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TV This Week, June 26-July 2: ‘Marco Polo’ and more

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SUNDAY

Let the good times roll! An all-black jazz band brings a little swing to stuffy 1930s London in the imported period drama “Dancing on the Edge.” 8 p.m. KOCE

Good night, sweet Prince: The dearly departed music icon will be celebrated by Sheila E., Janelle Monae and others at the “2016 BET Awards.” The Roots and D’Angelo also perform. 8 p.m. BET, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike, VH1

Another summer, another “Shark Week” gets underway with the specials “Tiger Beach,” “Return of the Monster Mako,” “Isle of Jaws” and the return of the chat show “Shark After Dark.” 8, 9, 20 and 11 p.m. Discovery Channel

“Game of Thrones’ ” sixth season concludes with the following proclamation: “All hail Septa Unella, first of her name, queen of the Andals and the First Men” etc., etc. That’s our guess, anyway. 9 p.m. HBO

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Liev Schreiber continues to be “Ray Donovan” on the return of this dark, L.A.-set drama. Jon Voight also stars. 9 p.m. Showtime

Luke Wilson and Carla Gugino are “Roadies” for a nationally touring rock band in this new comedy-drama from “Almost Famous” director Cameron Crowe. Imogen Poots, Ron White and “Whale Riders’” Keisha Castle-Hughes also star. 10 p.m. Showtime

Britney’s lil’ sis is profiled in the new special “Jamie Lynn Spears: When the Lights Go Out.” 10 p.m. TLC

The San Francisco-set police procedural “Murder in the First” is back for a third season. With Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson. 10 p.m. TNT

MONDAY

“Gasland” filmmaker Josh Fox returns with the new environmentally-themed documentary “How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change.” 9 p.m. HBO

“POV” presents “The Look of Silence,” filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer’s companion piece to “The Act of Killing,” his unnerving 2012 documentary about politically- and ethnically-motivated massacres in Indonesia in the mid-1960s. 10 p.m. KOCE

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The historical drama “Turn: Washington’s Spies” concludes its third season. Jamie Bell stars. 10 p.m. AMC

TUESDAY

A new “Genealogy Roadshow” rolls into our fair city of Los Angeles. 8 p.m. KOCE

Animals continue to run amok in the second-season premiere of the sci-fi drama “Zoo.” With James Wolk, Billy Burke and Kristen Connolly. 9 p.m. CBS

Take the cult comedy “Wet Hot American Summer,” keep the camp setting but replace the humor with horror, and you might have something like the new series “Dead of Summer.” With Elizabeth Mitchell (“Lost”) and “Once Upon a Time’s” Elizabeth Lail. 9 p.m. Freeform

The new unscripted series “Gold Medal Families” gets up close and personal with six Olympic hopefuls and the loved ones who are cheering them on. 9 and 10 p.m. Lifetime

The debut installment of the docu-series “No Man Left Behind” revisits the true-life tale of heroism that inspired the 2001 film “Black Hawk Down.” 9 p.m. National Geographic Channel

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“Frontline” offers a case study in law-enforcement reform in the new episode “Policing the Police.” 10 p.m. KOCE

Four aspiring young fashionistas in NYC put the “F in Fabulous” in this new reality series. 10 and 10:30 p.m. BET

WEDNESDAY

Birds do it, bees do it — fly, that is — and you’ll see how and why all sorts of critters take to the skies in the new series “Supernature — Wild Flyers.” 8 p.m. KOCE

Singles mingle sans clothing in new episodes of the reality series “Dating Naked.” 9 p.m. VH1

Womb with a view: “9 Months That Made You” is a new three-part survey of the process of human gestation, from fertilization to delivery. 10 p.m. KOCE

THURSDAY

Danger zone! Kenny Loggins is just one of the many musicians revisiting their “Greatest Hits” in the debut installment of this nostalgia-fueled series. Arsenio Hall and Kelsea Ballerini host, and REO Speedwagon, Rick Springfield and Kool and the Gang also perform. 9 p.m. ABC

Romantic relationships gone horribly, horribly wrong are reenacted for your amusement in new episodes of “My Crazy Ex” and “I Love You … But I Lied.” 9 and 10 p.m. Lifetime

“Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll” is still all that Denis Leary needs when this music biz drama kicks off its second season. John Corbett also stars. 10 p.m. FX

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FRIDAY

There’s another brilliant-yet-troubled British detective in town, and her name is “Marcella” in this new crime drama. Anna Friel (“Pushing Daisies”) stars. Any time, Netflix

In Xanadu, did Kublai Khan, a second season of the sumptous period drama “Marco Polo” decree. With Benedict Wong and new cast member Michelle Yeoh. Any time, Netflix

They’ll leave no scone unburned on the return of “The Great British Baking Show.” 9 p.m. KOCE

The far-out sci-fi dramas “Killjoys” and “Dark Matter” launch their second seasons. 9 and 10 p.m. Syfy

Don Wildman probes still more “Mysteries at the Museum” when the series returns for an 11th season. 9 p.m. Travel Channel

Kristen Schaal and Zach Galifianakis join in the shenanigans on back-to-back new episodes of “Comedy Bang! Bang!” 11 and 11:30 p.m. IFC

SATURDAY

Halo and goodbye: The now-canceled Jane Lynch sitcom “Angel From Hell” returns to burn off some un-aired episodes. 8 and 8:30 p.m. CBS

Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep fight for their right to exercise the franchise in pre-WWI Britain in the 2015 historical drama “Suffragette.” Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw and Anne-Marie Duff also star. 8 p.m. HBO

“Till death do us part” may come sooner rather than later in the new TV movie “Newlywed and Dead.” With Shenae Grimes-Beech and Samantha Ferris. 8 p.m. Lifetime


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