This week's TV: The Oscars, plus a new TV show from Mindy Kaling
While Netflix's controversial 'Emilia Perez' entered the race as the favorite with 13 nominations, it has since been knocked down a few pegs in light of best actress nominee Karla Sofia Gascon's recently
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'Anora,' 'The Brutalist,' and 'Conclave' may enter the vacuum left in the wake of 'Emilia Perez,' and reap the rewards in an Oscars that likely will spread the wealth of winners among diverse categories.
What else clicks this week?
Tamara Tunie as Anita Dupree and Daphnee Duplaix as Nicole Dupree Richardson in "Beyond the Gates."
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1.
Tomorrow at 2 p.m., CBS will debut its first new soap in 25 years. The daytime drama, '
Beyond the Gates
,' will also stream on Paramount+. The soap opera replaces canceled chat show 'The Talk,' and will follow the one-two punch of stalwarts 'The Young and the Restless' and 'The Bold and the Beautiful.' The series focuses on a powerful black family living in an exclusive residential enclave in the D.C. suburbs. 'Law & Order: SVU' vet Tamara Tunie gets a day job as the silver-haired matriarch of the Duprees. Their daily traumas, sexual indiscretions, and hoarded secrets threaten to undermine the family's security in prestigious gated community Fairmont Crest.
2.
'Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy'
dives into the 'Friends' star's downward spiral on Peacock Tuesday. The intimate documentary traces his rise, friendships, setbacks, addictions, and comebacks. His stellar career wrapped with a nasty conclusion: a fatal 2023
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3.
Hospital dramas, like them or not, are experiencing a comeback. Max's critical and audience hit '
Berlin ER
' on Apple TV+? The scripted drama's central character is Dr. Suzanna Parker (Haley Louise Jones). After her Munich private practice implodes, Parker takes over an understaffed, overwhelmed urban emergency room while gaining the trust of her undisciplined, occasionally hard-partying, pill-popping team.
4.
On Thursday, Kate Hudson gets a Netflix show to call her own, '
Running Point
.' In the fast-paced sports comedy, executive produced by Mass. native Mindy Kaling, the actress plays a member of the dysfunctional family that runs the fictional basketball team the Los Angeles Waves. The nepo baby (her brother disses her as a 'nepo crone') ascends to the role of team president, battling imposter syndrome as she steers the team through trades and traumas, playoff runs and disastrous losses, on a mission to stop the suckage in her legacy team and prove her worth.
5.
'
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue
' wins title of the week. 'Will & Grace' star Eric McCormack headlines the six-episode ensemble crime thriller premiering on MGM+ Sunday. Deep in the Mexican jungle, nine strangers survive an aerial catastrophe (an unfortunate topic given recent aviation events) while flying from Guatemala to the United States. In a 'Survivor'-style turn, making it out of the small plane alive is only the beginning of the mutually-suspicious group's journey on foot to safety. One by one, the body count rises with the paranoia. It's possible they harbor a killer among them, launching a ticking-clock mystery to discover who's responsible and stop them before then can kill, and kill again.
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