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What’s on TV, July 26-Aug. 1: ‘Furious,’ ‘Bombing of Pan Am 103,’ Shark Week and more

New and noteworthy series, movies, sports and specials on broadcast, cable and streaming this coming week

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Jul 24, 2026
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Emmy Rossum stars in the new limited series “Furious.” (Disney)

Sunday — July 26

Cycling’s finest will be gliding down the Champs-Élysées in Paris in the final stage of the 113th running of the Tour de France. (9:30 a.m. ET and 6:30 a.m. PT on Peacock; replays at 2 p.m. ET and 11 a.m. PT on NBC)

Youth teams from around the world suit up for the final day of the third-annual NFL Flag Championships in Indianapolis. (Various times beginning at 10 a.m. ET and 7 a.m. PT on ABC, ESPN, Disney+, etc.; see NFL website for details)

Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) discusses his career, his family life and his terminal cancer diagnosis in an interview with journalist Jake Tapper on a new “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.” (8 p.m. CNN)

Something’s fishy: The 38th annual edition of Shark Week gets underway when South Korean singer and rapper REI AMI joins “Community’s” Ken Jeong for the new special “K-Pop Shark Heroes.” (8 p.m. Discovery Channel)

A teen’s death by drug overdose and a sinister website have a small-town pharmacist worried for her own daughter’s well-being in the new thriller “What She Didn’t Tell Me.” With Genelle Williams. (8 p.m. Lifetime)

Contestants, start your ovens! A new season of “The Great Food Truck Race” gets rolling in Nashville before carving a path through the Great Smoky Mountains in subsequent episodes. Tyler Florence hosts. (8 p.m. Food Network)

“Hey, I’m walking dead here!” “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” the Manhattan-set entry in the long-lived horror franchise, shuffles back in for third season. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star. (9 p.m. AMC; anytime, AMC+)

Hail to the Chief! “Rick and Morty” wraps its ninth season and begets a spinoff: “President Curtis,” featuring Keith David reprising his recurring role from the adult animated sci-fi comedy. (11 and 11:30 p.m. Adult Swim)

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Monday — July 27

A dogged FBI agent (Emmy Rossum, “Shameless”) plays a twisted game of cat and mouse with a female serial killer (Lola Petticrew) in “Furious,” a new limited series inspired by the 1987 Deborah Winger-Theresa Russell thriller “Black Widow.” (Anytime, Hulu)

Girl gone Wild: “Dr. Quinn’s” Jane Seymour signs off, for now, in the Season 5 finale of her cozy mystery series “Harry Wild.” (Anytime, Acorn TV)

Things take a dark turn when a troubled physician (“Outlander’s” Lauren Lyle) from Scotland arrives in New Zealand for her estranged sister’s wedding in the new mystery drama “The Ridge.” (Anytime, Acorn TV)

“World War II with Tom Hanks” concludes with back-to-back episodes, followed by the premiere of a special three-part WWII-themed edition of the engineering series “Modern Marvels.” (8, 9 and 10 p.m. History Channel)

The tragic tale of an unjustly incarcerated Black teen from the Bronx and his adoptive mother, a poet, is told in the poignant 2025 documentary “For Venida, For Kalief” on a new “POV.” (10 p.m. PBS)

Unsportsmanlike conduct: The new true-crime series “Game Day Murders” documents cases of athletes’ lives and promising careers ended too soon. (10 p.m. Investigation Discovery)

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