Critic’s Notebook: FX’s Year to Shine in the Emmy Nominations

Boxcar Bertha

The movie channel’s tribute to late producer-director Roger Corman ends with a night that could be labeled “Before They Were Star Directors.” The lineup includes Martin Scorsese with the 1972 Boxcar Bertha (8/7c), his second film, starring Barbara Hershey as a Depression-era bank and train robber.

Big Brother

Season Premiere

Adopting an A.I. heme for its 26th season, the reality show that’s a harbinger of summer’s leisure time welcomes 16 new houseguests into a world where cameras capture their every move and unfiltered thought. One twist: the newbies have an opportunity to vote in a 17th player.

9/8c

Wild Wild Space

Documentary Premiere

This rollicking documentary lets you know from the start that it’s not dealing with the billionaire showmanship of Musk-vs-Bezos. Wild Wild Space captures the tone of a different sort of free-wheeling commercial enterprise, profiling three upstart rocket and satellite companies.

9/8c

Simone Biles Rising

Documentary Premiere

To remind us how far she’s come since withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics four years ago amid public mental-health struggles, an inspiring two-part documentary follows Simone Biles in and out of the gym as she prepares for her return to the sport she loves at the highest level.

Unprisoned

Season Premiere

When your family is as big a mess as that of Paige (Kerry Washington), a perfectionist relationship therapist, maybe it’s time to call in a different sort of counselor. Enter Murphy (John Stamos), a new-age therapy coach with some quite unorthodox techniques.