What’s on TV, Aug. 2-8: ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘The Bear’ finale, Pro Football Hall of Fame Game and more
New and noteworthy series, movies, sports and specials on broadcast, cable and streaming this coming week

Sunday — Aug. 2
The monthlong series “Summer Under the Stars” continues with a 12-film salute to Humphrey Bogart that includes the actor opposite future wife Lauren Bacall in Howard Hawks’ 1946 film noir “The Big Sleep.” (6 p.m. ET and 3 p.m. PT on TCM)
You’re gonna hear me roar! Zoe Saldaña is back as CIA case officer Joe McNamara in a third season of the globe-trotting action drama “Lioness.” Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman also star. (Anytime, Paramount+)
Indie rockers The XX and Canadian songstress Tate McRae are among the acts taking the stage in Chicago on the closing day of the annual music extravaganza that is Lollapalooza. (5 p.m. ET and 2 p.m. PT on Hulu and Disney+)
Politicos, pundits, et al. weigh in on which direction they think the Democratic Party is headed, or needs to be headed, in “The Left Insurgency” on a new “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.” (8 p.m. CNN)
Cases closed: Following the Season 2 finale of the mystery drama “Patience,” it’s the series finale of the mystery drama “Grantchester.” Ella Maisy Purvis stars in the former and Robson Green in the latter. (8 and 9 p.m. PBS)
The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle but they haven’t a thing to wear when past contestants return for the new spinoff competition “Naked and Afraid: Shipwrecked.” (8 p.m. Discovery Channel)
Is her daughter’s new playmate real or imaginary? And if real, how come no one else has ever heard of her? A concerned mother seeks answers in the new thriller “The Little Girl Who Didn’t Exist.” With Christie Osterhus. (8 p.m. Lifetime)
Go team! The new docuseries “Decades in Sports” recalls memorable moments in sports from the 1960s, 70s, etc., plus the athletes who made them happen and the impact those moments had on the culture at large. (9 and 10 p.m. CNN)
Overdue books are the least of their concerns when the spinoff fantasy series “The Librarians: The Next Chapter” checks in for a second season. With Callum McGowan and special guest star, “Lost’s” Dominic Monaghan. (9 p.m. TNT)
What do SUVs, duct tape and underwear all have in common? They’re among the game-changing products and innovations covered in a fourth season of “The Mega-Brands That Built America.” (10 p.m. History Channel)
Murder will out, eventually: The true-crime series “Unknown Serial Killers of America” returns with more terrifying tales of murderers who managed to fly under the radar for far too long. (10 p.m. Oxygen)
Monday — Aug. 3
“The Chelsea Detective” is back on the case in a fourth season of this mystery drama set in the oh-so-exclusive London enclave. With Adrian Scarborough and Sonita Henry. (Anytime, Acorn TV)
Comic Michelle Buteau, Natasha Rothwell (“The White Lotus”) and former “SNL” castmates Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah compete in a new season of “The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Summer.” (Anytime, Roku Channel)
Fry, Leela, Bender and the rest of the Planet Express gang blast off for a 14th season of “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening’s animated sci-fi comedy “Futurama.” (Anytime, Hulu)
A woman (“Mulholland Drive’s” Melissa George) who fears her husband is cheating on her teams up with an old acquaintance turned aspiring private eye to teach him a lesson in the mystery drama “Ms. X.” (Anytime, Peacock)
Filmmaker Karla Murthy paints an intimate portrait of her father, an immigrant from India pursuing his own American dream, in the poignant 2025 documentary “The Gas Station Attendant” on a new “POV.” (10 p.m. PBS)
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