{"id":42043,"date":"2025-01-27T01:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T06:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/mo-plus-4-things-to-watch-on-tv-this-week\/27\/01\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T01:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T06:13:42","slug":"mo-plus-4-things-to-watch-on-tv-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/mo-plus-4-things-to-watch-on-tv-this-week\/27\/01\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mo,\u2019 Plus 4 Things to Watch on TV This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that are available live or streaming this week, Jan. 27-Feb. 2. Details and times are subject to change.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2e19dce2\">A dream deferred<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bIn a scene set in an immigration courthouse on the first season of \u201c<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Mo<\/strong>,\u201d the titular character, played by Mohammed Amer, sits between two strangers awaiting their respective hearings. One woman asks the other, \u201cHow did you get here?\u201d \u201cOn the Mayflower,\u201d the other responds dryly. It\u2019s the kind of exchange that\u2019s typical of the series, which tells the story of one Palestinian family\u2019s life in Texas as they await a response to their asylum application. In \u201cMo,\u201d humor serves as ballast for the uncertainty and vulnerability of the characters\u2019 situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The stakes are high, as Amer is personally aware. The show cleaves closely to his experience with American bureaucracy and the 20 years it took to get asylum and U.S. citizenship after emigrating from Kuwait during the first gulf war. \u201cTo watch \u2018Mo\u2019 and meet Amer is to wonder where the artist and his creation diverge,\u201d Chris Vognar <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/19\/arts\/television\/mohammed-amer-mo-netflix.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote in his 2022 interview with Amer for The New York Times<\/a>. The show will resume for a second season, where the ironies and absurdities of everyday life will be used as fodder for comedy as well as drama. <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Streaming Thursday on Netflix.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<p><h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2401c614\">\u2018Not in Hollywood anymore\u2019<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This could be an unofficial tagline of Tom Green\u2019s new series, \u201c<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Tom Green Country<\/strong>,\u201d which airs this week. The Ontario, Canada, native flew the coop to pursue comedy, and he became a mainstay of the stand-up world around the turn of the millennium, garnering his own show on MTV and an appearance as Drew Barrymore\u2019s hapless paramour, Chad, in \u201cCharlie\u2019s Angels\u201d (2000). (Green and Barrymore were briefly married offscreen as well.) Now, the prodigal son returns to Canada, where he has bought a huge property not far from where he grew up. Although Green may have left Hollywood behind, he has not forsaken showbiz as he commemorates this new era of his life in the form of reality TV. Tune in to watch Green\u2019s trials and tribulations \u2014 and several cameos by his parents. <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Streaming Friday on Amazon Prime Video<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2869df38\">A 50-year anniversary<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon in April 1975, Apple TV+ is releasing the documentary series \u201c<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Vietnam: The War That Changed America<\/strong>.\u201d The filmmakers sifted through more than 1,000 hours of archival footage to create the six episodes, which are interspersed with the present-day reflections of people who lived through the events onscreen. The show promises extended interviews not only with American soldiers and war correspondents, but also with Vietnamese civilians and soldiers from the National Liberation Front who fought against the U.S. forces. Ethan Hawke, who assumed the reflective tones of a former military chaplain in Paul Schrader\u2019s \u201cFirst Reformed\u201d (2017), now narrates the long and harrowing chronicle of America\u2019s involvement in Southeast Asia. <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Streaming Friday on Apple TV+.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-35e34ac0\">London calling<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201c<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Funny Woman<\/strong>\u201d is a show based on the 2014 novel \u201cFunny Girl\u201d by the British writer Nick Hornby. Unlike other notable Hornby onscreen adaptations such as \u201cHigh Fidelity\u201d and \u201cAbout a Boy,\u201d which focus on the lives of mildly sleazy men, \u201cFunny Woman\u201d tells the story of Barbara Parker (Gemma Arterton), a beauty queen from the English port city of Blackpool. Over the course of the first season, Parker moves to London in the 1960s and sets her sights on breaking into comedy television. Arterton, replete with blond bouffant hair, chases her big break with her agent (Rupert Everett) in tow. The second season opens this week, offering period sets and mod outfits, as Parker continues to navigate a male-dominated industry and the changing social climate around her. <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Airing Sunday at 10 p.m. on PBS.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-55de51a5\">Cabincore<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Never a dull moment with Maine\u2019s content creators, whether it\u2019s lobster fishermen showcasing their catch on social media, or \u201c<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Maine Cabin Masters<\/strong>,\u201d a reality TV show now in its 10th season. Every episode takes viewers to a different part of the state and a different fixer-upper, each of which presents a unique set of challenges. Watch their team combat wood rot and carpenter ants as they restore properties to their owners\u2019 specifications. Pairing \u201cGrateful Dead\u201d T-shirts and lumber jackets, the cabin masters have a good-natured fun working together and ribbing each other in the broad vowels of a Maine accent. If you\u2019re seeking escapism through rustic home renovation during the cold winter months, tune in for the vicarious satisfaction of home improvement projects brought to completion. <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Airing Monday at 9 p.m. on the Magnolia Network.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/arts\/television\/tv-this-week-mo-maine-cabin-masters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. 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