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This week's TV: Meghann Fahy and Julianne Moore star in ‘Sirens'

What else clicks this week? 1. ' Sarah Silverman: Postmortem ,' Tuesday on Netflix: Everybody mourns differently. For coarse comedienne (and actress) Silverman, grieving takes the form of a sheaf of dark new and repurposed material. The subject for this daddy's girl? Her late beloved father Donald, a.k.a. Schleppy Silverman, and the stepmother, Janice, who predeceased him by nine days. Telling stories with affection and noodging, Silverman has always been encouraged by her family, who embraced rather than ostracized her for revealing family secrets on the way to reaping howls of laughter. For Silverman, love, death, and laughter are all part of the same mishegoss. Advertisement 2. ' Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service ,' Wednesday on Fox at 9 p.m. then streaming on Hulu: The ubiquitous Scottish-born gourmet has found a new format for brow-beating sloppy restaurateurs, and bending them to his will. With a new reality format on a new network, and the help of spies, Advertisement 3. ' She the People ,' Thursday on Netflix: The Tyler Perry TV takeover continues with a new political sitcom. Terri J. Vaughn, best-known for her long-running role as a high school secretary on 'The Steve Harvey Show,' stars as Mississippi's ambitious first black lieutenant governor. Problems arise when this dedicated working mom, who's clawed her way to the top, has to juggle her outrageous family crises with the demands of a way-down-south-in-dixie cigar-chomping white governor who withholds power. She'll just have to grab it, while being true to her roots and her constituents. 4. ' Pee-wee as Himself ,' Friday on HBO at 8 p.m. then streaming on Max: Few childhood TV idols have so daringly crossed the line between kiddy show and subversive humor as 5. ' The French Open ,' Sunday on TNT: The Parisian clay courts host the second of four grand slam tournaments lobbing onto TV sets for two weeks, from May 25 to June 8. With lefty champion Advertisement Thelma Adams is a cultural critic and the author of the best-selling historical novel ' ,' about Josephine Marcus, the Jewish wife of Wyatt Earp.