Friday, August 27, 2021

What's On Tonight (Saturday): There's the beef

Burger Truck Brawl

Hi! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, August 28!

In the desert of Saturdays in the summer, the Top Pick is the food truck competition series Burger Truck Brawl (Discovery+, 3 a.m.). The show features the highly successful Billionaire Burger Boyz (and the Burger Girl) of Los Angeles as they travel to another town to face off against another food truck for a cash prize. Tonight, the second of three batches of episodes drops.

Elsewhere, BBC America goes to the last Untamed place, Academia has a dinner party, spend the weekend in Mayberry, Guy Fieri goes to Hawaii, Rush gets documentary treatment, the Food rebels unite, and Fena wants to learn to fight.

STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME

⭐ Burger Truck Brawl (Discovery+, 3 a.m.): In this week's episodes, Los Angeles' Billionaire Burger Boyz (and the Burger Girl) roll into Sonoma and Oakland to meet their challengers and craft a menu for the showdown.

Guy: Hawaiian Style (Discovery+, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. Guy Fieri and his family roll through the Hawaiian Islands for a deep dive into the tradition, the adventure and all types of great food.

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. The latest romcom series from South Korea.

BRIEFLYLove Island UK (Hulu, 3 a.m.)

🕗 8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

🎥 Killer Cheer Mom (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): After moving to a new town, Riley hopes to make some friends by trying out for the high-school cheer squad. However, when other students get expelled or injured under mysterious circumstances, Riley starts to suspect her stepmother is involved.

🎥 Magic Mike XXL (HBO, 8 p.m.): THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES for $800: The New York Times said of this 2015 sequel starring Channing Tatum: "The plot is as flimsy as a G-string" (8 Jan 2016)

Eden: Untamed Planet (BBC America, 8 p.m.): SERIES FINALE. "In southeast Alaska, there's an ice-bound Eden that harbors possibly the richest temperate rainforests of all."

🎥 Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (Reelz, 8 p.m.): An in-depth look at the Canadian rock band Rush, chronicling the band's musical evolution from their progressive rock sound of the '70s to their current heavy rock style. The movie was released in 2010.✔️

🎥 Svengoolie: The Beast Must Die (MeTV, 8 p.m.): The 1974 werewolf movie. Not the new AMC+ thriller series.

BRIEFLYAccident, Suicide or Murder (Oxygen); 💲 Nickelodeon's Unfiltered (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.); Say Yes to the Dress (TLC); Vacation House Rules (HGTV)


🕘 9:00 EASTERN / 🕗 8:00 CENTRAL

Design Star: Next Gen (HGTV, 9 p.m.): If you missed the show on Discovery+ this winter, now it airs on HGTV.

🎥 Sweet Pecan Summer (Hallmark Channel, 9 p.m.): "Sparks fly between a young woman and her ex-boyfriend as they work together to sell her aunt's pecan farm." I feel like a lot of these movies involve exes.

This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? This is our weekly thread for you talk about it.

BRIEFLYDestination Fear (Travel Channel); The Incredible Dr. Pol (Nat Geo Wild)✔️; Pawn Stars (History); Stalked: Followed by Fear (Investigation Discovery)

🕙 10:00 EASTERN / 🕘 9:00 CENTRAL

📺 Mayberry, R.F.D. (Decades, 10:30 p.m.): Spend the weekend with this Andy Griffith spinoff that was highly popular before CBS axed it for more urban-friendly programming. In this episode, a "representative from the Acme Petroleum Company visits Goober's gas station. He is very unimpressed with Goober's efforts and wants changes or Goober may be out of a job."

🎥 Pom Poms and Payback (Lifetime, 10 p.m.): Betrayed by their boyfriends on prom night, a group of high school cheerleaders bands together to seek revenge.

BRIEFLYBeast Buddies (Animal Planet); Hatcher Family Dairy (Nat Geo Wild, season finale)
The Incredible Dr. Pol (via Giphy)

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Black Clover (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Grey recalls her unhappy childhood and a fateful encounter. Yami takes on the ruthless Dante. Luck faces off against a marauding Dark Disciple.

Fena: Pirate Princess (Adult Swim, midnight): Fena and the crew head towards Libar-Oberstein where the stone was manufactured. Fena, who is frustrated from causing Yukimaru to be injured, pleads for her friends to teach her how to fight.✔️

Food Wars! (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): The rebel team unite as one against the Totsuki Elite Ten, and once both dishes are ready, judging begins.

My Hero Academia (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): Endeavor brings his work study students over for dinner at Fuyumi's request but faces awkward conversations at home.

Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 2:30 a.m.): Danzo orders Tenzo to kill Kakashi and take his Sharingan.

Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): Moroha accepts a job to slay Konton, a member of the Four Perils said to have defeated Meioju, a demon beast with the ultimate armored shell.

📺 The Rookies (Heroes & Icons, 2 a.m.): Terry Webster breaks in his new partner, junior rookie Chris Owens, searching for an arsonist. Someone is responsible for the murder of several firemen, all young, dark-haired and mustached.

📺 That Girl (Antenna TV, 11 p.m.): "Ann goes with Don on an interview with an opera star."

📺 The Time Tunnel (MeTV, 3 a.m.): It's June 1944, and near Cherbourg, France, Tony and Doug are captured by the Gestapo just before the Allied invasion.
Fena: Pirate Princess (via Tumblr)

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