TV This Week: May 26 - June 1: ‘Smash’ on NBC

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This week’s TV Movies

SUNDAY

Them? The Bluth family is back in business with new episodes of the 2003-06 sitcom “Arrested Development” now streaming on a computer near you. And while that’s not technically TV, we’re too giddy to care. Netflix

“Smash” bows out after two seasons. As much as we ragged on it, we’re gonna miss this Broadway-themed drama. But for the record, we were Team Ivy (Megan Hilty, pictured) from the get-go. 9 p.m. NBC

I wish my brother George was here: Michael Douglas portrays flamboyant pianist-entertainer Liberace in Steven Soderbergh’s docudrama “Behind the Candelabra.” Matt Damon also stars. 9 and 11 p.m. HBO

MONDAY

A nerdy teen gets a Mob-inspired makeover and — bada bing! — he’s hanging with former “Sopranos” stars including James Gandolfini in the kid-friendly TV movie “Nicky Deuce.” 8 p.m. Nickelodeon

All over the map: The Florida-set crime drama “The Glades” returns for a fourth season and the Wyoming-set crime drama “Longmire” is back for its second. 9 and 10 p.m. A&E

Wither Reese and Joaquin? Jewel is June Carter and Matt Ross is Johnny Cash in the made-for-cable bio-pic “Ring of Fire.” 9 p.m. Lifetime

Scantily clad dancers for an L.A. basketball team — wait, we have a basketball team? — shake what their mamas gave them in the new drama “Hit the Floor.” 9 p.m. VH1

Detroit residents ask that you not forget the Motor City in the 2012 doc “Detropia” on “Independent Lens.” 10 p.m. KOCE

TUESDAY

“Tyler Perry’s Upstairs Downstairs?” Savannah, Ga. is the setting for the writer-director-producer’s class-conscious new drama “The Haves and the Have Nots.” 9 and 10 p.m. OWN

Sensing a domestic disturbance, a former “Supernanny” leaps into action in the new reality series “Family S.O.S. With Jo Frost.” 9 p.m. TLC

“Body of Proof,” the forensics drama starring Dana Delany as a medical examiner, presents its series finale. Cause of death: Low ratings. 10 p.m. ABC

A young Pakistani woman, the victim of a gang rape who later took on her nation’s justice system, is profiled on a new “Frontline.” 10 p.m. KOCE

WEDNESDAY

Past guests — including Dave Chappelle, Robert DeNiro, Jennifer Lopez and Christopher Walken — return to sing the praises of host James Lipton on the 250th installment of “Inside the Actors Studio.” 7 p.m. Bravo

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, it’s time for “The American Baking Competition.” Amateur bakers put their skills to the test in this new series hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. 8 p.m. CBS

Computer animated this new show is: Everyone’s favorite syntactically challenged Jedi master gets his own spin-off with “Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles.” 8 p.m. Cartoon Network

“Nova” looks at the technology — cell phones, surveillance cameras, facial-recognition software, infrared imagery, etc. — used in the manhunt for the alleged Boston Marathon bombers. 9 p.m. KOCE

Amateur hoofers make “Dancing Fools” off themselves in this reality competition hosted by Melissa Peterman. 9 p.m. ABC Family

THURSDAY

Not Scrabble, not Boggle, not Words With Friends. Nothing can prepare you for the cascade of consonants and vowels that will surely be the finals of the “2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee.” 5 p.m. ESPN

What’s your favorite Clint Eastwood-directed film? Personally, we like 1977’s “The Gauntlet,” so we’re hoping it’ll merit a mention in the special “Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story.” 5 and 8:15 p.m. TCM

Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen and Luke Kirby form a romantic triangle in director Sarah Polley’s bittersweet 2011 drama “Take This Waltz.” 9 p.m. Showtime

FRIDAY

Arboreal abodes abound in the special “Ultimate Treehouses” and the new series “Treehouse Masters.” 8 and 9 p.m. Animal Planet

Need a lift? Young folks compete for a seat on the space shuttle in the TV movie “Space Warriors.” Dermot Mulroney, Mira Sorvino, Josh Lucas and Danny Glover star. 8 p.m. Hallmark

“Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic” remembers the late, great comic who once famously said … well, much of what he used to say can’t be printed in this newspaper. But trust us, it was very funny. 9 p.m. Showtime

Dec. 19, 1941 — a date that lived in obscurity, until now. A little-known chapter in WWII is reopened in “Hitler’s Secret Attack on America.” 10 p.m. Nat Geo

The wizard is out: The fantasy-drama “Merlin” ends its run after five seasons. 10 p.m. Syfy

SATURDAY

Clint Eastwood is an aging baseball scout just trying to stay in the game in the 2012 drama “Trouble With the Curve.” Amy Adams also stars. 8 p.m. HBO

A woman and her daughter make an ill-advised visit to a “Deadly Spa” and a divorcee has second thoughts about “The Trainer” she’s been working out with in these new thrillers. 8 and 10 p.m. Lifetime