This week’s TV: Jan. 6 hearings resume, a new Jeff Bridges drama, and an escape to the Italian Riviera

The scores are sure to drop some in the remaining hearings, due to the fact they’ll be held for the duration of the day, when fewer viewers can tune in. That is too lousy: This is an essential, historic moment in our region, and all citizens of each individual political orientation really should be interested in recognizing the reality.

Here’s the routine for this week’s hearings. It seems like all the significant broadcast networks and cable information channels (other than Fox News) will be managing element or all of the hearings, together with various streamers which includes the Jan. 6 committee’s YouTube web site.

• Hearing 2, Monday at 10 a.m: According to the committee, it will aim on the simple fact that Trump realized he experienced missing the election, but even so engaged in a “massive effort and hard work to unfold phony and fraudulent data.” Previous Fox News staffer Chris Stirewalt will testify.

• Hearing 3, Wednesday at 10 a.m.: Wednesday will seem at Trump’s plot to influence and possibly replace the attorney common to additional his wrong election statements. Amongst those who’ll testify: Jeffrey Rosen, then performing legal professional general, his deputy Richard Donoghue, and Justice Division official Steve Engel.

• Hearing 4, Thursday at 1 p.m.: This listening to will zero in on Trump’s tries to stress Mike Pence to stop the electoral count. Greg Jacob, the previous chief counsel to the vice president, will reportedly testify.

WHAT I’M Seeing THIS 7 days

1. Jeff Bridges stars in “The Aged Person,” a seven-episode adaptation of the 2017 Thomas Perry novel of the very same title. He performs a former CIA agent who is the goal of a failed assassination try and have to go on the operate. Just when he believed he was out, etcetera., etcetera. John Lithgow, Alia Shawkat, Gbenga Akinnagbe, and Amy Brenneman also star. The production — which experienced to stop and get started two times, because of to the pandemic and then Bridges’s lymphoma analysis — arrives from “Black Sails” creators Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine. It premieres Thursday at 10 p.m. on Forex, and listed here is the trailer.

2. The last Tv-title earworm was “We Have This Metropolis.” Now arrives — apologies in advance — “Hotel Portofino” mmm-hmm. The six-episode period drama, from Matt Baker of “Before We Die,” stars Natascha McElhone in the story of an elite but dysfunctional British household that opens a hotel (mostly for Brits) on the Italian Riviera during the 1920s. It sounds a bit “The Durrells in Corfu”-ish. PBS promises us “an exhilarating cocktail of romance, glamour and secret,” and the trailer for the exhibit (which has already been produced on Britbox) is magnificent. It premieres Sunday at 8 p.m. on GBH 2.

3. Icon! Queen! Worldwide Spoonful of Sugar! Just after a number of COVID postponements, the American Movie Institute at last gave its Lifestyle Accomplishment Award to Julie Andrews, star of “The Seem of Songs,” “Victor/Victoria,” “The Princess Diaries,” and “Mary Poppins.” Now the ceremony, “The 48th AFI Daily life Accomplishment Award: A Tribute to Julie Andrews,” is coming to TNT on Thursday at 10 p.m. Here are clips from the ceremony of Carol Burnett spending homage to Andrews and of some of the Von Trapp actors from “The Audio of Music” serenading Andrews with “Do-Re-Mi.”

4. “God’s Favorite Idiot,” from Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, is sneaking onto Netflix on Wednesday. The streamer did not release advance evaluate screeners of the comedy, which never bodes perfectly. It is about a tech-assistance male (Falcone) who will become an unwitting messenger of God who should organize his coworkers in an hard work to preserve mankind — or something like that (see trailer). McCarthy performs his coworker and appreciate interest.

5. The people powering “American Vandal” have a new mockumentary, due Thursday on Paramount+. Referred to as “Players,” it is set in the environment of esports and follows a League of Legends team undergoing inner strife as it tries to gain its very first championship. Here’s the trailer.

CHANNEL Browsing

“Halftime” A documentary about Jennifer Lopez that focuses on her 2020 Super Bowl functionality. Netflix, Tuesday

“Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin: Ladies Night Live” The “Grace and Frankie” pair host stand-up comics such as Cristela Alonzo, Margaret Cho, and Iliza Shlesinger. Netflix, Tuesday

“Love, Victor” The show’s closing eight-episode period. Hulu and Disney+, Wednesday

“Rutherford Falls” Time two of Ed Helms’s comedy premieres. Peacock, Thursday

A short while ago REVIEWED

“Dark Winds” An atmospheric 6-aspect thriller established in 1970s Navajo Nation. AMC, AMC+

“Girls5eva” In year two, the sweet spot between silliness and satire. Peacock

“Now and Then” A pulpy whodunit with lots of twists. Apple Tv set+

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” An unsatisfying adaptation of the novel. HBO

“Ten Percent” The British adaptation of “Call My Agent!” stays near to the original. AMC

“Conversations With Friends” A melodrama from the makers of “Normal Folks.” Hulu

“I Adore That for You” Vanessa Bayer stars in this sendup of property shopping networks. Showtime

“The Staircase” Colin Firth stars in a stellar adaptation of the Michael Peterson circumstance. HBO Max

“Gentleman Jack” Suranne Jones carries on to glow in season two. HBO

“We Have This City” A potent miniseries about crooked cops in Baltimore. HBO

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