What's On Tonight (Friday): 'Mulan' Bows On Disney+

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The weekend kicks off with a much-anticipated movie debut, lots and lots of tennis, a slew of streaming dumps and some Friday night stand-bys.

Top Pick
🔔 Mulan (Disney+, 3:01 AM) Disney's live action remake of the 1998 animated film lands on the streaming service after multiple COVID-19 delays (and is also available via Apple TV); starring  Liu Yifei in the titular role, with Jet Li, Gong Li and Rosalind Chao offering supporting performances in key roles. Buy it now or wait until December when it is included free with your Disney+ subscription.

Highlights
🔔 A Most Beautiful Thing (Peacock, 3:01 AM) '[A] documentary film that chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in the nation made up of young men from the West Side of Chicago.'

🔔 Anthony (Peacock, 3:01 AM) '18-year-old Black student Anthony Walker was murdered in an unprovoked, racially motivated attack in Liverpool that shocked the nation. Anthony is a powerful feature film that examines the impact of Walker's murder by exploring what may have happened had he lived.'

🔔 Away (Netflix, 3:01 AM) Two-time Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank heads up this space-themed series that EW called a 'self-important patchwork of space clichés and boilerplate family conflict that never manages to make it into orbit' and Stephen E. Robinson derisively described as 'The West Wing: NASA.' Ouch.

🔔 The Boys (Amazon, 3:01 AM) Season two.

🔔 Earth To Ned (Disney+, 3:01 AM) A new series from Executive Producer Brian Henson; watch the trailer here.

🔔 I'm Thinking Of Ending Things (Netflix, 3:01 AM) Charlie Kaufman's latest, starring Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette and David Thewlis.

🔔 Muppets Now (Disney+, 3:01 AM)

🔔 Noughts + Crosses (Peacock, 3:01 AM) Adapted from Malorie Blackman's alternate history novel series.

🔔 Ted Lasso (Apple TV+, 3:01 AM)

🔔 🏇🏻 Kentucky Oaks (Fox Sports, 11:00 AM & NBCSN, 3:00 PM) Delayed from April 30th, the 146th running of the oldest continuously contested sporting event in history - along with tomorrow's Kentucky Derby - will take place without spectators (as will the Derby).

🔔 🎾 U.S. Open Tennis (ESPN/ESPN3/ESPN+, 12:00 PM) Third round coverage from Flushing Meadows.

Law & Order (Sundance, 1:00 PM) The regular Friday marathon features Jack McCoy taking on Ken Starra special prosecutor who acts just like Ken Starr, Julia Roberts as a con woman with a magical vagina, Joe Piscopo and of course, the Russian mafia.

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🔔 🏀 NBA Basketball (TNT, 6:30 PM) FEAR THE DEER! Milwakee and Miami face off in game three.

🔔 🎾 Primetime At The U.S. Open (ESPN, 7:00 PM) Third round coverage from Flushing Meadows.

🔔 ⚾ Classic MLB Baseball (ESPN Classic, 8:00 PM) Game four of the 1989 World Series between the Athletics and Giants.

🔔 Masters Of Illusion (The CW, 8:00 PM)

🔔 RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue (VH1, 8:00 PM)

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🎥 What's Love Got To Do With It (OWN, 8:00 PM) Eat the cake, Anna Mae!

🔔 WWE Friday Night SmackDown (Fox, 8:00 PM)

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:00 PM)

🔔 🦁 Alaska's Deadliest Predator Prowl (National Geographic, 9:00 PM) Hey, the Palins are back.

🎭 American Masters (PBS, 9:00 PM)  An encore presentation of 2019's 'Raúl Juliá: All The World's A Stage.'

🔔 Being Reuben (The CW, 9:00 PM)

🔔 BTK: Chasing A Serial Killer (ID, 9:00 PM)

🔔 Dateline NBC (NBC, 9:00 PM)

🔔🍴 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives (Food Network, 9:00 PM) 'Four DDD alums send Guy and Hunter ingredients for their most off-the-hook recipes.'

🔔 House Hunters (HGTV, 9:00 PM) 'Three Homes And A Baby.'

🔔 Love Island (CBS, 9:00 PM)

🔔 🏀 NBA Basketball (TNT, 9:00 PM) Houston opens their series in Los Angeles.

🔔 House Hunters (HGTV, 9:30 PM) 'From California To Texas.'

🔔 Room 104 (HBO, 11:00 PM)

Blast From The Past
🎥 Clueless (VH1, 9:00 PM) Amy Heckerling's much-loved update of Jane Austen's Emma, with Alicia Silverstone in her star-making turn as Cher Horowitz and a solid supporting cast that includes Dan Hedaya, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Wallace Shawn, Donald Faison, Breckin Meyer, Jeremy Sisto, Julie Brown - sigh - Stacey Dash before she went off the deep end. (But still not the worst cast member of the film, since son of Jane Alexander and convicted pedo Jace Alexander cameos as the guy who holds Cher up at gunpoint.) The Ringer called Clueless 'the best Jane Austen adaptation.'

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Sources: Zap2It, Futon Critic, Netflix, OnThisDay, Rotten Tomatoes, Apple TV+, Collider, Wikipedia, The Ringer, U.S. Tennis Association, EW, The A.V. Club, TV Guide.