What's On Tonight (Friday): The Battle Over Britney

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⭐ The New York Times Presents (FX & FX on Hulu, 10:00 PM) 'Framing Britney Spears' takes a look at the troubled life of pop music's one-time much promising entertainer.

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🔔 🎥 Antebellum (Hulu, 12:01 AM) Widely-panned Janelle Monáe thriller.

🔔 Black Stories Presents: Your Attention Please (Hulu, 12:01 AM) Second season premiere.

🔔 Dickinson (Apple TV+, 12:01 AM) 

🔔 🎥 Little Big Women (Netflix, 3:01 AM) From Taiwan. 'A family grapples with the passing of their estranged father and the remnants of the life he led during his absence.'

🔔 Long Island Medium (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) Do I mention this program because I want to highlight a grotesque charlatan? No. I bring this up merely as a Public Service Announcement in the event you are considering paying for Discovery+: This is the level of programming you can expect. End message.

🔔 Losing Alice (Apple TV+, 12:01 AM)

🔔 🎥 Malcolm And Marie (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'As a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning.' Starring John David Washington and Zendaya. 

🔔 Servant (Apple TV+, 12:01 AM) 

🔔 The Snoopy Show (Apple TV+, 12:01 AM) 'The world’s most iconic dog is ready for his close-up. Dive into new adventures with the happy-dancing, high-flying, big-dreaming beagle, who's joined by his best friend Woodstock and the rest of the Peanuts gang.'

🔔 🎥 Space Sweepers (Netflix, 3:01 AM) From Korea. 'Chasing after space debris and faraway dreams in year 2092, four misfits unearth explosive secrets during the attempted trade of a wide-eyed humanoid.'

🔔 🎥 Strip Down, Rise Up (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'In an effort to reclaim their bodies and lives, a group of women explore the intersections of movement and meaning in a powerful pole dancing program.'

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🔔 WandaVision (Disney+, 3:01 AM)

📺 Law & Order (Sundance, 1:00 PM - 2:00 AM); The Simpsons (FXX, 6:00 PM - 12:00 AM); It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (Vice, 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM); Archie Bunker's Place (Antenna, 8:00 & 8:30 PM); Mom (CMT, 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM); The Jeffersons (Antenna, 9:00 & 9:30 PM); Designing Women (Antenna, 11:00 & 11:30 PM)

🔔🏀 NBA Basketball* (ESPN) 7:30 PM: Raptors at Nets. 10:00 PM: Celtics at Clippers.

🔔 The Blacklist (NBC, 8:00 PM) 

🔔 Gold Rush (Discovery, 8:00 PM)

🔔 MacGyver (CBS, 8:00 PM)

🔔 RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1, 8:00 PM)

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Self-Made Mansions (HGTV, 8:00 PM)

🔔 Shark Tank (ABC, 8:00 PM)

🔔 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW, 8:00 PM) Nyima Funk is tonight's guest comic.

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

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:00 PM)

🔔 The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock, 9:00 PM)

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🔔 Dateline NBC (NBC, 9:00 PM)

🔔🍴 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives (Food Network, 9:00 PM) 'Authentic International Eats.'

The First 48 (A&E, 9:00 PM)

🎶 In Concert At The Hollywood Bowl (PBS, 9:00 PM) From 2020. 'Gustavo & Friends: Watch some of host Gustavo Dudamel’s favorite performances from throughout the years: selections from Swan Lake with American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Pablo Ferrández, and the finale to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.'

🔔 Love After Lockup (WE, 9:00 PM) 

🔔 Magnum, P.I. (CBS, 9:00 PM)

🔔 Blue Bloods (CBS, 10:00 PM) 'The New Normal.' Masks at Family Dinner?

🔔 🎶 In Concert At The Hollywood Bowl (PBS, 10:00 PM) 'Fireworks!: 'Relive the iconic moments of the Hollywood Bowl summer series with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl, produced in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, features the best of live performances from the past ten years hosted by LA Phil Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel.'

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🔔 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 10:00 PM) Sandy Duncan, Steve Martin, George Foreman and Binnie Barnes.

🔔 Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO, 10:00 PM) An interview with Jimmy Kimmel and on panel, TIME senior correspondent Charlotte Alter and Matt Welch, co-host of 'The Fifth Column' podcast. No, you're not hallucinating: Maher featured Welch's cringe-inducing 'TFC' hosting partner Kmele Foster just two weeks ago. 

🔔 Mystery At Blind Frog Ranch (Discovery, 10:15 PM) 

🔔 The Graham Norton Show (BBC America, 11:00 PM) Sam Neill, Tom Jones, Billie Piper, James Nesbitt and Andi Osho.

🔔 Painting With John (HBO, 11:00 PM)

*Sporting Events Are Subject To COVID-Related Postponements.

BLAST FROM THE PAST
🎥 The Karate Kid (BBC America, 8:00 PM)

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith And Douglas Fairbanks 

Found United Artists On February 5th, 1919

Sources: Zap2It, Futon Critic, Netflix, TV Guide, OnThisDay, Rotten Tomatoes, Apple TV+, Collider, Wikipedia, PBS, Amazon, IMDB, Sports Media Watch, Channel 4, Reality Tidbit, Radio Times, Schitt's Creek Wiki, Laughing Place, Den Of Geek, Screenrant.