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TV This Week, July 17-23: ‘Vice Principals’ and more

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SUNDAY

Young folks’ favorite athletes are feted at “Kids’ Choice Sports 2016.” Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson returns as host. 8 and 10 p.m. Nickelodeon

Home is where the horror is for a new bride in the new thriller “The Inherited.” Jenn Liu and Annabella Sciorra star. 9 p.m. Lifetime

The gritty NYC-set drama “Power” is back for a third season. With Omari Hardwick and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. 9 p.m. Starz

Hoops, there it is! “Basketball Wives LA” returns with new episodes. 9 p.m. VH1

Have helmet, will travel: “Easy Rider’s” Peter Fonda goes for a “Ride With Norman Reedus” in this travel series’ freshman-season finale. 10 p.m. AMC

Dwayne Johnson is your man in Miami on the return of the sports-themed sitcom “Ballers.” Rob Corddry also stars. 10 p.m. HBO

They have no class: “Eastbound & Down’s” Danny McBride and “Justified’s” Walton Goggins are rival “Vice Principals” vying for the top job in this new single-camera sitcom. Shea Whigham and Busy Philipps also star. 10:30 p.m. HBO

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Save on sunscreen while watching others having fun in the sun in the new series “Life’s a Beach.” 11 and 11:30 p.m. Travel Channel

MONDAY

Broadcast and cable-news networks will offer live coverage and highlights of the “Republican National Convention” in Cleveland. Various times and channels; also Tue.-Thu.

A real-life “Quincy” opens up his case files in the new limited series “The Coroner: I Speak for the Dead.” 7 and 10 p.m. Investigation Discovery

But now, they see: The new documentary “Open Your Eyes” follows an elderly Nepalese couple seeking treatment for their cataracts. 7:30 p.m. HBO

And then there were 10 on a new episode of “So You Think You Can Dance.” 8 p.m. Fox

Host Anthony Melchiorri packs a parka and heads to Anchorage, Alaska, on the season finale of “Hotel Impossible.” 10 p.m. Travel Channel

TUESDAY

The boar, the merrier! The young chefs must prepare a wild pig on the season finale of “Chopped Junior.” 8 p.m. Food Network

“WWE SmackDown!” moves to its new night and will now air live — except on the West Coast. Michael Cole and JBL call the action. 8 p.m. USA

Will the quarantine be lifted? Find out on the finale of the limited series “Containment.” 9 p.m. KTLA

The matrimonially minded unscripted series “Arranged” and “Teenage Newlyweds” end their seasons. 9 and 10 p.m. FYI

Your intrepid host finds himself in Okinawa, Japan — try the puffer fish — on a new “Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern.” 9 p.m. Travel Channel

WEDNESDAY

“Now You See Me’s” Jesse Eisenberg engages a bit of prestidigitation on a new “Penn & Teller: Fool Us.” 8 p.m. KTLA

Ashley Tisdale reprises her role as media maven Logan Rawlings on a new “Young & Hungry.” With Emily Osment. 8 p.m. Freeform

Olympic athlete Lolo Jones joins in the shenanigans on a new “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 9 p.m. KTLA

Andy Cohen — who else? – hosts, and Mariah Carey collects career kudos, at the inaugural edition of the pop culture-centric awards show “The Bravos.” 10 p.m. Bravo

Have bikini, will travel: Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton guest stars as herself on the reality-TV spoof “Barely Famous.” 10 p.m. VH1

THURSDAY

Turner Classic Movies’ salute to great American films of the 1970s continues and includes Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw in director Joseph Sargent’s top-notch 1974 subway-hijacking thriller “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.” 5 p.m. TCM

No “Bones” about it. This forensics drama starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz concludes its 11th season. 8 p.m. Fox

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Geek out in the privacy of your own home — cosplay optional — as “Syfy Presents: Live From Comic-Con” in San Diego. 8 p.m. Syfy; also Fri.-Sat.

It’s like the 1990s all over again when Boyz II Men, En Vogue, Seal and Bonnie Raitt sing some of their “Greatest Hits” on a new edition of this nostalgic music series. Andra Day, Alessia Cara and Little Big Town also perform. 9 p.m. ABC

Tarek and Christina tackle a fixer-upper in Fullerton on a new “Flip or Flop.” 9 p.m. HGTV

FRIDAY

Neigh-sayer: Will Arnett opines, equine, as the voice of “Bojack Horseman” on the return of this off-color animated series. With Aaron Paul, Alison Brie, Amy Sedaris and Paul F. Tompkins. Any time, Netflix

Say “Hola!” to Disney’s first-ever Latina princess in the new animated series “Elena of Avalor.” 7 p.m. Disney Channel

Miss D’s Dancing Dolls “Bring It” again as this reality series returns with a kick-off special followed by the mid-season premiere. 8 and 9 p.m. Lifetime

It’s do-gooder college kids versus a tribe of cannibals in the Amazon — advantage, cannibals — in director Eli Roth’s 2013 terror tale “The Green Inferno.” With Lorenza Izzo and Ariel Levy. 8:15 p.m. Cinemax

Swedes for the Swede: Greta Garbo is “Queen Christina” in this romantic 1933 fable. John Gilbert also stars. 9 p.m. KCET

Crikey! “The Real Housewives of Melbourne” are back for a third season. 9 p.m. Bravo

Word: Aspiring hip-hop artists seek guidance from established stars like Jermaine Dupri, Snoop Dogg, et al., on the return of “The Rap Game.” 10 p.m. Lifetime

SATURDAY

The canceled Jane Lynch-Maggie Lawson sitcom “Angel From Hell” airs its final two episodes. 8 and 8:30 p.m. CBS

Bland, James bland: Daniel Craig is once again Agent 007 in director Sam Mendes’ underwhelming 2015 franchise entry “Spectre.” Christoph Waltz and Ralph Fiennes also star. 8 p.m. Epix

Oscar winners Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton play political consultants working opposite sides of a presidential election in Bolivia in the 2015 comedy-drama “Our Brand Is Crisis.” David Gordon Green directs, and Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan also star. 8 p.m. HBO

Oscar winner Mira Sorvino is guilty of a little “Indiscretion” in this new thriller. With Cary Elwes, Christopher Backus and Katherine McNamara. 8 p.m. Lifetime

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The West is almost won on the series finale of the frontier-era drama “Hell on Wheels.” With Anson Mount and Colm Meaney. 9 p.m. AMC

Ooh la la! Victor Webster and “One Tree Hill’s” Hilarie Burton share a “Summer Villa” in France in this romantic new TV movie. 9 p.m. Hallmark Channel

“Looking,” the gay-themed series set in San Francisoco, wraps things up with “Looking: The Movie.” With Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Alvarez and Murray Bartlett. 10 p.m. HBO

Life’s a beach and then you die horribly in the 2015 D-movie “Blood Sand.” With Jamie Kennedy. 10:30 p.m. TMC


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