What's On Tonight (Friday): Sashay Down The Runway For 'Vegas Revue'

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What is a weekend? This is a weekend, as well as What's On Tonight for August 21st.

Top Pick
🔔 RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue (VH1, 8:00 PM) A six-part documentary series about the RuPaul's Drag Race Live! revue in Las Vegas and featuring  Yvie Oddly, Asia O'Hara, Derrick Barry, Kameron Michaels, Naomi Smalls and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo.

Highlights
🔔 The Rifleman (Pluto TV, 24/7) All five seasons of the classic Chuck Connors western now airs round-the-clock.

🔔 Demand Africa Channel (Pluto TV, 24/7) 'Demand Africa offers unlimited 24-7 access to the largest curated collection of Afrocentric TV shows, series, soaps, movies and lifestyle entertainment from Africa and the diaspora in the world.'

🔔 Alien TV (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Alien reporters Ixbee, Pixbee and Squee travel to a lovely but odd planet called Earth, where they attempt to make sense of humans and their hobbies.'

🔔 Chemical Hearts (Amazon, 3:01 AM) Movie adaptation of the young adult romance novel by Krystal Sutherland.

🔔 Find Me In Paris (Hulu, 3:01 AM) The third and final season of the 'teen dramedy.'

🔔 Hoops (Netflix, 3:01 AM) A new animated series about a 'foul-mouthed high school basketball coach' from Ben Hoffman, featuring the voices of Jake Johnson (interviewed last week on The Watch), Rob Riggle, Natasha Leggero and Ron Funches. The A.V. Club's pre-air review is here.

🔔 Lucifer (Netflix, 3:01 AM) The first half of the fifth season is released.

🔔 Muppets Now (Disney+, 3:01 A.M.)

🔔 Ted Lasso (Apple TV+, 3:01 A.M.)

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🔔 The Greatest #AtHome Videos (CBS, 8:00 P.M.)

🔔 WWE Friday Night SmackDown (Fox, 8:00 P.M.)

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:00 PM)

🔔 Being Reuben (The CW, 9:00 P.M.)

🔔 Dateline NBC (NBC, 9:00 P.M.)

🔔🍴 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives (Food Network, 9:00 P.M.) 

🎭 Great Performances: Rogers & Hammerstein's The King And I (PBS, 9:00 P.M.) The Tony Award-winning revival starring Ken Watanabe, Kelli O'Hara and Ruthie Ann Miles.

🔔 🦁 Savage Kingdom (National Geographic, 9:00 PM) Back-to-back new episodes about the lives of wild animals.

🔔🌺 Backyard Takeover (HGTV, 10:00 P.M.) Goodbye Martha Stewart, hello new series about backyards being taken over, presumably by roving gangs of renovators.

🔔 Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO, 10:00 P.M.) Biden supporter and former Ohio Governor John Kasich, Oscar-winning director and conspiracy crank Oliver Stone, Rev. Dr. William Barber II and political analyst/author Thomas Frank (What's The Matter With Kansas?).

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🔔 Room 104 (HBO, 11:00 PM) 'A '90s family is unwittingly stuck living in Room 104 until the father tries to alter the script on their current reality.'

🔔 The Daily Show With Trevor Noah: The Democratic National Convention, Electing The First Black President's Friend (Comedy Central, 11:00 PM) The highs and lows of the DNC's virtual get together.

Blast From The Past
🎥 Legally Blonde (Bravo, 8:30 PM) Reese Witherspoon's much-beloved fish-out-of-water comedy that follows Elle Woods and her chihuahua Bruiser (RIP Moonie) on a journey to Harvard Law School and beyond. Read Tom & Lorenzo's 'One Iconic Look' - about her pink courtroom outfit - here.

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Sources: Zap2It, Futon Critic, Netflix, OnThisDay, Rotten Tomatoes, Apple TV+, Collider, Wikipedia, Tom & Lorenzo, The A.V. Club, The Ringer, Cord Cutters News.