Stuff To Watch This Week (July 19-25, 2021)
The long-delayed Tokyo Olympics finally kicks off this Friday and meWATCH has all the action!
It’s going to be one weird Olympic Game: Thanks to the Covid-19, the competition venues are largely spectator-free during the next 17 days. Sit back and cheer for Team SG’s 23-strong contingent, including swimmers Joseph Schooling and Johnathan Chan, gymnast Tan Sze En, fencer Amita Berthier and sprinter Shanti Pereira. For meWATCH’s comprehensive Olympic Games coverage (14 dedicated channels!), click here. Also available on Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube Channel; Singtel TV (Ch 21-34), Singtel TV Go, Cast; and StarHub TV (Ch 250-263), StarHub TV+
Watch it on: meWATCH, Channel 5, 7pm
Celebrate Hari Raya Haji with this variety special featuring peformances by Aisyah Azia, O.M.A., Olynn Saleh, Anak-Anak Haron and Kamaliah Latiff. With Warna 942’s AB Shaik and actress Farhana M Noor as hosts.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Suria, Tue, 8.30pm
Drama starring Asraf Amin as an Arabic teacher and Mutawwif (pilgrimage mentor) trying to patch things up with his estranged father before the latter leaves for the Haj.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Suria, Tue, 9.30pm
To tide us over until Season 3 returns, here’s the feature-length prequel which reveals the origins of the zombie-making plant and how it found its way into the Joseon palace. — it’s all of part of a revenge plot devised by Ashin (Jun Ji-hyun aka Gianna Jun) of the Jurchen tribe.
Photo: Netflix
The world needs more Ted Lassos! What nuggets of wisdom and positivity does Jason Sudeikis’ eternally optimistic football coach have for us this season? This time, he has help from a sports psychologist (Sarah Niles) to boost the morale of the recently- relegated AFC Richmond. Double-ep premiere, with subsequent eps dropping every Friday.
Watch it on: Apple TV+, Fri
Photo: Apple TV+
Besides Loki, this stop-motion anime is the other must-see Marvel supervillain show. In the season finale, M.O.D.O.K. (Patton Oswalt) and his family are threatened by the return of a young M.O.D.O.K. from the past.
Watch it on: Disney+, Fri
Starting Monday, for the next 11 days, Nat Geo Wild will drop one documentary every day (at 8.30pm) about the most feared and misunderstood animal in the ocean. Kick off with Shark Beach with Chris Hemsworth, where the Thor star and surf enthusiast helps researchers to learn more about the sharks in the New South Wales coast. (This title streams on Disney+ from Fri).
Watch it on: National Geo Wild (Singtel TV Ch 207, StarHub Ch 413, Mon, 8.30pm
Photo: Nat Geo Wild
Three-part HBO Asia Original docu-series about the secretive epicentre of illicit drug production and the drug lords who rule the narcotics trade in Thailand, Myanmar and Laos.
Photo: HBO Go
From the creative team behind Netflix’s The Toys That Made Us and The Movies That Made Us comes this 10-part docu-series (co-produced by Dwayne Johnson) about the Magic Kingdom’s theme park attractions — from classics like Jungle Cruise to the recent addition Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — and the Imagineers behind them. Narrated by Criminal Minds’ Paget Brewster. (Oh man, I miss you, Tokyo DisneySea… did I say that loud?)
Photo: Disney+
Here’s a dating show with a difference: singles go on their first blind date dressed in fantastical costumes. When looks are taken out of the equation, all they have to go by are their personalities. Narrated by Deadpool 2's Rob Delaney.
