Welcome to What\u2019s On, our weekly roundup of notable shows. Here is what\u2019s happening on TV from Sunday, July 5 to Saturday, July 11. All times are Eastern.<\/p>\n
Trying (Apple TV, Wednesday, season five premiere) Esther Smith and Rafe Spall are back as couple Nikki Newman and Jason Ross for yet another round of exploring modern parenthood, but the British comedy\u2019s fifth installment comes with the added complication of Kat (Charlotte Riley)\u2014the biological mother of their adopted kids Princess (Scarlett Rayner) and Tyler (Cooper Turner)\u2014turning up at their doorstep to shake up their happily settled family life. Along with those returning players, the eight-episode fifth season will welcome some new faces, including Celia Imrie, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Colin Morgan, Danielle Vitalis, and Leah Brotherhead.
The Man Will Burn (HBO and HBO Max, Thursday, 9 p.m., series premiere) Even if you\u2019re not a festival diehard, you\u2019ve surely heard of Burning Man, the groovy desert gathering that has long since grown from its early hippie principles of community and creativity to become a big tech-bro confab. Directors Jehane Noujaim (The Vow) and Vikram Gandhi (The Grass Is Greener) explore that polarizing evolution in this four-part HBO Original documentary. With exclusive access to Burning Man leadership and years of video archives, the pair dig into the challenges organizers have faced to preserve the event\u2019s original counterculture ethos.<\/p>\n
The Five Star Weekend (Peacock, Thursday, series premiere) Jennifer Garner leads this star-studded adaptation of beach-read queen Elin Hilderbrand\u2019s 2023 novel, playing popular food blogger and recent widow Hollis Shaw. Unable to pull herself out of her grief, Hollis enlists the help of four friends from various stages of her life\u2014high-school pal Tatum (Chlo\u00eb Sevigny), college roommate Dru-Ann (Regina Hall), marriage-and-motherhood support Brooke (D\u2019Arcy Carden), and newer pal Gigi (Gemma Chan)\u2014to gather in Nantucket for, you guessed it, a \u201cfive star weekend.\u201d Scandals and secrets naturally ensue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Little House On The Prairie (Peacock, Thursday, series premiere) Four decades after the long-running NBC adaptation, Laura Ingalls Wilder\u2019s beloved frontier novels are getting the streaming treatment with this family drama from Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Housemaid). Crosby Fitzgerald and Luke Bracey lead the fam as Ma and Pa Ingalls, who set off with young Laura (Alice Halsey) and big sis Mary (Skywalker Hughes) in a covered wagon bound for a new life in Independence, Kan. That Ingalls origin story will play out across eight episodes and, as it happens, a second season\u2014the historical Western secured an early renewal ahead of its July 9 debut.<\/p>\n
Also arriving<\/p>\n
Big Brother (CBS, Thursday, 8 p.m., season 28 premiere)
Celebrity Family Feud (ABC, Thursday, 8 p.m., season 12 premiere)
The Real Housewives Of Orange County (Bravo, Thursday, 8 p.m., season 20 premiere)
Project Runway (Freeform, Thursday, 9:30 p.m., season 22 premiere)
The Real Murders Of Atlanta (Oxygen, Saturday, 8 p.m., season four premiere)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to What\u2019s On, our weekly roundup of notable shows. Here is what\u2019s happening on TV from Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-510974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}