This Week On TV: August 19-25

By Brent Furdyk. 19 Aug 2019 9:52 AM

This Week: Grand finale for “Pose” and Zach Galifianakis’ “Baskets”, launch of final seasons for “13 Reasons Why”, “Ballers”, “Power” and “The Affair”, and Kirsten Dunst takes on a 1990a pyramid scheme in dark comedy “On Becoming a God in Central Florida”.

'Kids Baking Championship' - Season Premiere

Food Network Canada

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A&E

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Netflix

Nickelodeon

Hallmark Channel

Epix

HBO

'On Becoming a God in Central Florida' - Series Premiere

Showtime

Starz

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'I Ship It' - Series Premiere
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Helen Highfield and Riley Neldam star in this musical comedy about Ella and Tim, two 20-somethings struggling with the monotony of their day jobs until a twist of fate presents Ella with an opportunity to work as a writer's assistant on her favourite television show. The events that follow will have Ella questioning where — and with whom—her heart truly lies.

* Monday, Aug. 19
'Kids Baking Championship' - Season Premiere
Food Network Canada
Hosts Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are back with a new season of this cooking competition featuring some of the most talented young bakers you'll ever see.

* Monday, Aug. 19 on Food Network Canada
'Simon Amstell: Set Free'
Netflix
Introspective comic Simon Amstell opens up about his neuroses, coming out to his father, relationships and more in this new Netflix standup special.

* Tuesday, Aug. 20
'Pose' - Season Finale
Michael Parmelee/FX
This button-pushing drama set in the world of 1980s NYC ball culture wraps up its second season.

* Tuesday, Aug. 20
'Hyperdrive' - Series Premiere
Netflix
In this high-octane new reality competition, street racers from around the world test their limits in supercharged custom cars on the biggest, baddest automotive obstacle course ever built.

* Wednesday, Aug. 21
'Ghost Hunters' - Season Premiere
A&E
Fifteen years after introducing the world to the field of paranormal investigation, “Ghost Hunters” returns to television with one of the show's original team leaders, Grant Wilson, as he and his handpicked group of professional ghost hunters draw on their decades of field experience to investigate hauntings across the U.S.

* Wednesday, Aug. 21
'Baskets' - Series Finale
Erica Parise/FX
The saga of wannabe clown Chip Baskets (Zack Galifa

* Thursday, Aug. 22
'I Am Patrick Swayze'
Paramount Network
This new documentary takes an intimate look at the life of the late "Dirty Dancing" star, directed by his widow, Lisa Niemi.

* Friday, Aug. 23
'13 Reasons Why' - Season Premiere
Netflix
The provocative, controversial teen drama from producer Selena Gomez debuts its third season, which will also be its final one.

* Friday, Aug. 23
'JoJo's Follow Your D.R.E.A.M.'
Nickelodeon
Tween girls will no doubt want to catch this special that chronicles the final stop on JoJo Siwa's D.R.E.A.M tour in her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.

* Friday, Aug. 23 on YTV
'Chesapeake Shores' - Season Premiere
Hallmark Channel
The multigenerational family drama from the Hallmark Channel kicks off its fourth season, continuing the adventures of O’Brien (Meghan Ory), a high-powered career woman, divorcee and mother to two daughters, as she adjusts to life back in her hometown of Chesapeake Shores while rekindling her romance with her former high school sweetheart (Jesse Metcalfe).

* Sunday, Aug. 25
'Deep State' - Season Premiere
Epix
Walton Goggins ("Justified") joins the cast of this military thriller for the second season, which delves deeper into the murky and political world of the deep state. Having failed in the Middle East, those powers are now turning their attention to sub-Saharan Africa and the scramble to plunder its natural resources, the first dirty war over clean energy.

* Sunday, Aug. 25
'Ballers' - Season Premiere
HBO
Dwayne Johnson is churning out movies at a "Fast & Furious" pace, so The Rock is wrapping up his HBO comedy about a high-powered sports agent, which launches its fifth and final season this week.

* Sunday, Aug. 25
'On Becoming a God in Central Florida' - Series Premiere
Showtime
Kirsten Dunst stars in this new dramedy, set in small Orlando-adjacent town in the early 1990s. Dunst plays Krystal Stubbs, a minimum-wage water park employee who lies, schemes and cons her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise (FAM) — the cultish, flag-waving, multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme that drove her to ruin in the first place, run by the powerful Obie Garbeau II (Ted Levine). Determined to make a better life for herself, Krystal dives deep into FAM and develops a tangled relationship with FAM’s most loyal and fanatical follower Cody (Theodore Pellerin), until her business begins to affect those closest to her town.

* Sunday, Aug. 25
'Power' - Season Premiere
Starz
The final season of this 50 Cent-produced crime thriller kicks off, setting up what promises to be a bloody confrontation between Ghost (Omari Hardwick) and former BFF Tommy (Joseph) Sikora after Tommy's ultimate betrayal.

* Sunday, Aug. 25
'The Affair'
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"The Affair" launches into its fifth and final season with a big ol' time jump. Anna Paquin joins the cast as the now-adult daughter of Alison (Ruth Wilson, who exited the show) in the future, as she tries to piece together the truth about what happened to her mother, thus bringing the whole story full circle.

* Sunday, Aug. 25

This Week On TV: August 19-25

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