This week's TV: ‘Poker Face,' the Academy of Country Music Awards, and more
David Spade in "David Spade: Dandelion."
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'
: Dandelion'
Tuesday on Prime Video: The stand-up comic, best known for his time on 'Saturday Night Live' from 1990 to 1996 and such wacky buddy comedies as 'Tommy Boy' and 'Black Sheep' opposite the late Chris Farley, has been kicking around Hollywood for decades. In this Prime Video special, the comedian, still boyish at 60, sarcastically jokes about porn's evolution, flying, and his own soft center despite his, ahem, rugged exterior.
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'60th Academy of Country Music Awards'
Thursday on Prime Video: As country music keeps evolving, the granddaddy of awards shows celebrates its 60th from the Dallas Cowboys' Ford Center in Frisco, Texas. Sixteen-time winner
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'Octopus!'
Thursday on Prime Video: Phoebe Waller-Bridge produced and narrates an original, playful, two-part nature series about that most mysterious and fascinating undersea creature. The eight-legged subject even won a 2021 best documentary feature Oscar for the love letter to the genus, 'My Octopus Teacher.' Comedian
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'Forever'
Thursday on Netflix: With Judy Blume's 1975 novel as the source material, Netflix has transposed the teen romance to Los Angeles in 2018. The eight-episode miniseries pairs ambitious Black high school athletes Justin (Michael Cooper Jr.) and Keisha (Lovie Simone). The modern-day Romeo and Juliet experience attraction and explore their sexuality, while confronting peer pressure in the social media age and disapproving parents. Can first love ever last 'Forever'?
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'The Judd Family: Truth Be Told'
Saturday at 8 p.m. on Lifetime: The many stories of sisters Ashley and Wynonna Judd and their late mother, Naomi, could fill a stack of country records — and cascade in Lifetime's two-part, four-hour documentary. Wynonna and Naomi created the famed new Traditionalist band The Judds. Meanwhile, younger sister Ashley became a movie star, confronted Harvey Weinstein during #MeToo, and fractured her leg in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Wynonna moved on to a solo career, while her daughter Grace struggled with a meth addiction. In 2022, after a long struggle with depression and generational trauma, Naomi committed suicide at 76. Career highs, heartaches, and family secrets coalesce in a compelling documentary.
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Thelma Adams is a cultural critic and the author of the best-selling historical novel 'The Last Woman Standing,' about Josephine Marcus, the Jewish wife of Wyatt Earp.
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