With network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Nov. 13-19. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
LOVE HAS WON: THE CULT OF MOTHER GOD 9 p.m. on HBO. On April 28, 2021, police searched a house in Moffat, Colo., where they had gotten reports of a dead body. The remains they found belonged to Amy Carlson, a livestreamer and leader of a group called “Love Has Won.” Carlson and her followers believed that she was a reincarnation of Jesus, Cleopatra and Joan of Arc, among others, and referred to her as Mother God. The coroner reported that her cause of death was a combination of alcohol abuse, anorexia and chronic colloidal silver ingestion, which she sold as supplements. This three-part documentary series interviews former cult members, including her partner, who calls himself Father God.
BLACKBERRY 10 p.m. on AMC. This film, which originally had a limited release in Canadian and U.S. theaters, is coming to small screens after the filmmaker Matt Johnson reworked it into a three-episode limited series with 16 minutes of previously unseen footage added. “BlackBerry” is scripted and fictional, but shot like a docu-series, looking behind the scenes of the company that created the BlackBerry pagers, personal digital assistants and cellphones. It stars Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton and Johnson.
NCIS: SYDNEY 8 p.m. on CBS. This spinoff in the extremely popular “NCIS” universe was originally meant to air only in Australia — but after other American-based NCIS franchise series had their release dates delayed to 2024 because of strikes by the Hollywood writers and actors unions, the network decided to air the Australian show here as well. It centers on a joint task force of U.S. NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police working to uncover naval crimes.
JAY-Z AND GAYLE KING: BROOKLYN’S OWN 9 p.m. on CBS. Jay-Z, the famously private rapper, sat down with the interviewer Gayle King for three hours in conjunction with the opening of “Book of HOV,” billed as a tribute exhibition, at the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The exhibition follows him from his Brooklyn childhood to stardom and devotes attention to each of his releases as well as to his philanthropic work and to artifacts from his life. Though some of this interview aired on CBS in October, this special features longer excerpts from the interview and portions never aired before.
Wednesday
DAVID HOLMES: THE BOY WHO LIVED (2023) 9 p.m. on HBO. While David Holmes was working on “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” as Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double, his neck was broken in an on-set accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Through it all, his friendship with Radcliffe continued. This documentary contains interviews with Holmes, Radcliffe, friends and family about how Holmes overcame his injury and adjusted to life after the accident.
Thursday
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) 8 p.m. on TCM. While now we have “Saw,” “Hereditary” and “A Quiet Place” as modern-day horror films, this one is a classic. When a group of scientists treks to the Amazon rainforest to try to capture and study a jungle-dwelling prehistoric beast, all hell breaks loose.
THE BLOB (1958) 9:30 p.m. on TCM. If the creature from the lagoon doesn’t raise the hairs on the back of your neck, you can scream in terror as you watch a giant blob of jelly from another planet consume everything in its path. “One thing you can count on with ‘The Blob,’” Howard Thompson wrote in his review for The New York Times, “goo galore.” (My father made me watch this movie when I was way too young and I probably haven’t been the same since.)
Friday
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION 8 p.m. on TBS. It seems like this year while some of us are still buying festive fall decorations and pinning recipes for creative Thanksgiving sides, TV has decided to skip right to Christmas. If you’re ready to indulge, this winter favorite is already on the schedule. Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo, at the helm of the Griswold family Christmas planning, see their arrangements go awry when a long lost country cousin shows up with his family that needs a place to live.
Saturday
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) 8:45 p.m. on TBS. “We’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!” In this essential movie, the magic begins when a tornado picks up Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, from Kansas and drops them in Oz. There, she meets all sorts of colorful and often frightening characters and teams up with the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), who wishes for a brain, the Tin Man (Jack Haley), who longs for a heart and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), who desperately needs courage, for a perilous journey up the yellow brick road to Emerald City in the hope of asking the wizard to grant all their wishes.
Sunday
ANNIKA 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). This show about the Glasgow Marine Homicide Unit, starring Nicola Walker in the title role, is wrapping up its second season this week. In the six new episodes, the team investigates more complicated murders that metaphorically — and literally — wash up on the shores of Scotland.
