This Week On TV: May 18-24

By Brent Furdyk. 18 May 2020 9:17 AM

This Week: Debuts for new series “Stargirl”, “Sweet Magnolias”, “Ultimate Tag”, “Labor of Love”, “The Big Fib” and “Control Z”, along with a new comedy special from Patton Oswalt, the annual “Red Nose Day Special” and new Netflix comedy “The Lovebirds”, starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiali.

'Kim Kardashian West': The Justice Project

Oxygen

'The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart' - Season Finale

ABC/John Fleenor

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'Kim Kardashian West': The Justice Project
Oxygen
Airing on the U.S. Oxygen channel (and streaming in Canada on Hayu), this docuseries showcases a very different side of Kim Kardashian that fans of "KUWTK" are used to seeing, as the aspiring lawyer takes on America's criminal justice system by shining a light on stories of people she believes have paid their debt to society while also bringing awareness to America’s growing problem with mass incarceration.

* Available to stream on Roku
'Stargirl' - Series Premiere
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The latest DC Comics seres follows high school sophomore Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) as she inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past.

* Monday, May 18
'The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart' - Season Finale
ABC/John Fleenor
This musical "Bachelor" spinoff wraps up its first (and quite possibly only) season.

* Monday, May 18
'Sweet Magnolias' - Series Premiere
Netflix
Based on the popular series of books, "Sweet Magnolias" follows lifelong best friends Maddie (Joanna Garcia Swisher), Helen (Heather Headley), and Dana Sue (Brooke Elliott) as they juggle relationships, family and careers in the charming small town of Serenity, South Carolina.

* Tuesday, May 19
'The Voice' - Season Finale
Art Streiber/NBC
A new winner will be declared as the 18th season comes to a conclusion.

* Tuesday, May 19
'Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything'
Netflix
In this new Netflix standup special, comedian Patton Oswalt offers hilarious existential anecdotes after recently embracing his 50s, which includes attending his daughter’s second-grade art show that cost him the chance to board a full-scale Millennium Falcon, and how buying a house is like hiring a suicide squad of superhuman subcontractors.

* Tuesday, May 19
'The Masked Singer'
Michael Becker/FOX
The panelists make their final outlandish guesses of the season before the final singers are unmasked.

* Wednesday, May 20
'Barkitecture' - Series Premiere
Quibi
This new Quibi series features former "Bachelorette" suitor Tyler Cameron building extravagant doghouses for celebrity clients.

* Wednesday, May 20
The 100
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Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and Bellamy (Bob Morley) lead a group down to their new planetary home, where they stumble across a seemingly idyllic society. It quickly becomes clear, however, that not everything on Sanctum is as perfect as it seems.

* Wednesday, May 20
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Fox
NFL superstar sibling trio JJ, TJ and Derek Watt host this high-octane physical competition show based on the classic playground game of tag — but on steroids.

* Wednesday, May 20
'The Red Nose Day Special'
Trae Patton/NBC
This year's star-studded Red Nose Day Special is preceded by a special edition of "Celebrity Escape Room" featuring Adam Scott, Courtney Cox, Jack Black, Lisa Kudrow and Ben Stiller.

* Thursday, May 21
'Labor of Love' - Series Premiere
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Kristin Davis (“Sex and the City”), the show focuses on Kristy Katzmann, a 41-year old, smart, successful and beautiful career woman who seems to have it all – that is, except the one thing she wants the most. Like so many women in America today, she is ready to have a child and start a family, but has yet to meet the potential father of her children. Kristy will be matched with 15 sexy, sophisticated and like-minded men, who are ready to let their paternal sides shine.

Each week, the aspiring fathers-to-be will be faced with challenges that will put their parenting and partnership skills to the test. If they prove worthy, they will advance to the next week, and for those who don’t, Kristy will let them know that she does not see herself starting a family with them.
'The Big Fib' - Series Premiere
Disney+
In this new game show for kids, Yvette Nicole Brown and her robot sidekick C.L.I.V.E. (Rhys Darby

* Friday, May 22
'The Lovebirds'
Netflix
A couple (Issa Rae & Kumail Nanjiani) experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.

* Friday, May 22
'Control Z' - Series Premiere
Netflix
After a hacker begins releasing students' most intimate secrets to the whole school, social order at El Colegio Nacional is turned upside down. Popular kids become bullied, outcasts gain status, and everyone is a suspect. Sofia, a social recluse and know-it-all with a penchant for deduction, must race against the clock to catch the hacker before he releases more secrets. Along the way, she will learn to make friends, have empathy for others, and she might even fall in love.

* Friday, May 22

This Week On TV: May 18-24

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