What to Watch on TV This Week
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Diane Sawyer interviews Bruce Willis‘ wife Emma about her role as caretaker after the actor’s diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia. James norton leads a strong cast in a drama about two couples who learn years later that their sons were switched at birth. A true-crime documentary depicts the aftermath when Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz were stolen from a Judy Garland museum. The shocks continue on Alien: Earth as the Prodigy lab experiments with the alien specimens.
Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey
ABC News veteran Diane Sawyer delivers her latest newsmaker interview when she sits with Bruce Willis’s wife and caretaker, Emma Heming Willis to discuss the couple’s life and relationship as the beloved actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2022. The news special explores the star’s legacy on and off screen, and features interviews with experts in dementia and long-term caregiving.The latter is the subject of Emma’s new book, The Unexpected Journey whose purpose is to offer guidance and support for the millions who are caring daily for loved ones.
Playing Nice
A parent’s worst nightmare becomes the source for emotional manipulation and legal conflict in a gripping four-part drama starring James Norton ( Grantchester) and Shiza Algar (Dances with Wolves) as Pete and Maddie, whose world is rocked when they discover their adored son Theo is not their biological offspring. Enter Miles and Lucy (James McArdle and Downton abbey al
The Wizard of Oz Slippers: A True-Crime Documentary
A new true-crime documentary examines the audacious 2005 theft of a pair of ruby-red slippers made famous in The Wizard of Oz from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The FBI would eventually find the pop-culture artifacts in 2018,and in what may amount to a happy ending,the slippers were sold at auction for a then-record $28 million for movie memorabilia. What would Toto think?
INSIDE TUESDAY TV:
- America’s Got Talent (8/7c, NBC): The second set of quarterfinalists include roller-skating act Duo Stardust, which earned Sofia Vergara‘s Golden Buzzer, and Howie’s pick, dance troupe Unreal. Followed by a new installment of Songs & Stories With Kelly Clarkson (10/9c), featuring