Dark Winds in L.A., Wyle in Scrubs, Kline on Stage
Sunday's 8 PM hour stacks three premieres worth planning around: Dark Winds sends Leaphorn to Los Angeles, The Pitt drops Noah Wyle back into a failing ER, and American Classic pairs Kevin Kline with Laura Linney on MGM+. Fill the margins with a young Kurt Russell in a '76 frontier western, back-to-back early-2000s thrillers on Cinemax, and Melissa McCarthy going deep cover in Spy.
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Robert De Niro Joins The Best People With Nicolle Wallace
8:00 PM|MS NOW|60 min|NEW
Editor's Pick
De Niro has become one of Hollywood's most unfiltered political voices in recent years, and this sit-down with Nicolle Wallace zeroes in on business leaders turning a blind eye to the current administration's behavior. Whether you share his intensity or not, the conversation promises a level of candor that cable news rarely extracts from figures at his cultural wattage.
Kait Borsay's nature series earns its charm by spending real time with each animal until the bond becomes legible on screen. Tonight splits between Ozzy the otter learning to swim and the slow, patient trust-building between Petronel and Riri the rhino — behavior-first storytelling that separates this from the usual cute-animal compilation reel.
TransAir Flight 810 ditched in the Pacific minutes after leaving Honolulu in 2021 — both pilots survived and blamed dual engine failure, but the recovered Boeing 737 wreckage told a different story entirely. This episode works like a procedural thriller in reverse, peeling back layers of mechanical forensics until the actual cause reshapes everything you assumed from the cockpit.
7:00 PMNEWEpisode
Crossroad Springs
"Stay in your Lane"
Great American Family·60 min·TV-G
Seven episodes into its first season, this Great American Family drama has settled into its rhythm of faith, land, and the stubborn pride that corrodes both. Tonight James launches his Cowboy Church while drought and a simmering rivalry with the Newmans threaten to undo everything his family has built — and Shaun Johnston continues to bring the kind of lived-in authority this material needs.
7:00 PMNEWEpisode
Family Guy
"Viewer DMs"
FOX·31 min·TV-14·Also streaming on Tubi
The Griffins retell Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and excavate a lost Quagmire variety show from the 1960s — a high-concept double that lets MacFarlane's writers swing between epic fantasy parody and mid-century pastiche in the same half hour. It's the kind of anything-goes anthology energy that keeps the show creatively restless deep into its run, and the first of two new episodes tonight.
8:00 PMNEWEpisode
American Classic
"Juniper Berries"
MGM+·35 min·TV-MA·Also streaming on MGM+ App
Kevin Kline staging Our Town while Laura Linney provides the adult supervision — MGM+ has assembled a cast most indie films would envy. Tonight a bombshell at dinner threatens to derail the production, and the friction between Richard's artistic pretensions and everyone else's dwindling patience sharpens into something genuinely, uncomfortably funny under Tricia Brock's direction.
8:00 PMNEWEpisode
Dark Winds
"Ni' Ániidí (The New World)"
AMC·62 min·TV-MA·Also streaming on AMC+
Zahn McClarnon's Lt. Joe Leaphorn remains one of television's most quietly commanding performances, and tonight the investigation pushes to Los Angeles — a disorienting shift for a show whose Navajo Nation landscape functions as a character unto itself. This is prestige crime fiction built on a perspective network TV ignored for decades, and the displacement to urban L.A. promises to test Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito in unfamiliar territory.
8:00 PMNEWEpisode
The Pitt
"3:00 P.M."
Crave1·55 min
Noah Wyle returns to the ER — spiritually, if not literally — in a medical drama that cares more about systemic failure than miracle saves. When a patient slips through the cracks tonight, Dana calls in a veteran who knows how to run a hospital on nothing, and Wyle brings the same quiet, coiled intensity that made him a star three decades ago.
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5:15 PMMovieTV Movie
The Longest Drive (1976)
"Directed by: Lee H. Katzin"
HDNet Movies·135 min·PG·1976
Kurt Russell at twenty-five, two years before his breakout in Elvis — this 1976 TV western catches him raw and hungry opposite Tim Matheson as brothers searching the frontier for their missing sister. Lee H. Katzin directs with mid-'70s efficiency, Brian Keith adds veteran weight, and the whole film plays like a time capsule from the last era when westerns still commanded network prime time.
David R. Ellis opens with the franchise's most iconic set piece — a highway pileup so meticulously choreographed it set the standard for practical-effects horror in the early 2000s. Ali Larter returns from the original, and the Rube Goldberg death sequences that follow are engineered with gleeful, almost mathematical precision. Pair it with Open Water at 8:15 for a tidy Cinemax thriller double.
8:15 PMMovie
Open Water (2003)
"Directed by: Chris Kentis"
Cinemax Classics·80 min·R
Chris Kentis shot this for roughly $120,000 on handheld DV with real sharks circling his two leads — and that lo-fi commitment is exactly what makes it terrifying. Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis sell every minute of mounting dread as scuba divers abandoned by their tour boat in open ocean, delivering a masterclass in micro-budget tension that hasn't aged a frame.
9:04 PMMovie
Spy (2015)
"Directed by: Paul Feig"
Starz Edge·123 min·R
Paul Feig built this vehicle around Melissa McCarthy's ability to pivot from insecure desk analyst to credible action hero without ever losing the comedy — and Jason Statham's self-parodying rogue agent nearly steals the entire film from her. Rose Byrne matches them both as the villain, and the Budapest-set third act delivers set pieces that rival the franchise blockbusters Feig is cheerfully lampooning.
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