande will provide a special tribute to Whitney Houston (9 p.m., ABC).

Code Black
Dr. Rorish (Marcia Gay Harden) puts her four new residents to work on their first day at Angels Memorial, the nation’s busiest, most notorious hospital ER, in a rebroadcast of the show’s season premiere (10 p.m., CBS).

FRIDAY, AUG. 5
Captain America: The First Avenger
This enhanced “FX Movie Download” presentation of the 2011 blockbuster superhero saga adds behind-the-scenes bonus features to its tale of the frail, patriotic young man (Chris Evans) who volunteers to serve his country during World War II in a top-secret experimental military program that transforms him into a one-man army uniquely suited to take on the Nazis (8 p.m., FX).

Primal Survivor: Tropics
Wilderness guide and survivalist Hazen Audel is pushed to the limit as he confronts the many challenges—impenetrable vegetation, lethal parasites and extreme heat and humidity—of one of the world’s toughest and most unforgiving climates (8 p.m., National Geographic).

 SATURDAY, AUG. 6
Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Hidden Heroes
This episode goes undercover to give some extra incentive to aspiring Broadway singers; introduces us to a young boy born with a disability who is running the race of his life; and shows drivers in a busy parking lot “doing the right thing” and getting rewarded for it (11 a.m., CBS).

20/20: In An Instant
Returning for its second season with more heart-pounding, first-person tales of survival, tonight the series spotlights heroic teachers who protected young students as a deadly tornado barreled through an elementary school in Oklahoma (9 p.m., ABC).

SUNDAY, AUG. 7
Gaida in Italy
After host Gaida De Laurentis’ grandmother, affectionately called Nonna Luna, a stunning Italian beauty turned movie star, caught the eye of Gaida’s grandfather—movie producer Dino De Laurentis—they fell in love, married and made many films together. Gaida and her Aunt Raffy reminisce about Nonna Luny while cooking up new twists on some of her favorite Old World recipes (noon, Food Network).

Beethoven
Kicking off a full week of nightly dog flicks in the Beethoven franchise, this first movie (from 1992) stars Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt and Dean Jones in a tail-wagging comedy-adventure about a slobbering St. Bernard who attracts the attention of a dognapping veterinarian and his henchmen (9 p.m., Discovery Family).

NEW ON DVD

The hilarious comedy duo of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele—Key & Peele—star in Keanu (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment), about two straight-laced cousins who must impersonate ruthless killers and infiltrate a street gang in order to retrieve a kidnapped kitty-cat.

And speaking of Key & Peele… See the full spectrum of their comedy mastery in Key & Peele: The Complete Series (Paramount Home Media), which collects all 53 episodes of their soaring, subversive sketch comedy series, which ran for five fabulous seasons on Comedy Central and was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards.

In the riotous, raunchy comedy The Bronze (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), Melissa Rauch (Bernadette on TV’s The Big Bang Theory) plays a washed-up gymnast whose local celebrity is threatened when a younger athlete’s new star begins to rise in her hometown. Also featuring Gary Cole, Thomas Middleditch, Sebastian Stan, Cecily Strong, Haley Lu Richardson, and cameos from former U.S. Olympic gold medal winners Dominique Dawes and Dominique Moceanu, and former Russian gold medalist Olga Korbut.

Pick a mom, any mom… You’ve got your choice in Mother’s Day (Universal Pictures Home Entertaiment), the late, great director Garry Marshall’s big, multi-generational group-hug of a feel-good comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts, Shay Mitchell, Britt Robertson, Jason Sudeikis and Hector Elizondo. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you may recall that Hector Elizondo has been in every movie Marshall ever made, all the way back to Young Doctors in Love (1982).

What is love? Ah, that’s the eternal question—and it’s certainly the question you’ll be asking (among others!) after you’ve seen The Lobster (Lionsgate), the brilliantly offbeat and unconventional dark comedy set in a bleak dystopian near future, where people are required to find romantic partners—or be surgically transformed into wild animals. Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C. Reilly and Ben Whishaw.

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The stars of the silver screen burn bright again in Hollywood Icons (ACC Editions), a collection of more than 200 gorgeous, glamorous photos from the John Kobal Collection of the greatest “faces” from silent films through the Golden Age of Hollywood—from Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson to Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, Heddy Lamar, Humprey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Marlon Brando and dozens more.

In the summer of 1970, the legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe to make a comeback movie—about a legendary but self-destructive director who returns to Hollywood after years of self-imposed exile in Europe. And he swore it wasn’t about him. Author Josh Karp, a professor at Northwestern University, tells the wild, wacky story in Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind (St. Martin’s Griffin), a rollicking look at a production that took 12 years, remains unreleased and has been dubbed “the greatest home movie no one has ever seen.”

Andrew Fazekas, the astronomer and educator who also pours out his love of all things above on his fascinating website thenightskyguy.com, takes readers behind the real science of one of the most iconic sci-fi TV shows of all time in Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Universe (National Geographic Books). The handsomely illustrated compendium looks at space, intergalactic travel, the possibility of alien life and dozens of other topics through the prism of the characters, plots, themes, weaponry, gadgets and other ideas interwoven into Star Trek, currently celebrating its 50^th anniversary.

AT THE MOVIES

A secret government agency recruits a team of imprisoned super-villains to execute dangerous black-ops missions in The Suicide Squad, based on the DC Comics characters of the same name and starring Will Smith, Margo Robbie, Ben Affleck, Jared Leto, Scott Eastwood and Cara Delevingne.

A neglectful, workaholic all-business dad (Kevin Spacey) learns a lesson about being a family man by getting turned into a real pussycat (and I mean a real pussycat!) in Nine Lives, a fun-filled family comedy also starring Christopher Walken and Jennifer Garner.